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Matt Ford, Ph.D., P.E.

@zeotherm.bsky.social
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AI Architect, Single Dad, Engineer, Amateur Rocket Surgeon, Gaming Nerd, Baltimore Born arstechnica.com/author/matt-ford #Lego #EthicsInAI #DnD #Gaming #SciComm

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 6h
Katie Zacharia is such a perfect example of how Donald Trump inevitably betrays anyone who’s dumb enough to believe in him. Humiliated in front of the country for absolutely no personal gain.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5h
For those measuring at home, a Zacharia is, roughly, half a Scaramucci.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 9h
no surprise: Gitlin has been on the Tesla beat for long enough to know how to actually cover an event like this
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Micah @rincewind.run · 21h
this goes incredible places and I love everyone involved
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Matt Ford, Ph.D., P.E. @zeotherm.bsky.social · 22h
I’ve said this a few times now and it isn’t mine but to those of us of a certain age it should put a lot of things into perspective “WinRAR is more profitable than OpenAI”….
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Matt Ford, Ph.D., P.E. @zeotherm.bsky.social · 23h
The usual suspect
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Malaclypse the Middle @malaclypse.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
“We have never been at war with EastAsia”
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 15/10/2026
A Paul Noth cartoon that goes harder than it first appears
Two armies face each other there can be No peace until they renounce their rabbit God and accept our duck God. Both banners have the illusion duck rabbit
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
sciencebasedmedicine.org
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on Measles: “I Think I’ve Done My Best.”
As football coach Bill Parcells famously said, “you are what your record says you are”.
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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 15/10/2026
The MAGA on my route home who uses a sign on his business as social media posted that James Telarico plans to give illegals amnesty from income tax. Texas has no income tax. Who has this brain trust been writing checks to?
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That Anonymous Coward @thatac.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
bsky.app/profile/that...
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Matt Ford, Ph.D., P.E. @zeotherm.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Seen elsewhere and cannot be unseen: “WinRAR is more profitable than OpenAI”
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uosdɯᴉS ɐuɐꓷ 🦄 @danacorn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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Bender Laughs at Leela: Oh Wait, You're Serious
ALT: Bender Laughs at Leela: Oh Wait, You're Serious
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/10/2026
here's Bruce Blakeman tonight claiming "I never said that I would cut Medicaid in half" -- immediately followed by a clip of him saying on Fox Business in June that "we make sure we cut Medicaid in half"
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 14/10/2026
collins is worth tens of millions of dollars, if his daughter and son-in-law feel like they’ve been forgotten, maybe collins should reconsider how he approaches his responsibilities as a father
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Matt Ford, Ph.D., P.E. @zeotherm.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Never stop your enemy when they are humiliating themselves… or something - The Art of War
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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I’m sorry, did a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate just ‘Won’t somebody think of the neo-Nazis?’ during a live TV debate?
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
lol google ai
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Matt Ford, Ph.D., P.E. @zeotherm.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This is fascinating <3
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Matt Ford, Ph.D., P.E. @zeotherm.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Week 5 night games are making me glad I have a huge tub of Tums on hand. Holy crap
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Place: Dubai Date: New Year’s Eve 2024 Noteworthy because: Ken Paxton was partying “with two fugitives from U.S. justice and a woman who wasn’t his wife.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
wsj.com
Exclusive | Ken Paxton Partied in Dubai With Fugitives Ahead of High-Stakes Texas Senate Race
Trump backed the scandal-plagued Paxton in one of the riskiest bets of the midterms
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Chicken WingDings 🇵🇸 @ebridget.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Ms Rachel from the top ropes
From Ms Rachel's account on Threads, she writes, "CORECIVIC, a company that makes hundreds of millions locking up KIDS in immigration detention
has a PAC that's sending campaign checks to Senator Susan Collins of Maine.
Susan Collins chairs the Senate committee that writes ICE's budget.
ICE is CoreCivic's customer.
The company gets paid out of a budget she controls, and it pays into her campaign."
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Matt Ford, Ph.D., P.E. @zeotherm.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
No one in the history of humanity has deserved an atomic wedgie more than this loser
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Really tired of repellent computer dweebs talking like they're hardened warriors
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Wall Street Journal reported on a 2024 New Year’s Eve celebration where Ken Paxton partied in Dubai with two fugitives and a woman who wasn’t his wife www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
"As fireworks exploded over the Burj Khalifa skyscraper to welcome 2025, Paxton and his girlfriend Tracy Duhon watched from a luxury high-rise balcony full of people, according to a video of the gathering reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, details of which were contained in court filings and confirmed by people familiar with the matter.

