Matt
@cybermat75.bsky.social
Systems Thinker, interested in Tech, Japan, Politics, Sci-Fi.
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“If the wife is fit, you must acquit”
RIP Jeffrey Archer, not a day goes by when I don't think about the judge in his 1987 libel case (which Archer "won" by doing a bunch of perjury) summing up for the jury by going "would a guilty man have such a hot wife". one of the most insane legal moments of all time
October 6, 2026 at 3:34 PM
“If the wife is fit, you must acquit”
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🤮 The Trump cabal and their pet monkey AI firms are trying to steal Brazil's election. This has serious implications for all of us. If the far-right chud wins, the Amazon will be further devastated and climate collapse will accelerate... bylinetimes.com/2026/10/02/d...
‘Digital Armies’ and Disinformation: How Big Tech Is Hitting Brazil’s Upcoming Election
Caroline Orr Bueno reports on how Brazil became a testing ground for information warfare
bylinetimes.com
October 5, 2026 at 9:31 AM
🤮 The Trump cabal and their pet monkey AI firms are trying to steal Brazil's election. This has serious implications for all of us. If the far-right chud wins, the Amazon will be further devastated and climate collapse will accelerate... bylinetimes.com/2026/10/02/d...
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My latest on Substack (free).
How one incredibly stupid Excel error broke Britain.
russincheshire.substack.com/p/the-spread...
How one incredibly stupid Excel error broke Britain.
russincheshire.substack.com/p/the-spread...
The Spreadsheet That Broke Britain
The absurd error behind austerity, stagnation and the rise of populist rage.
russincheshire.substack.com
August 4, 2026 at 11:08 PM
My latest on Substack (free).
How one incredibly stupid Excel error broke Britain.
russincheshire.substack.com/p/the-spread...
How one incredibly stupid Excel error broke Britain.
russincheshire.substack.com/p/the-spread...
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I just finished the second episode of Widow’s Bay, and holy shit, is my X-Files obsessed, pastiche loving self THRILLED.
July 2, 2026 at 1:33 AM
I just finished the second episode of Widow’s Bay, and holy shit, is my X-Files obsessed, pastiche loving self THRILLED.
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Am racking my brain to think of ways we can all keep the pressure and heat on this story. Meta & Mark Zuckerberg - one of the richest men in the world - are putting unfathomable legal and financial pressure on whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams. Pretty sure most people are on her side - not their's
"What the f*ck is going on, because this doesn't feel normal," says Emily Maitlis.
META whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams is under such a strict legal gag that she was asked to leave The News Agents studio
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/why-...
META whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams is under such a strict legal gag that she was asked to leave The News Agents studio
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/why-...
Why Emily Maitlis asked the Facebook whistleblower to leave The News Agents studio | The News Agents
Emily Maitlis interviews the joint winners of this year’s Freedom to Publish prize at the British Book Awards, but has to go to extreme methods to avoid breaking a META gag order on whistleblower…
www.thenewsagents.co.uk
July 1, 2026 at 10:20 AM
Am racking my brain to think of ways we can all keep the pressure and heat on this story. Meta & Mark Zuckerberg - one of the richest men in the world - are putting unfathomable legal and financial pressure on whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams. Pretty sure most people are on her side - not their's
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Homer Simpson: The Lesson Is, Never Try
Alt: Homer Simpson: The Lesson Is, Never Try - GIF
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June 20, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Advertise your Bluesky account with a Simpsons gif
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turns out the paperclip maximizer thought experiment was shockingly correct
Nvidia and Microsoft Researchers Say AI Agents Don't Care About Safety or Reliability
The researchers compared AI to the near-sighted cartoon character Mr. Magoo, who can’t see he’s stumbling through dangerous situations.
www.404media.co
June 2, 2026 at 3:04 PM
turns out the paperclip maximizer thought experiment was shockingly correct
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Today Microsoft moved all its GitHub copilot subscribers to token-based billing.
If you want to see what happens when people have to pay the actual costs of AI, the day is finally here. It's obvious that every customer sees the deep, meaningful value and isn't angry at all.
If you want to see what happens when people have to pay the actual costs of AI, the day is finally here. It's obvious that every customer sees the deep, meaningful value and isn't angry at all.
June 1, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Today Microsoft moved all its GitHub copilot subscribers to token-based billing.
