mathewi
@mathewingram.com
I write about technology and culture from my kayak somewhere in Canada
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In a recent edition of The Torment Nexus, I wrote about Wikipedia, which I argued was one of the best things the internet ever created. There is another thing that ranks right up there with Wikipedia on the list of great things, and that is the Internet Archive mathewingram.com/work/2025/11...
November 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
In a recent edition of The Torment Nexus, I wrote about Wikipedia, which I argued was one of the best things the internet ever created. There is another thing that ranks right up there with Wikipedia on the list of great things, and that is the Internet Archive mathewingram.com/work/2025/11...
November 15, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Them: Why do you say that Apple is a cult?
Me: This phone-carrying sock is $230 and it's sold out
Me: This phone-carrying sock is $230 and it's sold out
November 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Them: Why do you say that Apple is a cult?
Me: This phone-carrying sock is $230 and it's sold out
Me: This phone-carrying sock is $230 and it's sold out
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but for real i tried to capture what i felt going through these emails (on here & in the document hellscape). how it feels like a last nail in a coffin of some kind in terms of a rot in the heart of the elite. and proof that the truth is dumber than fiction
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
November 14, 2025 at 2:40 AM
but for real i tried to capture what i felt going through these emails (on here & in the document hellscape). how it feels like a last nail in a coffin of some kind in terms of a rot in the heart of the elite. and proof that the truth is dumber than fiction
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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Whole bunch of stuff beginning to make a lot of sense.
November 14, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Whole bunch of stuff beginning to make a lot of sense.
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patton oswalt has been suspended from bluesky for saying that megyn kelly should be fed to a woodchipper for justifying the sexual abuse of minors
November 14, 2025 at 1:42 PM
patton oswalt has been suspended from bluesky for saying that megyn kelly should be fed to a woodchipper for justifying the sexual abuse of minors
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Goodness me, I stayed up late reading and it’s already Partially Muscled Skeleton Screaming by the Perimeter Fence Day. Hope you’ve all been good this year!
November 14, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Goodness me, I stayed up late reading and it’s already Partially Muscled Skeleton Screaming by the Perimeter Fence Day. Hope you’ve all been good this year!
November 14, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Alt text as art. Also the cutest sheep!
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
November 14, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Alt text as art. Also the cutest sheep!
Imagine being Palmer Luckey and the part that excites you about Iron Man isn't saving the world but building new kinds of weapons
November 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Imagine being Palmer Luckey and the part that excites you about Iron Man isn't saving the world but building new kinds of weapons
https://twitter.com/growing_daniel/status/1989189599093240060
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November 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
https://twitter.com/growing_daniel/status/1989189599093240060
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Before he found himself on the Al-Shahaniya racetrack on the outskirts of Doha, Esan Maruff had never seen a camel race.
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November 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Before he found himself on the Al-Shahaniya racetrack on the outskirts of Doha, Esan Maruff had never seen a camel race.
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Forty years of study by economists around the world come to the same conclusion: high tariffs coupled with a discretionary regime of exemptions is a growth matrix for the crudest sort of corruption.
Trump Administration Prepares Tariff Exemptions in Bid to Lower Food Prices
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Forty years of study by economists around the world come to the same conclusion: high tariffs coupled with a discretionary regime of exemptions is a growth matrix for the crudest sort of corruption.
November 13, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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If your company has work that can be done from home but requires people to come in, that's a failure of leadership, not proximity.
November 13, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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In a recent edition of The Torment Nexus, I wrote about Wikipedia, which I argued was one of the best things the internet ever created. There is another thing that ranks right up there with Wikipedia on the list of great things, and that is the Internet Archive mathewingram.com/work/2025/11...
November 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
In a recent edition of The Torment Nexus, I wrote about Wikipedia, which I argued was one of the best things the internet ever created. There is another thing that ranks right up there with Wikipedia on the list of great things, and that is the Internet Archive mathewingram.com/work/2025/11...
With the outbreak of the First World War, the British people grew paranoid that undercover German agents were infiltrating the nation, and the notion that artists might be spies drew some of its credence from none other than Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the
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November 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
With the outbreak of the First World War, the British people grew paranoid that undercover German agents were infiltrating the nation, and the notion that artists might be spies drew some of its credence from none other than Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the
mathewingram.com/work/2025/11...
mathewingram.com/work/2025/11...
During World War I the UK banned landscape painting: https://mathewingram.com/work/2025/11/13/during-world-war-i-the-uk-banned-landscape-painting/
November 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM
During World War I the UK banned landscape painting: https://mathewingram.com/work/2025/11/13/during-world-war-i-the-uk-banned-landscape-painting/
In a recent edition of The Torment Nexus, I wrote about Wikipedia, which I argued was one of the best things the internet ever created (or that we all created with the help of the internet).
mathewingram.com/work/2025/11...
mathewingram.com/work/2025/11...
November 13, 2025 at 2:39 PM
In a recent edition of The Torment Nexus, I wrote about Wikipedia, which I argued was one of the best things the internet ever created (or that we all created with the help of the internet).
mathewingram.com/work/2025/11...
mathewingram.com/work/2025/11...
The Internet Archive should be protected not attacked: https://mathewingram.com/work/2025/11/13/the-internet-archive-should-be-protected-not-attacked/
November 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The Internet Archive should be protected not attacked: https://mathewingram.com/work/2025/11/13/the-internet-archive-should-be-protected-not-attacked/
When the ketamine really starts to kick in
November 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
When the ketamine really starts to kick in
As the Cold War simmered between the US and the Soviet Union, both nations proposed some pretty outlandish ideas, but one of the most mind-boggling was the once-classified plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
As the Cold War simmered between the US and the Soviet Union, both nations proposed some pretty outlandish ideas, but one of the most mind-boggling was the once-classified plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon.
mathewingram.com/work/2025/11...
mathewingram.com/work/2025/11...
The US planned to detonate an atomic bomb on the moon: https://mathewingram.com/work/2025/11/12/the-us-planned-to-detonate-an-atomic-bomb-on-the-moon/
November 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
The US planned to detonate an atomic bomb on the moon: https://mathewingram.com/work/2025/11/12/the-us-planned-to-detonate-an-atomic-bomb-on-the-moon/
It was the morning of November 1, 1918, and the end of his reign was nigh – that much was clear to Austria’s final emperor.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
It was the morning of November 1, 1918, and the end of his reign was nigh – that much was clear to Austria’s final emperor.
mathewingram.com/work/2025/11...
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Austrian crown jewels found in a Canadian safe deposit box: https://mathewingram.com/work/2025/11/11/austrian-crown-jewels-found-in-a-canadian-safe-deposit-box/
November 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Austrian crown jewels found in a Canadian safe deposit box: https://mathewingram.com/work/2025/11/11/austrian-crown-jewels-found-in-a-canadian-safe-deposit-box/