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Matt Novak

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Reporter at @Gizmodo.com. I’ve been writing about the history of futurism at @Paleofuture.com since 2007. Email: mnovak@gizmodo.com Signal: mattnovak.11

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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 12m
On your first day of prison, walk up to the biggest guy there and ask him where the suggestion box is
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 45m
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia “Unites States”
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 54m
I understand why people think there's something going on "behind the scenes," but it's mostly out in the open. This is how power struggles happen in an oligarchy. These guys all need each other in order to remain the small group who control the country and loot its wealth away from working people.
Joshua Reed Eakle: Here's a video of a business leader who called Trump a pedophile last summer, now promising to describe his business using the words that pedophile demanded.

Something is going on behind the scenes that the public is completely unaware of.

Aaron Rupar: Elon Musk corrects himself: "I think it's worth highlighting the positive benefits of AI -- SI, pardon me. I think by far the most likely outcome is major abundance."
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1h
It'd be really funny if Fanni Willis was seated next to him after all
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5h
Toddler brings loaded gun to Michigan daycare
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Toddler brings loaded gun to Michigan daycare
Daycare staff took the gun from the toddler and no one was hurt Monday in Canton Township, a community west of Detroit, police said.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 6h
oh man, I just tried it and america.gov really does get REAL weird when you tell it to “play Minecraft”
america.gov
America.gov
Find answers from official government sources and clear next steps for the services you need with America.gov.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7h
Actually you did vote for this, dipshit
Erick Erickson: Talked to a friend whose business has been hit hard by diesel and tariffs. He vented, "I voted for him, but I didn't vote for this." Real frustration out there.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 8h
It looks like Musk is on board for calling AI “super intelligence,” as Trump has decreed.
Elon Musk: Super Intelligence
Margo Martin
@MargoMartin47• 1h
•@POTUS hosts a Super Intelligence meeting at the White House
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 9h
#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the third-country removals case; clears way for Trump admin. to continue removing non-citizens without a full chance to litigate the conditions in those countries (while also taking up the full merits appeal).
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9h
Fox News just did a long segment on this Jack Smith hearing and, you're never going to be believe this, but they didn't play any of Schmitt embarrassing himself.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9h
The average cost of a domestic airline ticket in the U.S. is $405, up from $302 a year ago.
Graph showing a steep rise in average airfares in 2026, from below $300 at the start to $405 today.
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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 11h
The Independent has a photo of the slide we weren't able to see during the Smith hearing. No texts from Smith in it.
JP Cooley: Is 109 Row 1 reserved for Jack? 
JP Cooley: Damn. Thank you for saving -- but we are good. Ask Harbach. 
Gavin Wallach: He is already down here. Thanks.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11h
"The taxpayer money used to fund the ads that started airing last week came from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, an arm of DHS that oversees the Border Patrol and customs and immigration at airports..."
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Exclusive | Homeland Security Money Financed Pro-Trump Television Ads
White House calls the spots public-service ads, but critics argue using taxpayer money for campaign-like messaging may violate federal law.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
MacFarlane: The Second Harvest Food Bank of North Central Ohio has got the same issue. Last year, they paid $50,000 for diesel to transport their food. Now, they’re paying $150,000 for the diesel to transport their food.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11h
If your media consumption is stuff like this, Schmitt just scored a big win. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12h
Best part is when Schmitt gets angry that she points out he has the team wrong, as though he's the one who was wronged bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12h
Justice Department charges Venezuelan man shot by ICE agent with assaulting an officer
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Justice Department charges Venezuelan man shot by ICE agent with assaulting an officer
Federal prosecutors in Texas have charged a Venezuelan delivery driver who was shot by an ICE agent earlier this month with assaulting a federal officer.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h
ALL THE STARS* ARE HERE.... *classic grifters of the 1980s and 90s
Rapid Response 47: .@TonyRobbins
 at the https://America.gov
 launch: "Today, we're going to see a bold vision that's been turned into reality — one that forever can change how government recognizes you, how it respects your time, and how it actually serves you."
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h
You really need to watch both videos below. These really are the dumbest people on the planet.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
holy shit -- turns out Jack Smith went to a Hawkeyes game in Maryland but Schmitt's team is so reckless they concocted a conspiracy theory that Smith was actually in Atlanta seeing a Hawks game and colluding with Fani Willis. Klobuchar points out to Schmitt, "you have your teams wrong."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
extremely weird shit during the Jack Smith hearing -- Sen. Eric Schmitt's team briefly displays a poster board that Schmitt claims contains evidence Smith committed perjury, but then Schmitt's team takes it down before anybody can read it and refuses to show Smith what it says
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h
I spoke with Lindsay Owens about her new book Gouged: The End of a Fair Price—and What That Means for Your Wallet. If you care about surveillance pricing and the high-tech ways that companies are screwing us over, you really need to read this book.
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If You Use Money to Buy Things, You Should Read This Book
Lindsay Owens, author of the incredible new book Gouged, tells us why the Robin Hood theory of surveillance pricing is a myth.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14h
Dutch National Police arrest member of group that claimed to have hacked FBI
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Dutch National Police arrest member of group that claimed to have hacked FBI
About a week ago, the cybercriminal group ShinyHunters claimed it had defaced the FBI's jobs website and bragged that it had stolen data about FBI personnel and job applicants.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The tweet that immediately came to mind:
We're a modest company with modest goals:
1: sell a quality product at a fair price
2: drain the world's oceans so we can find and kill god
6:19 PM • Oct 21, 2014 • Twitter for iPhone
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 28/09/2026
Breaking: The Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago.
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ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified
The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“No physical evidence linked him to the crime scene, but the jury convicted Carter, a Black man, based on the confession and two witnesses who said he bragged about killing Olesen, who was white. Those witnesses later recanted.”
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Man ordered released on bail after decades on Utah’s death row after DNA tests show no match to him
A Utah judge on Monday ordered a 71-year-old man to be released on bail who spent decades on death row after prosecutors said newly analyzed DNA evidence did not match him.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Trump White House official app is fraught with trackers. The White House app covertly collects excessive user data and shares it with third-party trackers while sidestepping federal security rules. For example, the app includes scripts to monitor a user's location several times per minute.
washingtonsun.com
White House Drove Users to Official App Fraught With Trackers
The White House app became the App Store’s most downloaded news app after the president barred three news outlets.
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...
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Dustin Volz @dustinvolz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New: FBI in internal memo says it believes ShinyHunters may have stolen private data on all employees. Fears of longterm consequences of breach magnify as hackers threaten to leak everything online by end of Tuesday. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
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Embarrassing Breach at F.B.I. Fuels Fears of Harm to Its Employees (Gift Article)
In an internal memo, the F.B.I. said it believed the hackers may have stolen sensitive information on all of its employees.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Tesla says its Roadster event on Oct. 1 has been postponed until Oct. 15 due to potentially bad weather.
Tesla: Roadster event update

