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Mattie b @matthewjb.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Yes. 50+ people should be held culpable

Mattie b @matthewjb.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The disgust about people picnicking and celebrating lynchings never stopped the lynchings, they just moved them indoors. If they are exposed to the light of day again then maybe…

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Mattie b @matthewjb.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I am in favor of this. I believe we should stop pretending the death sentence is some sanitized medical procedure hidden behind closed doors and go back to chopping off heads in the public square to expose the absolute barbarity of it.

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Mattie b @matthewjb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Also Popper, Hume, et al. for critical thinking.

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Mattie b @matthewjb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

“I don’t know what colors mean”. Instead it churns the tokens and comes up with an answer based on what it calculates the reply you want is. I’m other words it is neither reasoning or mimicry. It is how the engine is coded

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Mattie b @matthewjb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This is what concerns me about AI boosters. They see it as a simplistic dichotomy, mimicry or reasoning? It is neither. My favorite example is a prompt like “what is your favorite color?”. The mimic result would be the most popular color. The reasoning result would be

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Mattie b @matthewjb.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Huh. Fake a warning, have a cement truck on standby. Half the world’s problems solved.

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Mattie b @matthewjb.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

And a prompt to an AI is just a set of tokens that get squished into a set of statistical probabilities. Bottom line is that it is taking a guess at what you are instructing it to do.

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Mattie b @matthewjb.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The question any decent tech writer/reporter should be asking is “how many novel vulnerabilities has your tool found?”. It is the only statistic that would make this anything other than overblown hype.

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Mattie b @matthewjb.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Tl;dr ignore the anthropomorphising and the article boils down to “they taught this tool to hack and it succeeded”…under very badly designed test conditions.

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Mattie b @matthewjb.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Analysts have been warning about these vulnerabilities for decades. The only novel thing going on here is that Open AI is good at manipulating the media and managed to get more attention to the problem (and hype for their tool) than the aforementioned analysts ever managed to.

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Mattie b @matthewjb.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Should we be worried? Yes, but no more than we should have been before about aging infrastructure full of unpatched vulnerabilities and the continued roll out of internet connected devices that age out of maintenance.

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Mattie b @matthewjb.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Counterpoint: this is just another case of AI psychosis. Note how he says “I know we shouldn’t anthropomorphise…but”. What follows is just more of the same. No it did not go rogue. It is a tool that they taught to hack and (surprise!) it hacked.

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Mattie b @matthewjb.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

“Reorganized the code to make it more readable” is my favorite. More readable to who buddy??

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Mattie b @matthewjb.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Yeah but people die in Texas when it gets cold. It isn’t just an AC problem it is a design problem.

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Mattie b @matthewjb.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The materials are thin and do not retain heat. The cost of adapting older homes in both the traditionally cooler and traditionally hotter climes to the new norms is the sticking point. Try making the argument that Texans need to adapt all their buildings and codes to see what pushback you get. /fin

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Mattie b @matthewjb.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

For forced air. Take Texas as a counter example. Not so long ago hundreds of people died in a prolonged cold spell here. The grid failed due to excessive demand because houses are built to not retain heat. They are oriented away from the sun. They have overhangs to shade them /3

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Mattie b @matthewjb.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Heat pumps are now common(and subsidized) in Europe but only for heating. Traditional housing design simply cannot be easily retrofitted for cooling. The materials are wrong (heat retaining), orientation is wrong, walls are solid and cannot be retrofitted with duct work /2

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Mattie b @matthewjb.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I am skeptical about this. There very much is a view that Americans are profligate wasters of energy in Europe (I grew up there) and in large part it is correct. Larger homes, no public transport, larger vehicles, large appliances etc. Where I question it is AC 1/

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Mattie b @matthewjb.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

We are witnessing the pundits and consultants who have destroyed the Democratic Party lose their shit about a joyful movement that proves all their bullshit to be what it always was.

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Mattie b @matthewjb.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

The thing is Joe, nobody knows where APAICs money comes from. Not even you can say for sure. That is how dark money works. The rest of us just make judgements on what they lobby for which seems to be just more bombs.

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Mattie b @matthewjb.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Bug hunting with opus: Me: long explanation of the environment, the functions called and symptoms. Claude: this is the most likely problem in the code. Me: that is not in the code path C: good information that clarifies a lot. Here is the most likely problem. Me: that’s not… Repeat…

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Mattie b @matthewjb.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

The begging spam got a lot quieter after I answered their last survey with “burn the DNC to the ground and yeet every consultant into the sun”

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Mattie b @matthewjb.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

This is when you find all the little leaks the old owners forgot to mention.

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Mattie b @matthewjb.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

And let’s never forget “torture? Nah, that is just enhanced interrogation.”

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Mattie b @matthewjb.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

“Turn up the threat level to orange guys, they caught us lying again!”

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Mattie b @matthewjb.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Oh hell no! Have you memory holed the whole post 9/11 psychosis? It was an openly authoritarian move that took advantage of fear and shock of that era to consolidate power.

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Mattie b @matthewjb.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

No, it was something very important about bathrooms. I distinctly remember bathrooms being mentioned…a lot.

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Mattie b @matthewjb.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Good lord! This could beat all records for the ratio.

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Mattie b @matthewjb.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

The only commonsense reform is abolish ICE. There is no reforming lawless thugs and murderers.

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Mattie b @matthewjb.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

This is what the second amendment was really intended for, government over reach.

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Mattie b @matthewjb.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Indeed, the phalanx of coders with a one week course in COBOL sent in by the likes of Perot Systems resulted in some interesting code.

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Mattie b @matthewjb.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

It was a minor, though pervasive, problem that was massively overblown because it was easy for consultants to explain to non-techies. It was a boondoggle for those consulting companies. Those of us fixing the code considered it a joke.

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Mattie b @matthewjb.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

You maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!

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Mattie b @matthewjb.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

lol. So a bunch of groups hardly anyone would recognize the name of vs. a massive, well financed group infamous for its political and media influence. I think you make my point for me.

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Mattie b @matthewjb.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

For my entire lifetime, and I am not young, there has been a western propaganda wall protecting Israel from any consequences of their treatment of Palestinians. Your argument just amounts to “fuck, they shouldn’t have seen that”. You don’t even attempt to argue Israel’s actions were just.

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Mattie b @matthewjb.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Nope. We are shitting on him because he lacks principles.

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Mattie b @matthewjb.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

What if…he too was being ironic?? A möbius of irony as it were.

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Mattie b @matthewjb.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Recursive irony! This is brilliant!

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Mattie b @matthewjb.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Did you look for the weakest possible synonym for illegal before you posted this? You abdicated any pretense of leadership by posting this.

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Mattie b @matthewjb.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Here is a thought, fire the consultants that wrote this for you and then resign.

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Mattie b @matthewjb.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

lol. So the relevance of your own work for the shit rag WaPo has become doesn’t bother you but people not wanting to engage Nazis on a rigged platform does? Hang in there, I am sure they aren’t planning to replace you with grok anytime soon.

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Mattie b @matthewjb.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Sorry, I will actually give you “all of them are idiots”. It still stands that over industrialization of farming is just problematic.

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