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Matt Novak
@paleofuture
Tech reporter at Gizmodo. Founder of https://t.co/gSycNHD7n4, a website about the history of the future.
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Jul 17, 2023 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
Definitely the best take on that holy shit article about Trump today Image nytimes.com/2023/07/17/us/…
Jun 10, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The guy who wants to die on Mars thinks Ted Kaczynski might have been right about technology Image Now I can't help but imagine the Unabomber driving around in a Cybertruck promoting crypto on his TikTok
Jun 8, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Dark Brandon strikes again Trump should just defect to North Korea at this point
Jun 6, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I think it’s fair to ask how many people were actually watching Succession but just looking at raw numbers obscures how we consume different forms of media. Are people glued to Young Sheldon and following every turn or are is it on in the background while they do other things? Marshall McLuhan was early to understand TV as a "cool" medium because people would do other things with the TV on. They would read the paper or do housework while listening to the TV and glancing up, still able to follow the plot.
Jun 5, 2023 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Even if it wasn't $3,500 I still don't think anyone wants to wear a huge bulky headset all the time. We've been down this road so many times. Everything I wrote about the Oculus Rift in 2014 still applies to Vision Pro. paleofuture.com/blog/2020/1/5/…
May 30, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
I wrote about Google's new AI-powered Search, which I tried over the weekend. forbes.com/sites/mattnova… The good news? The new Google Search gives more accurate answers than competing AI tools like ChatGPT. The bad news? The reason it’s more accurate is that Google’s AI is just a plagiarism machine.
May 29, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
"The deal targets recipients of the Supplementary Nutrition Program, or SNAP, between the ages of 50 and 54, adding new requirements that they work 20 hours a week to receive the aid." At least defense contractors got more money though
May 27, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The subreddit for Target employees has been really informative during this whole shitstorm Image Image
May 24, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
“In some cases, people have confronted workers in stores, knocked down Pride merchandise displays and put threatening posts on social media with video from inside stores, she said.” wsj.com/articles/targe… The Target subreddit is filled with stories of assholes freaking out about Pride displays. ImageImageImageImage
May 23, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
this fucking country Image The Uvalde massacre anniversary is tomorrow and it really feels like it was at least 3 years ago.
May 22, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
DeSantis “has accepted private air travel from roughly 55 wealthy, mostly Florida-based contributors and companies associated with them, including the heads of oil and gas companies, developers and homebuilders, and health care and insurance executives” nytimes.com/2023/05/20/us/… “A half dozen lobbyists and donors who spoke with The Times said they became accustomed to calls from the governor’s political aides asking for planes — in at least one case, for a last-minute trip home from out of state and, more recently, for a flight to Japan.”
May 21, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
“At another point, he discussed finding financial success as a lawyer, telling the crowd: ‘I was making good money, I was feeling really great,’ which garnered another wave of angry chants and boos.” Dude must assume the actors come up with their own lines ImageImage
May 21, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Uber, but your driver has a gun forbes.com/sites/mattnova… If nothing else, “but with a gun” feels like a growing part of the economy
May 18, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
I wrote about the Pope who banned the telegraph, street lights, and railroads in the 1830s and '40s paleofuture.com/blog/2023/5/17… Pope Gregory XVI called railroads chemins d’enfer, which translates to “roads of hell,” a pun on the French phrase chemins de fer, which means “roads of iron.”
May 17, 2023 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
1) Too many people have jobs so the Fed raises rates to boost unemployment in the name of taming inflation. 2) People lose their jobs, making them need food stamps. 3) Politicians demand those same people get jobs to be eligible for food stamps, but the jobs are now harder to get Maybe I'm not smart enough to understand all this but it sure seems like a war on working people.
May 17, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
"Jeffrey Epstein paid $150,000 to Leon Botstein and transferred $270,000 between accounts for Noam Chomsky, the two academics have confirmed..." wsj.com/articles/jeffr… "In response to questions from the Journal, Chomsky confirmed that he received a March 2018 transfer of roughly $270,000 from an Epstein-linked account. He said it was 'restricted to rearrangement of my own funds, and did not involve one penny from Epstein.'"
May 16, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
This is like that Simpsons joke about Principal Skinner saying he saw someone at a burlesque house. What were you doing on the road at 3pm bro Image
May 15, 2023 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
I’d argue the “no collusion” narrative was Trump’s most successful disinformation campaign. If you actually read the Mueller Report, there sure was a fuck-ton of Trump advisors talking to Russian agents. Granted, people like Rachel Maddow did the country a huge disservice by speculating wildly in the absence of real info while the report was being written. But this idea that Trump wasn’t actively working with Russian agents during the 2016 campaign is absurd.
May 14, 2023 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
I follow a conspiracy theory Reddit that’s claiming the Patriot Front march yesterday in DC was a false flag because they look like military and cops and they’re so close to getting it Image Dozens of Patriot Front members were arrested at a drag event in Idaho last year. The fact that someone has a folder marked legal information doesn’t mean it’s a false flag. It means they’re now coming prepared.
May 13, 2023 • 21 tweets • 5 min read
The part that often isn’t told in these stories is whether a health insurance company forced them to sue in order to get compensated for the medical care. Remember that story about a woman who sued her own nephew over a hug that injured her? Her insurance company forced her to do it to get medical coverage wgntv.com/news/aunt-who-…
May 12, 2023 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
They’re acting like everything they aired was inevitable. Like the town hall filled with Trump supporters wasn’t organized by them and couldn’t have been done in a different way to match the gravity of what another Trump presidency would mean. *hosts a mud wrestling match filled with drunken spectators* Do you really think this mud wrestling will just go away if we don’t host it? I am the adult in this situation delivering hard truths.