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Matt 🔸 retweeted
27 Feb 2023
if you really believe AI timelines are so short why don't you do [insane thing that doesn't make any sense]?
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Matt 🔸 retweeted
Seems very bad that the pork industry and the Trump admin are trying to ban basic animal cruelty laws.
Some states banned inhumane practices like gestation crates & overcrowding. They're trying to sneak the 'Save Our Bacon Act' into the farm bill to kill those state-level bans.
The pork industry lost with voters. Lost at the Supreme Court. So they turned to Congress—and got the "Save Our Bacon" Act buried in the House Farm Bill. It's the biggest rollback of animal welfare protections in U.S. history. A thread. 🧵
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Matt 🔸 retweeted
May 5
I don't think people fully appreciate what a disaster DC's entire affordable housing program is.
To start with, it is absurd that we have a chronic problem with people not paying rent when there are 27,000 households registered for the IZ lottery...
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Matt 🔸 retweeted
Apr 30
Despicable: the House just passed a farm bill that includes the SOB Act to keep pigs imprisoned in crates.
Our last hope is to keep this out of the Senate farm bill. Call your senators at (202) 224-3121 and tell them NO farm bill bill with the Save Our Bacon Act in it.
Apr 28
This is shocking: the House Rules Committee just blocked a vote on stripping the Save Our Bacon Act from the farm bill.
The SOB Act, buried deep in the farm bill, would wipe out state bans on pork from crated pigs, condemning millions to a lifetime in gestation crates.
We were getting very close to having the votes to pass Rep. Luna’s bipartisan amendment to strip the SOB Act from the bill on the floor of the House.
Then pork industry lobbyists got to work. Behind closed doors, they got Rules Committee leadership to stop a vote entirely and protect the SOB Act from the scrutiny it can’t survive.
The only option now is to kill the whole rotten farm bill. Please call your representatives at (202) 225-3121 and tell them to vote NO.
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Matt 🔸 retweeted
Apr 29
Update: the House may vote on the farm bill tomorrow.
This is a critical time. @RepLuna is leading a last minute fight to strike the SOB Act from the farm bill.
Call your reps. We need a vote to strike SOB. If leadership won't allow that, we need to kill the farm bill.
Apr 28
This is shocking: the House Rules Committee just blocked a vote on stripping the Save Our Bacon Act from the farm bill.
The SOB Act, buried deep in the farm bill, would wipe out state bans on pork from crated pigs, condemning millions to a lifetime in gestation crates.
We were getting very close to having the votes to pass Rep. Luna’s bipartisan amendment to strip the SOB Act from the bill on the floor of the House.
Then pork industry lobbyists got to work. Behind closed doors, they got Rules Committee leadership to stop a vote entirely and protect the SOB Act from the scrutiny it can’t survive.
The only option now is to kill the whole rotten farm bill. Please call your representatives at (202) 225-3121 and tell them to vote NO.
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Matt 🔸 retweeted
Apr 26
Not an A instantiation of this meme concept but you get the idea (re Will’s new moral theory)
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Apr 24
New quick take on the forum with my thoughts on Ridglan - in general I'm much more skeptical than many other commenters about whether this kind of lawbreaking is permissible
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Matt 🔸 retweeted
Mar 26
#ProjectHailMary directors say the assembly cut was ~3 hours and 45 minutes long 🎞️
"[The major note] was, 'get it way shorter'"
(via Happy Sad Confused)
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Matt 🔸 retweeted
Mar 24
part of what i think makes trek work is that it's very progressive but it's also very utopian. it depicts a world where humans are held to very high ethical standards, which they largely succeed at meeting.
nu trek keeps the progressive politics but depicts a less utopian world. which raises an awkward question - if all this progressive stuff isn't leading to utopia, what is it for exactly? it's like the trek writers lost the confidence that their moral commitments would lead to utopia but never actually re-assessed those commitments.
Mar 24
I've watched all of "Nu-Trek," as it's called today. I'll be blunt, being too "woke" isn't the problem for the Kurtzman era -- that's always been there.
There has been hate for every iteration of Trek for a variety of reasons, including Earth being a socialist utopia. TNG was a carbon copy of TOS in season 1, and season 2 wasn't much better -- DS9 was really dark, and I didn't enjoy it as much in its first run as I do today
The real reason they lost the fan base wasn't a gay Klingon in a skirt; it was lazy writing. One Trek Hill had the same baggage as Disco.
The premise of The Burn was weak and poorly explained. Starfleet protocol was nonexistent, and at times the show felt like Lower Decks meets Police Academy 7—if that's the story you want to tell, bill it that way, and they will come.
As long as the showrunners want blockbuster effects more than they want compelling stories, any new version of Trek is going to fail.
I think we have reached Trek Fatigue again, and it may be time to shelve it until people who understand the universe are put back in charge.
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Matt 🔸 retweeted
Mar 13
in my opinion, the best way to avoid getting ticketed by a DC speed camera is simply not driving >10 mph over the speed limit.
nobody is forcing you to speed! speed cameras literally save lives!
Mar 12
Exclusive: D.C. mayoral candidate Kenyan McDuffie vows to ax "predatory" speed cams and red tape, mulls property tax relief axios.com/local/washington-d…
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Matt 🔸 retweeted
Mar 9
Hidden on page 744 of the farm bill the House Agriculture Committee passed Thursday is a provision that would condemn millions of pigs to a lifetime in gestation crates.
Rebranded the 'Save Our Bacon Act,' it's a pork-industry play to wipe out every state law banning the sale of pork from crated pigs — laws the conservative Supreme Court upheld in 2023.
Over 85% of Democrats and Republicans oppose these crates. Voters have backed ballot measures to ban them in state after state.
The pork industry knows it can't win a straight vote on this. So it's burying the provision in an 800-page bill and hoping no one notices.
Contact your senators and representative today and tell them: oppose the farm bill unless the Save Our Bacon Act is stripped out. You can reach them at senate.gov and house.gov — it takes two minutes and it matters.
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Matt 🔸 retweeted
Mar 6
People don't really understand modern adoption. They have a Dickensian worldview where legions of sad kids are being raised by haggard nuns.
We're almost solved teen pregnancy and maternal mortality at home, and aren't really doing international adoption anymore.
I’m on r/men again, they’ve been asked “if you want kids, why wouldn’t you consider adopting or fostering?” And some of them replied “I want to continue my bloodline/legacy/last name.” Like… what legacy?? Jeff Smith????
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Matt 🔸 retweeted
Feb 26
Irrigated alfalfa farms use ~35% of Arizona's water supply, almost all of it going to animal agriculture. It doesn't need to be grown in the desert. 300x as much water as all data centers in the state. Cutting alfalfa farms by even 1% would have more than 3x the water impact of closing all data centers, and yet you've never mentioned these farms. If you actually care about minimizing AZ's water use, why haven't you mentioned it?
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Feb 21
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Matt 🔸 retweeted
Feb 12
Until you’ve read a few biographies or worked with one, it’s hard to realize how hungry top performers are to win- yet most of their ambition is wasted on status or power seeking. If you’re an altruistic person, your ambitions should rise to the scale of the problems you work on!
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