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Matt Novak

@paleofuture.bsky.social
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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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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23m
This would sink a presidency in any other era. I would bet most Americans will never hear it even happened.
wapo.st
Trump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policy
The purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk.
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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 1h
We do not have a serious economy in this country, we have an ongoing series of expensive brazen insults to all the hard-working people who *actually make things* despite the incompetent whims of mediocre upfailing assclowns like this guy. No greater lie than the meritocracy.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 4h
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 5h
Good to see that the assassination of Melissa Hortman & her husband Mark, followed by the government murders of Alex Pretti & Renee Good, have convinced Minnesota Republicans to stop using dangerous rhetoric that could incite violence.
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🦇🎃💀 Riana-mator 💀🎃🦇 @riana.bsky.social · 5h
Excited to see how the company that fell all over itself to put "Gulf of America" on Google Maps decides to apply the YouTube Terms of Service and Community Guidelines to a livestreamed execution by firing squad. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Fort Hood attacker's execution by firing squad will be livestreamed, Pentagon says
"We'll make sure that people are able to watch it," the US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Thursday.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 5h
This is petty and least important aspect of this but: I reported on this years ago and the trump campaign falsely denied the reporting, and now via Hegseth they’re just doing it. Monstrous
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5h
I just saw one of Trump’s propaganda ads on Fox News. The ad still ends with “paid for by the U.S. Government.”
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6h
Iran sometimes does public executions but I can't find evidence they've ever televised one. It seems like North Korea, China, and Saudi Arabia have also never televised or livestreamed any executions. Looks like the U.S. will be in a club of one if Pete Hegseth goes through with this.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 6h
Another ICE shooting, in NYC abc7ny.com/post/person-...
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Person shot during interaction with ICE agents in Marble Hill
A person was shot during an interaction with ICE agents in Manhattan on Thursday.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 6h
can't wait to give the guy who's buying elections to stay out of prison direct access to all of my mobile data
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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 6h
manmade horrors coming to a streaming service near you
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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 6h
i paid good money to witness these manmade horrors and they better be beyond my comprehension
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6h
Again, the last public execution in the U.S. was in 1936. It's hard to wrap your head around what we're currently accelerating toward.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6h
"...didn't work very well in cloudy... weather. Or smargy... conditions."
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7h
Jensen... Twaaahng
gizmodo.com
Tim Apple Is Dead. Long Live Jensen Twaaahng
President Trump struggled to speak coherently during a ceremony Thursday.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7h
Donald Trump is an absolutely vile racist. Trump: “The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing. They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back!”
Trump: The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants. There is Violence, Murder, and Mayhem all over the State. The people of Minnesota must fight back. You have been robbed, and abandoned by your State Government. Your Governor is an incompetent thief who doesn't want to get involved. He just wants to get out of town with as much as he can steal, and then, lead a quiet life. The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing. They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back!
If you need, the Federal Government will come to your rescue.
Governor Tim Walz, and Mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, must immediately ask for Federal help — and leave the rest to us! President
DONALD J. TRUMP
10 ReTruths 31 Likes
10/8/26, 1:30 PM
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 8h
The last public execution in the U.S. was in 1936.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 8h
BREAKING: MS NOW confirms. The Trump Justice Department is seeking a federal criminal indictment of ex-White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson on charges of lying to Congress about Trump's actions on Jan. 6.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9h
Where else am I going to find such fine literature?
Book called "What's Cooking San Diego?" 1986 edition: Favorite Recipes of Well Known San Diegans

•CHIEF KOLENDER'S
FAVORITE BRO SAUCE
RECIPE Page 25
MAYOR O'CONNOR
Page 23
STEVE GARVEY
Page 18
MARCARET AVERY
(The Color Purple)
Page 2
ORVILLE REDENBACHER
page 36
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lithobolos @lithobolos.bsky.social · 9h
What kind of intelligence is it?
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9h
I knew I couldn't be the only one lol
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9h
"We don't expect the consumer to suddenly become much more in a much better place in the next 12, 18 months," Laguarta said.
businessinsider.com
Pepsi says drinkers are pulling back and buying less of its namesake beverage
PepsiCo addressed declining soda sales as consumer spending tightens, impacting its North American beverage business.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10h
Great movie. But I'm feeling some pressure to see it again sooner rather than later since it flopped. I'd love to watch it again in, say, 2-3 weeks. But I doubt it'll still be in theaters by then.
