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Matt Sharpe

@mattsh4393.bsky.social
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Aussie. PhD Philosophy, Social Theory, MA Public Policy (focus: higher ed), Dip Counselling. Author of books and articles on history of ideas, political theory, Stoicism & bullying/mobbing, and the ideologues of the far right. Concerned about democracy.

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Matt Sharpe @mattsh4393.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Zapata, receiving no answer, took 2 preaching God in all simplicity...He extricated truth from lies, separated religion from fanaticism; ... He was gentle, kindly...modest; & he was burned at Valladolid in the year of grace 1631. Pray God for the soul of Brother Zapata.” #Voltaire
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Matt Sharpe @mattsh4393.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
#Camus #AI #idiocy #balance #philosophy bringingthemtheplague.medium.com/on-camuss-he...
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On Camus’s “Helen’s Exile” of 1948, a prophecy for our times
Over the last months, as AI insider after insider has been coming out telling us that the new gadgets the tech-billionaires have told us…
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Matt Sharpe @mattsh4393.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
on the idea that promising species extinction is promoting greater investment in #AI, cf. #WalterBenjamin: “mankind… is now one for itself. Its self‑alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as aesthetic pleasure of the first order”": nay, financial value add.
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Matt Sharpe @mattsh4393.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Phtah-Hoteb, Sumer: “If thou be a leader, as one directing the conduct of the multitude, endeavour always to be gracious, that thine own conduct may be without defect.” Or just be as morally, humanly repulsive and obnoxious as possible without shame, like a spoilt 4 year old.
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Rob Rogers @rob-rogers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Trump has decided that the big tech companies, the same ones responsible for rogue AI attacks, can just regulate themselves. Great. www.patreon.com/robrogers/po...
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AI Monster | Rob Rogers
Trump has decided that the big tech companies, the same ones responsible for rogue AI attacks, can just regulate themselves. Great.
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Dave Whamond @davewhamond.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Where we are now:
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Daniel Boris @danboriscreates.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Lots of Baggage. 🐘
Elephant wearing a red MAGA hat and a “2026 Midterm Elecrions” T-Shirt, holding large bags of luggage that is labeled, “Iran War, Corruption, Undermining Democracy, Higher Cost of Living.”

