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mford.bsky.social Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · Nov 12
This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.
November 13, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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mford.bsky.social Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 9d
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?”

Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading. What do you think when you hear that? The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter? That’s my question for you. Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does. But there must be some set of skills that matter. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those. There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address. And I —— I don’t really believe that to be true. It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you. One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it. But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded —— Yeah. I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books. You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans. Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off. Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off. Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers. Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker. What do you mean by systems thinker? They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things. So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.
September 24, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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mford.bsky.social Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · Nov 12
This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.
November 12, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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mford.bsky.social Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · Mar 11
Jim Cramer suggests on CNBC that Trump could “bomb Tehran into the Stone Age” until Iran reopens the strait, citing U.S. bombings of North Vietnam in the 1970s. Carl Quintanilla points out to him that Hanoi won that war.
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mford.bsky.social Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · Jan 24
SCOTUS let an insurrectionist run for president again and then gave him criminal immunity for his “official acts.” Everything flows from that.
mtsw.bsky.social mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · Jan 24
What authority does ICE have to arrest or detain citizens who witnessed a homicide?
January 28, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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January 19, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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April 15, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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mford.bsky.social Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · Dec 8
Oral arguments just wrapped up in Trump v. Slaughter. It is more likely that the New York Jets will win the Super Bowl this year than it is that the court won’t overturn Humphrey’s Executor.

Only question now is how much more damage the conservative justices do along the way.
December 8, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Yes, this.

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mford.bsky.social Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · Nov 10
Punting the ACA stuff to a future bill instead of the must-pass one is a complete surrender. Trump wasn’t following the law on RIFs anyway so good luck with that minibus language, too.
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Nov 9
Welp, that’s the Senate side of the shutdown over, it seems.
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Now seeing that Thomas harbors the same doubts.
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mford.bsky.social Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · Jun 30
Interesting footnote in Thomas’s dissent where he suggests that some long-term undocumented immigrants are domiciled and might be covered by his view of the Citizenship Clause.
Because this case presents a facial challenge and no one disputes that lawful temporary visitors and some illegal aliens are not domiciled here, I would reserve for another day the question whether the children of illegal aliens can be domiciled here. The Government and several scholars have suggested some reasons why, they believe, illegal aliens can never be domiciled here. An illegal alien’s entry and presence violate federal law. See INS v. Lopez-Men- doza, 468 U. S. 1032, 1038 (1984). He is subject to potential removal at any time. 8 U. S. C. §§1182(a)(2)(6)(A)(i), 1229a(a)(2). And, some au- thorities have suggested that domicile requires permission to remain. Cf. Fong Yue Ting v. United States, 149 U. S. 698, 724 (1893); 1 Z. Swift, A System of the Laws of Connecticut 167 (1795). Therefore, when presented with variations on this question in other contexts, some courts have concluded that an alien who wishes to remain in the United States in violation of federal law cannot be “domiciled” here because he “lacks the legal capacity to establish domicile.” Carlson v. Reed, 249 F. 3d 876, 881 (CA9 2001) (O’Scannlain, J., for the court); cf. Kaplan v. Tod, 267 U. S. 228, 230 (1925); Letter from F. Reeve, Acting Solicitor of the Treas- ury, to W. Windom, Secretary of the Treasury (Mar. 4, 1890), in 11 Doc- uments of the Assembly of the State of New York, pp. 47–48 (1890); Wurman, 49 Harv. J. L. Pub. Pol’y, at 324, 448, and n. 503. That said, many others understandably have suggested that long-term resident illegal aliens satisfy the elements of domicile because they re- side here with the intent to permanently remain. As JUSTICE GORSUCH explains, the children of such aliens may be domiciled here because they are “born here to parents who have long chosen to make this Nation their permanent home.” Post, at 3 (dissenting opinion). Such questions are best resolved in the context of as-applied challenges. See ibid.
June 30, 2026 at 6:22 PM
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Selling NVDIA chips for AI data centers made Jensen Huang a billionaire and that's all that matters.

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mford.bsky.social Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 9d
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?”

Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading. What do you think when you hear that? The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter? That’s my question for you. Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does. But there must be some set of skills that matter. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those. There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address. And I —— I don’t really believe that to be true. It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you. One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it. But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded —— Yeah. I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books. You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans. Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off. Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off. Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers. Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker. What do you mean by systems thinker? They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things. So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.
September 24, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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mford.bsky.social Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 9d
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?”

Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading. What do you think when you hear that? The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter? That’s my question for you. Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does. But there must be some set of skills that matter. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those. There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address. And I —— I don’t really believe that to be true. It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you. One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it. But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded —— Yeah. I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books. You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans. Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off. Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off. Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers. Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker. What do you mean by systems thinker? They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things. So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.
September 25, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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Conservatives claim to idolize the rule of law but so often they admit extralegal motivations.
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mford.bsky.social Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · Apr 18
Thomas isn’t going anywhere voluntarily. www.nytimes.com/1993/11/27/u...
Last year, in a conversation with two of his own law clerks, recent law school graduates chosen for their conservative views, Justice Thomas said he intended to remain on the Court until the year 2034. Why that long? one asked. Because that would give him a 43-year term, he replied, according to the clerk's account, explaining, "The liberals made my life miserable for 43 years, and I'm going to make their lives miserable for 43 years."
April 19, 2026 at 10:50 AM
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Can you advise all agencies to LOCK THEIR SERVER ROOMS???

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February 5, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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mford.bsky.social Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · Oct 28
This must be what it’s like to meet Odin when you enter Valhalla. www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...
The stars were plentiful, and in the aftermath of the lunacy, one of them stood in the Dodgers' clubhouse, still trying to process what happened. Will Klein, the last man out of the Dodgers' bullpen, a reliever who had topped out this year at two innings and 36 pitches, threw four innings of one-hit ball and struck out five on 72 pitches. The last of them, an 86 mph curveball, induced a swing-and-miss from Tyler Heineman and a scream from Klein, who understood what had been asked of him and knew he'd delivered. Games don't become classics without efforts like Klein's -- and he had an admirer who wanted to acknowledge that. Into the Dodgers' clubhouse strode Sandy Koufax, his eminence of Dodgers pitching, who, at 89 years old, looked no worse for the wear at 12:48 a.m. Koufax walked up to Klein, stuck out his hand, looked him in the eyes and said: "Nice going."
October 28, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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And then for the past year intervened repeatedly to allowed Trump to violate statute after statute after statute.

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mford.bsky.social Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · Jan 24
SCOTUS let an insurrectionist run for president again and then gave him criminal immunity for his “official acts.” Everything flows from that.
mtsw.bsky.social mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · Jan 24
What authority does ICE have to arrest or detain citizens who witnessed a homicide?
January 24, 2026 at 9:17 PM
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mford.bsky.social Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · Jan 14
In her Bost dissent, Jackson calls out Kavanaugh’s now-infamous opinion on immigration stops: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
8Contemporary commentators predicted that our decision in Lyons would close the door to “a broad range of analogous lawsuits” aimed at systemic misconduct and abuse on the part of law enforcement. R. Fal- lon, Of Justiciability, Remedies, and Public Law Litigation: Notes on the Jurisprudence of Lyons, 59 N. Y. U. L. Rev. 1, 71–72 (1984). That pre- diction proved accurate. Today, courts routinely rely on Lyons to deny plaintiffs standing to seek injunctions against future police behavior. See, e.g., J. W. ex rel. Tammy Williams v. Birmingham Bd. of Educ., 904 F. 3d 1248, 1267 (CA11 2018) (per curiam); Shain v. Ellison, 356 F. 3d 211, 216 (CA2 2004); Whitfield v. Ridgeland, 876 F. Supp. 2d 779, 787– 788 (SD Miss. 2012); see also Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, 606 U. S. ___, ___ (2025) (KAVANAUGH, J., concurring) (slip op., at 4) (concluding that, under Lyons, Latino plaintiffs who were “stopped for immigration ques- tioning allegedly without reasonable suspicion of unlawful presence” lacked standing to seek an injunction).
January 14, 2026 at 6:23 PM
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mford.bsky.social Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · Aug 11
Is Trump eligible for Section 1983 lawsuits now that he’s seized control of MPD?
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 11
"You knock the hell out of them. It's the only language they understand ... you spit and we hit. And they get hit real hard ... now they are allowed to do whatever they want" -- Trump on the police response to crime in DC
August 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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July 23, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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I just don't think Harmeet Dhillon is a very good lawyer, in general. bsky.app/profile/mfor...
January 30, 2026 at 2:05 PM
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O CEO da NVidia admite que depender do gerador de lero-lero pode deixar as pessoas mais burras. Mas acha que isso não importa.

Não importa pra quem?

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mford.bsky.social Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 9d
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?”

Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading. What do you think when you hear that? The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter? That’s my question for you. Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does. But there must be some set of skills that matter. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those. There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address. And I —— I don’t really believe that to be true. It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you. One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it. But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded —— Yeah. I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books. You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans. Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off. Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off. Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers. Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker. What do you mean by systems thinker? They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things. So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.
September 25, 2026 at 11:23 AM
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Should we give this model more power over our lives?
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mford.bsky.social Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · Jul 14
The same Supreme Court that tripped over itself in a rush to stop Biden’s student-loan forgiveness plan in 2023 signs off on Trump’s plan to illegally dismantle the Dept. of Education two years later: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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mford.bsky.social Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · Mar 11
Jim Cramer suggests on CNBC that Trump could “bomb Tehran into the Stone Age” until Iran reopens the strait, citing U.S. bombings of North Vietnam in the 1970s. Carl Quintanilla points out to him that Hanoi won that war.
March 11, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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