Matt Waite @mattwaite.bsky.social · 10hFirst thought was this seems like something AI could do. Second thought was I would sue myself for this kind of copyright murder. The joy is in imagining it, not hearing a fake version of it. 110
Matt Waite @mattwaite.bsky.social · 11hNow I want to hear a Brian Setzer Orchestra cover of Talk Dirty To Me. 110
Matt Waite @mattwaite.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Hot take: I thought he wandered a little in the middle portions of the argument. Still, worth the read. bsky.app/profile/dans... 0314
Matt Waite @mattwaite.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Ahhhhh, remember headlines before SEO? Good times. Good times. No idea what that story is about, but the answer is in this 3 pound hunk of paper. 010
Matt Waite @mattwaite.bsky.social · 05/10/2026DON'T DO IT -signed, guy who graded all day yesterday only to get half of it done. 010
Matt Waite @mattwaite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Lincoln Nebraska got more rain last night than any day in the last quarter century, according to NOAA data. 101
Matt Waite @mattwaite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I am an undignified amount of giddy about how it turned out. 000
Matt Waite @mattwaite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Do you, like me, still think about the 2010 Winter Olympics interactive graphic from the NYTimes where they turned finishing times into sound? Good news: I burned some tokens and created soundeR, an R package that sonifies data in a very beginner friendly way: www.mattwaite.com/posts/2026-0...mattwaite.comAnnouncing soundeR, an R package that turns data into music(?) – Matt WaiteAnnouncing the soundeR package, that turns data into sounds. It’s made for people with basic tidyverse skills and a rudimentary understanding of music. You can make sounds with very little, and there’... 1132
Matt Waite @mattwaite.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Took me 20 minutes, three screenshots and Opus 5.5 in Claude Code. Works on desktop, works on mobile, pops into the CMS with a simple iframe. And there's room to grow. 000
Matt Waite @mattwaite.bsky.social · 25/09/2026What if news orgs offered news avoiders a break from the relentless terrible of the day with a silly little game off the news? Example: Big news here, 1/4 of the football stadium will be demolished in December. Turn that into a game of Breakout: www.mattwaite.com/south-stadiu...mattwaite.comSouth Stadium BreakerThe south stadium facade is coming down. Grab the wrecking ball and help. 141
Matt Waite @mattwaite.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Give me a minute and I can probably construct a convincing argument that my mental health hasn't improved since I gave up my Blackberry. 010
Matt Waite @mattwaite.bsky.social · 17/09/2026One day. Soon. commodore.net/computer/commodore.netComputer - Commodore 110
Matt Waite @mattwaite.bsky.social · 10/09/2026There’s Proper Spurs and then there are the true champions who take Proper Spurs to new levels. 000
Matt Waite @mattwaite.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Something like it. I used the national participation data in class the other day. Lot of theories why, but it’s something like 32 states saw declines in participation. 020
Matt Waite @mattwaite.bsky.social · 05/09/2026High school football participation is down nearly 40 percent from 2008 in the state so it may be happening and no one is asking the kids about it. 110
Matt Waite @mattwaite.bsky.social · 05/09/2026My next pitch: America needs kids to be Nebraska football fans to teach them that life is suffering - joyless even when you cover at -23.5. 110
Matt Waite @mattwaite.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I see the launch of your clickbait empire is going well. 010
Reposted by Matt WaiteRobert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I am having a particularly frustrating week, so here’s one of the best things I’ve ever done. The eruption of Sarychev Peak in the Aleutian Islands, seen by the crew of the space station. www.nasa.gov/image-articl... 10860851505
Matt Waite @mattwaite.bsky.social · 31/08/2026How Gen X am I? Super, so glad you asked. You see, right now, the earworn burrowed deep in my brain is the theme music from The Adventures of Remo Williams. *That* Gen X. 030
Matt Waite @mattwaite.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Database man, database man Database man hates spreadsheet man They have a fight, Database wins Database man 2251
Matt Waite @mattwaite.bsky.social · 20/08/2026My first thought was that two thirds of that list is on the Ye Olde Blaire Fire-Hall playlist but alas, It Takes Two is not (though it should be) and the Wild Wild West glimmer of a memory was the vastly superior Kool Mo Dee, not The Escape Club. 010
Matt Waite @mattwaite.bsky.social · 07/08/2026I fear for the fabric of the universe. Don’t cross the streams and all that. 000
Matt Waite @mattwaite.bsky.social · 07/08/2026As someone who finds a zen state working on my house and also has to write a lot for a living, I am so goddamned pissed off that AI has robbed me of using "load-bearing" as an adjective. 130
