Reposted by ✌️ Matt ScheurichKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities 201122063028
✌️ Matt Scheurich @mattsch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Using AI to disassemble app and then recreate in different language to dismantle corporate hegemonic monopolies is a good use case to me github.com/storytold/ph...github.comGitHub - storytold/photocraft: An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Photoshop in pure RustAn open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Photoshop in pure Rust - storytold/photocraft 000
✌️ Matt Scheurich @mattsch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026static.klipy.comGhostbusters: Slimer's Hallway ScareAlt: Ghostbusters: Slimer's Hallway Scare 010
✌️ Matt Scheurich @mattsch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Zeiram and Zeiram 2 just some amazing shit. Even just the typography of the movie title set me off. 010
✌️ Matt Scheurich @mattsch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026See also: World Coin, Self-driving Cars, Hyperloop, Colonising Mars, etc. 000
✌️ Matt Scheurich @mattsch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Maybe Zuck is just a really big fan of "America's Funniest Home Movies" and just wanted to ensure that all those silly/zany/goofy/funny/outrageous moments could be caught on camera?! To be really honest though, if any billionaire is trying to shill something, it is likely for dubious methods 100
✌️ Matt Scheurich @mattsch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Egads, Mark Zuckerberg is basically if Screech tried to look like and be AC Slater, but was still Screech through and through 000
✌️ Matt Scheurich @mattsch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baarle-...en.wikipedia.orgBaarle-Hertog - Wikipedia 000
✌️ Matt Scheurich @mattsch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026There’s some weird border stuff happening in Netherlands and Belgium 100
✌️ Matt Scheurich @mattsch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Key operative word is fantasy. Rules for made up stuff don’t apply. Could be a mixochitaworl who is born hyiartabnarian and learns qioloxtlatnan and rules still don’t apply, any bitch can be magic 000
✌️ Matt Scheurich @mattsch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Imagine how many people would identify alt if the social stigma was removed 150
✌️ Matt Scheurich @mattsch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026For the record and purely my opinion, anyone subjecting people to that kind of abuse for money is dead inside no matter their visage 030
Reposted by ✌️ Matt ScheurichOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...fortune.comGoogle co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | FortuneThe state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax. 10141581264
✌️ Matt Scheurich @mattsch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It’s like a ventriloquist puppet smile. Every time I see him smile I dunno if it’s a grimace or genuine. It’s like the uncanny valley of smiles 130
Reposted by ✌️ Matt ScheurichBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026The post-war "peace dividend" owed its existence to three factors: industrial capacity, political freedom and pent-up demand. 517967
✌️ Matt Scheurich @mattsch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Netflix reality TV is dripping with terrible music. They play a new terrible song every 5 seconds on those shows 000
✌️ Matt Scheurich @mattsch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Please @seamus.bsky.social . I also have no idea what EVOO means and what even a culture is. How do we make one? I know I can search for it online, but curious about your CULTUREd depth and BREADth of knowledge 001
✌️ Matt Scheurich @mattsch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026One of my favourite bits about The Lego Movie was the broken jaw/chin bit on the space helmet 000
Reposted by ✌️ Matt Scheurichnico @nicodelort.bsky.social · 21/09/2026since i am working on my first new alt movie posters in *quite* a while, thought i'd share a selection of my favs from over the years ! title and description in alt text all of them are ink on claybord/scratchboard 421089328
Reposted by ✌️ Matt ScheurichJennifer Graham @jennrgraham.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Every intro to sociology class I teach gets this image. 101409312
✌️ Matt Scheurich @mattsch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026For me it was a bunch of games on the Mac Classic: - Dark Castle - Shufflepuck Cafe - Glider - Shadowgate I still love that black and white pixel aesthetic, inject it into my veinsssss 000
Reposted by ✌️ Matt ScheurichJoe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026We can simulate fish schools or ants in ways that solve complex problems (gradient detection, bridge building, nest selection) but no one would create this weird soul/no-soul dichotomy to argue they these that multi-agent swarms of extremely simple rules are “thinking”. 14503167
