bematthe
@bematthe.bsky.social
Data Scientist, anthropologist, beagle wrangler, gardener, artist, chronically ill, couture enthusiast, odd.
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It’s 2026 and one of the first things that has happened is that a major news outlet has announced that it will no longer seek information from experts.
I don’t think this is gonna help with what I think is the most existential threat to our society currently: disinformation.
I don’t think this is gonna help with what I think is the most existential threat to our society currently: disinformation.
January 2, 2026 at 4:00 PM
It’s 2026 and one of the first things that has happened is that a major news outlet has announced that it will no longer seek information from experts.
I don’t think this is gonna help with what I think is the most existential threat to our society currently: disinformation.
I don’t think this is gonna help with what I think is the most existential threat to our society currently: disinformation.
If I see one more person make a post saying "I'm against a data center being built in my community, and here is the research I did on them using ChatGPT" I might actually explode. It will be an awful mess. And I'm not cleaning that.
December 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
If I see one more person make a post saying "I'm against a data center being built in my community, and here is the research I did on them using ChatGPT" I might actually explode. It will be an awful mess. And I'm not cleaning that.
The other day at work I was pulling Big Data-amounts of data using 1970's technology, and it was like being in the space between time, but in the most awkward way.
December 15, 2025 at 12:55 AM
The other day at work I was pulling Big Data-amounts of data using 1970's technology, and it was like being in the space between time, but in the most awkward way.
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Same with DEI: the media irresponsibly gives conservatives cover when they use "DEI" to reference any effort to *oppose outright discrimination* against women, Black people, and other marginalized groups.
Conservatives rebranded bigotry and every time the media uses “wokeness” as a euphemism they are helping a movement that it quite literally erasing the history marginalized people’s role in American life.
December 14, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Same with DEI: the media irresponsibly gives conservatives cover when they use "DEI" to reference any effort to *oppose outright discrimination* against women, Black people, and other marginalized groups.
Tech Bros mistaking innovation for desperation.
November 29, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Tech Bros mistaking innovation for desperation.
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the world is a bit smaller tonight with the death of Alice Wong. if you aren't familiar with who she was please pick up any of her books.
Disability Visibility anthology
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century (Vintage Books, 2020) Click here for more about the anthology adapted for young people. Order paperback, e-bo…
disabilityvisibilityproject.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:04 AM
the world is a bit smaller tonight with the death of Alice Wong. if you aren't familiar with who she was please pick up any of her books.
One of out #beagles, Harper, is preparing to cross the Rainbow Bridge. Two of his siblings seem to understand something isn't right, and have been attentive but gentle.
November 9, 2025 at 4:01 AM
One of out #beagles, Harper, is preparing to cross the Rainbow Bridge. Two of his siblings seem to understand something isn't right, and have been attentive but gentle.
Just gave someone a complement, and they responded with "I'd like to think this is sarcasm..." so going back to never complementing ever again because my unreasonable paranoia that it's going to upset them has been legitimized.
November 3, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Just gave someone a complement, and they responded with "I'd like to think this is sarcasm..." so going back to never complementing ever again because my unreasonable paranoia that it's going to upset them has been legitimized.
My contribution to the November Random Photo: A strawberry almost as big as my spouse's hand
November 2, 2025 at 3:20 AM
My contribution to the November Random Photo: A strawberry almost as big as my spouse's hand
But when I say I don't want to live next door to, or have a government with, a lower GRE score than I have, suddenly he's saying I'm the bad guy? ;)
Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do
October 30, 2025 at 12:43 AM
But when I say I don't want to live next door to, or have a government with, a lower GRE score than I have, suddenly he's saying I'm the bad guy? ;)
October 27, 2025 at 11:53 AM
We knew a chunk of this tree would fall eventually... And if it had to fall and crush a large portion of my garden, at least it did so at the end of the season.
#gardening
#gardening
October 22, 2025 at 12:57 AM
We knew a chunk of this tree would fall eventually... And if it had to fall and crush a large portion of my garden, at least it did so at the end of the season.
#gardening
#gardening
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Exactly.
October 11, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Exactly.
This is becoming so common that someone's going to have to come up with new word to refer specifically to the practice of telling a Jewish person that they are antisemitic if they don't agree to hate another group of semetic people.
Worth noting, as is now fairly common, that the professor who is a target of claims that his pro-Palestine politics are antisemitic is once again Jewish.
Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.
September 30, 2025 at 3:12 AM
This is becoming so common that someone's going to have to come up with new word to refer specifically to the practice of telling a Jewish person that they are antisemitic if they don't agree to hate another group of semetic people.
Just made pasta sauce from scratch, using all ingredients from my garden, completely unsupervised. I don't know that I've ever done any cooking beyond boiling pasta. Someone call the Vatican, because I'm pretty sure this is legit miracle.
September 25, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Just made pasta sauce from scratch, using all ingredients from my garden, completely unsupervised. I don't know that I've ever done any cooking beyond boiling pasta. Someone call the Vatican, because I'm pretty sure this is legit miracle.
Isn't holding a vigil for someone who thought being gay was wrong at Gay Church dishonoring their memory/wishes? I'm just saying, if people were to have a vigil for me at a football stadium or chewing gum manufacturing plant, I'd haunt them with a vengeance. Jus' sayin'
September 17, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Isn't holding a vigil for someone who thought being gay was wrong at Gay Church dishonoring their memory/wishes? I'm just saying, if people were to have a vigil for me at a football stadium or chewing gum manufacturing plant, I'd haunt them with a vengeance. Jus' sayin'
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Judging by the shamefully opportunistic & politicizing rhetoric of some rightwingers on Twitter, & their cynical use of Charlie Kirk’s horrific murder for political point scoring, it’s almost as if Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman wasn’t murdered by a Trump-voting MAGA maniac just 12 weeks ago.
September 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Judging by the shamefully opportunistic & politicizing rhetoric of some rightwingers on Twitter, & their cynical use of Charlie Kirk’s horrific murder for political point scoring, it’s almost as if Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman wasn’t murdered by a Trump-voting MAGA maniac just 12 weeks ago.
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If you can't handle me at my worst, then honestly, you're missing out on some of my best jokes.
September 2, 2025 at 11:09 AM
If you can't handle me at my worst, then honestly, you're missing out on some of my best jokes.
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Twenty states have comprehensive data privacy laws, and a few states and localities have biometric privacy laws too. But for wearable users elsewhere, their data privacy environment “is not super regulated,” EFF’s @thorinklosowski.com told @Prospect.org.
prospect.org/health/2025...
prospect.org/health/2025...
RFK Jr. Wants a Wearable on Every American Body
Despite his past criticisms of the data privacy risks associated with ‘smart’ technology, Kennedy’s HHS is now pushing wearables on Americans. Experts say the privacy concerns are jarring.
prospect.org
August 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Twenty states have comprehensive data privacy laws, and a few states and localities have biometric privacy laws too. But for wearable users elsewhere, their data privacy environment “is not super regulated,” EFF’s @thorinklosowski.com told @Prospect.org.
prospect.org/health/2025...
prospect.org/health/2025...
If any church that believes this comes to you asking for funds for their mission trip to "save souls and bring them to Christ," you know it's a scam. This ilk has driven more people from Christianity than anything could. They just want you to fund their vacation/Instagram exploitation porn.
Is gutless equivocation killing journalism and abetting fascism? The answer might surprise you.
August 25, 2025 at 12:02 PM
If any church that believes this comes to you asking for funds for their mission trip to "save souls and bring them to Christ," you know it's a scam. This ilk has driven more people from Christianity than anything could. They just want you to fund their vacation/Instagram exploitation porn.