Matt Spiegler
@mattspiegler.bsky.social
Cheesemaker at Churchtown Dairy in the Hudson Valley, NY. Mycophile.
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Daily reminder that the underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.
Anyway, AI has already stolen friends’ work, and is going to put other people out of work.
I do not think a political party that claims to be the party of workers in this country should be using it. Even for just a silly joke.
I do not think a political party that claims to be the party of workers in this country should be using it. Even for just a silly joke.
December 26, 2024 at 8:34 PM
Daily reminder that the underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.
When we talk about former leftists who are now solidly MAGA but still self identify as leftists these tweets called out by Post-Left Watch are textbook 🤌🏻
There was never a good reason to do this.
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A lot of people decided that you gotta hand it to Matt Gaetz on some issues.
December 23, 2024 at 10:08 PM
When we talk about former leftists who are now solidly MAGA but still self identify as leftists these tweets called out by Post-Left Watch are textbook 🤌🏻
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I was really hoping we'd have a woman as president before we had one from South Africa, but here we are.
December 20, 2024 at 8:19 PM
I was really hoping we'd have a woman as president before we had one from South Africa, but here we are.
Full moon over the Round Barn at Churchtown Dairy
December 19, 2024 at 5:56 PM
Full moon over the Round Barn at Churchtown Dairy
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“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”
Abandoning trans people is 'fascist logic', says leading feminist philosopher
Leading feminist philosopher Judith Butler has declared that abandoning trans people or any minority is operating within 'fascist logic'.
www.thepinknews.com
December 18, 2024 at 8:04 PM
“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”
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Coperthwaite wheels (and a wagon wheel of Coperthwaite) 🧀 at Churchtown Dairy
December 13, 2024 at 1:03 PM
Coperthwaite wheels (and a wagon wheel of Coperthwaite) 🧀 at Churchtown Dairy
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this is excellent, informed & informative on Trump-1’s grotesquely barbaric “child separation” policy & the prospect of Trump-2 exceeding its grotesquery & barbarism by many orders of magnitude — and also on the difficulty of saying any of these things effectively:
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Torn Apart | Patricia J. Williams
Errol Morris’s new documentary looks unflinchingly at the horrors of Donald Trump's policy of separating families at the border.
www.nybooks.com
December 4, 2024 at 12:09 AM
this is excellent, informed & informative on Trump-1’s grotesquely barbaric “child separation” policy & the prospect of Trump-2 exceeding its grotesquery & barbarism by many orders of magnitude — and also on the difficulty of saying any of these things effectively:
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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Response to coups by elected leaders:
- South Korea: blocked by mass mobilization of citizens
- Brazil: coup leader indicted, barred from politics
- United States: coup leader re-elected with majorities in the legislature and a compliant Supreme Court
- South Korea: blocked by mass mobilization of citizens
- Brazil: coup leader indicted, barred from politics
- United States: coup leader re-elected with majorities in the legislature and a compliant Supreme Court
December 3, 2024 at 8:31 PM
Response to coups by elected leaders:
- South Korea: blocked by mass mobilization of citizens
- Brazil: coup leader indicted, barred from politics
- United States: coup leader re-elected with majorities in the legislature and a compliant Supreme Court
- South Korea: blocked by mass mobilization of citizens
- Brazil: coup leader indicted, barred from politics
- United States: coup leader re-elected with majorities in the legislature and a compliant Supreme Court
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NEW: Nancy Mace as recently as 2023 called herself “pro-transgender rights” and said she supported children exploring gender identities with different hairstyles, clothing and pronouns — Mace is now calling trans people “mentally ill” and targeting Rep. Sarah McBride. www.cnn.com/2024/11/25/p...
Nancy Mace, now targeting transgender lawmaker, called herself ‘pro-transgender rights’ in 2023 | CNN Politics
Republican Rep. Nancy Mace as recently as last year called herself “pro-transgender rights” and said she supported children exploring gender identities with different hairstyles, clothing and preferre...
www.cnn.com
November 25, 2024 at 11:25 PM
NEW: Nancy Mace as recently as 2023 called herself “pro-transgender rights” and said she supported children exploring gender identities with different hairstyles, clothing and pronouns — Mace is now calling trans people “mentally ill” and targeting Rep. Sarah McBride. www.cnn.com/2024/11/25/p...
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The man wrote a check
November 20, 2024 at 3:40 PM
The man wrote a check
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Meet Trump’s new Secretary of Education nominee Linda McMahon
November 20, 2024 at 6:49 AM
Meet Trump’s new Secretary of Education nominee Linda McMahon
Canada knows what we’re all googling and is hitting us with the ads in Insta 🍁
November 19, 2024 at 3:18 PM
Canada knows what we’re all googling and is hitting us with the ads in Insta 🍁
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Wrote for @discourseblog.com about how it's always marginalized communities like trans people who get blamed for Democratic failures, rather than the highly-paid DC insiders who actually control the party discourseblog.com/p/its-blame-...
