Matt Hames

Matt Hames

@mhames.bsky.social

This feed is all curling and Arsenal because the mute feature is awesome.

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If you have a new born, or know someone with a new born, get an email address for them and send emails throughout their lives. Then get people to send pics and messages. Your kid will love it later in life. My daughter is 18, in college, and has years of messages to catch up on.

I wonder if the people who think the Nazis were socialists because it is in their name think the Philadelphia Eagles are birds because it's in their name? Probably only Elon.

As we walked out of the theater last night from "You Can See Everything," people were debating the guilt of Elizabeth Holmes. Is she nuts? Is she a victim? Is she manipulative? On its surface, the film does ask you to ponder that. But it also spends most of the movie tricking you into that.

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Then, as the film shifts to 2025, all bets are off. We're all overwhelmed with AI slop, the most unreliable of the narrators. AI doesn't pretend to be a reliable narrator. At the bottom, it always says this could be bullshit. Nathan Fielder doesn't pretend to be reliable, either.

What you're left with is this: in making a documentary about a very guilty Elizabeth Holmes and her hubby Billy, who and what do you trust to tell you the truth? Especially since no one is promising to do so.

As we walked out of the theater last night from "You Can See Everything," people were debating the guilt of Elizabeth Holmes. Is she nuts? Is she a victim? Is she manipulative? On its surface, the film does ask you to ponder that. But it also spends most of the movie tricking you into that.

Because it is not about that. It's about unreliable narrators. The film started in 2023, 39 days before Holmes went to prison. In 2023, we were all well-entrenched in our own media bubbles, trusting our narrators to deliver content to us. Reporting, opinion, all of it.

You Can See Everything is a wild ride about how we perceive things in the world today. It opens on Billy explaining the goal of letting Nathan Fielder into his home to see everything. Then the title sits on the horizon. Dead on the horizon. Explaining that no, you can't see everything.

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On the internet, we can find out anything. But all of it is curated by someone. Especially on the main social media platforms. And that context is often missing in seeing everything. As we live in our internet bubbles, we see our own media a lot more these days.

This movie, and the internet, make a promise we know not to be true. And the movie itself, both literally and figuratively, asks us to consider the context of what we're seeing. Go see it. You can see everything.

You Can See Everything is a wild ride about how we perceive things in the world today. It opens on Billy explaining the goal of letting Nathan Fielder into his home to see everything. Then the title sits on the horizon. Dead on the horizon. Explaining that no, you can't see everything.

The film's premise and title is that you can see everything, even someone's junk. That's what today's social media platforms promise. See it all. But you can't. You see what the algorithm shows you. Often the most outrageous things, like Holmes saying she never lies.

This film already lied to you when it said you can see everything. You can't. So it continues with the lies about what you can see. Who decides what you can see, and why? The story is about Theranos and Holmes going to jail. But it takes absurd turns that purposefully make you question trust.

Like last season, Man Cheaty can only win when Hollaand scores. If that dries up, like last season, they will struggle. Also, sanctions might make them struggle, since they are guilty.

In the US, a non-US-born trillionaire can buy an election and his own Senator. Maybe he had lunch with Harlan Crow, who bought his own member of SCOTUS.

That same trillionaire supports the man who invaded Ukraine and kills kids. Musk is also in the Epstein files, and once posted on his weird right-wing social media site that Trump was massively in the files.

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Full quote is worse. Vance: “I am a little bit disgusted when I see Republicans across the country who are whining more about that ad... My message to my fellow elected Republicans: stop whining about an ad.”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

WOW -- Vance *defends* Vivek's reprehensible ad 👇 Q: Ramaswamy's campaign put out a controversial ad featuring his opponent's mother. Some Republicans are backing away. Do you think it was appropriate? JD VANCE: Well, I'll be honest. Whether the ad was appropriate or not is not really my concern.

Bullying comes from someone who hates themselves. If someone is comfortable with themselves, they are less likely to bully. So when Trump, the bully in chief, does bullying, you can know he hates parts of himself.

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I’m sorry to have to be the bad guy here but we need to recognize that we live in a compressed air thrusters world now. If you’re not finding ways to teach the critical use of compressed air thrusters in your classroom, you’re setting your students up to fail when you could be setting them up to fly

My 16-year-old son got a job as a dishwasher at a fancy restaurant. His first night, he called me and said, "Dad, this job sucks." I told him if he hated it, he could find something else. He lasted two more shifts. A little over a Scaramucci.

The rest of the world is wondering if they can ever trust America because of how 100k in Wisconsin vote, but man, are those 100K people happy this morning. #WorldSeires

It's wild to see people surprised that the felon in the Oval Office, who breaks or doesn't uphold laws, will do anything to stay in power.

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as i suspected, the software in question is Pangram. at least two "journalists" on this site published similar exposés purporting to uncover "ai" in writing without disclosing financial links with the company one has to wonder if @vauhinivara.bsky.social is another such one

Julia Carrie Wong@joolia.bsky.social

I don’t have any idea what the solution to the bigger problem for literature is, but it strikes me as completely outrageous that the Atlantic would level such a serious charge against an author without an iota of actual evidence. And no, a black box analysis by another AI program is not evidence.

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Replying to @m1ngle.bsky.social

Dear Michigan, All of us desperately need this guy in the Senate. Thank you for your hard work to get him there. When you are completely exhausted the night of Nov 3 because you have left it all on the field, the country will be grateful for your patriotism. Now go win this thing! Sincerely. America

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You should read this thread. If you’ve paid the slightest attention to the string of “we fed this story a person of color says they wrote to a computer, the computer says it’s probably AI, and we’re willing to crucify a writer on a ‘probably’” stories, they aren’t just “chilling,” they’re obvious.

Karen Attiah@karenattiah.bsky.social

It is really chilling to see how quickly Black, Caribbean, and African writers and academics have become the global face of AI use and accusations of plagiarism. For such a serious charge, @vauhinivara.bsky.social's article rests on...a Pangram scan. www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/1...

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"As history shows, Nazis indubitably sport a compact, severe little brush of hair, clipped with almost bureaucratic precision and planted beneath the nose... Yet this defining characteristic is conspicuously absent from our politics today." buff.ly/SQwmock

buff.lyDavid Brooks Knows a Nazi When He Sees One“As history shows, Nazis indubitably sport a compact, severe little brush of hair, clipped with almost bureaucratic precision and planted beneath the nose to...