Matt Stone
@mynameismattstone.bsky.social
Dirt Road Scholar. Former Army Ranger. Investigative journalist for The Grounded, and PhD candidate at University of Denver. Forever Punching Up. Thegrounded.org
Denver trash picked up a bear that was in the dumpster.
A Stanford study found that AI leans left. They’re already working on fixing that. Nobody stopped to ask why.
Told About Suffering, Told To Forget
These systems absorbed the language of the dispossessed and are now being handed to the people doing the dispossessing, freshly prompted for neutrality.
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85% of Americans say political violence is rising. Almost none would commit it. The house is on fire and both sides think the other is holding the match. The gap between those facts is the business model. How the algorithm learned to sell us each other: thegrounded.ghost.io/amer/
America is at War With Itself
"Our algorithms exploit the human brain's attraction to divisiveness." -Internal Facebook Presentation, 2018.
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Never forget Leon Black. Scumbag financier of Epstein’s sex trafficking operation. Leon bought himself immunity for $62 million dollars. $62 million dollars to be allowed to be a child sex trafficker. Never forget his name. Leon Black still walks free. thegrounded.ghost.io/leon-black-c...
Karma's Most Wanted #8: Leon Black (Can Someone Please Arrest This MF?)
There is a version of this story where you call it a failure, a system that broke down, let someone slip through, malfunctioned in ways that can be corrected. That version is a lie.
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North Carolina quietly ended the requirement that police record who they pull over, who they search, and if anyone gets injured. The same bill made AI-powered plate readers permanent. The police stop being tracked, and the focus moved to tracking you. thegrounded.ghost.io/nothing-to-s...
Nothing To See Here
Twenty weeks of training to get the badge. After that, no obligation to record what you do with it, and no external mechanism that will notice a pattern unless someone already knows which pattern to l...
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Julian Pierce would have been the first Lumbee Superior Court judge in county history. It would have finally given Lumbee people a voice. They elected him anyway, ten weeks dead, by two thousand votes. My great-uncle was the sheriff. Here’s what I found. thegrounded.ghost.io/the-election...
Literally the most beautiful thing I’ve ever landed. #skateboarding #fsflip
