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Matthew Buckley

@physicsmatt.bsky.social
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Theoretical physicist, Rutgers professor.

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 29m
Setting aside the fact that most of these people did not, in fact, break the law, what does this suggest about how the next administration should handle the members of this one, nearly all of whom have broken many laws?
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 30m
Adding "Don't be an evil nerd" to the list of blog posts I should write.
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Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 2h
When people ask "universities sit on a billion dollar endowment, why don't they spend it on scholarships?" The answer is: "because the people who gave the money conditioned it on spending it on building a campus in Miami."
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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 3h
I'm so sick of this. Democrats do not hate your white son. They just expect your white son to treat other people like they are his equals. To accept women and non-white people as full citizens worthy of respect. Now, if he's unwilling to do that, then I hate him. But not because he's a white guy.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 18h
funny to me that last year taylor lorenz was privately trying to suggest i was being funded by peter thiel after we got into an argument over her shitty takes, and now she’s literally running cover for him saying being evil is good. quite a journey she’s on.
Taylor Lorenz: "Listening to this whole interview and these comments in context you see he is actually making a pretty nuanced point. You can criticize him all u want but taking clips out of context to manufacture outrage is so lame— critique what he actually said!"
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 12h
One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 19h
“Hegseth thinks the problem w/military education is too much education. Ending new tenured appointments will make it harder to recruit outstanding scholars & easier to pressure professors to tell political leaders what they want to hear.” — AAUP President Todd Wolfson
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 16h
wake up babe, new Skynet/ Matrix/ WOPR/ robot apocalypse strategy just bounced: they're going to use the brain-rotted guy in charge of health policy to tell us to all start licking measles homeopathically.
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 17h
Jesus this is bleak. Just boilerplate “we, the undersigned CEOs, promise to try really really hard to only make good artificial super intelligences. We’ve got this. We promise.”
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21h
The funniest thing about the Schmitt rake stomp is that if it'd been a Dem we'd have a week of think pieces about how Dems lack of hoops literacy was alienating them from real America.
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 17h
It’s ok, I am told that the MAHA eugenicists are just Economically Insecure.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 18h
WSJ Exclusive: The Trump admin used federal funds from the Department of Homeland Security to finance those controversial pro-Trump ads that started airing on TV. The taxpayer money used to fund the ads came from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
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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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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 18h
its worth asking why posts like this — a purported leftist warning others not to trust elected left-wing politicians — consistently do so well on the site where racist Trump ally Elon Musk controls the algorithm that chooses what posts people see
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 18h
Conservatively speaking, like what, 100 fascist frat boys looked at the text messages in question and not one of them could put two and two together? One feels like GOP is in serious danger of drowning in every rainstorm.
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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 19h
My first thought about this idiotic nightmare of newspeak is how it's going to affect academia, and whether we're about to see a rash of papers calling it "superintelligence" in a bid to get a drop of the ever-diminishing pool of government funding.
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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 19h
I am NOT going to write a NSF proposal related to “Super Intelligence for Geosciences.”
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I don't think it's a good idea to let the wildly unqualified former host of Fox & Friends' weekend edition cull the military's leadership and insert cronies. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/u...
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Hegseth’s Purge of Top Generals Leaves the Army Rudderless
The leadership vacuum comes as the Army is trying to adapt to a new kind of war dominated by deadly drones.
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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 19h
It's a bit of a bummer that the story today has been "look at this absolute doofus of a senator" and not "Jack Smith once again credibly accuses the president of many serious crimes"
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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 21h
Jesus Christ dude
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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 20h
Do not let them convince you that we must choose between enforcing the law and preserving our humanity. For this administration, cruelty is the whole game.
