Reposted by Matthew ToleJames Cook @jamesecook.bsky.social · 04/07/2026"Not ALL the single ladies" - Nuancé 213317561
Reposted by Matthew ToleBrandon T. Snider @brandontsnider.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Back on my bullsh 15894022132
Reposted by Matthew ToleBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Trans rights are human rights always and forever. 104154574145
Reposted by Matthew ToleEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 26/05/2026Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly. www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and... 11678922021
Reposted by Matthew ToleKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 05/05/2026your software is not conscious, you absolute weirdokarlbode.comYour Software Is Not SentientSoftware simulacrum is not true consciousness, the stripper at the strip club doesn't actually love you, and nearly all of the biggest problems with "AI" have very ordinary human origins. 461779355
Reposted by Matthew ToleKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/04/2026"Humanity's next great voyage begins" #Artemis 342087399
Matthew Tole @matthewtole.com · 01/04/2026This is 💯 the technique I used when I moved to the US to remember which spelling was which. The generalized version of this is that if it's the obvious spelling it's the American version, if not it's probably British English. 000
Reposted by Matthew ToleThe Verge @theverge.com · 29/03/2026There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter seriesbuff.lyThere is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter seriesYou can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry. 176124884765
Reposted by Matthew ToleGore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social · 24/03/2026I’m at ICE HQ 69160253131
Reposted by Matthew ToleAshley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 24/02/2026I just want my friends to know I like and love them. 0912
Reposted by Matthew ToleMatthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 23/02/2026✍️ New post: Continvoucly Morged Value Couldn't get out of my head what happened to @nvie.com’s diagram – and so I wrote down a few premature thoughts about what happens when we mistake the (AI) artifact for the work … matthiasott.com/notes/contin...matthiasott.comContinvoucly Morged Value · Matthias OttWeb design engineer, UX designer, teacher, and speaker – helping teams build websites and digital products with a focus on CSS, accessibility, and performance. 2188
Reposted by Matthew Tolemolly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 17/01/2026damn what is wrong with me, i am having the hardest time concentrating on work, i lament as i compulsively refresh live feeds of unspeakable horrors 825105972
Reposted by Matthew ToleAnn Leckie @annleckie.com · 14/12/2025WORD I am really, really tired of "we tease the tragic backstory of the detective" can't a detective just detect, the murder is surely sufficient drama. 1558067
Reposted by Matthew ToleElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 20/11/2025VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM, YOU FLAMING SHITBIRDS. WE HAVE, IN FACT, RULED IT OUT. 1032483
Matthew Tole @matthewtole.com · 17/11/2025Just had my first encounter with a business using an AI to answer the phone and not only did it make me feel uncomfortable, it wasn’t able to help me, it captured my data incorrectly, and then any time it tried to bounce me to a human it hung up on me. 100
Reposted by Matthew ToleYour City @yourcityseattle.bsky.social · 13/11/2025We took on a powerful incumbent who was expected to coast to reelection. We faced more corporate PAC money than has ever been spent attacking a candidate in a Seattle election. We built a people-powered movement rooted in hope for our city’s future. And we won. This is YOUR city! 441365216
Reposted by Matthew ToleKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Happy Zohran Day to all who celebrate!! 231218332456
Reposted by Matthew ToleKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 30/10/2025I’m the first congressional candidate to be indicted under the second Trump administration. But if things keep going the way they are, I won’t be the last. That’s why I need to fight these charges with everything we’ve got. Help us do that here: katforillinois.com/legalkatforillinois.comDefend Kat Against Unjust ChargesShow your support with a contribution. 14790292771
Reposted by Matthew ToleBookshop.org @bookshop.org · 07/10/2025Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚 6377462772
Reposted by Matthew ToleHank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 05/10/2025Really, truly amazing that OpenAI wants us to believe that they are worth a trillion dollars but also they are so desperate for revenue that they created an infinite SlopTok app that opens them up to a billion lawsuits just so that they can maybe someday make it even worse by filling it with ads. 1066182865
Reposted by Matthew TolePaul "Princejvstin" Weimer @princejvstin.com · 17/09/2025Aww yes @marthawells.com ! www.usatoday.com/story/entert... 624148
Matthew Tole @matthewtole.com · 15/09/2025I scored 16/21 on e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.e-mail.wtfEmail is EasyEveryone knows what an email address is, right? 020
Reposted by Matthew ToleNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 31/08/2025How many of the liberals complaining about the National Guard occupying American cities even know what the M in M17 stands for 3965135
