Matt Loft

Christ Follower. Husband. Consultant. Wrench Turner.
Thinking out loud about faith, married life, AI, College Sports, Old Cars, and how things work.

[Matt Loft @JamesMLoft]

Hey everyone,
I’m not new here, I just deleted my last account to take time away and start fresh. I decided to come back to praise God, conserve American values, and cheer on the Crimson Tide!

[Matt Loft @JamesMLoft]

@nicksortor @Fat_Electrician found another for you

[Mike Winger @MikeWingerii]

Mormons: We’re Christian

Me: No. You’re not.

Mormons: We are highly offended by that! How dare you say we aren’t Christian when we believe in Jesus.

Me: You use the name Jesus but reject core Christian beliefs about Jesus. You reject core Christian beliefs about a bunch of essential things. You tend to use the same vocabulary as us but with different definitions.

Mormons: Of course we reject your core beliefs. They are an abomination! This is why Joseph Smith said God told him did all your creeds are in abomination and that he couldn’t join any Christian group in the United States. It’s because you guys don’t know the truth about God and Joseph Smith had to restore the true gospel, fix the teachings you have from your corrupt Bible, and give us a host of new Scriptures.

Me: See, this is why I say you aren’t Christians. It’s not personal. It’s the foundation of Mormonism that you reject core Christian teachings about Jesus, salvation, God, the Bible, exaltation, and more. Joseph Smith made this clear. Brigham young said all Christians were apostates and it was only more recently you guys were told by your leaders to co-opt the name Christian. But it’s like a man trying to say he’s a woman. No, he’s not. That’s silly. He can be offended but it’s not rational and it’s actually harmful to pretend he’s a woman just to appease him.

Mormons: Mike, we believe in the Bible, Jesus, God the Father, salvation by faith, and all the stuff you believe. We just have a few more things you don’t know about yet. We have your beliefs and extra, because we are like complete Christians.

Me: You believe the Bible is corrupt in whatever ways it may challenge your theology. You believe Jesus wasn’t always God and that he’s the brother of Satan. You believe God wasn’t always God and that he became a God in the same way that you can become a God if you are considered worthy of it when you die. You believe in grace plus works which invalidates grace (Romans 11:6) and triggers Galatians 1’s anathema, saying that “we are saved by grace after all that we can DO.” You may not have realized it but your religion teaches you the same words as Christians but defines them in ways that actually reject our core beliefs.

Mormons: You don’t understand us. We believe what we believe and it’s Christian.

Me: I know some more modern Mormons will say they actually don’t hold to some of those things I mentioned but I have to treat Mormonism based on its Scriptures, apostles, and prophets, not its online apologists. Based on those things, it’s not Christian.

Mormon (version 1): Your ignorance and attitude are offensive and harmful. We are Christians.

Mormon (version 2): We are the true Christians and you are apostate. You and most Christians throughout history were not real Christians. Joseph Smith restored true Christianity after it fell away shortly after Jesus rose.

Me: Jesus, the real Jesus, paid the full price for your sins on the cross. You can be saved and forgiven and live eternally with God, the one and only God, by trusting in Christ’s works and not your own. Joseph was a modern false prophet. Run from him to Jesus.

[Aaron McIntire @DeaceProducer]

Really excited to launch something today.

One of my wife's (@BellaMcIntire) most prominent qualities is her generosity of heart and time. This, coupled with her love of research, her professional training as a Labor, Delivery, and Postpartum nurse, and her conviction that evidence-based care and a mother's intuition aren't in competition, has made her perspective on pregnancy, labor, and postpartum invaluable for countless expecting women.

Whether it's friends, family, or new introductions, many women have sought out Bella's input and perspective on every stage of pregnancy and motherhood.

With that as the backdrop, Bella had the idea a few years ago to put all of her training and perspective on these subjects in one place. What originated as a one-pager eventually grew to 1,000 pages spread across six books. What started as new moms texting Bella after a positive test grew to a pregnancy companion from that first test all the way through the first year after delivery.

That's what I Am Motherhood is.

Earlier this year, after three rounds of editing and reformatting the books, it was time to finally figure out how to get them out to Bella's target audience.

That's where I came in.

A buddy of mine mentioned he'd used Claude to build an app for a client. I'd been hearing more about AI-assisted development, so one evening I joined the free tier, told it what I wanted to build, and now three months and 104 builds later, the I Am Motherhood app is live on the App Store.

I'm extremely proud of Bella for the feat of writing six books, and I'm tickled the two of us together were able to build an app that does so much.

On the app, all of the tools you'd usually have to download five or six different apps for are in one place: due date calculator, kick counter, contraction timer, a baby development tracker, diaper tracker, feeding tracker, and a lot more. Plus, Bella's expertise and knowledge are displayed in hundreds of tips derived directly from the books. Oh, and you can buy the books right on the app, too.

