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Matthew Donald 📖🦖🤣

@matthewdonald64.bsky.social

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Author, creator, and funny guy I guess. Author of the Megazoic and Teslanauts book series and host of the Paleo Bites podcast. My opinions are mine alone. He/Him https://linktr.ee/matthewdonald

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Matthew Donald 📖🦖🤣 @matthewdonald64.bsky.social · Dec 22

New #promosky post! This time it's all about my writing. Link to my books in profile:

🙋‍♂️YA Fiction
⚔️Action/Adventure
🚀Sci-Fi
🧚‍♀️Fantasy
🔮Alt History
😄Comedy
🦖Dinosaurs
👨‍👦Character-Driven
🙉Mostly Lighthearted
🕳Sudden Darkness
🚂Steampunk
🚃Dieselpunk
⚡️Teslapunk
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Found Family
👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨Slow Burn
🏳️‍🌈LGBTQ+ Friendly

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Sam Raimi & The Midnight Sons @rochardscott.bsky.social · 18h

Still the most pure fun I’ve ever had with an MCU movie.

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 5h

What’s weird is if 5% of white people had voted differently,

or 5% of non voters got off their asses & voted, none of this would be happening.

We cannot deny that the children born now are going to pay the price for the folly of this experiment with full blown fascism.

And didn’t we owe the kids

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Sam Raimi & The Midnight Sons @rochardscott.bsky.social · 16h

Define “Perfect Ending?”

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Matthew Donald 📖🦖🤣 @matthewdonald64.bsky.social · 5h

Who said anything about ethnostates?

Matthew Donald 📖🦖🤣 @matthewdonald64.bsky.social · 5h

Nothing, but that has nothing to do with Zionism. This may shock you, but there are plenty of Pro-Palestine Zionists.

Matthew Donald 📖🦖🤣 @matthewdonald64.bsky.social · 12h

I implore you to look up the meaning of the phrase "from the river to the sea" and then come back to me saying no one's talking about forced deportations.

Matthew Donald 📖🦖🤣 @matthewdonald64.bsky.social · 13h

"How dare people have different opinions than I do! I feel so bad for them that they're not in my head!"

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 15h

The world joined us and said, “No Kings.”

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Matthew Donald 📖🦖🤣 @matthewdonald64.bsky.social · 13h

Oh, well, without knowing the context of that specific post I can't comment I suppose.

Matthew Donald 📖🦖🤣 @matthewdonald64.bsky.social · 13h

Same with people claiming to only be "anti-Zionist," because apparently Zionist beliefs (which are basically merely the fact that Jewish people, like anyone, deserve a homeland of their own) are equally evil to Nazism in their eyes.

Matthew Donald 📖🦖🤣 @matthewdonald64.bsky.social · 13h

People gleefully calling Gal Gadot "Gal Greenstein" or barraging random Jewish people's posts on TikTok with "Free Palestine!" or "filthy Zionist!" aren't criticizing the government.

Matthew Donald 📖🦖🤣 @matthewdonald64.bsky.social · 13h

No one is accusing anyone of being antisemitic because they think genocide is bad. That's a false pretense. Accusations of antisemitism tend to come more from people hating anyone and anything from Israel other than its government, including people or products completely unrelated to the conflict.

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Matthew Donald 📖🦖🤣 @matthewdonald64.bsky.social · 15h

Need I go on?

Matthew Donald 📖🦖🤣 @matthewdonald64.bsky.social · 15h

Multiple creative people who are self-proclaimed futurists and innovators have embraced AI, like James Cameron, George Lucas, Hideo Kojima, Darren Aronofsky, and more. These are people who are always far ahead of their time regarding technological vision, and history is almost always on their side.

Matthew Donald 📖🦖🤣 @matthewdonald64.bsky.social · 15h

Yes, it'll cost some people jobs, but that's true of every innovation. Before alarm clocks, people called out on the streets or knocked on doors. Before the printing press, there were scribes whose who mass copied works of text. But like every advancement, it'll also gain jobs, and allow far more.

Matthew Donald 📖🦖🤣 @matthewdonald64.bsky.social · 15h

It also isn't "stealing" anything. It studies, which isn't "stealing" any more than an artist getting inspired is. Numerous people have tried to take OpenAI to court to call its data collection "plagiarism," a legal term, and they've all failed in the courts. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Redefining boundaries in innovation and knowledge domains: Investigating the impact of generative artificial intelligence on copyright and intellectual property rights

The rapid integration of generative AI (GenAI) into industries and society has prompted a re-evaluation of copyright and intellectual property rights …

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Matthew Donald 📖🦖🤣 @matthewdonald64.bsky.social · 15h

Because AI isn't evil? It's a tool like any other. It can be used for evil, but it's not evil in itself. In regards to your claim about water, it actually is only a tiny fraction of water usage, and the data centers that power it also power social media and others. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Data centre water consumption - npj Clean Water

npj Clean Water - Data centre water consumption

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Matthew Donald 📖🦖🤣 @matthewdonald64.bsky.social · 15h

The amount of burgers Trump eats every day use up far more water than AI ever could. Trump is a monster and a narcissist who does countless evil deeds. Using AI isn't one of them.

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Matthew Donald 📖🦖🤣 @matthewdonald64.bsky.social · 15h

Do you think the US should be disbanded and all three hundred million of its citizens (none of which were alive when the land was colonized) should be forcibly sent to whatever country? Or do you rightfully see how ridiculous of a prospect that is?

Matthew Donald 📖🦖🤣 @matthewdonald64.bsky.social · 15h

"This is why despite thinking Israel should continue existing, I'm not a Zionist."

I have some mind-blowing news to tell you, lol

Matthew Donald 📖🦖🤣 @matthewdonald64.bsky.social · 16h

I'll never understand those who think this somehow wasn't the perfect conclusion for his character.

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Matthew Donald 📖🦖🤣 @matthewdonald64.bsky.social · 16h

Oh, you sweet summer child, if you think that's the ONLY genocide going on right now. But I get this, this one has Jewish people in the government of one of the countries, so it's clearly the most evil one, lol.

Matthew Donald 📖🦖🤣 @matthewdonald64.bsky.social · 16h

Feel called out?

Matthew Donald 📖🦖🤣 @matthewdonald64.bsky.social · 16h

Hey, guess what? Wanting a two-state solution? That's a Zionist prospect, considering Zionism is entirely the belief that Jewish people deserve a homeland of their own. Which if you asked some people is as evil as Nazism I guess, lol

Matthew Donald 📖🦖🤣 @matthewdonald64.bsky.social · 16h

Last I checked, yeah, lol