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MBC @matthewbriancohen.com · 03/06/2026

What if I told you these were 2 separate guys

YouTube thumbnails of two different long haired bearded men

MBC @matthewbriancohen.com · 31/05/2026

We’ve been separated for eleven months! You got your pilot’s license, I met someone else. Let’s just be civil, at least for the kids.

Skywriting of a nasty word that rhymes with bunt

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MBC @matthewbriancohen.com · 22/04/2026

The only Michael movie I’m interested in

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MBC @matthewbriancohen.com · 02/10/2025

Spending Yom Kippur reading Refaat Alareer:

Hamza and tens of thousands will never get to go back to the house where they lived their happiest days with the most loving person they will ever know.

Raneem will have to live with the horrible memories of seeing her house become a pile of rubble.

The likes of my niece Raneem and little nephew Mohammed are purposefully being punished by Israel and the international community-first by destroying their houses and lives, and then by providing Israel with the impunity and excuses it wants, and finally by delaying the process of justice. They want these little kids to live in ruins and destruction.

Ironically, Palestinian children are expected to grow up and like Israel or see a future where peace can be achieved when the murderers of their parents and destroyers of their houses go unpunished and unaccountable.

Unless Israeli war criminals are brought to justice and the occupation ends, my fear is that these children will grow up feeling that they were betrayed by the world. We owe it to them to change that vision.

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MBC @matthewbriancohen.com · 24/09/2025

Business people love turning verbs into nouns when they need to sound like experts about something they don’t understand

Wired headline “why one vc thinks quantum is a bigger unlock than agi”

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MBC @matthewbriancohen.com · 20/08/2025

In retrospect it probably wasn’t a good idea to build economy around a company that looks like this

Open AI 2024 revenue - 3.7 billion
Open AI 2024 net income - -5 billion

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MBC @matthewbriancohen.com · 27/06/2025

I'm reading an essay at this great show Saturday at 8! Tickets here - www.eventbrite.com/e/comedians-...

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MBC @matthewbriancohen.com · 01/04/2025

I love how misleading and dull this obvious LLM caption makes one of the greatest movies of all time sound. LLMs rob art of all its freneticism.

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MBC @matthewbriancohen.com · 14/12/2024

Genuinely love whenever this guy shows up on screen, but I can’t get over his name is Louis Cancel Me

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MBC @matthewbriancohen.com · 15/11/2024

The Duracell Battery Family is your typical swing voter. Obama 08, forgot to vote 12, Trump 16, died of COVID 2020

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MBC @matthewbriancohen.com · 14/12/2023

Christmas Is For Bosses. Read the 'zine. www.functionallydead.com/Functionally...

CHRISTMAS IS FOR BOSSES FUNCTIONALLYDEAD.COM

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MBC @matthewbriancohen.com · 30/11/2023

Best two texts I’ve ever gotten from my wife

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MBC @matthewbriancohen.com · 12/11/2023

I have decided to occasionally write essays about things I like, why I like them, and what they mean to me. It is called Stuff I Like There on Substack. The first post is about the video game Disco Elysium. Enjoy. matthewbriancohen.substack.com/p/true-love-...

True Love Is Possible Only In The Next World Mural

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MBC @matthewbriancohen.com · 02/11/2023

Just downloaded Now and Then. Incredible that the Beatles made something like this. Looks and sounds nothing like their previous work. Why didn’t they use Rosie O’Donnell sooner? Nevertheless, a masterpiece.

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MBC @matthewbriancohen.com · 16/08/2023

First look of Bradley Cooper as Leonard Bernstein

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MBC @matthewbriancohen.com · 13/08/2023

🎵I’m just a simple southern farmer who’s a bit irate / that commies like Paul Krugman think the corporate tax rate / should go up from 21% to 25 / how’s the C-suite at Wells Fargo gonna ever survive 🎵

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MBC @matthewbriancohen.com · 10/07/2023

New episode of And Just Like What, the only podcast that analyzes #AndJustLikeThat as outsider art. @msnadiaosman.bsky.social reads Miranda as a stand-in for America's acceptance of our declining empire! I talk about jizz! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/and-j…

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