Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 13hThe desk is there so they can take notes… …with the crappy pen next to the notepad. That’s part of the humiliation. 030
Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Move New England* into the Atlantic Time Zone. (Fairfield County, CT can stay. You know what you’ve done.) 060
Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026There were about 10 years after 9/11 where country got extra-super-slathered in jingoism and Jesus. I have some understanding for people who wrote country off based on that, even if they really should update their data now. 020
Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“I didn’t know the show would melt *my* face.” (Which show?) 110
Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The Armed Forces core competency is getting reliable output out of incredibly variable input. I’m not surprised he doesn’t know that, but I do find it sad. 030
Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I’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. 120
Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Longtermism is “The Ends Justify The Means” with enough extra steps to make a side hustle out of blogging about it. 010
Reposted by Matt “We’ve Talked About This” RingelFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026like 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. 532631265
Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I suspect it’s more like “leftists whose omnicause weightings differ.” 000
Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Well, I suppose that’s tomorrow’s experiment. 110
Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Those 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. 020
Reposted by Matt “We’ve Talked About This” RingelRichard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026What all #Meta product announcements look like to me by now. #charm #muse 529691
Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026You can get to a lot of interesting answers from “a human body can continually radiate up to 1 kW of heat during high exertion.” Some combination of “high endurance *and* burst energy capabilities” and “beware a human with free time and a point to prove.” 000
Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Also, their comp is aggressively meh for the talent pool they’re looking at. 110
Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Harry Potter Fanfic Sex Cult La La La La Clementine. 000
Reposted by Matt “We’ve Talked About This” RingelMatt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The “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. 053
Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I remember the charts and the graphs. 020
Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The “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. 053
Reposted by Matt “We’ve Talked About This” RingelMatt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026When 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… 001
Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026When 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… 001
Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I’d like to thank the Academy… 0100
Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Aella is the result of an attempt to clone Amanda Palmer but there was a glitch during the personality transfer. 1383
Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026You’re starting from the supposition that Generative AI can be (nearly) 100% correct if you prompt it correctly and use the right companion tools. That’s either wrong and not useful, or correct (q.v. infinite monkeys writing Shakespeare) and not interesting. 130
Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Also it’s an Emotional Intelligence test every day, and your success relies on passing that test pretty much every day. 020
Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I remember that the weather was perfect that morning. 440
Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Now *that* is a man who truly hates pronouns. 000
Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026About 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. 010
Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026One 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. 030
Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 06/09/2026A true Harvester of Sorrow. 000
Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Same meaning, different magnitude: “We’re not [here/doing this] for our health!” 1141
Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 03/09/2026A fork in the road is just a three way junction where you’ve already tried one. 220
Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Commercial airplane CO2/km (and NOx) has gone down significantly (15-ish%) in the past 10 years with new more fuel-efficient aircraft rotating in, etc. but air traffic has also risen overall so it should be a wash, BUT an airport already at capacity (ie. LHR) could see reduced emissions/pollution. 4340
Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Motion Seconded, Thirdulated, and Fourthified. 000
Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Betting that the catch is those are two separate conditions that will never be satisfied at the same time. 000
Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Do you mean “they never listen to the last two verses of the song” or “they know the last two verses and think that’s a good thing.”? 100
Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Maaaaaaybe? “Born in the USA”, in terms of the music itself, aside from the lyrics, has patriotic power anthem nature. I don’t think there’s much doubt there. What I’m saying it is possible to know the lyrics and compartmentalize them away. 100
Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Hot 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. 110
Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Yes, I looked at their Instagram account. I really hope that’s a bot, because if that’s a human, they’re quite the far-right caricature. 010
Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Fingers… the original meat puppet. 020
Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 26/08/2026That sounds like a 4chan op. 000
Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Somebody please fix the claw machine. 020
Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Peloton was the final boss of that. A gym subscription where you have to pay the CapEx *and* and there’s no gym to go to! 010
Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 21/08/2026“Huh. Never heard of that. I mean, it sounds like it would be some kind of fandom thing—“ <clicky> “Oh. Oh dear. Oh dear a *lot*.” 080
Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Warm take: it all got worse when you had people who would use a cafe as a remote office and not pay sufficient table rent, starting about 20 years ago. 010
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. 030