Matt

Proud American and Combat Veteran. Reason and Moral purpose guide me.

[Rich Lowry @RichLowry]

I know countless millions of people love soccer, and it can be a thrilling game, as we witnessed repeatedly during the World Cup, but it suffers from a fundamental structural flaw.

Because offense is in such short supply at this level, scoring is highly dependent on penalties.

This means that scoring often comes outside the normal flow of play, and incentives flopping and pretend injuries that are unworthy of grown men—you think someone rolling around the turf in agonizing pain is going to have to be transported immediately to the hospital, then you look up and he’s played another 45 minutes, no problem.

Then, there’s the courting of artificial penalties—a player steps in front of another, gets bumped, and proceeds to pretend he got shot.

Whatever the other merits of soccer, this stuff is a blight on the game and brings an element of low comedy to even the highest-stakes competition.

[BENZO-KAZOOIE @BENZOTOOIE]

“NOOOOOOO YOU CAN’T PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT CARDS I’VE USED, THAT’S CARD COUNTING!!! USING STRATEGY IS AGAINST THE RULES!!! YOU CAN ONLY USE BLIND LUCK!!! SECURITY!!!!!!!!!”

[MT @MT_6226]

If you are American, you are a kind of salmon.

You have a designated place to be born (the suburbs), you then migrate to the city to live your life, and then you migrate back to the suburbs to spawn.

Violation of this life cycle (eg: living in the city longer than you should, or moving back to the suburbs prematurely) leads to bad outcomes.

[Inevitable West @Inevitablewest]

The Spanish team wanted Trump to stay and lift the trophy with them…

This a good reminder for the left that they operate in a small echo chamber.

[Johan Jelqington @j3lqingt0n]

Medicaid is a lottery for poor people where if they "win" they get to receive medical care worth more than total sum economic productivity of their entire lives just to treat various medical conditions that they largely inflicted on themselves due to shitty lifestyles and diet.

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

“We need to fight the islamo-communist alliance”

So you’re going to stop importing Muslims?

“No”

Stop importing Chinese communist to prop up communist universities?

“No”

Stop importing 3rd worlders who will vote for communists to take our stuff?

“Absolutely not”

[Matt Morse @MattMorseTV]

Lisa Murkowski's argument against the SAVE America Act is that some ~15,000 rural Alaskan voters would have to drive a couple of hours to prove their citizenship and register to vote—yes, seriously.

And so, because slightly inconveniencing some ~15,000 rural Alaskan voters is so intolerable, she's decided to condemn 150 million Americans to insecure elections.

[Matt @Das_Audi]

GOAT

[JJ Watt @JJWatt]

@DougDribbl88 Order me a Guinness. Be there shortly.

[Fugitive Caesar @ThomBrady5]

I notice that nobody is pretending Iran is winning the war anymore

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

OH: “i’ve switched to Kimi from claude for a bunch of work. it’s just so much more fun because it just does the thing instead of lecturing you”

Woke lobotomized models are the enemy of American competitiveness.

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

We think of this evil as Marxism. In reality, Marxism is nothing more or less than the current instantiation of a much more ancient evil: possession by the envious and hateful spirit that drove Cain to murder his brother Abel.

The great book of Genesis thus portrays mankind as riven by an eternal fratricidal conflict.

Those who reject genuine sacrifice become embittered by their subsequent failure ("rejection by God").

Instead of repenting and changing, they turn to revenge.

And who do they target? Those who strive to do well and offer what is best.

I can't believe how much wisdom the author of Genesis 4 compressed into that story's few sentences. You might even come to believe that God Himself had a hand in it.

Truly: it's uncanny. The first two human beings born into history are, respectively, a good, honest productive man and his brother, who allows himself to be consumed by resentment and the desire to destroy.

Communism, in a nutshell.

[The Bugged Dev @thebuggeddev]

Why do we still buy stadium tickets without ever seeing what the view from the seat actually looks like? ☠️

So I prototyped an idea.

A 3D seat view experience for a football stadium built with Fable 5 + @threejs, where you can preview exactly what you'll see from your seat before buying.

The entire 3D experience was working after the first prompt, and the whole prototype came together in just five prompts.

This is the kind of 3D experience I'd love to see more of, tbh. Feels so good.

Right now, buying a ticket gives you almost no sense of what the experience will actually feel like. We're still relying on static seat maps, charts, and boring UI layouts, when interactive 3D experiences could make that decision so much easier.

If you think, 3D development has the potential to create genuinely useful experiences. This feels like the direction we should be heading. 3D is the future.

