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Matt Policastro

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Distinguished fellow of Some Such Nonsense Studies. Data science and experimentation. Keep it wavy. mattpolicastro.com

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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 12h
I appreciate a good chaos feed, but the sheer volume… I am built different, and apparently worse
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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 12h
Nah, I started jumping around looking for updates too. Just happened to loop back to the ACARS feed in time (Also, how on earth do people actually follow ACARS Drama in their main feeds?)
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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 13h
Maybe? bsky.app/profile/acar...
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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 19h
On the other hand I just realized that IKEA Ivar shelves and medium Systainers are a perfect fit and I’m about to weep with joy
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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 20h
At the “material embodiment was a mistake” phase of re-organizing the garage/workshop.
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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 01/10/2026
They’re literally doing the Clear and Present Danger thing, except dumber?
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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 30/09/2026
Tangentially related, but have you read Incorruptible by Eric Ries? Still a little bit too rah-rah for industry sorting itself out, but nice to see an ostensible insider casting a critical eye.
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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 30/09/2026
Introducing the VC class to Factorio or Satisfactory is now a matter of national security. I promise guys, it’s plenty cool when you can use your jet pack to watch the fuel rods on the conveyor belts.
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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 29/09/2026
God help us when the models figure out dog dares.
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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 29/09/2026
These are not serious people.
Screenshot of Musk’s Twitter post from Nov’22 featuring a boxed flintlock with Washington’s crossing of the Delaware on the inner lid, a 3D print of a Deus Ex revolver, and four empty cans of diet caffeine-free Coke on his bedside table. Screenshot of a 3D printable version of the Diamondback .357 model from Deus Ex
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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 29/09/2026
The OP with a better profile shot was deleted, but yeah, probably weird drugs and weirder habits. bsky.app/profile/chat...
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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 29/09/2026
Was riding on the LFT on Saturday afternoon/evening and a SUV lurched up onto the path to seemingly ircumvent the parking tickets/gates at the entrance. It is unbelievable how heavily pedestrian/cyclist traffic is policed while vehicular traffic is a free-for-all.
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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 29/09/2026
Ok. Definitely rushed the final act to the ending but already feeling the tug to reload some saves, if not start fresh entirely. Messy (especially skills/conditions) but some fantastic characters and voice performances. Very curious how different the director’s cut stuff will feel like in a few days
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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 29/09/2026
Every public beach in Chicago should have at least one of these.
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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 29/09/2026
Still think of this essay almost every time I see one of these potemkin pantry/fridge deals dilettantearmy.com/articles/mer...
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Merchandizing the Void
Kelly Pendergrast on Khloé Kardashian’s massive stage set of a home pantry, grids, spreadsheets, and the wife as home manager.
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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 29/09/2026
Decided to play Zero Parades while taking some time off this week; any particularly good reviews or discussions about?
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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 25/09/2026
I’m a pretty good cook and yet I just screwed up some cod filets so badly I’m more fascinated by the failure mode than upset.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026
lol lol lol lol lol lol lol
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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 24/09/2026
The solution is simple: we embrace the Wacker principle and continue the artificial elevation change across the city. Who could refuse the allure of the Second Floor City
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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 24/09/2026
and there it is: regulatory capture

6 SEC. 12. CHARTERS FOR ADVANCED ARTIFICIAL INTEL-
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(a) AUTHORITY TO ISSUE.—The Secretary may issue

9 to a person a charter to develop or distribute an advanced

10 artificial intelligence model.
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(b) CHARTER REQUIRED.—No person may develop or