Developing the app has been a true education. Three months ago, I couldn't read or write code. I still can't write, but I can read. And it's because of some of these new, powerful tools that AI has enabled for people like me.

So today we're launching I Am Motherhood: the complete companion for new moms and moms wanting a better experience in pregnancy and delivery. The app is live on the App Store. I recognize most of my following are probably dudes, but if you've got a new mom or a repeat mom in your life who may be interested, let them know. Link below.

TL;DR: my beautiful wife, a Labor & Delivery nurse, wrote six books on pregnancy, delivery, and postpartum, and I used Claude to build a custom platform for her business.

[Matt Loft @JamesMLoft]

It’s funny how right is he - but for all the wrong reasons.

Maybe instead of taking more money from the investors, we take less money from the wage earners.

Seems like that would be a bigger win for more people.

Combine that with heavy cuts to spending by investigating fraud as everyone’s happy…

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

Investing money in markets has proven far less risky than stuffing it in your mattress. I feel that we are very good at imagining the courage of capital and very bad at imagining the courage of labor.

The tax code treats investment risk as special, but labor is risk real. Workers invest years of training, health, time, opportunity cost, and physical capacity into earning income. And a worker can’t diversify into 500 jobs, carry forward a bad year, or choose the most tax-efficient moment to realize their wages.

[Seth Dillon @SethDillon]

I started reading this and was immediately reminded of the scene in Good Will Hunting where Robin Williams' character is telling Will about his wife, who'd recently died of cancer. He was talking about her imperfections, the little things that only he knew about — like how she'd sometimes fart in her sleep and wake herself up.

"People call these things imperfections," he said. "But they're not. Ah, that's the good stuff. That's what made her my wife."

It's a great scene. I'm not sure I have a point in bringing it up, other than to say that maybe optimizing everything in your life just to live a little longer might just result in missing out on some things that matter more — and not by a small margin.

[Riley @Ri_S_OB]

Terrible deal. I can go online and get Pizza Hut for like $25

[Nick Perkins @NickyPerkss]

Can bitch and moan all yall want about the performances in Omaha

But it does not change the fact that simply making the CWS was a massive step in the right direction for this program

“Forward is the battle cry”, excited to see what this team can accomplish next year

[The Fat Electrician @Fat_Electrician]

I posted this assuming it would be abundantly clear it’s satire, based on how violently retarded it was.

Apparently I was wrong, and it’s indistinguishable from a real opinion. If you don’t already know me.

This means the average discourse is so fucking stupid it is entirely believable, that adults with the right to vote don’t know that 40 > 8.

Being dumb to a satirical level is now impossible.

I’ve lost all faith in humanity. I’ll be catching the first rocket off this planet.

[The Fat Electrician @Fat_Electrician]

Hypothetically, a crazy person offers you $1 million for 1/1,000th of the equity in your house.

You still get to live there. They just own a tiny piece and hope it goes up in value.

You take the deal.

Congratulations, your house now has an implied valuation of $1 billion.

you’re a “billionaire”

Do you have a billion dollars? No.

If the government wanted to tax you on your unrealized gain is there a money dollars to take? No.

[Matt Loft @JamesMLoft]

@JakeCrain_ @WaffleHouse Peak Americana 🙌🏻

[Jake “JBOY” Crain @JakeCrain_]

Muffin’s first trip to @WaffleHouse was a smashing success

[Matt Loft @JamesMLoft]

@NickJFreitas @DefiantLs Now that guy knew about PR for his Wall

[ClaudeDevs @ClaudeDevs]

We've reset 5-hour and weekly rate limits for all users.

[Matt Loft @JamesMLoft]

@ClaudeDevs For those of us who already torched our usage window on it mind giving us a reset? 👀

[Matt Brown @MattBrownEP]

Oooh oooh I know one!!!!!!!!

[Matt Loft @JamesMLoft]

@atothej428 @ReaganCaucusNC @Zarish5062 If a face is what makes you address the argument then here- I’ll stand in for him

"If you don't like slavery, don't own slaves. That's literally where your opinion ends. Cheers!" - You in 1860

[The Fat Electrician @Fat_Electrician]

Not what “happens” what happened. Your money is given to the generation before you.

People think the government has it in a savings account for them. They don’t and never have.

Completely unrelated heres the definition of Ponzi scheme:

fraud that pays existing investors with funds collected from new investors.

[Matt Loft @JamesMLoft]

@MattBrownEP If you want the real answer I’ll shoot you a text with my method 👀

But in all seriousness damn that would be a cool job

[Kali Heivilin @kheivilin03]

ROLL TIDE TO THAT

[Emily @emilypitek]

In this day and age of portaling, I will never forget, and I will always appreciate Montana's "bury me in dixie" post