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Matthew Smith @matthewnsmith.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Holy shit I loved these. Forgot about them though.

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Matthew Smith @matthewnsmith.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

First week of operational solar panels. Already paying for themselves. In mid November. In New England.

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Matthew Smith @matthewnsmith.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

They tell me Mamdani is the threat to my people.

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Matthew Smith @matthewnsmith.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Why do we have to AI-proof our classes? Because our students aren't motivated to do the work we assign them. Either students don't see the point of their educations or their lives are so demanding that they are forced to take shortcuts. It's not a syllabus problem, folks.

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Matthew Smith @matthewnsmith.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

For fun, I uploaded my Ethics and Public Policy syllabus to ChatGPT. I asked it to add additional readings to each module. It gave me about 3 new readings/module and at least half were either incorrectly cited or, worse, totally mode up - fakes. ChatGPT is bad at scholarship.

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Matthew Smith @matthewnsmith.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I am teaching Ethics and Public Policy this fall. Here is the syllabus. Comments welcome! (Seriously - please offer suggestions!) Thanks to @jowolff.bsky.social for alerting me to citation infelicities!

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Matthew Smith @matthewnsmith.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

FWIW I really screwed up and interpolated tons of incorrect citations. Your comment woke me up to that! I basically copied the wrong citations and summaries from a word document for nearly every reading! Thank you for waking me up to that.

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Matthew Smith @matthewnsmith.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

it's chapter 1 I think? pluralism of disadvantage?

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Matthew Smith @matthewnsmith.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

oops that is a product of my crappy note taking. that is from your book disadvantage!

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Matthew Smith @matthewnsmith.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

If we shift Pat to some other team then sure. But why are we paying wages to both when they both can't be trusted to stay fit OR score goals when fit? I predict DCL will score no more than 4 goals and will play less than 2000 minutes. Pat would probably be equivalent.

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Matthew Smith @matthewnsmith.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Firmino scored 37 goals over the four years he was the same age as DCL.

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Matthew Smith @matthewnsmith.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Patrick Bamford scored more goals in his one good season in the PL than Dominic Calvert-Lewin has scored in the past 4 seasons combined. Frankly, we already have a DCL and his name is Pat. #lufc #alaw #mot

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Matthew Smith @matthewnsmith.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

London's Metropolitan Police have arrested Palestine solidarity activists at a Quaker meeting house. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/six-...

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Six Youth Demand campaigners arrested while attending meeting in London

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Matthew Smith @matthewnsmith.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

You know you wanted it! Another piece on the Abundance Agenda! open.substack.com/pub/matthewn...

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The Abundance Agenda as Anti-Politics

Deal-making is not political morality

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Matthew Smith @matthewnsmith.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

You know you wanted it! Another piece on the Abundance Agenda! open.substack.com/pub/matthewn...

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The Abundance Agenda as Anti-Politics

Deal-making is not political morality

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Matthew Smith @matthewnsmith.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Wu just made this guy tear up a little.

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Matthew Smith @matthewnsmith.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

The abundance agenda is anti-politics. It's a technocratic attempt to dodge the hard political questions of the moment. Don't be fooled!

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Matthew Smith @matthewnsmith.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

On Judeopessimism and Jewish complicity This short essay traces some connections between evolving conceptions of Jewishness and the rise of authoritarianism. American Jewish identity has been hijacked by the Right and we are partially responsible for that. open.substack.com/pub/matthewn...

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Reflections on Jewish Complicity

On the relation between mainstream Jewish politics and authoritarian assaults on universities and free speech.

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Matthew Smith @matthewnsmith.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I wrote a bit about Jewish complicity with authoritarianism. Below is a paragraph from the piece. Read the whole thing here: substack.com/@matthewnoah...

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Matthew Smith @matthewnsmith.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Some notes on the role of Jewish organizations and the current authoritarian assault on free speech and universities. matthewnoahsmith.substack.com/p/ba74345a-7...

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Matthew Noah Smith

Associate Professor of Philosophy at Northeastern University. Click to read Matthew Noah Smith, a Substack publication. Launched 3 days ago.

