mathewi
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I write about technology and culture from my kayak somewhere in Canada
A Russian woman on the run and a poisoned cheesecake
Olga Tsvyk got a job doing eyelash extensions, a skill she had picked up back home in Ukraine. In March 2016, a 40-something recent Russian immigrant named Viktoria Nasyrova walked into her salon. Nasyrova told Tsvyk that she was a masseuse and…
Olga Tsvyk got a job doing eyelash extensions, a skill she had picked up back home in Ukraine. In March 2016, a 40-something recent Russian immigrant named Viktoria Nasyrova walked into her salon. Nasyrova told Tsvyk that she was a masseuse and…
A Russian woman on the run and a poisoned cheesecake
Olga Tsvyk got a job doing eyelash extensions, a skill she had picked up back home in Ukraine. In March 2016, a 40-something recent Russian immigrant named Viktoria Nasyrova walked into her salon. Nasyrova told Tsvyk that she was a masseuse and that she lived with her boyfriend in Brooklyn. She was open and friendly, and they talked easily when she came in for appointments every few weeks.
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November 21, 2025 at 1:12 PM
A Russian woman on the run and a poisoned cheesecake
Olga Tsvyk got a job doing eyelash extensions, a skill she had picked up back home in Ukraine. In March 2016, a 40-something recent Russian immigrant named Viktoria Nasyrova walked into her salon. Nasyrova told Tsvyk that she was a masseuse and…
Olga Tsvyk got a job doing eyelash extensions, a skill she had picked up back home in Ukraine. In March 2016, a 40-something recent Russian immigrant named Viktoria Nasyrova walked into her salon. Nasyrova told Tsvyk that she was a masseuse and…
The Meta antitrust case started out weak and got worse
It's not surprising that the FTC's antitrust case against Meta was thrown out (again) -- it started out weak and it only got worse as the market for social media evolved
It's not surprising that the FTC's antitrust case against Meta was thrown out (again) -- it started out weak and it only got worse as the market for social media evolved
The Meta antitrust case started out weak and got worse
It's not surprising that the FTC's antitrust case against Meta was thrown out (again) -- it started out weak and it only got worse as the market for social media evolved
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November 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The Meta antitrust case started out weak and got worse
It's not surprising that the FTC's antitrust case against Meta was thrown out (again) -- it started out weak and it only got worse as the market for social media evolved
It's not surprising that the FTC's antitrust case against Meta was thrown out (again) -- it started out weak and it only got worse as the market for social media evolved
They invited a homeless man to dinner and he stayed for 45 years
Rob Parsons and his wife Diane were listening to the radio and getting ready for Christmas on 23 December 1975 when they heard a knock at the door of their Cardiff home. The couple contemplated ignoring it – they’d already…
Rob Parsons and his wife Diane were listening to the radio and getting ready for Christmas on 23 December 1975 when they heard a knock at the door of their Cardiff home. The couple contemplated ignoring it – they’d already…
They invited a homeless man to dinner and he stayed for 45 years
Rob Parsons and his wife Diane were listening to the radio and getting ready for Christmas on 23 December 1975 when they heard a knock at the door of their Cardiff home. The couple contemplated ignoring it – they’d already overcompensated the small carol singer murdering Once in Royal David’s City – but Rob, now 77, switched off the radio and went to the door.
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November 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
They invited a homeless man to dinner and he stayed for 45 years
Rob Parsons and his wife Diane were listening to the radio and getting ready for Christmas on 23 December 1975 when they heard a knock at the door of their Cardiff home. The couple contemplated ignoring it – they’d already…
Rob Parsons and his wife Diane were listening to the radio and getting ready for Christmas on 23 December 1975 when they heard a knock at the door of their Cardiff home. The couple contemplated ignoring it – they’d already…
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You always hear the rationale that if a reporter stood up to Trump, they'd be kicked off the plane/out of the briefing, etc. Which means what? That they'd no longer be present for something that's already widely disseminated without their help? They trade dignity and integrity for access to nothing.
This is not a job any news organization gives to its best or bravest or strongest reporters.
The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...
November 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
You always hear the rationale that if a reporter stood up to Trump, they'd be kicked off the plane/out of the briefing, etc. Which means what? That they'd no longer be present for something that's already widely disseminated without their help? They trade dignity and integrity for access to nothing.