Matt Waite @mattwaite.bsky.social · 30/07/2026I hate that in America in 2026 this could me you are very, very high or very, very low. 030
Matt Waite @mattwaite.bsky.social · 30/07/2026*this* website. Not the website. Their bluesky feed is jacked is what I’m trying to say. Another vote for an edit button. 010
Matt Waite @mattwaite.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Great moments in Social Media Automation: four of the last 30 posts from one of my state’s newspapers on the website are actually from that publication. Twenty-three posts are from … St. Louis, the corporate home base. 141
Matt Waite @mattwaite.bsky.social · 22/07/2026After 19 years, @politifact.bsky.social this week retired the content management system I built for it so long ago. Bonkers to think it lasted that long, but in the age of AI creating code, its a reminder that it was always the idea, never the code, that mattered. www.poynter.org/commentary/2...poynter.orgPolitiFact's new platform is a reminder that ideas outlast technology - PoynterAs PolitiFact retires the platform that powered its first 19 years, its original developer argues ideas matter more than tools 051
Matt Waite @mattwaite.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Source: www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...insidehighered.comBrown Professor Suspects Most of His Class Used AI to CheatBrown University leaders’ response to the alleged cheating incident has been “meek,” the professor said. 030
Matt Waite @mattwaite.bsky.social · 10/07/2026I need Sam Waterston to voice this quote from Brown economist Roberto Serrano: "We cannot afford to have a society in which a significant fraction of our best young minds think that cheating is OK. That leads to a declining society, to a failed society … We cannot choose to become idiots." 140
Matt Waite @mattwaite.bsky.social · 06/07/2026My idle summer brain combined yellow-journalism era philosophical fights over what the purpose of a newspaper was, Atari 2600 nostalgia, 2 Live Crew and AI to make a version of Pitfall with the algae-clogged reflecting pool as the obstacles: www.mattwaite.com/posts/2026-0...mattwaite.comIrrational products, editorial games, AI and 2 Live Crew – Matt WaiteNo newsroom anywhere has so many software developers laying around that any whim can be made real. But now … they kinda can. I find people using AI to write stories so tedious and boring. Hooray, just... 160
Matt Waite @mattwaite.bsky.social · 28/06/2026I gave a cartoonishly corrupt organization hundreds of my dollars and turned it into a bucket list checkmark I’ll remember forever. AMA 150
Matt Waite @mattwaite.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Oh my god. Algeria at the death! The revenge of Gijon happened! 200
Matt Waite @mattwaite.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Okay, maybe not a disgrace but the last 10 minutes has been two teams realizing they have everything to lose and not much to gain by attacking. But the You Should Feel A Little Bad About This of Kansas City doesn’t have the same ring. 100
Matt Waite @mattwaite.bsky.social · 28/06/2026There will be no Disgrace of Kansas City. Both teams going for it. 110
Matt Waite @mattwaite.bsky.social · 28/06/20261-1 at half. My watch went apeshit with noise warnings after Algeria scored the equalizer. 110
Matt Waite @mattwaite.bsky.social · 28/06/2026For more than 30 years, I’ve dreamed of going to a World Cup match. When the announcement of a North American World Cup came out, my son and I said we’d be happy to go to anyone anywhere. We’ve made it to the Disgrace Of Gijon revenge match by complete accident. 1190
Matt Waite @mattwaite.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Honestly, with people so bad at fact checking and so willing to believe AI, I'm cool with some of the models thinking I pitched for the Tampa Bay Rays. Realistically, I would have pitched from 2001-2003 when they lost 305 games and no one cared at all about them, but sure. 020
Matt Waite @mattwaite.bsky.social · 08/06/20261. Welcome home. 2. The moral is clearly don't drive through Iowa. 170
Matt Waite @mattwaite.bsky.social · 27/05/2026@ryanpitts.bsky.social I think it may be time to renew our debate in light of this. 130
Matt Waite @mattwaite.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Why do I treat course evaluation reveal day like Christmas morning? Because where else do you get gems like this? 030
Matt Waite @mattwaite.bsky.social · 08/05/2026In the last faculty meeting talking about future changes to Canvas feels like Captain Smith holding a meeting about the return voyage on the Titanic while others deal with that loud bang and grinding noises that occurred earlier. 041
Matt Waite @mattwaite.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Instructure wide. Not sure if they are a US only company or not but it’s very widespread. 110
Matt Waite @mattwaite.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Sure, Instructure. Sure. Scheduled. Maintenance. Sure. 040