mattitations

mattitations

@mattitations.bsky.social

hooray for books, baseball, and nice people! and if you’re a fan of the astros, shakespeare, the beatles, bob dylan, or the longhorns, let’s be friends pfp 📸 adhoganart.com

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I screwed up this thread a while back so I’m going to restart it here 📚📖📓📕📗📘📙

mattitations@mattitations.bsky.social

I’m really bad about finishing books, even ones I enjoy. so in an effort to finish more books, I’m going to post an accountability thread of books I’ve finished this year.

YOU GUYS!! we are back in san diego to fly home tomorrow. our waiter at lunch: so what’ve you guys got planned this afternoon? me: do you know anyone who’s been to check out the house elizabeth holmes stayed at in ycse?

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moments ago I finished john carreyrou’s book on theranos’ rise and fall. tl:dr: imo there is basically a less than 5% chance that elizabeth holmes is not a pathological liar and fraudster. my spouse and I are big nathan fielder fans so naturally we saw #youcanseeeverything opening weekend

her: omg I want to see it. they used to come in to the restaurant I used to work at, that his family owns. me: did you serve them? her: oh yeah me: is he a huge jerk? her: more of a spoiled brat. my spouse: you need to see the movie.

moments ago I finished john carreyrou’s book on theranos’ rise and fall. tl:dr: imo there is basically a less than 5% chance that elizabeth holmes is not a pathological liar and fraudster. my spouse and I are big nathan fielder fans so naturally we saw #youcanseeeverything opening weekend

mattitations@mattitations.bsky.social

I’m really bad about finishing books, even ones I enjoy. so in an effort to finish more books, I’m going to post an accountability thread of books I’ve finished this year.

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in ycse, [semi spoilers!] NF constructs an alternate reality to arrive at the truth of the facade. she (EH) is a fabulist an order of magnitude more advanced than NF. the key difference being the stakes: she gambled with lives. he gambled for guffaws.

moments ago I finished john carreyrou’s book on theranos’ rise and fall. tl:dr: imo there is basically a less than 5% chance that elizabeth holmes is not a pathological liar and fraudster. my spouse and I are big nathan fielder fans so naturally we saw #youcanseeeverything opening weekend

mattitations@mattitations.bsky.social

I’m really bad about finishing books, even ones I enjoy. so in an effort to finish more books, I’m going to post an accountability thread of books I’ve finished this year.

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two world-class bullshit artists. they both perform and thereby manipulate their audience and half the time NF seems to be utterly baffled at how thoroughly EH commits to the bit, ala david-blaine-actually-stabbing-his-hand. in the book, the author describes how at the trial, EH’s defense

constructed an alternate reality from the evidence, portraying EH as making (mostly) reasonable business decisions, but carreyrou rightly points out the discrepancies that undermine that narrative.

moments ago I finished john carreyrou’s book on theranos’ rise and fall. tl:dr: imo there is basically a less than 5% chance that elizabeth holmes is not a pathological liar and fraudster. my spouse and I are big nathan fielder fans so naturally we saw #youcanseeeverything opening weekend

mattitations@mattitations.bsky.social

I’m really bad about finishing books, even ones I enjoy. so in an effort to finish more books, I’m going to post an accountability thread of books I’ve finished this year.

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about ycse since it came out) that NF had read bad blood when approached about this project and if that’s true, he’s a smart guy he must’ve known she was a liar liar pants on fire so what was the point of doc-ing her? the idea that she thinks different (to pay homage to apple as she would)

is flimsy, as is her description of what the theranos “analyzer” did in the movie. I suspect that he thought she would either 1) admit to everything and finally own up to her massive fraud or 2) defend herself in a patently unconvincing way. instead what we get is a showdown between

moments ago I finished john carreyrou’s book on theranos’ rise and fall. tl:dr: imo there is basically a less than 5% chance that elizabeth holmes is not a pathological liar and fraudster. my spouse and I are big nathan fielder fans so naturally we saw #youcanseeeverything opening weekend

mattitations@mattitations.bsky.social

I’m really bad about finishing books, even ones I enjoy. so in an effort to finish more books, I’m going to post an accountability thread of books I’ve finished this year.

we were so gobsmacked we went out and bought 2 copies of this book to read up on the facts. over our vacation we both tore through it, discussing revelations, details and tidbits throughout. because neither of us are into tech or health care news/issues we had missed this when it was happening

but we’re both lawyers and holy smokes this book is like reading about ftx or enron: every page is the aaron paul he can’t keep getting away with it meme which raises the question of what fielder was trying to accomplish with #ycse. I read somewhere (in one of the bajillion thinkpieces I’ve read

we’re on vacation so I missed the longhorns’ best efforts to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory last night. instead we were stargazing at joshua tree. 10/10 recommend

her best work after lady league

David_j_roth@davidjroth.bsky.social

I guess I'm sorry to this lady but her name being Thelma Louise reminds me of my dad butchering movie titles. "Thelma Louise" is what he'd call Geena Davis.

💯 though texting his campaign to go fuck themselves is the closest I’ll ever get to telling him that myself

Bru@brubaker.bsky.social

Don’t call, don’t text, fuck Ken Paxton. 👍🏼

I love my spouse more than anything and her favorite holiday is halloween so every october we watch all the scary movies we can and just between you and me after a while it really starts to freak me out but like in a comfy marriage way.

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"Bill, we want to bring you back for a part in our new blockbuster, Raiders of the Lost Ark." "You're not gonna call me 'Porkins' again, are you?" "No." "What's my character's name?" "Major Eaton." "Fuck you, George"

the one time I argued in the 5th circuit (absolute disaster), he was on the panel and was completely disengaged. I think he asked me like maybe 2-3 questions, one of which was what’s your best case?

Jay Willis@jaywillis.net

James Ho has spent almost a decade desperately trying to get Trump's attention for a Supreme Court seat, and it's all going to be for nothing. Couldn't have happened to a worse person. Eat shit, loser.

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Idk who needs to hear this but you should vote EARLY if you have that option where you live. Do not wait for Election Day. This is an A+ list of voting tips from @lwv.org. It is time to lock in