12 distribute an advanced artificial intelligence model without
13 a charter issued by the Secretary under subsection (a).
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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 23/09/2026
Grateful that these things aren’t available and used without medical supervision in the US. If they were, I couldn’t imagine the sociopolitical implications.
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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 23/09/2026
On a short course of steroids to hopefully kill off the last of a lung infection and I didn’t remember just how insane they make you feel? I cannot stop sweating and crave lacto-fermented foods like I’ve never felt before. I would strike a man down for a Reuben. I would steal kimchi from a baby.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I don't think anywhere near a majority of men want the kind of ubiquitous gambling that now permeates everything.
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
One of my favorite cases of someone being Wrong on the Internet was a very earnest, very confused vegan who was telling people how cruel honey is; and it eventually turned out they thought honey was made by putting bees in a centrifuge and spinning them around until they threw up.
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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
this is fantastic and I learned something new
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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 22/09/2026
I had a ton of success with food journaling/calorie tracking when I was training harder (or training at all, really). But it’s morose to realize that I sort of lost touch with how good cooking feels along the way?
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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 22/09/2026
Celebrated getting a giant air purifier which seemed to immediately boost my mood by making a distressingly decadent fridge tidbits burger
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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 22/09/2026
This recipe was pretty solid: www.seriouseats.com/homemade-diy...
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Homemade Cheez-Its Recipe
Because they incorporate cream instead of the more common butter, these homemade crackers brown more flavorfully as they bake, creating a deep, nutty, grilled cheese sort of vibe. Eat 'em out of hand,...
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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 22/09/2026
I made homemade ones during the pandemic and I don’t recall it being too hard? But strongly recommend avoiding smoked cheeses—I made a huge batch with some hickory cheddar and it was a *struggle* to finish them
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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 20/09/2026
Had a blast at Chicago MeasureCamp yesterday; fun talks and great chats with friends old and new. (But good heavens I am exhausted and this steady rain heralding fall is not helping in the slightest.)
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EROCY @erocy.world · 16/04/2026
*trent reznor voice* my whole existence is claude / you help me break things in prod
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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Voters elected Trump to make them rich
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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 19/09/2026
This is almost disgustingly me-coded, let’s gooooooo
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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 18/09/2026
Well said. The longtermists are very, very bad on this front but it feels like this is also very widespread culturally? E.g. The explosion in gambling and “prediction” markets making definitionally difficult to model events look and feel model-able
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donni saphire @donni.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I respect my haters and share their concerns
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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 17/09/2026
Forging upriver to pspspses unknown
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Key 🗝 🦊✅ @keytryer.net · 16/09/2026
That's right, it goes in the JSON hole
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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 16/09/2026
I shouldn’t say I know enough to make sweeping statements, American corporate culture and financialization is what it is. But I don’t think it’s unreasonable to gesture at some, ahem. Correlations? Between tech valuations and (at best) eccentricity
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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 16/09/2026
Thief (and/or a lot of Mann’s catalogue)
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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 16/09/2026
Working remotely on and off with SV people as a midwesterner has definitely left a lingering sense of trickle-down weirdness vibes over the years The teams I’ve worked with? Lovely! The execs setting the tone of the conversations they’re having? Well…
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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 16/09/2026
@rangedtouch.bsky.social I am playing catch up on Shelved by Genre, anf regarding the modernizing forces in Mordor and orc specializations in Return of the King: Hundreds of Beavers should be a bonusode because (spoilers) the enemy is doing society
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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 16/09/2026
I know I am a real weirdo because despite being significantly more internet-brained than most people in my day-to-day I still feel FOMO when I log on and see people talking about how hellacious the discourse has been.
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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 16/09/2026
PS6? Hell I think GTA6 is going to motivate a lot of console interest and shock/horror at the current gen
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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 16/09/2026
*Spirals in precision/recall* Weird stuff, but potentially really neat
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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 15/09/2026
Happened to watch this over the weekend myself and it honestly made the GTA 5 inspiration so much lamer. It is so damned difficult to feel cool or competent in any of those heists which a damned shame
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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 14/09/2026
I'm horrified and dismayed to realize that I accidentally typed STT instead of TTS. Listening, learning. Trying to be better.
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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 14/09/2026
I infected my YouTube recommendations with Let’s Play edits of some game called Moonbase Alpha with a charmingly janky STT so now instead of music i just have a chorusing “uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh” robot voice stuck in my head
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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 14/09/2026
When the shit hits the fan everybody thinks they’d be the guy driving the Stryker erratically while their primate business associate is horking sodas but they’d actually be the old guy creepy slow breakdances and taking damage from commentary about the passage of time
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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 13/09/2026
Went to Knobcon, bought shelves at IKEA, am now in repose with a canned cocktail and a cat. Good day.
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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 10/09/2026
Median voter Wolverine
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