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Matthew Chapman

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Game programmer, reporter at @rawstory.com, author, elections nerd, devoted husband. Proudly on the spectrum. All opinions are my own.

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Matthew Chapman @fawfulfan.bsky.social · Oct 12

Here are the links to purchase my Paradocian Trilogy novels:

Book 1 — The Paradox Maker
amazon.com/dp/1651333432

Book 2 — The Universe Tree
amazon.com/dp/1651343535

Book 3 — The Mirror Experiment
amazon.com/dp/1651349142

The Paradox Maker (The Paradocian Trilogy): Chapman, Matthew, Ferguson, James: 9781651333433: Amazon.com: Books

The Paradox Maker (The Paradocian Trilogy) [Chapman, Matthew, Ferguson, James] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Paradox Maker (The Paradocian Trilogy)

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Matthew Chapman @fawfulfan.bsky.social · 5h

And more important, they don't understand that next to agriculture, literally every other human use of water is basically a puddle.

*Especially* out west, which is where a lot of the data centers are.

Matthew Chapman @fawfulfan.bsky.social · 5h

Part of the reason for this is, data centers reuse the water they have, over and over again. They just send it into cooling towers and pump it through again. This can be done several times before it's contaminated enough to go to treatment.

And they're working on even more efficient methods.

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Matthew Chapman @fawfulfan.bsky.social · 5h

The entirety of the data centers that trained GPT-3 used less than 1% the amount of water that goes to agriculture in Nebraska in just one year.

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Matthew Chapman @fawfulfan.bsky.social · 5h

Power, yes. Water, no.

Claims about how much water AI data centers use are spectacularly overblown and based on people not understanding what actually constitutes "a lot of water."

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5h

A nationwide backlash to AI data centers is brewing.

And for good reason: while AI enriches Big Tech CEOs and props up the stock market, data centers are sucking up communities’ water and power.

When the AI bubble bursts, the rest of us will be stuck holding the bag. Be warned.

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Matthew Chapman @fawfulfan.bsky.social · 5h

Furious constituents flood Republican's tele-town hall: 'You are wasting time!' www.rawstory.com/rob-wittman/

Furious constituents flood Republican's tele-town hall: 'You are wasting time!'

Rep. Rob Wittman (R-VA) became the latest Republican lawmaker to face a barrage of anger from his constituents on Wednesday.Unlike many of his colleagues, who held a physical town hall where disgruntl...

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Matthew Chapman @fawfulfan.bsky.social · 5h

Red state effort to block Trump-backed election scheme takes big step forward www.rawstory.com/missouri-red...

Red state effort to block Trump-backed election scheme takes big step forward

A bid by voting-rights activists in a heavily Trump-favoring state to stop a plot to rig the midterm elections took a big step this week — but Republicans are doing everything in their power to thwart...

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 6h

This is very Zuckerberg-ian of Altman. www.cnbc.com/2025/10/15/a... (story by @cnbc.com / Ashley Capoot)

Sam Altman says OpenAI isn't 'moral police of the world' after erotica ChatGPT post blows up

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said his company is "not the elected moral police of the world" after receiving backlash over his decision to allow erotica on ChatGPT.

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Matthew Chapman @fawfulfan.bsky.social · 1d

Judge shoots down Trump lawyers' effort to keep evidence hidden from James Comey www.rawstory.com/james-comey-...

Judge shoots down Trump lawyers' effort to keep evidence hidden from James Comey

Former FBI Director James Comey notched an early victory in his criminal indictment Tuesday as a federal judge ruled in his favor over a dispute involving evidence.Federal prosecutors initially filed ...

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Matthew Chapman @fawfulfan.bsky.social · 2d

Trump admin forces state officials to carve out exception for child abuse laws: analyst www.rawstory.com/washington-c...

Trump admin forces state officials to carve out exception for child abuse laws: analyst

Officials in Washington State have agreed to water down a key provision of a child abuse reporting law passed to prevent misconduct by religious clergy, under pressure from both Catholic bishops and t...

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Matthew Chapman @fawfulfan.bsky.social · 2d

'No deference at all': Conservative lauds GOP judge for exposing MAGA con www.rawstory.com/trump-judge-...

'No deference at all': Conservative lauds GOP judge for exposing MAGA con

President Donald Trump has been employing a certain political two-step incessantly for years, conservative analyst David French wrote for the New York Times on Monday — and, ironically, it took a judg...

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Matthew Chapman @fawfulfan.bsky.social · 5d

Trump kills major project backed by company donating millions to his White House ballroom www.rawstory.com/trump-solar/

Trump kills major project backed by company donating millions to his White House ballroom

A firm that cut millions of dollars in donations to President Donald Trump's plan for a massive new ballroom wing of the White House has suddenly found one of its flagship energy projects canceled by ...

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Matthew Chapman @fawfulfan.bsky.social · 5d

'Sneakily crucial': Expert says obscure Supreme Court case will have massive repercussions www.rawstory.com/supreme-cour...

'Sneakily crucial': Expert says obscure Supreme Court case will have massive repercussions

The Supreme Court is hearing a number of high-profile cases this term, including one critical to the future of congressional representation. But they're also taking on a much lesser-known case, about ...

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Matthew Chapman @fawfulfan.bsky.social · 6d

Irate MAGA activists plan to host their own Super Bowl halftime show to snub Bad Bunny www.rawstory.com/turning-poin...

Irate MAGA activists plan to host their own Super Bowl halftime show to snub Bad Bunny

A notorious far-right youth organization is planning to host its own "Super Bowl halftime show" in protest of the real one being given to Puerto Rican singer/rapper Bad Bunny.According to Axios, Turni...

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Matthew Chapman @fawfulfan.bsky.social · 7d

'Gonna be your turn': Clip surfaces of Republican's chilling message to abortion activists www.rawstory.com/winsome-earl...

'Gonna be your turn': Clip surfaces of Republican's chilling message to abortion activists

A newly-revealed voice clip of Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, currently running for governor, appears to depict her delivering a dark message to supporters of abortion rights.The clip, posted ...

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Matthew Chapman @fawfulfan.bsky.social · 7d

MTG's revolt against Trump comes as she feels 'especially burned' by White House: report www.rawstory.com/mtg-senate-2...

MTG's revolt against Trump comes as she feels 'especially burned' by White House: report

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has been increasingly critical of her own party, breaking with them at key moments and even chastising them this month for having no plan to extend health care subsi...

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Matthew Chapman @fawfulfan.bsky.social · 7d

Right-wing social media accounts beloved by MAGA run by man who’s never visited US: report www.rawstory.com/maga-account/

Right-wing social media accounts beloved by MAGA run by man who’s never visited US: report

A pair of pro-MAGA social media accounts promoted by prominent Republican politicians and that push election fraud conspiracy theories in the United States has been exposed as being run by an Eastern ...

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Matthew Chapman @fawfulfan.bsky.social · 7d

True, George Santos *also* fabricated a ton of details about his personal life and that was the big scandal that made news, but that was not a crime in and of itself. It was just what prompted federal investigators to start looking into the irregularities in his campaign.

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Matthew Chapman @fawfulfan.bsky.social · 7d

LOL, George Santos is not in jail for "lying about where he went to college."

He's in jail for submitting fraudulent reports to the Federal Election Commission, stealing his campaign donors' credit card numbers, and illegally using his campaign funds for personal expenses.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Trump on George Santos: "We have a young congressman that's right now in jail for lying about where he went to college and other things. It was frankly not good. It was pretty bad. But it was nothing compared to Blumenthal."

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Matthew Chapman @fawfulfan.bsky.social · 9d

'Rain Holy hell fire': MAGA accounts bombarded judge with threats before her house burned www.rawstory.com/diane-goodst...

'Rain Holy hell fire': MAGA accounts bombarded judge with threats before her house burned

The South Carolina state judge whose house burned to the ground under suspicious circumstances was an explicit target of hate and threats by President Donald Trump's supporters in the days before, The...

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Matthew Chapman @fawfulfan.bsky.social · 9d

By the way, the reason homicide is generally the gold standard for these comparisons, is that while robberies, rapes, assaults etc often go unreported, homicide pretty much always gets reported.

It's the one category of crime where you can be certain you have the "real" numbers.

Matthew Chapman @fawfulfan.bsky.social · 9d

At no point in the last 20 years did Portland's homicide rate exceed 10 per 100,000 people. And 2023-2024 were the only years in that time frame it even exceeded 5 per 100,000. www.macrotrends.net/global-metri...

Portland is just not a high-crime city by any reasonable definition.

Portland OR Murder/Homicide Rate 1999-2018

Interactive chart of the Portland, Oregon murder rate (i.e. the number of homicides per 100,000 population) from 1999 to 2018.

www.macrotrends.net

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Matthew Chapman @fawfulfan.bsky.social · 9d

What makes this lie particularly crazy is that not only is homicide in Portland not very high to begin with, Portland has seen one of the largest drops in homicide of any large city in the whole country in 2025. Murders in the first six months were down 51% compared to last year.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Harrigan defends Trump's deployment of troops to cities: "I don't think it's wrong for members of the administration to characterize places like Chicago & Portland as war zones when they're putting up stats up about 50 murders a weekend." (There have been 58 murders in Portland all year as of Oct 1)

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 11d

Among other things, it remains extremely weird that the [checks notes] director of the FBI uses phrases like “ass clown factory” in public statements posted on his official account

FBI Director Kash Patel * ®
@FBIDirectorKash
X.com
BREAKING: MSNBC still an ass clown factory of disinformation. Same circus animals that slobbered all over perp walks of Stone, Navarro, Bannon...
MSNBC has no facts and no audience
In this @fbi, follow the chain of command or get relieved.
& Barb McQuade @ @BarbMcQuade • 15h
DOJ policy prohibits "perp walks," in which arrestees are paraded before the cameras.

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Matthew Chapman @fawfulfan.bsky.social · 11d

So my roofer from 16 MONTHS ago, thinks they can send me a bill for $12,200 today, out of nowhere, over a year after all payments and insurance claims were settled.

Yeah, I'm sorry, but that won't be happening, thanks.

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Matthew Chapman @fawfulfan.bsky.social · 11d

It's a great route, even if the cell service is awful along large parts of it.