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matt

@skeptocapital.com

Investor anti-technofascist @ www.skeptocapital.com I run a lot Go Blue!

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Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · last mo.

There’s never been anyone whose involvement more completely and immediately poisons vibes and destroys joy. No good thing survives contact.

Brian Floyd@brianmfloyd.bsky.social · last mo.

this is the dumbest argument. your kid isn’t getting a scholarship. you’re spending a ton of money on youth sports because you’re a sucker that’s being taken advantage of by the system. one of the 10 trans kids playing sports in your state isn’t stealing a scholarship. shut up

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

Gluesenkamp Perez: "At town halls, what I saw was the people who were the most upset had spent the last 12 years driving their girls to sports practice & they view their best shot of their student going to college as an athletic scholarship. So when we rush to moralize we miss some of the nuance."

matt@skeptocapital.com · last mo.

REBECCA LOWE: alexi, what do you think of this inclement weather LALAS: well, it ruins the momentum, players need to adapt ZLATAN: Alexi is the antichrist and I will strike him down with a terrible fury HENRY: (face that says “Sacre bleu!”) #worldcup

matt@skeptocapital.com · 3mo ago

This is how we end up with tech leaders touting California Forever, Network States, and recall campaigns for reasons like “too woke” Cc @gilduran.com

Quinta Jurecic@qjurecic.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The problem—which both the GOP and the milquetoast institutionalists seem to not be grappling with here—is that the more you close off avenues of political change through the democratic process, the more you push people to see extra-institutional mechanisms as their only option

Anjali Dayal@anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 3mo ago

“The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote.” hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...

hsph.harvard.edu

Joshua Foust 🪖🎮@joshuafoust.com · 3mo ago

The single most defining thing Elon Musk has ever done is killing untold numbers of people by having DOGE illegally raid and disband USAID. Not rickets, not cars, not even the CSAMbot on X. It’s this, and so many media pundits just choose to unsee it.

matt@skeptocapital.com · 3mo ago

I will seriously vote for any politician who runs on a dual platform of: 1. Prosecute DOGE 2. Find out whose hand Kash Patel’s girlfriend was holding

Dave Karpf@davekarpf.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This bullet point from Alex Karp/Palantir’s latest diatribe strikes me as the best representation of the whole project. “The elite’s intolerance of religious beliefs…” Let me stop you right there, Alex. You just made that up. That isn’t a thing in 2026 America.

20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite's intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim.
Prof. Nicole Holliday@mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Humanity did that. Science did that. Publicly-funded research did that. Excellent universities did that. Diversity did that. International cooperation did that. Artemis II is a perfect example of what we can do at our best. Welcome home, Integrity crew!

matt@skeptocapital.com · 4mo ago

I know this is unpopular, but... it is possible to be both pro-tech/pro-innovation *and* also to be fiercely opposed to this current presidential administration - arguably the most corrupt in our lifetimes.