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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 1d

Rishi Sunak, who is still a member of of Britain’s parliament, is now also on the payroll of Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, and Anthropic, and is going to donate the income from those roles to a charity run by Rishi Sunak.

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Microsoft, Anthropic Hire Former British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak

Sunak, who remains a member of Britain’s parliament, said he would be working with the tech companies as a senior adviser and strategic consultant.

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 1d

The first step in winning a fight is showing up to the fight.

Republican unity to avoid shutdown concessions is cracking after failed votes

When the shutdown commenced, it was Republicans who were confident that Democrats would crack. Now it's Republican resolve that is increasingly in question.

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 3d

I used to work on an ultrasonic transmission protocol. When I worked there we were embedding easter eggs into pop music. Now, like everything, it's ad tech.

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Proximity Engagement Driving Contactless Commerce From proximity-based promotions to frictionless access and payments, LISNR turns every customer touchpoint into a personalized engagement opport...

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 3d

It took a little bit longer, but that's where I landed with Midjourney too.

Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 3d

I'm not saying [whatever opinion you want me to be saying] about genAI video; I'm saying that infinite scroll + short form + genAI social app didn't hold my interest as long as I thought it would.

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 3d

I think this is distinct from the AI Slop idea. It's not that the videos aren't creative enough or of sufficient quality. It's that they aren't impressive anymore. Seeing Mr. Rogers roll into a WWE intro brings a brief tinge of amusement, but it's not interesting when anyone can make it happen.

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 3d

I spent a few hours last night and this morning scrolling/generating on Sora, and it's notable how quickly I went from "wow!" to "meh" in the app. This is only a partially baked thought ... but I feel like delight requires scarcity. A modern day "500 channels and nothing to watch."

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 3d

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 3d

the weird venn diagram of Nothing Ever Happens and Everything Happens So Much

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 3d

my boring take is no one in the past 250 years has lived in "precedented times" but now is we have the technology to instantly tell us so

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 3d

no, Sora wouldn't let me use that song; I had to ffmpeg my way to the ballot box on that one

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 3d

sure why not

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 3d

Y2K: I) a real and existential threat to industries, economies, and societies; II) industries and governments took the threat seriously and mass-mobilized to address it; III) extremely online millennials (who were children at the time!) love to point to it as a hardship they endured

☕️ Jeremy Diamond @dmnd.me · 3d

Y2K was real. You weren’t impacted because the IT industry expended massive effort to update every piece of critical software that was written prior to the problem’s recognition.

Miss J @morelovelessus.bsky.social · 3d

Superb idea.
We could take a moment and remember the Y2K scam … and the one where when your phone stopped working they told you it was because your hand got sweaty …. Ah Tech they are such trickers

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 3d

Aside: I have never found an effective way to share information found within a podcast that actually results in someone else ingesting that information. "Commit to this hour of quiet listening like I did" is a hard sell.

Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 3d

I learned a lot from this conversation by @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the electricity crisis, specifically that it's more complicated than data centers and we have a major last-mile problem.

overcast.fm/+AAuOFvPcvfw

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 3d

Yes! And weirdly almost all Sora kick flip videos I found have that error. My guess is because no one successfully lands a kick flip ever (source: four years high school) so all the training videos are of failed kick flips.

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 3d

i got Sora access so here's recently unearthed footage Gödel and Einstein on their morning kickpush through Princeton

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 4d

And the thing to remember about the dot-com bubble is it was largely driven be never-revenue websites IPO'ing as fast as possible whereas right now we're not really seeing a roar of IPOs and all the investment (other than OpenAI) is happening between mega-profit decades-old companies.

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 6d

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 6d

What idiot called it OpenAI Release Day and not America’s Next Top Model

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 8d

loser behavior; they're all such losers

Chris Thompson @christhompson.bsky.social · 8d

a person at Treasury gave Defector a rundown of how this process—which appears to be against the law—was expedited in order to avoid public scrutiny

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Treasury Department Has Plans To Mint Dollar Coin Featuring Donald Trump's Likeness | Defector

The United States Department of the Treasury has developed, to the brink of production, a dollar coin that features the face and likeness of President Donald Trump, according to a source within the Tr...

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 8d

unrelated to the whole genAI thing, but my recurrent gripe with arXiv is how often a paper is just a blog post masquerading as academia because it's LaTeX and PDF

Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 8d

I know people are submitting AI-generated papers and some are AI-assisted, but…

There were 26,646 new submissions to arXiv in September 2025.

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 8d

look at this graph exploding through its margin

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 10d

I'm sure a society conditioned for entrenched beliefs despite evidence won't suffer from the ability to manufacture evidence.

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 10d

Hard not to see this being deployed for political violence.

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 10d

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

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