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@mattsheffield@mastodon.social · 2d ago

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@mattsheffield@mastodon.social · Mar 13, 2026

🧵 Everything right-wing seems to end up in religion and cryptoscams. So it's no surprise to see that Amelia, the goth racist character inadvertently made up by the UK Home Office, is now being used to shill a meme coin and going to church.

I expect the Jessica Foster character will be here soon.~

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@mattsheffield@mastodon.social · Mar 12, 2026

New York magazine published a 5,000 word article about MAGA women that barely mentioned radical Christian theology.

There's plenty of good reporting and interviewing, but the author barely touches on what's motivating his subjects: their deranged religious beliefs.

We can't delude ourselves about the far right. Overwhelmingly, it's religion that motivates these people. They are the American Taliban equivalent. And we should say this.

https://archive.is/BWnyz

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@mattsheffield@mastodon.social · Mar 12, 2026

Just one day after Republican billionaire Bill Ackman gave his best wishes to an obviously AI-generated young white woman comes news that a million thirsty MAGA men have been following and buying foot fetish pics from an fake soldier named "Jessica Foster." https://www.fastcompany.com/91507096/jessica-foster-popular-maga-influencer-ai-model

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@mattsheffield@mastodon.social · Mar 10, 2026

Trump's Iran policy in three panels

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@mattsheffield@mastodon.social · Mar 10, 2026

Donald Trump lies constantly, and yet almost never gets confronted to his face about his obvious deceptions. The New York Times's Shawn McCreesh did something today that should happen in every Trump news conference, he actually asked Trump about one of his most blatant lies. It did not go well for Trump:

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@mattsheffield@mastodon.social · Mar 08, 2026

AI critics are right that large language models are not alive or conscious. But what LLMs are doing is more complex than just "spicy autocomplete."

We need a more coherent definition of consciousness and a materialist way to derive where "what it's like" comes from.

Here's my initial idea for it: https://plus.flux.community/p/its-like-this-why-your-perception

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@mattsheffield@mastodon.social · Mar 07, 2026

Donald Trump's unprecedented attempt to cancel Anthropic is directly related to the fact that their CEO, Dario Amodei, has blasted Trump as a "clown" who acts like a "feudal warlord."

Among American AI companies, many of them are fascist Republicans, OpenAI tries to play both sides, and Anthropic is largely Democratic.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/06/30/anthropics-democrats-ai-artificial-intelligence-alarmism-trump-contracts/

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@mattsheffield@mastodon.social · Mar 06, 2026

One of the biggest challenges that well-informed progressive people have is that even now, most people do not take Christian extremism seriously.

Such people should watch this clip. This is a totalitarian ideology that wants to control everyone's basic bodily acts and even their thoughts. https://youtu.be/SYUCPrVfbzk?t=1655

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@mattsheffield@mastodon.social · Mar 06, 2026

We need better discourse about AI. Most capacity believers lack knowledge of biology, philosophy, and psychology--and this makes them prone to callow exaggerations.

But many critics lack computing backgrounds and often have obsolete knowledge of LLMs.

Anthropic is really harming things by making false claims that disembodied Claude execution states could be conscious. https://www.theverge.com/report/883769/anthropic-claude-conscious-alive-moral-patient-constitution

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@mattsheffield@mastodon.social · Mar 06, 2026

Trump literally doing the Lord Farquaad meme. He's handing truckloads of rhetorical gifts to the Democratic campaign ads every single day now.

"Like I said, some people will die. When you go to war, some people will die."

https://time.com/7382697/trump-iran-war/

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@mattsheffield@mastodon.social · Mar 05, 2026

Early #typewriters had such magnificent industrial design. This 1926 Remington Portable is a thing of beauty.

These machines were the original laptops.

Take a stroll through this exhibit: https://www.os2museum.com/wp/a-100-year-old-consul-typewriter/

(Czech keyboard in case you're wondering.)

#antique #vintagecomputing

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@mattsheffield@mastodon.social · Mar 05, 2026

Here's a look at the incredible importance of Peter Thiel in the creation of Open AI. This guy really is the new Charles Koch https://archive.is/22O9z

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@mattsheffield@mastodon.social · Mar 04, 2026

Science magazine has an informative article about 3 male scientists who resisted Jeffrey Epstein's attempts to network with them.

The one thing all have in common is that they listened to women's advice.

https://www.science.org/content/article/why-three-scientists-said-no-epstein

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@mattsheffield@mastodon.social · Mar 01, 2026

In case you were wondering, before this morning's Iran attack, Polymarket had yet another spate of likely inside traders betting that the US would strike Iran by February 28. Per the due diligence investigation service Bubblemaps, the wallets used were first used 24 hours earlier. Betting prediction websites are national security risks, not Anthropic.