Russian missiles are too fast so Ukraine jams them with music
In today's When The Going Gets Weird, Ukraine jams Russian missiles with music, much of what we know about the Black Death is wrong and the tiny Czech town that invented the term "dollar"
In today's When The Going Gets Weird, Ukraine jams Russian missiles with music, much of what we know about the Black Death is wrong and the tiny Czech town that invented the term "dollar"
Russian missiles are too fast so Ukraine jams them with music
In today's When The Going Gets Weird, Ukraine jams Russian missiles with music, much of what we know about the Black Death is wrong and the tiny Czech town that invented the term "dollar"
mathewingram.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Russian missiles are too fast so Ukraine jams them with music
In today's When The Going Gets Weird, Ukraine jams Russian missiles with music, much of what we know about the Black Death is wrong and the tiny Czech town that invented the term "dollar"
In today's When The Going Gets Weird, Ukraine jams Russian missiles with music, much of what we know about the Black Death is wrong and the tiny Czech town that invented the term "dollar"
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Can't find out if Cloudflare is down because Cloudflare being down has taken out DownDetector, along with half the internet.
November 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Can't find out if Cloudflare is down because Cloudflare being down has taken out DownDetector, along with half the internet.
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mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
Long before Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was published in 1818, an author penned a story that resembles it on more than one account: François‐Félix Nogaret, "Le Miroir des événemens actuals, ou la belle au plus offrant" mathewingram.com/work/2025/11...
He created a Dr. Frankenstein 30 years before Mary Shelley
Long before Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was published in 1818, an author penned a story that resembles it on more than one account: François‐Félix Nogaret, Le Miroir des événemens actuals, ou…
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November 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Long before Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was published in 1818, an author penned a story that resembles it on more than one account: François‐Félix Nogaret, "Le Miroir des événemens actuals, ou la belle au plus offrant" mathewingram.com/work/2025/11...
November 16, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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In a recent edition of The Torment Nexus, I wrote about Wikipedia, which I argued was one of the best things the internet ever created. There is another thing that ranks right up there with Wikipedia on the list of great things, and that is the Internet Archive mathewingram.com/work/2025/11...
November 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
In a recent edition of The Torment Nexus, I wrote about Wikipedia, which I argued was one of the best things the internet ever created. There is another thing that ranks right up there with Wikipedia on the list of great things, and that is the Internet Archive mathewingram.com/work/2025/11...
November 15, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Them: Why do you say that Apple is a cult?
Me: This phone-carrying sock is $230 and it's sold out
Me: This phone-carrying sock is $230 and it's sold out
November 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Them: Why do you say that Apple is a cult?
Me: This phone-carrying sock is $230 and it's sold out
Me: This phone-carrying sock is $230 and it's sold out
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but for real i tried to capture what i felt going through these emails (on here & in the document hellscape). how it feels like a last nail in a coffin of some kind in terms of a rot in the heart of the elite. and proof that the truth is dumber than fiction
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
November 14, 2025 at 2:40 AM
but for real i tried to capture what i felt going through these emails (on here & in the document hellscape). how it feels like a last nail in a coffin of some kind in terms of a rot in the heart of the elite. and proof that the truth is dumber than fiction
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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Whole bunch of stuff beginning to make a lot of sense.
November 14, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Whole bunch of stuff beginning to make a lot of sense.
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patton oswalt has been suspended from bluesky for saying that megyn kelly should be fed to a woodchipper for justifying the sexual abuse of minors
November 14, 2025 at 1:42 PM
patton oswalt has been suspended from bluesky for saying that megyn kelly should be fed to a woodchipper for justifying the sexual abuse of minors
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Goodness me, I stayed up late reading and it’s already Partially Muscled Skeleton Screaming by the Perimeter Fence Day. Hope you’ve all been good this year!
November 14, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Goodness me, I stayed up late reading and it’s already Partially Muscled Skeleton Screaming by the Perimeter Fence Day. Hope you’ve all been good this year!
November 14, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Alt text as art. Also the cutest sheep!
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
November 14, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Alt text as art. Also the cutest sheep!
Imagine being Palmer Luckey and the part that excites you about Iron Man isn't saving the world but building new kinds of weapons
November 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Imagine being Palmer Luckey and the part that excites you about Iron Man isn't saving the world but building new kinds of weapons
https://twitter.com/growing_daniel/status/1989189599093240060
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November 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
https://twitter.com/growing_daniel/status/1989189599093240060
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Before he found himself on the Al-Shahaniya racetrack on the outskirts of Doha, Esan Maruff had never seen a camel race.
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November 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Before he found himself on the Al-Shahaniya racetrack on the outskirts of Doha, Esan Maruff had never seen a camel race.
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Forty years of study by economists around the world come to the same conclusion: high tariffs coupled with a discretionary regime of exemptions is a growth matrix for the crudest sort of corruption.
Trump Administration Prepares Tariff Exemptions in Bid to Lower Food Prices
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Forty years of study by economists around the world come to the same conclusion: high tariffs coupled with a discretionary regime of exemptions is a growth matrix for the crudest sort of corruption.
November 13, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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If your company has work that can be done from home but requires people to come in, that's a failure of leadership, not proximity.
November 13, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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