Beth Matuga

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[Beth Matuga @BethMatuga]

A very talented young person recently made this for me and I've been waiting for the just right time to deploy it

[Florida Politics @Fla_Pol]

.@GovRonDeSantis appointee says women should pick motherhood over higher ed

Reporting by @AP

https://t.co/oiJokWa53H

#FlaPol

[aileen wuornos fan club president @bespinderella]

as a single childless woman, you can show up for countless bridal showers, weddings, baby showers, kid's birthday parties, anniversary dinners etc. but if you want even a modicum of reciprocation suddenly it's mortifying and beyond the pale. lol ok.

[Beth Matuga @BethMatuga]

Important reminder a week from the election. Three cognitive biases explain almost everything in electoral politics:
1. Confirmation bias
2. Recency bias
3. #DunningKruger

[Superman @thesupermannx]

This paper answers why confident idiots run the world.

Cornell University published a psychological paper that explains every terrible boss, every loud influencer, and every broken corporate hierarchy.

It’s called “Unskilled and Unaware of It.”

they tested participants across logic, grammar, and humor to measure the gap between actual performance and self-perception.

And the results are wild.

participants scoring in the bottom 12th percentile consistently believed they were operating in the 62nd percentile.

they were not lying. they were literally incapable of recognizing their own incompetence.

the paper revealed a brutal paradox:

the exact skills required to master a domain are the exact same skills required to accurately evaluate your own competence in that domain.

if you lack the skill, you inherently lack the cognitive capacity to realize you are failing.

this creates a dangerous systemic loop.

the incompetent are blessed with absolute, blinding certainty. their brain protects them from their own ignorance, allowing them to speak first, demand authority, and never second-guess their decisions.

meanwhile, the actual experts suffer the exact inverse.

top performers in the study consistently underestimated their rank. because a task was easy for them, they falsely assumed it was easy for everyone else.

they hesitate. they obsess over nuance. they assume they have nothing unique to add.

we are biologically wired to confuse confidence with competence.

the loudest person in the room gets promoted, gets funded, and gets the microphone, not because they know what they are doing, but because they are physically incapable of seeing what they don't.

the only defense mechanism is building systems that stop rewarding absolute certainty and start demanding proof of work.

[tanya @Tanya_Sabrinaaa]

ELIZABETH HOLMES: so he took his nose? he really took it??

BILLY: she doesn't really understand the difference between fingers and noses

NATHAN FIELDER: .................. that must be hard

[soul nate @MNateShyamalan]

ELIZABETH HOLMES: of course it worked. the lights turned on. it was on the cloud

NATHAN FIELDER: ok. but you know what feelings are, right? like you have them?

WEIRD COCAINE HUSBAND: [watching youtube at 2x speed] babe it says here the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell

[Beth Matuga @BethMatuga]

@9thGenTexian He's your child not your husband

[Beth Matuga @BethMatuga]

Americans are entirely incapable of understanding nudity in any mature or non-sexual context. Probably one reason Fielder did this

[Ameshia Cross @AmeshiaCross]

This new Elizabeth Holmes film is killing me. She is manipulative as hell. I don't think she's crazy. She's actually really smart and conniving. That new man/baby daddy of hers is also a special case.

Spoiler: there's a random frontal of a flaccid 🍆 for no damn reason

[Beth Matuga @BethMatuga]

@nickycantaloupe I wonder if there's some fundamental reason franchises are successful

[Beth Matuga @BethMatuga]

Just the line "Billy declined the money" sets off a series of at least ten subsequently unanswerable questions

[Kayla @caryatis]

Spoiler ycse

So it’s not the norm for documentary subjects to get paid??? I can’t imagine committing to that sort of time expenditure & incredibly intrusive filming, with no control over the product, and not getting compensated at all

[annie 💚 @hyperballads_]

BYE

[Beth Matuga @BethMatuga]

After staring mouth agape and speechless when the credit rolled, the first thing I thought was "it's going to be wild to see this again." The second thing I thought was "it's going to be wild to see this a third time."

[Gavin Purcell @gavinpurcell]

just saw 'you can see everything' for a second time and had an entirely different reaction to the first half of the film

goddamn art is freaking cool sometimes

[Beth Matuga @BethMatuga]

@facetedcarapace .....an oubliette?

[Beth Matuga @BethMatuga]

@RedPilled_USA I was irritated at the aspect ratio at first but then realized how brilliantly it works. I literally felt like I was in between Liz and Billy - two big black unknowable depths

[Beth Matuga @BethMatuga]

But are you sure about that? She is an actress, after all!

[Georgia Coley @artwithinpod]

It really can’t be overstated how [REDACTED] is the heart of You Can See Everything—in part because she is the *only* character who openly wrestles with her own actions and potential regrets, expresses anger & uncertainty, and admits to lying sometimes. She’s a real human being!

[Beth Matuga @BethMatuga]

@boneysoups I still think of Conviction

[Beth Matuga @BethMatuga]

So you really CAN see everything

So long as someone does the chemistry

(Didn't think of the title in this way until hours after)

[Beth Matuga @BethMatuga]

God I didn't even catch this, I just thought I missed it

Folie a deux

[aubrey @aubreybell]

do we think billy and elizabeth really saw the green ray

[Beth Matuga @BethMatuga]

I alternated between mouth completely agape, horrified face, and literally covering my eyes with my hands

When the credits rolled, the guy next to me just put his head in his hands and bent over and sighed really loud

[Michele Giannone @MicheleG3]

Just saw “You can see everything”

Don’t know if it’s the greatest movie I’ve ever seen (maybe yes?). I’ve never been with my mouth open, engaged, shocked & mesmerized for 3 hours like that, ever.

Masterpiece of our times. Give it all the awards. Nathan Fielder is god tier.

[Beth Matuga @BethMatuga]

The swimming shots were masterful. Wait, he did go swimming with her after all? Wait, is that Liz or Amanda? Does it matter? Wait, does Nathan have muscles? Much to consider

[Cynthia Wang @cynthwangg]

my three favorite parts of You Can See Everything:

> seeing a WeWork with a view that nice
> the initial distant shot of two people swimming in the ocean, then zooming in at the very end
> the title hinging on the word “can,” coupled with her claims about Theranos and her text "FYI you can totally see everything"

[Beth Matuga @BethMatuga]

And your husband then agrees with this random man (he hates) right in front of you! On camera!

[Lilly @lillybilly299]

Imagine you are a woman who has just committed wire fraud, you are married to the poncyest man in the world, you are going to federal prison in less than a month and some random man spends 3 excruciating, uninterrupted minutes explaining "who's on first" to you. In your own home

[Beth Matuga @BethMatuga]

@FINNAboyIII The alternative isn't her being stupid. It's that she recognizes the trap and refuses to walk into it because she's pathological