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Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel

@ringel.bsky.social
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Plans global networks, lives in a world of pure approximation, juggles metaphorical chainsaws for theoretical fun and actual profit. Not the comic book writer. He’s here too, though. He/him

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Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’d like to thank Past Me for reading all the books in “The Expanse”. Why? Because mapping Amos’s concept of “The Churn” onto large corporate politics is actually a pretty useful model.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026
like I suspect many of you on This Website, I think a core reason why I find Eliezer Yudkowsky and his rationalist and effective altruist satellites so intensely annoying is because I had a VERY similar “being a super weird, pretentious, hyper-literate kid” experience - I just, you know, grew up.
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Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Those who do not know of the Freeway Revolts of the 60s and 70s are doomed to be mystified by the opposition to massive gigawatt-scale datacenter buildouts.
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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What all #Meta product announcements look like to me by now. #charm #muse
Fake Bloomberg post:
Meta Harm

Meta Debuts a Device that Liquidates your Internal Organs to Provide
a Sustainable Source of Protein for Mark Zuckerberg's Pet Salamander.

Meta Platforms Inc. just unveiled its new gadget, which is already proving popular among 
AI fans who are keen to relinquish not only all their human rights but also their lives...
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Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Harry Potter Fanfic Sex Cult La La La La Clementine.
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Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” to “Roko’s Basilisk” Pipeline is real, and the line is so straight you could prove the curvature of Earth with it.
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Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” to “Roko’s Basilisk” Pipeline is real, and the line is so straight you could prove the curvature of Earth with it.
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Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
When I get home and I’m feelin’ kind of sour I take sixty minutes to read my very own home Schopenhauer ‘Cause I Think Alone…
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Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I remember that the weather was perfect that morning.
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Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
About a month after 9/11, I remember driving to Long Island. The *second* I crossed over from Queens into Nassau, the hyper-patriotic “we’re gonna kick their asses whoever they are” flag-wavey stuff started.
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Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
One of the more rewarding things about being a people manager is being able to tell my team “If they’ve got a problem with that, they can talk to me.” and making it stick.
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Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A fork in the road is just a three way junction where you’ve already tried one.
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Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
MERRY MOVINGSDAY!!!
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Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Hot music take: If you think “Mr. Brightside” is a total banger of a song, even knowing that it’s about jealousy, infidelity, and paranoia, you are *this close* to understanding why someone on the right might like “Born in the USA”, even knowing it’s about the plight of Vietnam vets.
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Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Somebody please fix the claw machine.
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Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
“I think I'll get more RAM for my gaming box…” <clicky> “huh.” <clickyclicky> “that can't be…” <clickyclicketyclack> “ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!?!” Going to drive crosstown to find an AI training cluster to yell at. brb.
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Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
At some point in the past several months, stock pictures of Bezos have transitioned from Lex Luthor to Thanos.
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Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
WDNK 100.1 FM!!! YOUR HOME FOR…
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Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Assertion: Faith No More was the progenitor of nu-metal. Sorry, all. It’s just true.
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Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Good morning, Bluesky. youtu.be/Q_tPiH5nY0Q?...
youtu.be
Five Alarm Funk - Chaos Is A Ladder (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by FiveAlarmFunk
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Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
ESP-ARG: 87 minutes of boring, followed by 2 minutes of interesting, followed by six minutes of ugly. 30 to go.
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Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
This. If someone is particularly impervious, I’ve also found success with “Believe That Something Happened.” If someone is willing to take the risk to speak out, there’s almost certainly a reason.
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Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I want to live in a world where the Dems had the bench depth so that a Platner-like campaign *couldn’t* happen.
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Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Warm take: The USMNT has finally made it to the bottom of the big leagues.
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Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Okay… the AI-generated ads during the World Cup are getting to me, in a motion-sick “GenAI still can't keep it together for more than three seconds” kind of way.
