Matthew

Engineer, Runner, Nerd

[Matthew @MattATX]

@mattyglesias The rise of dine-in theaters like Alamo Drafthouse also creates an incentive to have longer films that encourage patrons to order more food and drink.

[Gary Winslett 🌐🇺🇸 @GaryWinslett]

One of the most obvious use cases for autonomous vehicles is for seniors who want to maintain independence but are no longer safe behind the wheel.

We need to facilitate the rollout of AVs *as fast as possible.*

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

Rename yourselves O’Hara International Airport 😭

[Tablet Magazine @tabletmag]

Thank you Mr. Vice President for this unique commemoration of the Holocaust that manages to avoid mentioning Jews or condemning Nazis.

[Matthew @MattATX]

@mattyglesias Where is the unlike button 😔, and yes, I am watching

[Matthew @MattATX]

@eastdakota @benthompson @Cloudflare Agreed

While reading the article, I kept thinking of Cloudflare and how you have resiliency at your core with your massively distributed network.

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

My baseline case is that the AI being built right now is overrated; soon it will be a disappointment; then it will be a bubble; and, by the 2030s, it will be world-changing.

Self-driving cars are a model for this.
- In 2015, I heard autonomy was 5 years away from taking over the roads.
- In 2020, they were nowhere.
- Even in 2022, you could say they were a huge disappointment.
- Now, they're quietly a revolution.

Driverless taxi usage in CA grew 8x in one year, and Waymo is expanding to other cities.

[Matthew @MattATX]

The site also provides the ability to set up automatic weather alerts. Great idea to set one up for a sensor by you

[Avery Tomasco @averytomascowx]

DO YOU LIVE NEAR A CREEK/STREAM/RIVER?

Please use this resource and become familiar with it. You can track nearby rainfall totals, flowrate/height of water in nearby waterways that could impact your neighborhood. Flooding ongoing in Austin as we speak

[Evil MoPac @EvilMopacATX]

I can't endorse this amazing website strongly enough

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

I'm against a reduction in benefits for Medicaid recipients. In fact I would like to see them get more benefits.
BUT
The way the system is currently constructed to move dollars from the fed gov to states and then to beneficiaries, like much of our health care system, is backass halfwards.

States have learned how to arbitrage current laws to increase their receipts (see provider taxes ), insurance companies and their PBMs are still in the middle. Both create a lot of room for cost cuts, not only for taxpayers, but for the entire system

However. Talking about cuts and Medicaid is political suicide. What this really needs to be about is Medicaid Process Simplication.

We need to make changes.

Let's do what needs to be done across all of healthcare. Simplify it. Remove the arbitrage.
Start with the patient, rather from the budget and work down

There is no silver bullet, but there are ways to make improvements and save money
@HHSGov

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Some people are claiming that the drop in GDP in Q1 is just due to a flood of imports. But this is just flat-out wrong. IMPORTS DO NOT SUBTRACT FROM GDP.

Imports are added to consumption/investment, and then subtracted again from net exports.

https://t.co/px0ulQyCZg

[Glytch @GlytchTech]

Btw: For all those assuming that Im just simply importing a completed product:

I'm not. Im importing materials to literally build products in America. I AM the person who is bringing manufacturing back. The very thing we are being told to do. 🤷
https://t.co/Tr01SCswKN

[James Medlock @jdcmedlock]

I'm not accepting million dollar bets on hyperinflation until Trump is out of office

[Matthew @MattATX]

@Noahpinion You are giving Bluesky users a stroke with these posts.

Is this engagement bait or is there an actual argument for this?

[Ryan Petersen @typesfast]

Thousands, and then millions, of American small businesses, including many iconic brands, will go bankrupt this year if the tariff policies on China don’t change.

🧵

[CJ @CJenkins_Wx]

Jokic is crazy lmao

[reason @reason]

"Liberation Day" tariffs will liberate people...from their hard-earned income. https://t.co/91oQysEY9c

[James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki]

Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us.

So we have a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion. $17.9/$28 = 64%, which Trump claims is the tariff rate Indonesia charges us. What extraordinary nonsense this is.

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

This is getting to be a reasonably fast decline. We launched last week, and Trump's approval was +0.5, now it's -1.7.

[Matthew @MattATX]

@billybinion Who said he is railing against a tax. You can be for raising taxes while rightly stating tariffs are taxes.