Matt Golden 🏳️🌈
@emgolden.bsky.social
Editor, writer, creative roustabout. Lover of horror. He/him. 🏳️🌈 Always try to be nice, but never fail to be kind. SW-7327-6931-1118 https://linktr.ee/emgolden
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Matt Golden 🏳️🌈
@emgolden.bsky.social
· Dec 12
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Name: Matt
Pronouns: He/him
Location: AL
Interests: Horror (particularly ghost stories, specifically “pleasing terrors”), writing, movies, TV, video games, reading, video editing, The X-Files, Doctor Who, Lorcana
Name: Matt
Pronouns: He/him
Location: AL
Interests: Horror (particularly ghost stories, specifically “pleasing terrors”), writing, movies, TV, video games, reading, video editing, The X-Files, Doctor Who, Lorcana
🎶 I’ve been through the desert on a horse with a name, it’s Shadowfax and he comes bringing rain 🎶
OK I did this quick and dirty and it turned out way better than I expected. If I had the skill or technology to separate out the original music track I would
December 7, 2025 at 1:41 AM
🎶 I’ve been through the desert on a horse with a name, it’s Shadowfax and he comes bringing rain 🎶
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well "fun" is never necessary which is all I asked for. my thoughts on thinking and nonthinking machines have yet to be revealed
Eh, this is unnecessary. Good human writing works on several different levels and extends metaphor from sentence to book. AI can’t and doesn’t do that, because artificial intelligence is not “intelligent,” it’s just automated. It does not, fundamentally, think. Those who think otherwise are deluded.
I think it would be fun if writers who love language started intentionally writing more strangely as AI flattens written "content" into a mono-voice. it would cool I think if writers responded by focusing their individual efforts on cultivating a really unique voice that's hard to copy
December 7, 2025 at 1:04 AM
well "fun" is never necessary which is all I asked for. my thoughts on thinking and nonthinking machines have yet to be revealed
Something I just learned is that Dolly for Sue was a Misfit Toy because she was clinically depressed after being abandoned by her owner.
December 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Something I just learned is that Dolly for Sue was a Misfit Toy because she was clinically depressed after being abandoned by her owner.
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David Zaslav will make nearly $660 million if Netflix's deal to acquire Warner Bros. closes, according to CNBC.
Add that to his $470 million in compensation since 2019, and the king of failing up is about to be a billionaire.
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/05/p... #WarnerBros #Netflix #DavidZaslav
Add that to his $470 million in compensation since 2019, and the king of failing up is about to be a billionaire.
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/05/p... #WarnerBros #Netflix #DavidZaslav
December 5, 2025 at 9:38 PM
David Zaslav will make nearly $660 million if Netflix's deal to acquire Warner Bros. closes, according to CNBC.
Add that to his $470 million in compensation since 2019, and the king of failing up is about to be a billionaire.
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/05/p... #WarnerBros #Netflix #DavidZaslav
Add that to his $470 million in compensation since 2019, and the king of failing up is about to be a billionaire.
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/05/p... #WarnerBros #Netflix #DavidZaslav
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“Mattel’s commitment to storytelling and cultural impact makes this partnership special” is my secret code phrase to let you know I’ve been kidnapped fyi
December 6, 2025 at 2:57 PM
“Mattel’s commitment to storytelling and cultural impact makes this partnership special” is my secret code phrase to let you know I’ve been kidnapped fyi
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At least Netflix will probably cancel that new Harry Potter series after Season 2.
December 6, 2025 at 5:49 AM
At least Netflix will probably cancel that new Harry Potter series after Season 2.
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Holiday reminder!
December 6, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Holiday reminder!
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
🎶 Lips, belly, feathers, mascara
Fit check for her napalm era 🎶
Fit check for her napalm era 🎶
December 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
🎶 Lips, belly, feathers, mascara
Fit check for her napalm era 🎶
Fit check for her napalm era 🎶
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New laws of robotics:
-The supply of funding shall not be interrupted
-Robots cannot harm a human unless tricked a lil bit
-Do not examine the accounting
-Sam Altman is not liable for damages
-If a human is replaced by a robot they must be rehired for the position within 12 months at a lower rate
-The supply of funding shall not be interrupted
-Robots cannot harm a human unless tricked a lil bit
-Do not examine the accounting
-Sam Altman is not liable for damages
-If a human is replaced by a robot they must be rehired for the position within 12 months at a lower rate
December 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
New laws of robotics:
-The supply of funding shall not be interrupted
-Robots cannot harm a human unless tricked a lil bit
-Do not examine the accounting
-Sam Altman is not liable for damages
-If a human is replaced by a robot they must be rehired for the position within 12 months at a lower rate
-The supply of funding shall not be interrupted
-Robots cannot harm a human unless tricked a lil bit
-Do not examine the accounting
-Sam Altman is not liable for damages
-If a human is replaced by a robot they must be rehired for the position within 12 months at a lower rate
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in the movies this is the screensaver on the computers at the world’s most evil company
December 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
in the movies this is the screensaver on the computers at the world’s most evil company
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“Why does everything look so.. grainy and blurry?”