Elephant: “Just give us another chance!”
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Matt Sharpe @mattsh4393.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Tell Albanese: AI crime, CEO time
A handful of tech billionaires are racing to build superhuman AI. Nobody voted for this. Sign the petition: Australia must push for a global slowdown.
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Mike Peters @mikepeters.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Daniel Boris @danboriscreates.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Trump TV 📺 *From the Creators of “The Apprentice.”
Trump seen as Walt Disney’s “Pinocchio”, standing in front of the Trump TV logo.
Tag line: “All the lies. All the time.”
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billbramhall.bsky.social @billbramhall.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Cartoon
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Matt Davies @mattdaviescartoon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Profiles In Carnage. Newsday.com/matt
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Daniel Boris @danboriscreates.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Smell the Incompetence.
A bottle of cologne is shown. “Fog of War” “by Hegseth”
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Clay Jones @claytoonz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Which will destroy humanity first, artificial intelligence or Donald Trump? #MAGA #Trump #AI #ArtificialIntelligence
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billbramhall.bsky.social @billbramhall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Cartoon
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Matt Wuerker @mwuerker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Mad scientists and their monsters.... www.politico.com/cartoons/202...
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Political cartoons from the desk of Matt Wuerker
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billbramhall.bsky.social @billbramhall.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Cartoon
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
And scene.
quote from 1984 where the party is always right.
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Matt Sharpe @mattsh4393.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
www.counterpunch.org/2026/09/16/r...
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Regulating AI is as American as Apple Pie
I want to cut to the chase and focus on what I consider to be the very most important aspect of the crisis we’re facing and how we can best go forward.
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Matt Sharpe @mattsh4393.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
What did the man who walked voluntarily into Hades say, when quizzed as to his actions in the hellfiires? "If I did not go down this path, as fast as possible, the Chinese would have gotten there first."
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Nick Anderson - political cartoonist @andertoon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The Arch To learn more about my creative process, the ideas behind my work, and to see behind-the-scenes sketches, videos, and works in progress, subscribe to my Substack newsletter: nickanderson.substack.com @contrariannews.org
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chrisbritt.bsky.social @chrisbritt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
#trump #texas #vote #elections #Gop
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Matt Sharpe @mattsh4393.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
a message from #Plutarch to American democracy: "Show no bashfulness in regard to an enemy, and do not suppose him trustworthy, though he may seem so." Trump does not even seem so, he says out loud the infamies he then enacts.
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Matt Sharpe @mattsh4393.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
full on delusions now. Trump claims he was inside the towers on 911. When will he be removed from office, the world wonders. It's surreal to watch the fall of a great nation so low, in tolerating such obscene incompetence and amorality in a leader. www.msn.com/en-au/video/...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🔥 @conversationsfromtennessee: “I know I cannot be the only person that feels this way…” He asks how so many people can feel more connected to corrupt billionaires like Trump and Musk and think their hard-working neighbors are their enemies. 😳 www.instagram.com/reel/DcwXKN3...
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Nick Anderson - political cartoonist @andertoon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Our juvenile president To learn more about my creative process, the ideas behind my work, and to see behind-the-scenes sketches, videos, and works in progress, subscribe to my Substack newsletter: nickanderson.substack.com
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Nick Anderson - political cartoonist @andertoon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Triumphal Arch To learn more about my creative process, the ideas behind my work, and to see behind-the-scenes sketches, videos, and works in progress, subscribe to my Substack newsletter: nickanderson.substack.com For @rawstory.com
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Michael de Adder @deadder.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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Matt Sharpe @mattsh4393.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
bringingthemtheplague.medium.com/graikus-or-t... #philosophy #Greeks #Socrates
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GrAIkus. Or: “the future is for everyone”(Mark Zuckerberg)
A Socratic dialogue
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Matt Sharpe @mattsh4393.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
how stupid are we as a species? it beggars belief. studies show that a tech that is intended to remove the need to learn and replace human labor ... is making people stupider, fast, and replacing human labor ... No! I refuse to believe it, #Plato! bringingthemtheplague.medium.com/what-plato-k...
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What Plato knew about AI
It’s a pharmakon which will lead to deskilling and loss of cultural knowledge
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Matt Sharpe @mattsh4393.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
what happens when editors retitle and rebadge a piece: #foucault #sexuality #history #philosophy theconversation.com/lust-and-pow...
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Lust and power: Foucault’s The History of Sexuality at 50
Modern societies, argues Michel Foucault, think and talk about sex far more than their forebears ever did. But this has not been liberating.
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Matt Sharpe @mattsh4393.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The future will exist beyond the next business cycle and people will want dignity conferring work. Who knew? sergeykleftzov.medium.com/nobel-prize-...
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Nobel Prize Winner Has Just Proven That AI Is a Ticking Bomb Beneath Our Entire Technological…
For the first time in history, we are threatened with the dismantling of the entire system of knowledge reproduction. This is nothing less…
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DrMacLeodCartoons @macltoons.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
2016 cartoon
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Clay Bennett @claybennett.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
8/29/2026- A Campaign Tradition www.timesfreepress.com/news/2026/au...
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Matt Sharpe @mattsh4393.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Shame.
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Nick Anderson - political cartoonist @andertoon.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
D-Day Go beyond the finished cartoon. Explore the creative process, the thinking behind my work, and exclusive behind-the-scenes sketches, videos, and commentary by subscribing to my Substack newsletter: nickanderson.substack.com For @contrariannews.org
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Dave Whamond @davewhamond.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The breakup
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Clay Jones @claytoonz.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Did we just invade the wrong country? #Trump #Canada #Tariffs #Tariffwar #IranWar
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Matt Sharpe @mattsh4393.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"It needs 20 yrs to lead man from the plant state...in his mother's womb & the pure animal state...of his early childhood...to maturity. It...needed 30 centuries 2 learn a little about his structure.It would need eternity 2 learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him." #Voltaire
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Matt Sharpe @mattsh4393.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
#Camus "The supreme end of art is...2 confound the judges, suppress all accusation, &2 justify everything—life & human beings—in a light that is beauty only because it is truth. No great work of genius has ever been truly founded on hatred or contempt."/ why fascism produces no art, only derision.
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Matt Sharpe @mattsh4393.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
And I'll get on my knees and pray/ we don''t get fooled again". Too late.
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TSE24 @tse24.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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Nick Anderson - political cartoonist @andertoon.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Negotiations Continue To learn more about the creative process and philosophical thinking behind my work, and to see behind-the scenese sketches and videos, subscribe to my Substack newsletter: nickanderson.substack.com For @contrariannews.org
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Matt Sharpe @mattsh4393.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
the basis prob w saying AI is necessary for education in old disciplines, esp philosophy. Plato educated students well 2600 years ago, with sticks, sand, and at most, some manuscripts. Plato and thousands of others have been good teachers. So, no, AI is not necessary. Critical reasoning is.
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Matt Wuerker @mwuerker.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The new Red Scare www.politico.com/cartoons/202...
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Matt Sharpe @mattsh4393.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
So do we still have to call this ‘populism’?
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Clay Jones @claytoonz.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Who will the most dishonest regime in American history replace Karoline Leavitt with? #KarolineLeavitt #Trump #BaghdadBob
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Matt Sharpe @mattsh4393.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
and there are no people of color acting, but MAGAts, pls see if you can see if there's another message.
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