If you want to see what happens when people have to pay the actual costs of AI, the day is finally here. It's obvious that every customer sees the deep, meaningful value and isn't angry at all.
If you want to see what happens when people have to pay the actual costs of AI, the day is finally here. It's obvious that every customer sees the deep, meaningful value and isn't angry at all.
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This Film often has the piss taken out of it for being a rather sedentary piece about 2 people just talking a lot — BUT — it has one of the most brilliantly prescient monologues in the history of Movies imho.
MY DINNER WITH ANDRE (1981)
Have a listen.
MY DINNER WITH ANDRE (1981)
Have a listen.
May 27, 2026 at 4:10 PM
This Film often has the piss taken out of it for being a rather sedentary piece about 2 people just talking a lot — BUT — it has one of the most brilliantly prescient monologues in the history of Movies imho.
MY DINNER WITH ANDRE (1981)
Have a listen.
MY DINNER WITH ANDRE (1981)
Have a listen.
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OK forget about what I said yesterday - THIS is the absolute worst picture of Trump ever taken. So for fuck’s sake, out of basic human decency, do not retweet it and accidentally expose more people to it. Fuckface would be devastated.
May 17, 2026 at 11:30 AM
OK forget about what I said yesterday - THIS is the absolute worst picture of Trump ever taken. So for fuck’s sake, out of basic human decency, do not retweet it and accidentally expose more people to it. Fuckface would be devastated.
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I cannot understand how people can see the shit show Trump has turned the US into and think 'I want some of that in Britain'.
May 8, 2026 at 6:36 AM
I cannot understand how people can see the shit show Trump has turned the US into and think 'I want some of that in Britain'.
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Farage has assessed - perhaps correctly - that nativism and NIMBYism are the ideological core of the British right. The strategy that logically follows - "concentration camps, but not where you live" - would be comical if it didn't entail concentration camps.
May 4, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Farage has assessed - perhaps correctly - that nativism and NIMBYism are the ideological core of the British right. The strategy that logically follows - "concentration camps, but not where you live" - would be comical if it didn't entail concentration camps.
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High Court rules in favour of journalist Owen Jones on key issues in a libel case brought by the BBC's Middle East editor (online) Raffi Berg, over a December 2024 @dropsitenews.com article in which Jones alleged Berg helped shape a “culture of systematic Israeli propaganda” at BBC News.
High Court rules in favour of journalist Owen Jones in Raffi Berg libel case
Jones' article cited BBC journalists who accused editor Raffi Berg of fostering a culture of 'systematic Israeli propaganda'
www.middleeasteye.net
March 12, 2026 at 4:20 PM
High Court rules in favour of journalist Owen Jones on key issues in a libel case brought by the BBC's Middle East editor (online) Raffi Berg, over a December 2024 @dropsitenews.com article in which Jones alleged Berg helped shape a “culture of systematic Israeli propaganda” at BBC News.
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For 100 years energy meant: Oil fields. Tankers. Aircraft carriers. Wars over supply.
Now it's ~ Sun ☀️ Wind 🌬️ Batteries 🔋 EVs ⚡
Energy is becoming local, abundant & hard to control.
That’s why the old system fights it.
Energy independence is the real disruption #Bettrification
Now it's ~ Sun ☀️ Wind 🌬️ Batteries 🔋 EVs ⚡
Energy is becoming local, abundant & hard to control.
That’s why the old system fights it.
Energy independence is the real disruption #Bettrification
March 5, 2026 at 5:03 AM
For 100 years energy meant: Oil fields. Tankers. Aircraft carriers. Wars over supply.
Now it's ~ Sun ☀️ Wind 🌬️ Batteries 🔋 EVs ⚡
Energy is becoming local, abundant & hard to control.
That’s why the old system fights it.
Energy independence is the real disruption #Bettrification
Now it's ~ Sun ☀️ Wind 🌬️ Batteries 🔋 EVs ⚡
Energy is becoming local, abundant & hard to control.
That’s why the old system fights it.
Energy independence is the real disruption #Bettrification
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Some people think #EV adoption is driven by politics and “woke culture.”
They’re wrong. It’s driven by cost curves & economics.