✌️ Matt Scheurich @mattsch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Fine art is about rich people buying unique art to get tax breaks and to put money in assets 021
✌️ Matt Scheurich @mattsch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Ed Sheeran backing apartheid and genocidal regime by kowtowing to its billionaire benefactors was not on my 2026 bingo card 000
✌️ Matt Scheurich @mattsch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026So Ed Sheeran is continuing his tour solo, with nary a shred of awareness that his position of apoliticism is one of cynical complicity for genocide. If he wants “one love” for all as he so claims, then he should stand up against injustice properly. I don’t see him recovering positively from this 100
✌️ Matt Scheurich @mattsch.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I love(d) the Converse brand, but a misstep like this tells me that it—and the people behind it—need to go out of business. 000
✌️ Matt Scheurich @mattsch.bsky.social · 19/09/2026This is def one of the most distasteful ads/brand imagery I’ve ever seen. I’m shocked that someone even decided that this was a good thing to put out. 110
Reposted by ✌️ Matt ScheurichFunranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 18/09/2026To continue from last night, let's go over some safety precepts from my usual POV, radiation safety, that are somewhat generally applicable. As I start to think about writing this, I admit my brain is recoiling about applying this to AI tools on the grounds of "This is all terrible." 214215
Reposted by ✌️ Matt ScheurichTyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”orlandosentinel.comDocs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI... 9655492164
Reposted by ✌️ Matt ScheurichBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026Remember: every time you repeat a story about how awfully, terribly dangerous their products are, you help them raise more investment capital, which is a key input for their business (hooking up statistical engines to money-furnaces): peoples-things.ghost.io/youre-doing-...peoples-things.ghost.io 4331114
Reposted by ✌️ Matt ScheurichNRDC @nrdc.org · 15/09/2026A new U.N. report found that toxic “forever chemicals” called PFAS pose a profound threat to human rights and the environment. Actor and activist Mark Ruffalo and environmental attorney Rob Bilott have joined the call to ban all non-essential uses of PFAS to protect our planet and our health. 8428125
Reposted by ✌️ Matt ScheurichAngry Donkey News @angrydonkeynews.bsky.social · 15/09/2026That's Billion with a B.. Last night actor Michael J. Fox accepted an Emmys for his contributions to Parkinson’s disease research. To date, his has helped raise 3 billion dollars for Parkinson’s research 13967081325
✌️ Matt Scheurich @mattsch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I like his music and I think he’s generally a good person, but no-one does any good cowering behind apoliticism (which is itself a political stance—especially when it helps the bad guys) 100
✌️ Matt Scheurich @mattsch.bsky.social · 13/09/2026My wife was complaining about “E numbers in food”. She wanted to avoid eating something that had E330, “E numbers can be carcinogenic” she tells me. I looked up E330: citric acid. She watches too many Instagram reels. 010
Reposted by ✌️ Matt ScheurichBen Paddon 🎃 @benpaddon.net · 13/09/2026An AI flyer is a brown M&M test. If your event or business is cutting corners by using an AI flyer, where else are you cutting corners? What else are you cheating out on? Why should I be bothered to go somewhere you couldn't be bothered to promote with a little of your own personality? 2136781121
Reposted by ✌️ Matt ScheurichRowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Something to cling to and promote the hell out of: leveraging POSITIVE TIPPING POINTS www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comClimate solutions most likely to reach ‘positive tipping points’ revealed by scientistsGlobal shift towards clean electricity could trigger ‘cascade’ of progress, helping reduce air pollution, cut waste and revive oceans 3823362
Reposted by ✌️ Matt ScheurichMarlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026‘The Matrix’ creator Lilly Wachowski on J.K. Rowling and the new ‘Harry Potter’ series: “She is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support ‘Harry Potter,’ you’re supporting trans genocide.” variety.com/2026/tv/feat...variety.comLilly Wachowski on Her New Studio Anarchists United, the Black Power Origins of ‘The Matrix’ and How ‘Harry Potter’ Fans Are ‘Supporting Trans Genocide’‘The Matrix’ filmmaker Lilly Wachowski opens up about her new studio for marginalized voices Anarchists United, J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk. 100115254262
Reposted by ✌️ Matt ScheurichZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11/09/2026It's on. I'm running to be the next Green MP for Holborn & St Pancras. donatetothe.greenparty.org.uk 1061756430
