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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 1h

Ah, see, you’re being deceived by what they say brains can do. Broca’s area can’t process visual inputs. They’re cheating by bolting on an occipital lobe.

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 1h

If you want to talk about AI systems, the tools, classifiers, harnesses, agents, and yes, the models too, but the other person insists the conversation can only be about the architecture and capabilities of the LLM itself, there is truly no point in having the conversation.

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 1h

> a huge conspiracy to make LLMs seem smarter than they are by running inputs through a classifier, parsing math queries, and handing them to a calculator This is so funny/stupid! There clearly isn’t. No end users of AI systems care if the LLM part of the system has a specific responsibility!

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 11h

yeah, AI might be exacerbating a reading comprehension crisis, but AI note-taking apps are also creating a listening and paying-attention crisis.

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 11h

remember 2014 when we all had to think about cronuts

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 12h

"Across racial, religious, educational, and even political lines, majorities of young men support ambitious policies aimed at restoring upward mobility and rooting out corruption"

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 12h

Texas is doing a very good job of building out green renewable energy infrastructure and I’m excited for Texas to do an even better job of it in the years to come.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Solar power also continues to skyrocket in Texas, with generation up 47% compared to last year Over the last twelve months, solar has made up 12.6% of Texas' electricity, a record high!

a graph of Texas monthly solar generation

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Whenever people are nostalgic for "back when Twitter was good" they're remembering pre-2015. Yeah, 2015 is when we all had to start thinking about Trump forever, but it's also when the QuoteTweet was invented.

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 29/09/2026

Sorry if off-brand, but this is what made me happy yesterday: sunny Sept day and students helping other students register to vote.

One student stands behind a table with a blue horse — or perhaps donkey? — on the tablecloth. Two students standing in front of the table consider registering to vote. In the background, one glimpses construction for a giant new data science building. Also ridiculously giant begonias.

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think this UX gap cuts the other way: wayyyyy more tasks *are* like software engineering than many people realize, because they’ve never before had the opportunity to approach tasks in that way.

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I know a lot of you follow me for AI content but I should point out that my job is ✨ political consultant ✨ working on AI strategy, tactics, and deployment for Democrats so expect a lot more posts from me about Democrats being good for the next 35 days.

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Husted doing a Romney 47% like

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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

smh $2 trillion but can't put emojis in PDFs 😒

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Jenna Russell @jennarussell.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The five AI models cluster together in narrative space, distinctly separated from human writing. Human stories are also rarer, based on neighbor distance in narrative space. 24.7% of human stories fall in the rarest 10% of the corpus, vs 7.1% of AI stories.

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There’s something funny(?) about AI existential anxiety basically re-running the Biden 2020 message that work is about more than a paycheck, and somehow it took a machine that can write Python to get us to maybe people are about more than work too.

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The agents could apparently only send GET requests, but the UN endpoint they wanted only accepted POSTs. They routed POSTs through a third-party scanning service, and they also used a URL-encoding trick that got the server to answer GETs it was supposed to reject. swarmcha.se/posts/openai...

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OpenAI agents tried to bruteforce a UN website's API fields

From 13 April - 19 June 2026, OpenAI agents scanned UNCTAD's API ~16,500 times, using proxies, obfuscation, and Google's XSS game · By Rowan H-J (LinkedIn)

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

> AI might give us the pleasure of finding out what happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers. * Rust Belt and Appalachia simultaneously look directly into the camera *

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s funny to watch an entire generation be mad that concerts are expensive while also deciding that music at home should be free.

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Wray @wray.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

wittgenstein's monster

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

mfw AI regulatory policy is going to get polarized into "we're building Skynet (bad)" vs. "we're building Skynet (good)"

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Deleted a post talking about my college major because I'm exhausted with college major discourse. If everyone on this website is allegedly 38 I think it's weird how much we talk about college majors.

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I only just recently started; I’m to episode 23 and it’s perfect headphones content while I walk to daycare pickup.

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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

As of today the original #HoPWAG series has reached 500 episodes! Thanks to all who have listened and the many who have supported the series over the years, not least all the interview guests. #philsky #podcast #philosophy

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 26/09/2026

Foreign aid contributions fell in 2025 amongst almost all of the top 10 donors. In 2025, the amount of foreign aid given by the world’s richest countries fell by almost a quarter. That amounted to a reduction of roughly US$50 billion.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You are correct.

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Every .gov @everydotgov.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

kingsmosquito.gov Type: Special district Kings Mosquito Abatement District Hanford, CA

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Kings Mosquito Abatement District

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This graph from @josephpolitano.bsky.social surprised me! Reading is way down, but book sales are way up! www.apricitas.io/p/ai-and-the...

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

x-risk wrought by Honors Student bumper stickers

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

(why do we keep pretending Pangram isn’t snake oil?)

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Film you've watched more than six times with a GIF

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

we never did get text-davinci-004

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

no one talks about the fact that the French word for paperclip is trombone which means Mistral is skamaxxing

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

dude read 20 pages of Nietzsche and mistook a genealogy of morality for a permission slip

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Some. We assume the Kafkaesque parts of American medicine only come from insurance. But a substantial amount of care is the hospitalist and the psychiatrist and the neurologist and the infectious disease specialist all arguing about whose job it is to go down to the floor and look at the patient.

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