We've been tracking the weather closely with local meteorologists, but given the severe conditions predicted & because this event can only be held outdoors, we've made the difficult decision to reschedule.

New date is October 15. Additional details to follow
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's good that we invented things like "government" and "the economy" but we can't meaningfully participate in them if the people in charge are constantly rubbing in our faces that these things are fake, and in fact you are a naive doofus if you think otherwise. That's a society on life support
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Going to work now feels like doing homework after the teacher quit and told the class that education is fake. Everyone just coasting on inertia and hoping there's still a point to all this
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Whenever you see a pollster or consultant give a take like this, it’s always worth following the money. In this case, Emanuel has paid Anzalone’s firm nearly $300k (maybe more but that’s what I found so far). A consultant class is devouring the Dem Party www.elections.il.gov/CampaignDisc...
John Anzalone &
@JohnAnzo
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Underestimate @RahmEmanuel at your own risk.
He knows how to win. He knows how to fight.
And he knows how to message.
And no one will out work him. Regardless of whether he wins the Democratic nomination in 2028 he will make an impact on the race. You can be sure of that. Don't take your eyes off of him. At the minimum, learn from him.
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
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6:47 AM • 9/26/26 • 274K Views
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One of the funniest parts of DOGE was all these dipshits simultaneously complaining about all the supposed waste in government while also whining that all the equipment was antiquated. What, you think slashing funding will magically modernize all the equipment?
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Did Anthropic's Claude discover something new in biotech? Well, just like with those recent alleged math proofs, it looks like it was given the answers in advance from real humans doing actual research. (gift: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/s...)
Dr. Mestre and his colleagues have yet to publish their findings. But for the past three years, they have regularly used Anthropic’s A.I. models as they have written code, drafted manuscripts and performed other tasks.

In doing so, Dr. Mestre said he and colleagues shared key findings about the enzymes with Anthropic.Anthropic said that Claude’s key contribution was identifying an array of RNA molecules and a protein associated with reverse transcriptase in a system. But Dr. Mestre said that he and his colleagues had made that discovery over a year ago.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Just think of it as added protein.
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Dead Mouse Found in Jar of Mezzetta Peppers Prompts Recall
TikTok videos with the unfortunate rodent have gone viral.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Final shot of Sunset Blvd paid for by the U.S. Government.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So true
Sticker on a light pole that reads: discount beepers, THE 1970 RICO ACT IS ANTI-ITALIAN DISCRIMINATION
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“My fellow Americans, I hereby resign the Office of President of the United States…”
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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Are you kicking me out of the buffet because I shared with my friend or because we’re wearing a horse costume
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Bayliss Wagner @baylisswagner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
New: The Trump administration has spent more than $1M in public funds so far to boost the president on the airwaves. Experts including a Bush WH ethics lawyer said it likely violates federal laws against propaganda & political activity by gov’t staff. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...
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A Trump 2024 Campaign Ad Returns, Now Brought to You by The Government (Gift Article)
The ad, which ethics experts said could violate federal law, shows Mr. Trump vowing to “expel warmongers” from the government and fight the “deep state,” even as he wages a war with Iran.
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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A 48% drop in employees at National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. Yikes.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Banning religious studies, just as Jesus intended.
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 27/09/2026
"Obama tried to freeze Fox out" is a complete lie and it's incredible that Jake Tapper feels the need to both-sides this
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John @notheotherjohn.bsky.social · 26/09/2023
Dance like no one is watching. Like no one came to your dance recital. Your dad? He completely forgot. How do you feel? No, don't tell me. Show me.
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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The White House Military Office Navy aide is on “Football” duty today for Trump’s trip to watch the President’s Cup at Medina Country Club, IL. The ~45-lb. satchel trails Trump 24/7, enabling him alone to authorize the use of any of our ~1,770 deployed nuclear weapons—up to 900 on alert—at any time.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 06/10/2024
The “Presidential Stare" is one of Elon Musk's most recognizable oligarchic techniques, a method of shaking hands where the billionaire stares with a forward tilt, to convey to the president that the CEO is at the peak of his need for government funds.
Elon Musk making a sinister face as he goes to shake Trump's handElon Musk making a sinister face as he goes to shake Obama's hand
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They keep using this line and it's nonsense for many reasons, but also, if that's truly the case, there are only about a dozen "fraudsters" per state: the insurers. No one else could benefit from this particular no-claims "fraud." So where are the prosecutions of health insurers? 🤔
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