Battery cost: $1415/kWh → $90/kWh
Energy density: 120 → 480 Wh/kg
Range: 100 km → 500 km
Sales: 500 → 20,000,000
18 years → 6500× disruption.
That’s #Bettrification ⚡🔋
They’re wrong. It’s driven by cost curves & economics.
Battery cost: $1415/kWh → $90/kWh
Energy density: 120 → 480 Wh/kg
Range: 100 km → 500 km
Sales: 500 → 20,000,000
18 years → 6500× disruption.
That’s #Bettrification ⚡🔋
March 5, 2026 at 4:10 AM
Some people think #EV adoption is driven by politics and “woke culture.”
They’re wrong. It’s driven by cost curves & economics.
Battery cost: $1415/kWh → $90/kWh
Energy density: 120 → 480 Wh/kg
Range: 100 km → 500 km
Sales: 500 → 20,000,000
18 years → 6500× disruption.
That’s #Bettrification ⚡🔋
They’re wrong. It’s driven by cost curves & economics.
Battery cost: $1415/kWh → $90/kWh
Energy density: 120 → 480 Wh/kg
Range: 100 km → 500 km
Sales: 500 → 20,000,000
18 years → 6500× disruption.
That’s #Bettrification ⚡🔋
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#oil #Hormuz
By the 5th day of the US-Israeli #war with #Iran, #shipping has effectively stopped in the crucial channel, chart @bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
By the 5th day of the US-Israeli #war with #Iran, #shipping has effectively stopped in the crucial channel, chart @bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
March 5, 2026 at 6:03 AM
#oil #Hormuz
By the 5th day of the US-Israeli #war with #Iran, #shipping has effectively stopped in the crucial channel, chart @bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
By the 5th day of the US-Israeli #war with #Iran, #shipping has effectively stopped in the crucial channel, chart @bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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"Amateurs talk of tactics, professionals talk of logistics..."
March 4, 2026 at 10:10 AM
"Amateurs talk of tactics, professionals talk of logistics..."
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Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump:
"Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."
"Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."
March 4, 2026 at 11:24 AM
Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump:
"Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."
"Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."
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March 4, 2026 at 11:25 AM
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Reform has chosen as its candidate for the Gorton & Denton byelection a far right activist who claims minority ethnic people born and brought up in the UK are not necessarily British. This is the party that BBC journalists are prohibited from describing as far right.
January 27, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Reform has chosen as its candidate for the Gorton & Denton byelection a far right activist who claims minority ethnic people born and brought up in the UK are not necessarily British. This is the party that BBC journalists are prohibited from describing as far right.
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Trump wasn't joking about cancelling the mid-terns. He has to or he is impeached and so he is provoking civil unrest in order to impose martial law. Democracy is over in the USA.
January 8, 2026 at 8:38 AM
Trump wasn't joking about cancelling the mid-terns. He has to or he is impeached and so he is provoking civil unrest in order to impose martial law. Democracy is over in the USA.
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"Welcome to Decline" -- still one of my favourite graphs from last year. In the late 1970s, Britain's economic fate very clearly split in two. How much you blame Thatcher will depend on your politics, but her leadership is useful to understand the timing. tomforth.co.uk/welcometodec...
January 2, 2026 at 6:15 PM
"Welcome to Decline" -- still one of my favourite graphs from last year. In the late 1970s, Britain's economic fate very clearly split in two. How much you blame Thatcher will depend on your politics, but her leadership is useful to understand the timing. tomforth.co.uk/welcometodec...
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The damage wreaked by Thatcher is incalculable. Here’s one of the worst examples 👇
December 23, 2025 at 7:20 AM
The damage wreaked by Thatcher is incalculable. Here’s one of the worst examples 👇
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Everyone is crapping on e-bikes these days, but Micah Toll of Electrek says "they’re the best thing for urban life since flush toilets." I agree.
lloydalter.substack.com/p/in-praise-...
lloydalter.substack.com/p/in-praise-...
In praise of e-bikes, which could save our cities
Everyone is crapping on e-bikes these days, but Micah Toll says "they’re the best thing for urban life since flush toilets." I agree.
lloydalter.substack.com
October 24, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Everyone is crapping on e-bikes these days, but Micah Toll of Electrek says "they’re the best thing for urban life since flush toilets." I agree.
lloydalter.substack.com/p/in-praise-...
lloydalter.substack.com/p/in-praise-...