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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 10h
So glad to have another foray in the culture wars to take into the holidays now your MAGA uncle can roll his eyes every time someone says “AI” at Thanksgiving dinner like it’s a deep, personal affront rather than an thing he had never considered until a week ago
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10h
Trump isn't just demanding that everyone call AI "super intelligence." He just tweeted that anyone who still uses the term artificial intelligence is "THE ENEMY."
gizmodo.com
You'll Never Guess Who Trump Is Now Calling 'THE ENEMY'
The MAGA Cultural Revolution is exhausting.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11h
Thanks!
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11h
It doesn't need any special processing beyond normal color film (C-41) development but I do have to send it out because I've discovered that apparently the regular stand-bys like CVS won't return your negatives. Very weird to me.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11h
I recently started shooting 35mm film again so I'm catching up on weird film stock released in the past 15 years. The orange-tinted photos in this piece were shot with Lomochrome Turquoise. I think it works well in a story about the heat.
Photo showing a man jogging on the beach, with a strangely tinted orange sky and a blue-green sand.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12h
um
Hurricane Rachel, project4ed to hit Mexico but with an unfortunately phallic shape
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h
I wrote about San Diego and how there's nowhere to run from climate change.
gizmodo.com
The City With the Best Weather in the U.S. Isn't Built for This Heat
Yelp searches for "air conditioning near me" were up 145% in the summer of 2026.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 13h
The far-right's favorite "intellectual" says the quiet part out loud.
A tweet from Curtis Yarvin that says "what if Open AI solves the Jewish problem"
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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We live in the dumbest timeline with the dumbest, greediest, worst people in charge. It’s incredible.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It’s worth reading the entire article on this one.
Beyond that, Deters and a local guitarist had written a song called "Kentucky Outlaw,' ,"and
wanted Guilfoyle to get the lyrics to country-rapper Kid Rock: "He's a Kentucky outlaw/He fights the man and refuses to crawl."
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
‘Stop talking about the bribes over text’ she texted textingly
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“She warned Deters repeatedly not to commit talk of money or payments to text. ‘Eric, I really wish you would stop papering all these things,’ she wrote in one exchange.”
Guilfoyle also expressed concern about her dealings with Deters becoming public—and the effect that could have on her ambassador post.
She warned Deters repeatedly not to commit talk of money or payments to text. "Eric, I really wish you would stop papering all these things," she wrote in one exchange.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
They’re all crooks. Some are just dumber than others.
wsj.com
Exclusive | ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Wire $100,000 to Her Amex Account
Text messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Damn. What an icon. RIP
news.mit.edu
Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"We simply do not allow doctors to use these cheap, generic medicines in favor of highly expensive chemotherapy and that kind of thing."
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Model projections suggest sea surface temperatures could remain at record-breaking levels for six straight months, a sign that this El Niño’s weather influence will likely persist longer into 2027 than usual…”
gizmodo.com
Record-breaking El Niño Conditions May Linger for 6 Straight Months
Climate models suggest this event and its wide-reaching weather impacts could persist much later into 2027 than usual.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
i have a totally unproven and clearly overly broad thesis that most people doing laptop jobs have stopped caring and that 'whatever just hit the KPIs' is pretty much the default state
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Don’t worry, Mayor McCheese will pardon him
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Less than ideal, though it won't be a hurricane anymore when it makes landfall
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Officially, the hurricane center forecasts the storm to make landfall about 100 miles south of San Diego around 5 a.m. Sunday, but the 'cone of uncertainty' shows the possible path of the center of the storm as far north as Anaheim — a highly unusual potential incursion into California."
sfchronicle.com
The National Hurricane Center just drew a forecast path into California. Is the threat legit?
Strong winds, large waves and storm surge are possible in Orange and San Diego counties, with heavy rain and flash flooding possible in Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Las Vegas and Phoenix.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Looks real to me
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Many people still think you can just ask AI to tell you if something was made with AI. Even with invisible watermarks like Google's SynthID, the AI detector tools still get things wrong.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Gemini told me this image was real, except that Grimace was added. But the entire AI image was created by Gemini. It's 100% fake.
gizmodo.com
Google Launches New Website to Detect AI Fakes, But Don't Assume It's Perfect
Gemini told us the Grimace was added, but the photo of Paxton and Trump is real. It's not.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
In the presidential immunity case, the court considered a hypothetical of a president ordering Navy Seals to assassinate an American political rival. Trump's lawyer argued unambiguously yes, since it'd be an "official act." The Roberts Court ruled in his favor, 6-3. Why wouldn't Trump believe this?
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is utterly horrific. "Greene-Placentia struggled to open her eyes. She felt a sharp pain below her waist. The attacker was pulling his penis out of her. She heard him mumble something like, '-ic bitch, not a very good fuck,' which her mind filled in as 'Democratic bitch,' she recalled."
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🤡
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