Matthew Best
@matthewbest.bsky.social
Journalist, sometimes. In Ukraine, living the air raid life.
Great, super-cool. Threaten to pull the plug on aid against Russia, actually pull the plug on support to developing nations, then drop $40B on right wing S American governments and God knows how much on regime change.
Glad we're doing the 80s but somehow worse. Nic, nostalgic feeling.
Glad we're doing the 80s but somehow worse. Nic, nostalgic feeling.
Breaking news: High-level discussions over whether to attack Venezuela — and how — have been underway for days.
It remains unclear if President Trump has decided to pursue such an escalation.
It remains unclear if President Trump has decided to pursue such an escalation.
Trump weighs Venezuela strikes as U.S. forces prepare for attack order
High-level discussions, underway for days, have explored a variety of potential military options, people familiar with the matter said.
wapo.st
November 15, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Great, super-cool. Threaten to pull the plug on aid against Russia, actually pull the plug on support to developing nations, then drop $40B on right wing S American governments and God knows how much on regime change.
Glad we're doing the 80s but somehow worse. Nic, nostalgic feeling.
Glad we're doing the 80s but somehow worse. Nic, nostalgic feeling.
Reposted by Matthew Best
On one hand polygraphs are pseudoscientific BS. On the other hand these guys believe they work so they're definitely hiding something.
November 14, 2025 at 4:42 PM
On one hand polygraphs are pseudoscientific BS. On the other hand these guys believe they work so they're definitely hiding something.
The interesting thing about what's happening in Kyiv and throughout Ukraine right now -- while it's horrible and terrorizing a civilian population -- it also shows a certain level of panic and desperation from Russia that some progress needs to be made for their side.
November 14, 2025 at 12:15 AM
The interesting thing about what's happening in Kyiv and throughout Ukraine right now -- while it's horrible and terrorizing a civilian population -- it also shows a certain level of panic and desperation from Russia that some progress needs to be made for their side.
Hahaha ah. Amazing.
feel like some things got lost along the way but i guess that's the creative process for you
November 12, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Hahaha ah. Amazing.
Helluva ratio on this. A for effort though.
Democrats have been fighting for months to address America's healthcare crisis
For the millions who will lose coverage
For people with cancer who won't get the care they need
For working families who can't afford to pay $25K more a year for healthcare
We will keep fighting
For the millions who will lose coverage
For people with cancer who won't get the care they need
For working families who can't afford to pay $25K more a year for healthcare
We will keep fighting
November 10, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Helluva ratio on this. A for effort though.
Or because you're up in 2026, which means you get to be one of the no votes that isn't the designated villain this time.
There's that.
There's that.
As I've always said, I will not support a government funding bill that continues to raise our costs, jeopardizes our health care, and hurts the people of my state.
November 10, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Or because you're up in 2026, which means you get to be one of the no votes that isn't the designated villain this time.
There's that.
There's that.
Excited for when he holds a press conference for what he names his penis.
"Today, say my direction, my whiskey dick as you know it is dead. It's now the fuck hammer. This isn't just a name change."
"Today, say my direction, my whiskey dick as you know it is dead. It's now the fuck hammer. This isn't just a name change."
Hegseth: "Today, at my direction, the defense acquisitions system as you know it is dead. It's now the warfighting acquisitions system. This isn't just a name change."
November 8, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Excited for when he holds a press conference for what he names his penis.
"Today, say my direction, my whiskey dick as you know it is dead. It's now the fuck hammer. This isn't just a name change."
"Today, say my direction, my whiskey dick as you know it is dead. It's now the fuck hammer. This isn't just a name change."
He's probably just looking for the keys to his truck so he can leave him in Central Park next to a bicycle if need be
the speed at which RFK books it out of there is incredible
holy shit -- one of Trump's toadies just passed out and the White House event is brought to an abrupt end
November 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM
He's probably just looking for the keys to his truck so he can leave him in Central Park next to a bicycle if need be
Not sure what's funnier here:
1. The notion that communism was created by the outcome of Stalin and Trotsky's disagreement;
2. Right was philosophically decided by an icepick;
3. That a chatbot knows of and values Grim's existence; or
4. Will change its output based on threats of his abandonment.
1. The notion that communism was created by the outcome of Stalin and Trotsky's disagreement;
2. Right was philosophically decided by an icepick;
3. That a chatbot knows of and values Grim's existence; or
4. Will change its output based on threats of his abandonment.
November 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Not sure what's funnier here:
1. The notion that communism was created by the outcome of Stalin and Trotsky's disagreement;
2. Right was philosophically decided by an icepick;
3. That a chatbot knows of and values Grim's existence; or
4. Will change its output based on threats of his abandonment.
1. The notion that communism was created by the outcome of Stalin and Trotsky's disagreement;
2. Right was philosophically decided by an icepick;
3. That a chatbot knows of and values Grim's existence; or
4. Will change its output based on threats of his abandonment.
My snotty remarks about bad sci fi actually succeeding, the reality of this vote looks more like the board trying to wrangle an idiot whose lies make them money into a position where he recovers some value for them by telling him he'll get a trillion bucks if he can do the impossible.
