Matthew Sheets 🇺🇸 🇺🇦

Product Management @ Microsoft | User Experience x AI | Dad | 4th+ Gen Gardener | Anti-trafficking | Mixed-media Art, Woodwork | Small business Owner | #HearHim

[Matthew Sheets 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @MatthewSheets1]

@AustinJohnPlays One of the best book adaptations I've ever seen!

[Matthew Sheets 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @MatthewSheets1]

@JSking0208 @RubenGallego I happily go to bat for Catholics who are targeted for dropping from Christian designation by diehard evangelical Christians. My ask as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ is that you'd take some time to learn and understand in reverse. 💕✝️

[Matthew Sheets 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @MatthewSheets1]

@jabusse1 @RubenGallego If your desire is to respectfully disagree, let it be known that as members of The Church of Jesus Christ, we don't condone the terms LDS or Mormon -- they don't represent who we are nor what we believe: https://t.co/2KtkGAmGmY

We strive to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ.

[Matthew Sheets 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @MatthewSheets1]

どんな #ポケモン会えるかな ？

#ポケモン30周年 #PR @poke_times

[Matthew Sheets 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @MatthewSheets1]

@ryanswalters73 @PartisanOracle @josephtrimmer Do you believe in a God then with no plan for the billions who were born and died without even a chance baptism? Is He then a fair and a just God? Why were those people born in those places and times -- what did they do wrong?

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I'm seeing quite a bit of comment about this, so I want to make a couple of points.

I'm not owed eternal agreement from any actor who once played a character I created. The idea is as ludicrous as me checking with the boss I had when I was twenty-one for what opinions I should hold these days.

Emma Watson and her co-stars have every right to embrace gender identity ideology. Such beliefs are legally protected, and I wouldn't want to see any of them threatened with loss of work, or violence, or death, because of them.

However, Emma and Dan in particular have both made it clear over the last few years that they think our former professional association gives them a particular right - nay, obligation - to critique me and my views in public. Years after they finished acting in Potter, they continue to assume the role of de facto spokespeople for the world I created.

When you've known people since they were ten years old it's hard to shake a certain protectiveness. Until quite recently, I hadn't managed to throw off the memory of children who needed to be gently coaxed through their dialogue in a big scary film studio. For the past few years, I've repeatedly declined invitations from journalists to comment on Emma specifically, most notably on the Witch Trials of JK Rowling. Ironically, I told the producers that I didn't want her to be hounded as the result of anything I said.

The television presenter in the attached clip highlights Emma's 'all witches' speech, and in truth, that was a turning point for me, but it had a postscript that hurt far more than the speech itself. Emma asked someone to pass on a handwritten note from her to me, which contained the single sentence 'I'm so sorry for what you're going through' (she has my phone number). This was back when the death, rape and torture threats against me were at their peak, at a time when my personal security measures had had to be tightened considerably and I was constantly worried for my family's safety. Emma had just publicly poured more petrol on the flames, yet thought a one line expression of concern from her would reassure me of her fundamental sympathy and kindness.

Like other people who've never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she's ignorant of how ignorant she is. She'll never need a homeless shelter. She's never going to be placed on a mixed sex public hospital ward. I'd be astounded if she's been in a high street changing room since childhood. Her 'public bathroom' is single occupancy and comes with a security man standing guard outside the door. Has she had to strip off in a newly mixed-sex changing room at a council-run swimming pool? Is she ever likely to need a state-run rape crisis centre that refuses to guarantee an all-female service? To find herself sharing a prison cell with a male rapist who's identified into the women's prison?

I wasn't a multimillionaire at fourteen. I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous. I therefore understand from my own life experience what the trashing of women's rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to women and girls without her privileges.

The greatest irony here is that, had Emma not decided in her most recent interview to declare that she loves and treasures me - a change of tack I suspect she's adopted because she's noticed full-throated condemnation of me is no longer quite as fashionable as it was - I might never have been this honest.

