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Matt Farah

Matt Farah

@matt11to5.bsky.social

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IT Security Pro, Photographer, Vegetarian Foodie, and e-bike rider. Obsessed with moss, Snorunt, potatoes, Microsoft, and communication. PDX 🚲📸🏳️‍🌈

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Matt Farah @matt11to5.bsky.social · 2d

This was fascinating! A great read

Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 3d

This short article by Yun Shen in the @LRB is full of fascinating insights into the online behaviour of China’s Gen-Z digital natives

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Yun Sheng · Short Cuts: China’s Gen Z

A passive-aggressive ‘lying flat’ attitude is easily dismissed as laziness, but Gen Z-ers have developed a...

Matt Farah @matt11to5.bsky.social · 3d

So cool to see new discoveries in math

Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 4d

Mathematicians Make Surprising Breakthrough in 3D Geometry with ‘Noperthedron’ www.scientificamerican.com/article/math...

This New Shape Breaks an ‘Unbreakable’ 3D Geometry Rule

The noperthedron has a surprising property—which disproves a long-standing conjecture

www.scientificamerican.com

Matt Farah @matt11to5.bsky.social · 3d

Guess I’m a lil tall?

A height distribution chart showing my height of 6’3” being in the 98th percentile

Matt Farah @matt11to5.bsky.social · 4d

On my train ride home from PDX airport, some random dude asked me about flying. He said he’s scared to and has never flown before because he gets scared of heights when walking over a bridge.

He asked me how many times I’ve flown in my life. I don’t even know how many times I’ve flown this year 🙈

Matt Farah @matt11to5.bsky.social · 4d

🙃🙃🙃 This argument is so thin a mouse could punch through it www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Exxon sues California over climate laws, alleging free speech violations

Oil firm asks court to block enforcement of laws that would require disclosure of planet-heating carbon emissions

www.theguardian.com

Matt Farah @matt11to5.bsky.social · 5d

Amazing read!

Matt Farah @matt11to5.bsky.social · 6d

As SNAP benefits expire, if you're able to donate time or money to a local food bank, do it! We've got to take care of neighbors. No one deserves to be hungry

Matt Farah @matt11to5.bsky.social · 6d

I guess we can fix it in post?

Matt Farah @matt11to5.bsky.social · 7d

Not Boston Rob please

Matt Farah @matt11to5.bsky.social · 7d

Budget first class! #wideShoulders

A selfie of me, a white masculine person smiling and wearing a red t shirt with an empty seat next to me on an ERJ175

Matt Farah @matt11to5.bsky.social · 7d

One of the little injustices in life is people putting both their carry on, backpack, and jacket in the overhead bin. One in the overhead bin, one in the seat in front of you, dude.

Matt Farah @matt11to5.bsky.social · 7d

lol. Thanks for the insight. I just love these people in contrast to that MIT that 95% of AI “business” startups are failures

Matt Farah @matt11to5.bsky.social · 7d

So far not too bad! Thanks

Matt Farah @matt11to5.bsky.social · 7d

Is this what it was like in the dotcom bubble of the 90s? A bunch of business guys doing coke, hyping each other up, and saying infinite growth is possible for pets dot com. I was alive but not really aware at the time

Matt Farah @matt11to5.bsky.social · 7d

Flying United this afternoon cause my Alaska flight got cancelled due to the computer outage. Haven’t been on United in years. Wish me luck!

Matt Farah @matt11to5.bsky.social · 7d

750ml

Matt Farah @matt11to5.bsky.social · 7d

I switched this year from Bing to Duck Duck Go and I’ve liked it pretty well and it feels less bad

Matt Farah @matt11to5.bsky.social · 8d

Dee doo dee doo dee shhhhhh khhhhhhh ehhhhh #dailUpSounds

Matt Farah @matt11to5.bsky.social · 9d

Cool! I’ll dm you

Matt Farah @matt11to5.bsky.social · 9d

🫧🫧🫧💥💥💥 gizmodo.com/meta-reporte...

Meta Reportedly Laying Off Hundreds From Its AI Team

Surely, this time, they'll finally get it right.

Matt Farah @matt11to5.bsky.social · 9d

Omgggggg! I live in Portland. Let me know if you want any recommendations for restaurants or anything

Matt Farah @matt11to5.bsky.social · 9d

I know posting this will probably get me sent to the Bluesky penitentiary upstate, but screw it I’m posting anyway.

I am feeling happy today!

A photo of the sunrise from my window over Mount Adams with various orange tones and a dark skyline

Matt Farah @matt11to5.bsky.social · 10d

The title of this is total clickbait, but the article has some fascinating info about how AI answer quality is degrading due to all the AI nonsense being published on the web www.windowscentral.com/artificial-i...

Sam Altman was right, the 'Dead Internet Theory' could kill the web within 3 years — "LLMs can suffer from brain rot!"

A Cornell University study reveals that the prolonged exposure of large language models to low-quality training data negatively impacts accuracy, comprehension, and thought process.

www.windowscentral.com

Matt Farah @matt11to5.bsky.social · 12d

Where get?

Matt Farah @matt11to5.bsky.social · 12d

Lol. Let’s go bluesky users gizmodo.com/white-house-...

White House Invades Bluesky to Troll, Predictably Gets Mass Blocked

The platform's immune system kicked in when a large number of accounts associated with Donald Trump sought attention there.