Feels like the opening to a very bad sci-fi film.
November 7, 2025 at 12:38 AM
My snotty remarks about bad sci fi actually succeeding, the reality of this vote looks more like the board trying to wrangle an idiot whose lies make them money into a position where he recovers some value for them by telling him he'll get a trillion bucks if he can do the impossible.
Big "you assaulted me when your face hurt my fist" energy.
Loevy plays a video of a woman's arrest. Hewson says the woman was "assaultive" because she kicked a can of tear gas that had been deployed.
Loevy: "When you tear gas somebody … and they try to kick the tear gas canister away from them, that's assaulting?"
Hewson: "Yes."
Loevy: "When you tear gas somebody … and they try to kick the tear gas canister away from them, that's assaulting?"
Hewson: "Yes."
November 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Big "you assaulted me when your face hurt my fist" energy.
Aww man his opinion of NYC used to be so positive, too.
November 5, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Aww man his opinion of NYC used to be so positive, too.
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It's getting harder to think of things that antisemites allege Jews do that aren't also things that Elon Musk and his tech bro friends actually do.
November 5, 2025 at 5:43 PM
It's getting harder to think of things that antisemites allege Jews do that aren't also things that Elon Musk and his tech bro friends actually do.
This is yet again more proof that Musk is not a genius, at all, in any way, and is in fact a fucking idiot. The moron probably thinks space is cold. It isn't. Space is not anything, which makes it very difficult to dump heat into. Data centers are far more cooling hungry than a satlink or EO sat.
The same day Elon Musk claimed that Tesla would have a flying car next year (?), SpaceX hypeguy and editor of Ars Technica(wtf???) Eric Berger uncritically promoted a Musk 'Data Center in Space' scam that defies everything that is known about thermodynamics and newtonian physics
October 31, 2025 at 10:49 PM
This is yet again more proof that Musk is not a genius, at all, in any way, and is in fact a fucking idiot. The moron probably thinks space is cold. It isn't. Space is not anything, which makes it very difficult to dump heat into. Data centers are far more cooling hungry than a satlink or EO sat.
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What is this with these people suddenly realizing the crowd they they hang out with are who they always said they were.
October 30, 2025 at 11:17 PM
What is this with these people suddenly realizing the crowd they they hang out with are who they always said they were.
The only German word he knew was coincidentally the German word that snuck into multiple languages to mean a very specific skull design that he innocently and coincidentally had tattooed on his chest.
Ooh no, he knew a German word! People are so unserious.
October 30, 2025 at 1:41 AM
The only German word he knew was coincidentally the German word that snuck into multiple languages to mean a very specific skull design that he innocently and coincidentally had tattooed on his chest.
Just utterly unbelievable. This isn't even reactionary boomer anger at not understanding the "trans thing" or whatever, this is straight up a 12-year-old who's just learned the basics of reproduction asking mommy why men have nipples, and people will die because of it.
The stupidest possible people are now in charge of everything.
NEW: A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica sets up new roadblocks to care for male veterans with breast cancer.
The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive order about “restoring biological truth” in government.
The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive order about “restoring biological truth” in government.
October 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Just utterly unbelievable. This isn't even reactionary boomer anger at not understanding the "trans thing" or whatever, this is straight up a 12-year-old who's just learned the basics of reproduction asking mommy why men have nipples, and people will die because of it.
We very much do know how the mind works, what we don't know is where the mind comes from or why the mind is. This is like saying nobody knows the laws of physics because nobody knows why the universe exists or what begat it.
No one knows how the mind works, and this guy is no exception.
Obviously LLMs are (at least) the closest thing we have created to human intelligence. It passes the Turing test so to start talking about what it doesn’t do you’ll need better tests.
Obviously LLMs are (at least) the closest thing we have created to human intelligence. It passes the Turing test so to start talking about what it doesn’t do you’ll need better tests.