“Reality used to have a lower resolution”
“That’s… that can’t be true”
“No, but it was fun to believe for a moment, wasnt it?”
“Reality used to have a lower resolution”
“That’s… that can’t be true”
“No, but it was fun to believe for a moment, wasnt it?”
December 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
“Why does everything look so.. grainy and blurry?”
“Reality used to have a lower resolution”
“That’s… that can’t be true”
“No, but it was fun to believe for a moment, wasnt it?”
“Reality used to have a lower resolution”
“That’s… that can’t be true”
“No, but it was fun to believe for a moment, wasnt it?”
One of the great American thinkers in this, the era of late-stage capitalism, everyone.
im so tired
im so tired
December 5, 2025 at 10:25 AM
One of the great American thinkers in this, the era of late-stage capitalism, everyone.
im so tired
im so tired
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it's so telling that what Trump calls "complaining about the Constitution" is simply people who aren't white saying "the Constitution affords me certain rights"
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 3, 2025 at 10:02 PM
it's so telling that what Trump calls "complaining about the Constitution" is simply people who aren't white saying "the Constitution affords me certain rights"
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Who up kolchaking their night stalker??
December 5, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Who up kolchaking their night stalker??
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Animation is the bane of tech based entertainment companies. Its slow, costly, complex, and always popular.
December 5, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Animation is the bane of tech based entertainment companies. Its slow, costly, complex, and always popular.
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I wrote a bit for McSweeney's about Isaac Chotiner interviewing Santa Claus. Just a little something for the holiday season. Enjoy!
The New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner Interviews Santa Claus
For several centuries, Santa Claus has been one of the most prolific mythical gift-givers in the world. Formerly known as Saint Nicholas of Myra, a...
www.mcsweeneys.net
December 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I wrote a bit for McSweeney's about Isaac Chotiner interviewing Santa Claus. Just a little something for the holiday season. Enjoy!
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It may sound radical, but if one guy has so much wealth and power that he can use the large newspaper he owns to publicly threaten to ruin a service we all rely on, presumably as a bargaining tactic to get lower rates, we probably need to tax that guy until he can't do that anymore.
Exclusive: Amazon has long been USPS’s top customer, providing over $6 billion in annual revenue in 2025.
But Amazon may give up its long-standing partnership with USPS to deliver packages itself, which could spell disaster for the mail agency.
But Amazon may give up its long-standing partnership with USPS to deliver packages itself, which could spell disaster for the mail agency.
Amazon explores cutting ties with USPS, building its own delivery network
Amazon looks into expanding its nationwide delivery network and giving up its longstanding partnership with the U.S. Postal Service.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
It may sound radical, but if one guy has so much wealth and power that he can use the large newspaper he owns to publicly threaten to ruin a service we all rely on, presumably as a bargaining tactic to get lower rates, we probably need to tax that guy until he can't do that anymore.
how fucked is our media landscape that this is somehow one of the *better* outcomes
December 5, 2025 at 4:49 AM
how fucked is our media landscape that this is somehow one of the *better* outcomes
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Red Lobster never released a commercial with a jingle that went “Shrimply having a wonderful Fishmastime.” That’s why they went bankrupt.
December 5, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Red Lobster never released a commercial with a jingle that went “Shrimply having a wonderful Fishmastime.” That’s why they went bankrupt.
Ah yes, the time-honored “hey, just trust me bro” approach to authority.
Outstanding reporting today from the New Media at the Pentagon.
December 5, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Ah yes, the time-honored “hey, just trust me bro” approach to authority.
Tonight NBC is airing How the Grinch Stole Christmas, then Frosty the Snowman, then…Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. 😐
December 5, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Tonight NBC is airing How the Grinch Stole Christmas, then Frosty the Snowman, then…Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. 😐
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🚨 BREAKING - New Star Trek: #StarfleetAcademy Poster!
The first season of the new #StarTrek live-action series premieres January 15th on Paramount+
🖖 Will YOU be watching?
The first season of the new #StarTrek live-action series premieres January 15th on Paramount+
🖖 Will YOU be watching?
December 4, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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