Reposted by Matthew ToleSam Rose @samwho.dev · 29/08/2025AI cannot go through a bad breakup, it can’t recover from an addiction, it can’t fall in love, it can’t be oppressed, it can’t lose a child, it can’t get rich, it can’t feel the sun on its skin, it can’t go on road trips, it can’t have sex, it can’t get drunk, it can’t regret. It can’t make art. 1222
Reposted by Matthew ToleSteve Everitt @steve-everitt.bsky.social · 28/08/2025New rule. A parent may only propose removing a book from the school library only after reading it in its entirety and delivering a book report to the librarian. Until then no discussion shall be entered into. 430172582813
Matthew Tole @matthewtole.com · 28/08/2025Mistakes were made (but not by me). Ever heard of a zip file @humblebundle.com? 010
Reposted by Matthew ToleDefector @defector.com · 21/08/2025James Dobson is dead, was a monster: defector.com/james-dobson...defector.comJames Dobson Is Dead, Was A Monster | DefectorJames Dobson was a nasty dude. He liked to beat children and dogs with a belt and to rain misery and punishment on the vulnerable; we know all of this about him because he said as much in public,… 441650345
Reposted by Matthew ToleMichael Meir Saltzman @saltzman.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Seems like ppl might finally be catching up to the idea that the LLM rollout has just been pivot-to-video but for every single facet of society/industry & 1000x worse. 018733
Reposted by Matthew ToleJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 19/08/2025The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are. 12781583465
Reposted by Matthew Toleamy brown @amybrown.xyz · 19/08/2025let's 👏 normalize 👏 asking 👏 the 👏 entire 👏 slack 👏 channel 👏 "@here are you mad at me" 212816
Matthew Tole @matthewtole.com · 10/08/2025The ability of US sports to have a sponsorship for every single thing is simultaneously impressive and cringeworthy. “Stoppage time brought to you by Nationwide”. Seriously?! #nwsl #seattlereign 010
Reposted by Matthew ToleJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 08/08/2025He didn't get to the moon but he got his crew home, and that was the more remarkable task. www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna223...nbcnews.comAstronaut Jim Lovell, famed Apollo 13 commander, dies at 97Lovell was also the first astronaut to go to space four times and part of the Apollo 8 crew, the first to launch on the Saturn V rocket and first to orbit the moon. 1145228894
Reposted by Matthew ToleKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Yeah so throwing dildos at women athletes on the court is an actual example of gender-based violence against women in sports—one that transphobes and acquiescent Dems will surely make 1000% less noise about 13870931387
Reposted by Matthew ToleGaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 08/08/2025I honestly can’t believe there are still any AI skeptics out there. This tech is obviously revolutionary 12475041974
Reposted by Matthew ToleEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 08/08/2025Never seen anything like this, and can't imagine OpenAI rolls back to allow people to use the old models. While they could make some tweaks to make it "more conversational," I'm not sure it'll work. GPT-5, I believe, has finally shown that OpenAI is washed 36640105
Reposted by Matthew TolePreeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 06/08/2025every day I'm like, "I need to answer that email" and every day my anxiety is like, "but they'll be mad at you because you're already so late" and I'm like, "you're right, I should wait until i think of the *perfect* email so they won't be mad at me" and the loop continues ever on so it goes 727341
Reposted by Matthew ToleSam Reich @samreich.bsky.social · 05/08/2025the two horsemen of calling their dad before winning a multiple choice trivia show 9112955
Reposted by Matthew ToleClara Murray @claradoodle.bsky.social · 24/07/2025An AI slop factory apparently tried to rewrite our article about AI not replacing workers en masse, but hit the paywall... so just summarised the paywall. If this is the robot that takes my job I'll be v embarrassed 7069061890
Reposted by Matthew ToleViktor Köves @viktorkoves.com · 20/07/2025I let a goat from my local zoo run SQL commands against prod without protection and it nuked my data The comments: have you tried this other much smarter goat 12743155
Reposted by Matthew ToleCat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 10/07/2025[worst possible stuff happening everywhere] man why do I feel bad 12114893368
Reposted by Matthew ToleKieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 08/07/2025I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast. 791223804047
Reposted by Matthew ToleJohn Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 04/07/2025This is a great thread because not just because of its intention but because it’s a reminder of how complicated the world is, and how simple our opponents want it to be. They would obliterate this history. They have, to an extent, obliterated their own. 2357113
Reposted by Matthew ToleK. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 28/06/2025The singularity is awesome 272207304331
Reposted by Matthew ToleKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025I expect that consumer-facing AI programs will continue to improve and they may become much more useful tools for everyday life in the future. But I think it was a disastrous mistake that today’s models were taught to be convincing before they were taught to be right. 28684991383
Reposted by Matthew ToleSiobhan Thompson @vornietom.bsky.social · 09/06/2025The only immigrant that I’ve been victimized by is myself 744613