Adults can't expect to cosy up to an activist movement that regularly calls for a friend's assassination, then assert their right to the former friend's love, as though the friend was in fact their mother. Emma is rightly free to disagree with me and indeed to discuss her feelings about me in public - but I have the same right, and I've finally decided to exercise it.

[Matthew Sheets 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @MatthewSheets1]

LLM gets you from 0 to 80% very quickly
Getting to 90% is hard
Getting to 95% takes a year of effort
Getting to 100% takes writing real code 😄

Shiroy Choksey
https://t.co/gJcdgd3DRS

#GenAI #LLM #AI @Microsoft #Microsoft

[Matthew Sheets 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @MatthewSheets1]

@CruiseNorwegian: keep it that way! It is a FEATURE to not have easy, cheap access to the internet! There are VERY few comfortable places left in the world that can boast a lack of freely available internet! Do the world a favor and NEVER make it easily accessible!

[Matthew Sheets 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @MatthewSheets1]

IMPORTANT. Just got back from an extended cruise with my wife -- We realized that it was so great to get to connect with people on board and loved that culture. Today? I realized that a large part of that is that almost no one had phones out and available. @CruiseNorwegian

[Matthew Sheets 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @MatthewSheets1]

@OneLoudMouth @SydSteyerhart What is crazy to me: we went from FIGHTING gender stereotyping in the 90s (Nixing: "If you play with dolls, you're gay") to ULTRA stereotyping ("if you play with dolls, YOU'RE A GIRL") -- what happened to creating more openness? :(

[pwnpourri @pwnpouri]

@SydSteyerhart Lol as a former tomboy and child athlete, yeah. Now they just tell you you're gay and call it a day. No wiggle room. In my case, I was a daddy's girl. My dad was strong, kind, and creative. I wanted to be just like him. Little girls love their daddies! Let them!

[Clint Teeples @TeeplesCY]

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the data):

[Matthew Sheets 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @MatthewSheets1]

How true this is. I have faced many experiences that I might have never chosen, but with time I'm coming to learn to trust the courses of learning that God sends my way. He knows better than I do what will actually help me grow. #ShareGoodness #GenConf #ldsconf

[GeneralConference @ldsconf]

“God’s plan of moral and mortal agency allows us to learn by our own experience. Some of our greatest life lessons come from things we would never choose.” — @GerritWGong | #GeneralConference

[Matthew Sheets 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @MatthewSheets1]

I'm an era of info-explosion and an endless content overload, I'm grateful for the reminder to pause and hold on to #WhatLastsLongest #ShareGoodness #ldsconf #genconf @Ch_JesusChrist

[GeneralConference @ldsconf]

“May we each find in Jesus Christ atonement, resurrection and restoration — peace, becoming and belonging — that which is enduringly real and joyful, happy, and forever.” — @GerritWGong | #GeneralConference

[GeneralConference @ldsconf]

“Just as our physical muscles cannot be developed or maintained without straining against the law of gravity, so mortal growth requires man to strain against Satan’s temptations and other mortal opposition.” - @OaksDallinH | #GeneralConference

[Matthew Sheets 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @MatthewSheets1]

@NWSSeattle Latest updates?

[Matthew Sheets 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @MatthewSheets1]

@81monkeysStudio: Anticipated ESRB rating for World of Anterra? I've loved playing stardew valley with my kids, and this looks awesome, but really hoping that the content is still family friendly.

[Matthew Sheets 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @MatthewSheets1]

@BrandSanderson @torbooks Because I can only re-listen to the pre-release chapters so many times :). And it's clear that cracks are forming in our full view of roshar and the cosmere and I can't wait to see it break :)

[Matthew Sheets 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @MatthewSheets1]

@elonmusk: 4 efficiency
1) Can Amazon take over USPS? Or at least be allowed to directly compete?
2) Scam calls, faxes, emails -- We have the tech to stop them. Fine the originating countries to get it funded.

[Matthew Sheets 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @MatthewSheets1]

@america Citation appreciated!