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Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
The impressive thing about the PAR-FRA game is that Paraguay effectively threw *themselves* out of the World Cup. Just pointless aggression leading to an avoidable France PK.
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Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
However the ARG-CPV game ends, there’s gonna be a whole lot of teams watching the replay thinking “if it bleeds, we can kill it.”
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Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
LinkedIn is where you find people who say “Be the change you want in the world. I think that restaurants shouldn’t rely on tips to prop up wages. That’s why I don’t tip.”
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Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
When Boston has rendering issues…
A picture of the Boston skyline, with the iconic CITGO sign being partially deconstructed in order to move it.
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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
For non-NYCers here is the relevant wild generalization you need: - the Yankees are for cops - the Mets are for Queens - yeah the Nets are in Brooklyn now but we still think of them as NJ. - football is MAGA coded and played in NJ - Hockey is for Long Island & white - THE KNICKS ARE FOR EVERYONE
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Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Grew up on Long Island in the 1980s. The whole thread tracks.
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Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Star Trek TOS title card, with the clearly fake title “PUT THAT THING BACK WHERE IT CAME FROM”
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Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Oh. Huh. *that’s* the future tense of the verb “bangarang”. #eurovision
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Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Assertion: Every decade gets the James Bond it deserves. Craig’s Bond was brilliant at being “the blunt-weapon-in-a-suit who is getting disillusioned with the power he represents” which was definitely of its time. Thing is, what’s this decade’s Bond?
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Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Random travel plug adapter musings: I do find it funny how the type E plug (the Schuko plug) has this very “what if Germans engineered the living hell out of a plug/outlet?” feel to it. Similarly, the UK type G plug is “what if some Victorian engineer designed a plug/outlet” feel. 1/
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Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
אחת עשרה פגישות הסתיימו, עוד אחת נשארה. נראה שבחרתי בזה.
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Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
It’s the late nineties. I had just moved to Cambridge from NYC. The first morning I wake up as a MA resident I see some guy slowly driving by with a megaphone mounted to his roof saying “TODAY IS STREET CLEANIN’. MOVE YAH CAH AW IT’LL BE TOWED.”
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Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
I hear people say “I spent $1000 on Claude tokens” with same energy as “I spent $1000 on gems in Genshin Impact.” Different path, same high.
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Tim Pierce @unchi.org · 05/05/2026
This is a great example of someone using Masshole in the best possible way. “Is that a question?” “Yeah, kinda, like… are we being pricks? Are we trying to do nothin’? Cause it seems like we’re doin’ nothin’.”
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Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Things I say at work: “I’ll have a video of it for the next meeting. Live demos are always tricky, especially with dairy products.”
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Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
היו לי היום עשר פגישות. מישהו אמר לי שזה בונה אופי. אני סקפטי.
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Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
This morning’s wake-up process, summarized:
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Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Orban? Na, bro.
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Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
A made-for-LinkedIn subject line but also actually true: “How being my EVE Online corporation’s deranged spreadsheet guy taught me how to enjoy JIRA.” #youcannotjudgemeinanywaythatmatters
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Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
My pointless take on an edit button: No, because a social media post is interacted with at a moment in time. The like/repost is for the post that existed when the reader clicked the button. An edit button breaks that implicit agreement.
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Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Annual reiteration of a pointless hill I will defend to the end of my days: New England (with the possible exception of Fairfield County, CT) should be on Atlantic Standard Time all year.
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Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
This whole thread. There are a lot of great thoughts in this, but the one that resounds most with me is that the point of iterating on solutions to a problem is to figure out what the *problem* is.
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Lux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 05/03/2026
I almost posted “Israel is a US client state entirely propped up by American military funding without which it would cease to exist while also being the all powerful mastermind pulling all the strings in the US government which it controls completely” but I realized some of you really believe that
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Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Most Recent Block: Dude who Quote-posts with “I must be cool, I just got blocked for being <insert virtue here>.” No. You didn’t. All you did was run away while throwing antisemitic slurs out the back of a truck. Go be a shitty human being elsewhere.
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Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Boston in a blizzard I know I know It’s serious
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