Among those at the event with Texas’ top law-enforcement official were two Americans who had been indicted months before on federal healthcare-fraud charges but failed to return to the U.S., Anosh Ahmed and Sameer Suhail, according to the court records and people familiar with the matter. Ahmed, a healthcare executive, had donated $190,000 to Paxton, campaign finance records show, including $25,000 days after he was indicted."
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David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Today, Robert E. Hall was awarded the 2026 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. This is from a statement he released after the announcement:
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 13/10/2026
I love that this might be the thing that tanks Paxton, and not the biblical divorce or letting a child rapist out early.
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Matt Ford, Ph.D., P.E. @zeotherm.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Why are so many extra points and field goals missed seemingly all of a sudden? #NFL #CFB #BUFvLAR
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👻 Saavik ‘Spooky Season’ Ford 🎃 @saavikford.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Well. I just watched the season 4 finale of Ted Lasso and had to look up the poem that closes the episode. SPOILER ALERT Those bastards made me cry: allpoetry.com/poem/1739937...
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When death comes by Mary J Oliver
Read the full text of Mary J Oliver's classic poem "When death comes." Explore poetic themes, analysis, and share your own critique with a community of fellow poets.
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The infinitely frustrating thing about this is that AI could help us cure cancer. There are good ideas out there, and machine learning is a useful tool. And these people are managing to somehow make even that prospect seem somehow unpleasant.
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Matt Ford, Ph.D., P.E. @zeotherm.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The voices in my head said it was true
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"I made it up" meme with Watchmen image
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Just thinking about this as the state harasses Ilhan Omar over 40 year old paperwork.
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Elon Musk, enemy of ‘open borders,’ launched his career working illegally
Investors in Musk’s first company worried about “our founder being deported” and gave him a deadline for obtaining a work visa.
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Ross A. Lincoln @rossalincoln.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Simpson's writer: I wrote the wallet inspector gag as a cautionary tale about con artists, bullies and the stupid idiots and cowards who help them thrive. Tech Oligarch: At long last, we have created the Wallet Inspector...
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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Frank Grimes, or 'Grimey' as he liked to be called, admiring Homer's Grammy award.
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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I'm not much on these religions but my understanding about all of them has been that their "leadership" is called "God" - this human boil Loomer seems to have lost the plot 🤷‍♂️
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
El-Sayed’s response to Kennedy:
El-Sayed: “That’s rich coming from someone who wears his bed sheets out at night.”
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Matt Ford, Ph.D., P.E. @zeotherm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
That was the first thing that stood out to me
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
An amazingly stark example of how the US economy has broken: Zaslav clears nearly a *billion* dollars amid a CEO tenure where he made basically anything he touched worse, harmed multiple prestigious brands, led huge layoffs—but delivered a corrupt merger for shareholders. variety.com/2026/tv/news...
variety.com
David Zaslav Gets $606 Million Payout From Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger
David Zaslav will receive $606 million as he leaves Warner Bros. Discovery, after the company's merger with David Ellison's Paramount was completed.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Here's what Trump judge Gary Brown said in a filing ON MONDAY about Brenan Cuni, who almost shot a kid in NYC. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
After the Court required a further submission to explain this incongruity,
respondents submitted an affidavit from Brenden Cuni, a Supervisory Detention and
Deportation Officer with ICE, who was responsible for conducting the background
searches. DE 20-7. Cuni was notified “some time before 5:50 PM” that “Petitioner was detained.” Id. ¶3. He searched five separate federal databases, all of which “yielded
negative results.” Id. ¶5 (emphasis added). Cuni then “issued and signed the I-200,
Warrant of Arrest, and checked off the boxes relating to ‘biometric confirmation of the
subject’s identity and a records check of federal databases . . . .’” Id. Of course, since the
records checks were negative, it was undeniably false, though represented as true in the
warrant, that “biometric confirmation [and] records check of federal databases
affirmatively indicate” that the petitioner lacked immigration status. DE 7-1. Cuni
explains that ICE then processed the petitioner, and in so doing, entered his data into
those various databases. After processing (and after the warrant was signed and
executed), Cuni ordered another officer to run “a second records check of the electronic
federal databases, which then yielded positive results . . . because Petitioner’s information
was now part of the system.” DE 20-7 ¶7 (emphasis added).
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Matt Ford, Ph.D., P.E. @zeotherm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I wanted to call and report a murder in Atlanta upon seeing that
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
Marco Rubio has a meltdown when asked about Kimberly Guilfoyle: "I'm not playing this game ... you guys are not gonna be our only source of information in the world. I'm sorry to tell you that. No... I don't even know if what you're reporting is true." (It's true! The Journal has her text messages!)
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
they’re spending hundreds of millions to kill a tax that would take them back to where they were a month ago 🤡
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
He doesn't even deny his son-in-law is a white supremacist. He simply claims it's out of bounds to ask about his support of white supremacy because he's family.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026
jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent
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Phillip Anderson @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The president of the United States took time out of his day yesterday to call the man responsible for this atrocity so that he could wish him a happy birthday
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Yikes… local Georgia outlets in the tank fudging the graphs for @ossoff.bsky.social opponent Mike Collins🤔 (and Scoob-Doo😬)
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