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Matt Tex Eckerle

@mattexx.bsky.social

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husband, dad, engineer, tinkerer, motorhead, humanist Skeets are not the skeets of my employer. Reskeets are skibidi. Westwood Chapter President #FJF

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Matt Tex Eckerle @mattexx.bsky.social · Nov 13

People say LLMs lack self awareness. I think today's LLMs are all but whole

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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 39m

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Matt Tex Eckerle @mattexx.bsky.social · 29m

OpenAI dancing on the grave of my grandmother

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 1h

The soybean crisis may have been induced by tariffs, but it's the *culmination* of a lack of resiliency in the farm economy, with overdependence on exports and single crops and self-perpetuating bailouts. Great breakdown from Naomi Bethune:
prospect.org/politics/202...

America Bet the Farm on Soybeans. Then Came Trump.

Collapsing soybean exports reveal an agricultural sector rife with longstanding problems.

prospect.org

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 1h

[Dad at kitchen window with coffee cup observing rain voice] we needed this

Scoiattolo @offline.mountainherder.xyz · 1h

🚨 BIG BOAT STUCK! 🚨

Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 3h

Interesting events on the Norwegian/Swedish border, where the Hagland Captain is still stuck next to the Svinesund Bridge having failed to successfully identify the wet bit that runs underneath it.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2h

people gotta treat this behavior the same as we treat shitting on the floor

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2h

www.wsj.com/tech/persona...

Say what, now?

A family member sent me an image of a baby dressed in an elf outfit. My baby. It was adorable—and unnerving.
My cousin took a photo from our group chat and uploaded it to Meta AI. While his heart was in the right place, my mind was spinning. What could Meta do with my son’s face? The privacy policy of Meta Platforms says the company can use these images to “improve AIs and related technology.”
In the age of AI, I can’t control where my—or my son’s—face ends up. Our likenesses are no longer our own.

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andy vs. @im-all-id.me · 2d

If Pedro Pascal played Gomez Addams they'd have to replace all the seats in the theater

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Matt Tex Eckerle @mattexx.bsky.social · 9h

I will never forget walking to work past moscone ~2012 and watching a DJ go hat-sideways as 100s of midwesterners plowed onto escalators around him with bleary eyes

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 19h

The subtext of this comment is that the Mayor of Boston is Asian-American, whereas the Mayor of Chicago (like almost everyone else that Trump refers to as “a low IQ person”) is Black.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Trump: "Boston had a bad mayor who at least is a reasonable IQ person. Most of them are low IQ. I mean, what's going on in Chicago ... "

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Matt Tex Eckerle @mattexx.bsky.social · 12h

I remember this, maybe not a heckle www.reddit.com/r/Catholicis...

From the Catholicism community on Reddit: Pope slaps woman's hand after she grabs him

Explore this post and more from the Catholicism community

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23h

We got $20 billion for Argentina though.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 13h

It's going up to $40 billion.

USAID's budget last year was $28 billion.

Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 14h

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 18h

Insurance rates up $2000.

Food benefits cut off.

Farmers unable to sell their crops.

Skyrocketing national debt.

$40 billion to Argentina.

America First!

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Matt Tex Eckerle @mattexx.bsky.social · 18h

May or may not have occasionally appeared in letters to the editor 😁

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Matt Tex Eckerle @mattexx.bsky.social · 18h

Right on the heels of Purdue kicking the Exponent off campus. Can't tell what/who this reminds me of... 🙃

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 19h

UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely.

www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

Indiana University cuts IDS print entirely, hours after firing student media director
By IDS staff
Oct 15, 2025 1:23 pm · Updated Oct 15, 2025 1:23 pm

IU previously directed the Indiana Daily Student to stop printing news coverage in our newspaper. Upon pushback, the university fully cut print, including our special editions. The IDS was not involved in the decision.

Media School Dean David Tolchinsky sent the order to IDS leadership in an email responding to its appeal that the school not censor the newspaper. And the dean attributed the decision to “the campus.” He has not yet responded to a message for clarification.

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Matt Tex Eckerle @mattexx.bsky.social · 19h

On the heels of Purdue kicking the Exponent off campus

Matt Tex Eckerle @mattexx.bsky.social · 20h

Exactly

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 1d

Altman: the next update will *not* tell people to kill themselves in order to attain quantum resonance with god.

Everyone: yeah that'd be pretty nice

Altman: It will *not* tell people to murder their spouses.

Everyone: cool, good feature.

Altman: and you can fuck it

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Matt Tex Eckerle @mattexx.bsky.social · 20h

Trans lives matter protest at the MO senate in March '17

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 22h

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”

Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

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As within, so without @tippedbeaker.bsky.social · 1d

The treatment we allow the government to impose on one of us is the treatment we allow the government to impose on ourselves.

www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-13-yea...

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Matt Tex Eckerle @mattexx.bsky.social · 23h

Counterpoint: Carpet made of cat pee

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 23h

It turns out that making things more expensive makes them more expensive.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

We were actually getting somewhere, too. 😞

@sbmitche.bsky.social
www.library.hbs.edu/working-know...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

This administration’s policy of serial open murders on the high seas is starting to make some members of Congress mildly uncomfortable. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Members of Congress growing concerned over lack of information from administration about Venezuela strikes, sources say

Republicans and Democrats say the administration is failing to share basic information with Congress about the intelligence, rationale and goals of its war on drug trafficking.

www.nbcnews.com

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