I can already imagine this for cinemas, cricket stadiums, Wimbledon, concerts, and so many other venues.

I'm planning to take this further. What should I build next? More stadium features, or should I try another venue? Let me know :D

Code: https://t.co/6siJHap4fb
Live: https://t.co/n5eZfpf7Jw

[Kahris @chrissotraidis]

I used Codex 5.6 Sol to get RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 running natively on iPad.

This is built on OpenRCT2, the open-source engine their team has poured years into. I compiled it to a native ARM64 iPad app and built the touch controls on top. No emulator, no x86, no streaming from a Mac.

Coaster building, scenarios, and park management all work by touch. First time I've seen RCT2 run natively on iPad.

Open sourcing it all below.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Eat a mouthful of grass and you get nothing. It goes in green and comes out green.

Eat straw and you get nothing. Your gut cannot touch cellulose.

Eat acorns and you get tannins, and a very bad afternoon.

Eat bracken and you get a carcinogen.

Eat nettles, thistles, brambles, rushes and moorland heather and you get a mouth full of blood and no calories.

Eat the beet pulp, the oat husks and the spent brewer's grain and you get the waste the factory couldn't sell.

Now feed the lot of it to a cow.

She turns every one of them into steak, butter, cream, milk and a hide, on land that will never grow a vegetable, using four stomachs and a fermentation vat you do not have.

The grass she eats grew on rain and sunlight, for free, on a hillside nobody can plough.

She is the only creature on earth that can take a field of inedible fibre and hand you back the most nutrient-dense food there is.

The cow is not competing with you for food. She eats the ninety percent you cannot.

Best plant-based diet ever invented. It just has a cow in the middle doing the hard part.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Data centers barely use any water, barely use any land, and they lower electric bills.

[Old Grog @grog_old12773]

I'm 50. I'll be divesting myself of everything I own when I'm 75 - it all gets offloaded and managed by my sons at that point.
I have seven big reasons for this:
1) I'm watching my nearly 80 yr old father fall for every possible scam because the digital world has become far too sophisticated for him. His phone is his kryptonite. I assume the world will be crazier. My sons will have a better shot at navigating that world.
2) I will be done with my most productive decades and will be downshifting into advisory. I won't 'retire' but the nature of the work will change.
3) Pushing assets down the line increases maximum impact for rising generations. They need the resources for grandchildren: education, tuitions, seed money for start-ups, first homes, we want wives staying home to raise babies.
4) I expect a clean room and meals at one of their homes. I'm more than happy to keep the property spic and span, and add value and drive people as long as they'll let me have keys. The windows will be washed and the flowerbeds will stay mulched.
5) I want to be as integrated into their world as they want me to be, but I will endeavor to not be a nuisance as long as possible. I know we don't control the end game - and everyone is bed-ridden at the very end.
6) Blessings and inheritances are meant to be bestowed at the end of the life, not read by some sod in a suit in a downtown law office.
7) I want my sons to be trained and capable and aware of this arrangement starting now, so we run a plan and don't just stumble our way into the 4th quarter.
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Whatever happens at the end, it will be better than watching what I'm watching with this fading generation. My gosh. What buffoonery, waste, and clueless disregard for their generational lines. It's astounding. Draining. Every. Last. Drop.
And no, they didn't NEED THE SECOND SAUNA, it's just nice to have, rather than walk all the way back up to the main house. Makes sense.

[MAZE @mazemoore]

Here's James Comey on ABC News saying that Trump may have been peeing on prostitutes in Moscow.

Comey knew this was false. He knew for years that the Steele Dossier was fiction and was paid for by the Clinton campaign.

ABC has such strong standards for what they broadcast. 👌

[dandelion georgism 🔰🏗 @DolphinMossad]

1995: oh cool you can buy books online now

2026: the company that owns Whole Foods and Lord of the Rings is experiencing setbacks with its space program

[Coddled Affluent Professional @feelsdesperate]

It’s wild that people used to have secret second families.

Think of the drive and appetite and testosterone required to make that happen.

I get tired just thinking about it.

[Robbert Leusink 🇳🇱 @robbertleusink]

On this day in 1794, the French Revolution guillotined sixteen Carmelite nuns for being nuns

They walked to the scaffold singing the Veni Creator Spiritus.

Each one renewed her vows before mounting the guillotine. The prioress, Mother Teresa of St Augustine, went last. She waited until every sister was dead before she knelt

Robespierre was arrested ten days later. The Terror ended almost immediately after.

The nuns were canonised in 1906.

The ideology that killed them is now taught in your local parish church.