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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 20h
as everyone knows the nation of japan proceeded to be extremely cool and normal for the next 4 decades after this, so probably nothing to worry about re: the american populace on this point
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21h
omg. yes, they actually have video of him at the game. when does marshall mcluhan walk out and dunk on sen schmitt?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Eric Schmitt is on The Charlie Kirk Show (yes it's still called that) -- and believe it or not, hosts are pretending he owned Smith with his embarrassingly botched gotcha "You caught him in this NBA game too in Atlanta" "Yeah," Schmitt says There's no mention that Schmitt had all his facts wrong
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Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 20h
idk what level total cultural victory it is that a male Republican didn't know sports teams and needed to be corrected by a Democratic woman but goddamn we got sports in the national divorce for real for real
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 20h
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Andy Samberg: Ooh, Self Burn. Those Are Rare.
ALT: Andy Samberg: Ooh, Self Burn. Those Are Rare.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 21h
Making fundamental due process rights a nullity with the emergency docket (again)
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21h
And once again, real harms imposed on real people must be set aside until after real damage is done in order to privilege the unproven right of Trump to impose those harms
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Josh @joshmallow.bsky.social · 21h
Sexual assault is so funny, right? Right?
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Josh @joshmallow.bsky.social · 22h
"we're hurting people by not destroying humanity" ok thanos
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 22h
This is piling on, but there is no Section 109, Row 1 for Atlanta Hawks games in State Farm Arena.
A chart from GOP senate staffers showing a text message from Jack Smith's staff asking if Section 109, Row 1 was reserved for Jack.For basketball games at State Farm Arena, there is no row labeled "Row 1."
Instead, the very first row of Section 109 for basketball is labeled Row AA.
How the Rows Work in Section 109
The rows in Section 109 do not follow a standard numerical order. They are split into double-letter and single-letter configurations:
• Premium Club Seats (Closest to Court): The rows start at Row AA (the true front row of the section) and run through Row NN.
• Standard Lower Bowl Seats: The section continues further back with Row P through Row X.
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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 23h
The plan was obviously for this to be a coup to restore Republican fortunes in one blow and they did not have a plan for what they should do if it backfired
Benny Johnson: Senator Eric Schmidt Just CAUGHT Jack Smith perjuring himself on the stand in his testimony.
Jack Smith denied having any contact with Fani Willis and denied going to a NBA game in Atlanta. Then Eric Schmidt pulled out the receipts
"What would you say if I had a series of text messages from your team that said you were in Atlanta at a Warriors Hawks game the day after Willis and Wade announced their affair"
"I don't think you know that we have this stuff, l'll give you a second to process it"
Jack Smith is stunned.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22h
if you know anything about senator schmitt's monumental fuck up in the jack smith hearing, i implore you to reach out. can be anonymous. signal: marisakabas.04 email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 22h
Look, call me old fashioned but I think it is dishonorable and unbecoming to be this unaware of basic facts and to display such a lack of decorum and self-control when being confronted by ones own self-inflicted error. Sorry to be so traditional, that's just the way I was raised.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 23h
The angry response is what comes out so clearly to me - normal people, if they're caught out mistaking the Hawks for the Hawkeyes are going to be embarrassed and apologetic, but Schmitt's response is volcanic 'how dare you' anger. Just manifest low character, frankly.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED
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Theodore Grunewald @tedgrunewald.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
JCO for the win.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026
Eliezer Yudkowsky, rationalist leader and AI advisor to Bernie Sanders (whose partner, Gretta Duleba, is mentioned as an instructor on the Slutcon 2026 program), wrote a rather notorious scifi story with some curious ideas about rape back in 2009: www.polemics.md/that-time-el...
In a conversation with the ship's leader Akon, the Confessor dispenses wisdom he's gained from witnessing the transformation of humanity into a space-faring race. During this conversation, he reveals that the act of rape is completely legal during Akon's time and had been legalized by humanity during a turbulent period in its past. Akon responds with shock, calling the ancient human civilization "prudish":
The Confessor held up a hand. "I mean it, my lord Akon. It is not polite idealism. We ancients can't steer. We remember too much disaster. We're too cautious to dare the bold path forward. Do you know there was a time when nonconsensual sex was illegal?" Akon wasn't sure whether to smile or grimace. "The Prohibition, right? During the first century pre-Net? I expect everyone was glad to have that law taken off the books. I can't imagine how boring your sex lives must have been up until then - flirting with a woman, teasing her, leading her on, knowing the whole time that you were perfectly safe because she couldn't take matters into her own hands if you went a little too far"You need a history refresher, my Lord Administrator. At some suitably abstract level. What I'm trying to tell you - and this is not public knowledge - is that we nearly tried to overthrow your government."