It's 'Blame Trans People' Season Once Again
DC insiders are rushing to scapegoat trans people rather than take responsibility for their own failures.
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November 18, 2024 at 3:33 PM
Wrote for @discourseblog.com about how it's always marginalized communities like trans people who get blamed for Democratic failures, rather than the highly-paid DC insiders who actually control the party discourseblog.com/p/its-blame-...
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A woman testified to the House Ethics Committee that former congressman Matt Gaetz paid her for sex and that she witnessed President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general having sex with a 17-year-old at a party, her lawyer said over the weekend.
Two women testified that Matt Gaetz paid them for sex, lawyer says
An attorney representing two witnesses in the House Ethics Committee investigation is going public with allegations against Trump’s pick for attorney general
www.washingtonpost.com
November 19, 2024 at 1:52 PM
A woman testified to the House Ethics Committee that former congressman Matt Gaetz paid her for sex and that she witnessed President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general having sex with a 17-year-old at a party, her lawyer said over the weekend.
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Wow: Latest Times tabulation has Trump at 50.1%. Cook Report says <50. NYT says wherever it falls will wind up being one of the smallest margins in history, and shifting just 237K votes across 3 states woulda changed the outcome
Turns out that landslide is razor thin
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/u...
Turns out that landslide is razor thin
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/u...
Trump Signals a ‘Seismic Shift,’ Shocking the Washington Establishment
The president-elect’s early transition moves amount to a generational test of a system as he seeks to rewrite the balance of power and install lieutenants to blow up key parts of government.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2024 at 11:15 PM
Wow: Latest Times tabulation has Trump at 50.1%. Cook Report says <50. NYT says wherever it falls will wind up being one of the smallest margins in history, and shifting just 237K votes across 3 states woulda changed the outcome
Turns out that landslide is razor thin
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/u...
Turns out that landslide is razor thin
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/u...
Cheese rind hieroglyphics. Geotrichum Candidum and B.Linen cultures being the primary with other yeasts and a dust of Penicillium Candidum
November 18, 2024 at 3:45 PM
Cheese rind hieroglyphics. Geotrichum Candidum and B.Linen cultures being the primary with other yeasts and a dust of Penicillium Candidum
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WE NEED TO TALK MORE ABOUT TRANS PEOPLE, NOT LESS
Trump's campaign spent millions spreading lies about the trans community. Now, it's on us to correct the record
#TomorrowsPapersToday
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Trump's campaign spent millions spreading lies about the trans community. Now, it's on us to correct the record
#TomorrowsPapersToday
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
We Need to Talk More<em> </em>About Trans People, Not Less
Trump's campaign spent millions spreading lies about the trans community. Now, it's on us to correct the record.
www.rollingstone.com
November 17, 2024 at 11:06 PM
WE NEED TO TALK MORE ABOUT TRANS PEOPLE, NOT LESS
Trump's campaign spent millions spreading lies about the trans community. Now, it's on us to correct the record
#TomorrowsPapersToday
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Trump's campaign spent millions spreading lies about the trans community. Now, it's on us to correct the record
#TomorrowsPapersToday
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Here's one example: if you think it's good to have new treatments for cancer, and you are competent enough to understand that the profit motive will never fund basic research into these areas, then you know why RFK Jr. gutting HHS is going to devastate health progress for the entire world.
I honestly don’t think Americans understand how much their day to day lives depend on federal civil servants and now is the time for professional commentators to write op-eds explaining
November 17, 2024 at 7:40 PM
Here's one example: if you think it's good to have new treatments for cancer, and you are competent enough to understand that the profit motive will never fund basic research into these areas, then you know why RFK Jr. gutting HHS is going to devastate health progress for the entire world.
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The DNC still asking for money like I’m responsible for the tombstone too
November 17, 2024 at 2:29 PM
The DNC still asking for money like I’m responsible for the tombstone too
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NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr
In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2024 at 12:34 PM
Bluesky needs more cheese content: here is my contribution, the washed rind Coperthwaite that I make at Churchtown Dairy.
November 16, 2024 at 10:51 PM
Bluesky needs more cheese content: here is my contribution, the washed rind Coperthwaite that I make at Churchtown Dairy.
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The more magazine covers like this, the closer we get to when Trump turns on Musk:
November 16, 2024 at 12:08 AM
The more magazine covers like this, the closer we get to when Trump turns on Musk: