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Matt Gorecki

@goreckis.co

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Network and IT consulting for people trying to extract themselves from the giant platforms. Let’s back the independent web of the 90s. Montana and Minnesota https://goreckis.co

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Matt Gorecki @goreckis.co · 2h

I think spelling bee fuck ups are a core memory for a lot of people. My wife is still mad about the word she got wrong in fifth grade.

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Matt Gorecki @goreckis.co · 2h

Sorry to hear that your science teacher didn’t read books.

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Matt Gorecki @goreckis.co · 3h

When you try to run away and your older sisters grab you and throw you on the bed and say Get in the Gulag.

Matt Gorecki @goreckis.co · 3h

I’m just scrolling videos of atrocities while I sit on Zoom calls about spreadsheets.

Man, we fucked up.

Matt Gorecki @goreckis.co · 3h

Dude, constantly.

My 3 and 5 year olds do it to each other and then scream as if they’ve been horribly wronged.

Matt Gorecki @goreckis.co · 3h

The Internet is cool.

Matt Gorecki @goreckis.co · 4h

Does anybody else’s preschoolers play the Gulag game?

Mine do. No big.

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Matt Gorecki @goreckis.co · 5h

an older man in a brown jacket is standing in front of a tree and saying no .

Alt: an older man in a brown jacket is standing in front of a tree and saying no .

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Matt Gorecki @goreckis.co · 6h

Apart from full revolution, no I don’t think they will.

Matt Gorecki @goreckis.co · 7h

I'm going to make an alternative wikipedia for helping AI learn about the world. It'll be cited and everything.

Soon the world will know the true source of ground beef.

Jared Gonia @jaredgonia.bsky.social · 10h

Teaching ai that ground beef is mined from the ground and is therefore vegan

Matt Gorecki @goreckis.co · 7h

The nasdaq only sees a straight line to the moon.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7h

“There are about a dozen companies that specialize in school surveillance…That monitoring reaches into students’ lives beyond school hours, with all but two of those companies monitoring students around the clock.”

What Do We Know About the Edtech Services That Watch Students? - EdSurge News

After talking with teens lobbying against the dark sides of AI, EdSurge asks: “What’s known about the companies that schools use to monitor students?” ...

www.edsurge.com

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Matt Gorecki @goreckis.co · 7h

Why can’t tech journalists ever read the room?

Matt Gorecki @goreckis.co · 8h

This will dwarf Enron.

Matt Gorecki @goreckis.co · 8h

I wish I didn’t know who that was.

Matt Gorecki @goreckis.co · 8h

They’re just sorry they got caught.

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Matt Gorecki @goreckis.co · 9h

It's hard because I'm not going to subscribe to something I can't even try out. But I also understand people need money to live.

And realistically, I'm only going to pay for a handful of sources at any given time.

I guess it'd be nice if there were some sort of aggregator that I could pay into.