"What?" said Akon. "The Confessors! '
"No, us. The ones who remembered the ancient world. Back then we still had our hands on a large share of the capital and tremendous influence in the grant committees.
When our children legalized rape, we thought that the Future had gone wrong."
Akon's mouth hung open. "You were that prude?"
I don't believe in condemning people solely off fiction, but this is the type of thing that one might find on the fanfiction website Archive of Our Own behind many tags and warnings.Three Worlds Collide, however, isn't hosted on Archive of Our Own. It's hosted on Overcoming Bias, blog of George Mason University economist 1l Robin Hanson and the original home of LessWrong before it moved to its own website. Hanson is an economist at the notoriously libertarian George Mason university who has been repeatedly criticized for his views on women - one notorious blog post of his compared cuckoldry to "silent gentle rape" and he was dubbed
"America's creepiest economist" in a piece about his incel-adjacent takes.
Three Worlds Collide is over 15 years old, but it is relevant to current event. The Rationality community that developed around Eliezer Yudkowsky and LessWrong has been marred with multiple allegations of abuse and sexual misconduct. These allegations were also the basis for a protest against a Rationalist organization by Ziz, the leader of the so-called
"death cult" that formed in the community and is currently suspected to be involved in several murders, including the recent killing of a Border Patrol officer in Vermont. I
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I don't want to ruin it for anyone, but the reason massive philanthropy hasn't stopped Gotham from being a crime-ridden hellhole with supervillains who regularly escape from the asylum is because it's a comic book that is going to run forever and for that reason the setting can never really change.
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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump & ICE have done this to 25,000 people & counting. The government is abducting our neighbors and disappearing them to places with abhorrent human rights records. Often, they’re stranded there without money or identity papers. These aren’t deportations - they’re renditions.
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Schools are supposed to help raise children, not veal.
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Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The desire of Realists to impose rationality upon Russian foreign policy is impressive in its futility. Over the past 35 years Russia has striven mightily to convince every Eastern and Central European country to seek NATO membership, and yet "NATO" remains the cause of every bad thing Russia does.
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.
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Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
From Latino voters in focus groups, who regret voting for Trump: "And they said, you know, this is not what I voted for." Sargent: "It is what they voted for, in the sense that Trump said he was going to do that." Exactly.
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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
maybe the least unsurprising story, given Lahn's wife has basically said she has no interest in moving to Iowa and their alleged home in-state is in the middle of nowhere.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Look having the entire roster of FBI agents leak isn't a front-page newsworthy security failure meriting front page coverage the same way having some of your emails to Anthony Weiner's wife be discovered on Anthony Weiner's laptop was
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Senator Jeff Merkley @merkley.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Trump’s Republican allies in the Senate BLOCKED my bill with Senator Murkowski to stop the Kennedy Center—or any presidential national memorial—from being demolished without an act of Congress. Just shameful.
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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
SCOOP A Pentagon influencer called liberal women a "pestilence" who will end western civilization. He's also: • Praised dictators like Franco and Pinochet • Said people without kids should not be allowed vote • Called immigrants "semihuman savages" www.wired.com/story/a-pent...
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A Pentagon Influencer Called Liberal Women a ‘Pestilence’ Who Will End Western Civilization
Kurt Schlichter was part of a task force rooting out so-called woke ideologies at the military’s war colleges. He has called to bar childless adults from voting.
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Susan Collins was accused of massive bribery and corruption days ago, glad everyone is focused on the important issues
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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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