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Matthew Smith @matthewnsmith.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Bernie Sanders is drawing thousands of people to his rallies. I'd also wager that the Democratic Party elite thinks that the main threat they face is the left flank of their own party. Even if the Dems take back the House in 2026, they will merely slow the descent to authoritarianism.

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Matthew Smith @matthewnsmith.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

We are in old fat Caligula territory.

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Matthew Smith @matthewnsmith.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I sort of forgot about Chisel and Ted Leo and the Pharmacists and man oh man is it good to remember them.

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Matthew Smith @matthewnsmith.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

So, we are basically being governed by an entire party of these guys.

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Matthew Smith @matthewnsmith.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Gonna use this video when teaching Iris Young on social groups and structural injustice. Let's see if I end up on some DEI professor list. theonion.com/judge-rules-...

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Judge Rules White Girl Will Be Tried As Black Adult

The court ruled a white teen who stabbed a classmate to death will face the jury as a 300-pound black man.

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Matthew Smith @matthewnsmith.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

More in touch with morality than most rabbis.

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Matthew Smith @matthewnsmith.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

It took me 5 minutes - actually 4 minutes 38 seconds (I timed it) to call my senators & congressman about Mahmoud Khalil. Please do the same.

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Matthew Smith @matthewnsmith.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Trump promises more arrests to come:

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Matthew Smith @matthewnsmith.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

For a lot of people whose identities are organized around grievance, they experience being fearful hate by others as a form of respect. For them, the person who has the most respect of all is the abusive father, the one everyone fears, hates, and avoids.

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Sean Kelly @storyslug.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Electric cars are also an environmental dead end. They're better on emissions but worse on several other measures like tire waste, battery waste, etc. We should be investing more in public transit but Musk is trying to destroy that entirely.

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Matthew Smith @matthewnsmith.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Yeah 100%. Electric cars are the PT Cruisers of virtue signaling. People who drive them think they are being extremely bold but in fact it's just silly.

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Matthew Smith @matthewnsmith.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

The car you drive is less important than the policies the state implements. Choose your fighter: the PT Cruiser of virtue signaling or supporting a fascist climate change denying movement.

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Matthew Smith @matthewnsmith.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Other way around! It’s all about putting water where it normally isn’t.

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Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:

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Matthew Smith @matthewnsmith.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

It's neoliberalism in the sense that state systems are characterized as both wildly inefficient and extremely oppressive. But it's against the Friedman-style neoliberalism that emphasized the unfettered flow of capital across borders. I guess it's not neoliberalism but neo-neoliberalism.

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Matthew Smith @matthewnsmith.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

It's funny-not funny that neoliberalism was declared dead when we are currently living through a new form of nationalist neoliberalism - a second (or third) phase of neoliberalism organized around the destruction of the state while simultaneously cloistering the citizenry w/in borders.

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Matthew Smith @matthewnsmith.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025...

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Sympathy for Israelis among Americans is lowest in decades, poll shows

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Matthew Smith @matthewnsmith.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

I cannot stress enough that members of the Jewish community who celebrate this - and yes I have seen people in my own community celebrating the GOP assault on universities and the broader state persecution of activists in solidarity with Palestinians - are setting all of us up for persecution.

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Matthew Smith @matthewnsmith.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Reminds me of the famous joke: Two Jews are sitting on the subway during the 1930s. One looks at the other, who is reading Der Stürmer. "Why are you reading that dreck?!" "Why not? It says we own the banks and the media and control governments. That's better than the alternative!"

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Matthew Smith @matthewnsmith.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

A lesson to take from this is that the Dems' humorless, self-righteous protest won't break through. Bernie and AOC are really good at using bitter humor to attack Trump and the GOP and more Dems should try to do the same, except that being a Democrat these days requires not having a sense of humor.

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Matthew Smith @matthewnsmith.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I was recently listening to a left wing podcast - Know Your Enemy podcast - and they used one of Trump's lines, "a big beautiful ocean", as a laugh line. It's just a funny line for a president to utter even when it is used to defend quite awful ends.

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