Matthew Bennett

literally just some guy (he/him)

[Matthew Bennett @matt_bennett94]

This is my cat, Nora 🖤🖤🖤

[Marc Thiessen @marcthiessen]

The “post liberal right” believes that the classical liberal principles of our founders and the Declaration have failed and need to be replaced with a new order that elevates the “common good” above individual liberty. That should be disqualifying for anyone hoping to lead this country.

[Eugenia Kuyda @ekuyda]

I’ve been thinking about this David Foster Wallace quote more and more recently

“The technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it's gonna get easier and easier, and more and more convenient, and more and more pleasurable to be alone with images on a screen, given to us by people who do not love us but want our money. Which is all right. In low doses, right? But if that's the basic main staple of your diet, you're gonna die. In a meaningful way, you're going to die."

[Matthew Sitman @MatthewSitman]

Would love to hear from the many conservative intellectuals who’ve spent decades going on and on about “constitutional government,” the fixed principles of, and strict limits imposed by, the U.S. Constitution on those elected to the offices it created

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

It's worth remembering that DOGE is a failure at Every. Single. Possible. Level.

At the micro level, they misread, misled and straight up lied about many of the 'savings'. They'd announce '500m saved!' and it would be some contract where the money was 98% already spent and already wasn't being renewed.

At the macro level, they didn't impact spending at all. The government is spending more in 2025 than 2024, on basically the same trajectory but a little more.

At the institutional level, they didn't even convince the GOP that deficits are a problem worth caring about. The GOP just passed a bill that explodes the deficit by trillions of dollars.

At a personal level, Elon got run out of town with his tail between his legs and the most notable public facts about the Cracked Coders are that one of them was a mini Hitler, one was called 'big balls' and none of them bothered to learn how the government actually works before they lit it on fire.

They gutted a bunch of important institutions, fired whole departments at random, decimated medical research funding, killed a bunch of people dependent on USAID, and still failed at every possible level.

[Matthew Bennett @matt_bennett94]

@zeta_globin There's a subset of people who both see ads and are consciously influenced. They have a load-bearing role in the attention economy

Plus, even people who are not *consciously* influenced by ads are more likely to consumer-spend (in general) in an ad-saturated environment

[tater tot @parakeetnebula]

The design promises sterility not just as cleanliness, but as an ethos. It’s almond milk latte extended universe. Think algorithmic aesthetics held hostage by “brand values,” visually guided by a compulsive need to purge anything human, expressive, or alive.

[Lincoln Michel @TheLincoln]

Buddy, who are you kidding? We're dumb as shit. People think vaccines inject nanobots, sky was replaced by lizard people, and billionaires are "anti-elitists." We elect reality TV stars and can't speak to a lover for 10 secs without checking phone. These articles were prophecy.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Coal miners used to form study groups to read Gibbon & Thucydides. Lincoln and Douglas delivered speeches that lasted three hours with no pauses. C. S. Lewis, like many kids of his era, read Paradise Lost at age nine and was translating Homer by sixteen. The brain rot is real.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

As I've been saying, if you willingly relinquish your mental abilities, you will lose them. The fact that millions of people seem eager to give up their intellects, to be freed from the burden of ever having to think or create, is a nightmare out of our darkest science fictions.

[Daniel @growing_daniel]

All these January 6 owns are valid. Republicans lost the right to condescend to riots after pulling this little stunt.

[Conor Rogers @conorjrogers]

An impossible problem that Democrats face the is fact that they pay the electoral penalty for actions by activists who openly hate Democrats, do note vote for and do not support Democrats, but whom the public still associates with Democrats anyway.

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

The core policies recommendations we get out of Abundance (admittedly, it's not heavy on specifics) really seem pretty unobjectionable to me, even from a leftist/progressive perspective.

[brandon* @brndxix]

permission to lib out?

[Cate Hall @catehall]

This image is so load-bearing for me psychologically -- I think about it all the time

[Sol ☂️🧳🗝️ @medievalpard]

"Caring about animals is decadent and entirely modern, pathetic libtard women with cats".

William Blake: "... a dog starv'd at his master's
gate predicts THE RUIN OF THE STATE".

[Moniza Hossain @moniza_hossain]

Ai tech apologists say things like “we always worry about new technology, we used to worry about iPads and look how great they are”. Meanwhile children raised on iPads have no attention span, delayed speech, and ultimately struggle to read

[Matthew Bennett @matt_bennett94]

@ContraPoints

[soli @solisolsoli]

By Henry Matisse