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@mattsheffield@mastodon.social · Feb 27, 2026

Timeline cleanser: Wikipedia is celebrating its 25th birthday with a cute new logo, Baby Globe. They've got several animations to enjoy, beyond the ones I'm featuring. Link: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wikipedia25/wikipedia-mascot/ Wikipedia is the internet at its finest. Here's to 25 more years!

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@mattsheffield@mastodon.social · Feb 26, 2026

The Financial Times has produced the most unintentionally hilarious graph I've ever seen.

If you're going to promote a belief in a technological singularity, making a graph of it is nothing more than "and then a miracle occurs"

(Today's LLMs are not anywhere close to sentience because of their fundamental design structure. Details on why: https://flux.community/matthew-sheffield/2026/01/its-like-this-why-perceptions-are-our-realities/)

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@mattsheffield@mastodon.social · Feb 25, 2026

At a Senate nomination hearing today, health grifter Casey Means was asked by Sen. Patty Murray about one of her lesser-known positions, lying to women about birth control.

Regardless of what happens with the nomination of Means, the Christian right is going to be flooding the internet with deceitful propaganda against birth control. They are aiming to ban it wholesale.

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@mattsheffield@mastodon.social · Feb 24, 2026

Instead of watching Trump lie and ramble for hours tonight, you should watch, listen, or read the latest Theory of Change episode in which Jeet Heer and I discuss how tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk are literally basing their politics on sci-fi novels.

This is the most comprehensive deep-dive I have seen on the subject. I had a lot of fun with it, and I think you will as well: https://plus.flux.community/p/why-big-tech-billionaires-are-trying

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@mattsheffield@mastodon.social · Feb 10, 2026

LGB without the T people are truly in the Leopards Eating Faces Party.

Trump just removed a Pride flag from Stonewall National Monument. He's coming for you next, don't kid yourselves.

Source:
https://gaycitynews.com/trump-rainbow-flag-stonewall-national-monument/

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@mattsheffield@mastodon.social · Feb 05, 2026

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@Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al @mattsheffield@mastodon.social I wouldn't even call what he did here an "argument". He just spat out a couple baseless, nonsense claims. One is demonstrably false

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@mattsheffield@mastodon.social · Feb 01, 2026

@crazyeddie@mastodon.social @Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al Unfortunately, this is how most Trumpers argue. They're incredibly ignorant and only know what they had heard regurgitated from Fox. They really do think that stating their opinion is an argument. That's all that Matt Walsh ever does.

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@mattsheffield@mastodon.social · Feb 01, 2026

The far right's smartest people are deeply ignorant. This is why their policy ideas always end in disaster or corruption. Here's Curtis Yarvin showing he knows nothing about the history of civil disobedience. Henry David Thoreau invented the term in 1849, to describe practices that had existed long before that, such as in the work of Augustine who declared that unjust laws were not laws at all.

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@mattsheffield@mastodon.social · Jan 28, 2026

Dictatorship is a state of mind, not just for the ruler, but also in the people. To win, democracy advocates must: 1) Know and tell the full fascistic agenda of the people who puppet Trump, and 2) Understand and advocate for their own values https://plus.flux.community/p/the-liminal-states-of-america

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@mattsheffield@mastodon.social · Jan 28, 2026

🧵 The people of Minnesota, especially Renee Good and Alex Pretti, have shown that American democracy still has a lot of strength left within it.

But the battle is far from over. The US is in a liminal moment, a time of transition. We can do this, but there's much to know and to do. https://plus.flux.community/p/the-liminal-states-of-america

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@mattsheffield@mastodon.social · Jan 18, 2026

🧵 As a former Republican consultant who left in 2015, I'm often asked why Trump and his minions are willingly destroying science, K12 education, universities, international organizations, public broadcasting, and social welfare institutions.

There are many reasons, but the main ones are psychological rather than ideological. They struggle with abstract thinking and are afraid of the world...

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@mattsheffield@mastodon.social · Jan 02, 2026

The Christian right in the US got started as a rebellion against the Christian left and its religious program of taking Jesus seriously about helping "the least of these." I talked about that origin story with historian Gene Zubovich: https://plus.flux.community/p/to-understand-the-christian-right

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@mattsheffield@mastodon.social Celebrities need to learn to shut the fuck up

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@mattsheffield@mastodon.social · Dec 11, 2025

@flargh@mastodon.social Just the idiotic ones who think they know more about science than scientists.

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@mattsheffield@mastodon.social · Dec 11, 2025

The brainworms have gotten to Liam Neeson. He just narrated an antivax crockumentary. Please share so everyone can avoid his schlock in the future: https://www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeson-narrates-anti-vax-pro

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