This crosses my mind every time I see a breathless article about LLMs "developing survival instincts" or "resisting being shut off" or "blackmailing their operator"
That's not how this works. It's not how any of it works.
That's not how this works. It's not how any of it works.
October 27, 2025 at 7:25 PM
We very much do know how the mind works, what we don't know is where the mind comes from or why the mind is. This is like saying nobody knows the laws of physics because nobody knows why the universe exists or what begat it.
Control is predicated on the ability to threaten harm.
If one doesn't fear harm, there is no leverage.
And if harm is actually committed, leverage is further lost -- then they'll do it to anyone, and there is nothing left to lose anyway.
If one doesn't fear harm, there is no leverage.
And if harm is actually committed, leverage is further lost -- then they'll do it to anyone, and there is nothing left to lose anyway.
The dialogue is a whole other thing but the bit about "fuck you shoot me I'll die for this shit" and the reaction is the crux here, from Gandhi's time on down, no authoritarian in history ever knows how to respond to this and it's why it beats them whenever deployed
"Man goes scorched earth on ICE agents kidnapping people in his hometown."
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October 24, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Control is predicated on the ability to threaten harm.
If one doesn't fear harm, there is no leverage.
And if harm is actually committed, leverage is further lost -- then they'll do it to anyone, and there is nothing left to lose anyway.
If one doesn't fear harm, there is no leverage.
And if harm is actually committed, leverage is further lost -- then they'll do it to anyone, and there is nothing left to lose anyway.
Can't be sick if you're dead. True facts
October 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Can't be sick if you're dead. True facts
Exactly my experience with depression. Decades of no energy or motivation because it wasn't also crying and suicidal ideation.
Doctor: how long have you been having symptoms?
Me: about 23 years
Doctor: ????!!!!???
Me: I was told multiple times it was nothing so I just lived with it
Doctor: we're going to change that right now
Me: 🥹
Me: about 23 years
Doctor: ????!!!!???
Me: I was told multiple times it was nothing so I just lived with it
Doctor: we're going to change that right now
Me: 🥹
October 22, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Exactly my experience with depression. Decades of no energy or motivation because it wasn't also crying and suicidal ideation.
Because the far right has authoritarian tendencies, and authoritarians do not admire an internally consistent, coherent ideology, but the ability to exercise and wield force for force's sake.
killdozer is one of those guys that always baffles me that the far right idolizes. some weird old guy that built a dumb vehicle that was used to destroy a school and put kids in danger. a deeply embarassing guy to worship
October 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Because the far right has authoritarian tendencies, and authoritarians do not admire an internally consistent, coherent ideology, but the ability to exercise and wield force for force's sake.
Trying to pass off the very very specific Totenkopf-SS skull as a generic skull in the style of marine raiders or hussars or even fucking pirates is cheeky. Not good cheeky, asshole cheeky.
October 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Trying to pass off the very very specific Totenkopf-SS skull as a generic skull in the style of marine raiders or hussars or even fucking pirates is cheeky. Not good cheeky, asshole cheeky.
The tragic thing about this kind of reporting is that, while good -- excellent, really -- mainstream outlets will largeley ignore it as competition falling under old news and propagandists will ignore it as a matter of course.
Anyway, don't ignore it.
Anyway, don't ignore it.
From opposing Putin to raising funds for a neo-Nazi paramilitary group, this is the digital footprint of one Russian man with a shifting political ideology. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...
How a Former Political Hopeful Helps Russian Neo-Nazi Group Rusich Sell its Online Merch - bellingcat
An investigation by Bellingcat has found that a former St. Petersburg local election prospect is helping Neo-Nazi paramilitary group, Rusich, operate its online store.
www.bellingcat.com
October 21, 2025 at 11:45 AM
The tragic thing about this kind of reporting is that, while good -- excellent, really -- mainstream outlets will largeley ignore it as competition falling under old news and propagandists will ignore it as a matter of course.
Anyway, don't ignore it.
Anyway, don't ignore it.
I guess the issue with surprise at this point -- at any point herein, really -- is that the lie is not only the method of achieving the objective, but the objective itself.
WHAT THE FUCK FENTANYL IS NOT EVEN COMING FROM VENEZUELA
Eric Trump: "Now every single time a boat goes out of Venezuela it's getting blown up into a million pieces. That's exactly what's happening every single day. I personally have 4 friends who have lost children to fentanyl."
October 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
I guess the issue with surprise at this point -- at any point herein, really -- is that the lie is not only the method of achieving the objective, but the objective itself.