Matthew Fasman

Current: legacy finance. Fan of the outdoors, fintech, and real estate.

[John Arnold @johnarnold]

Today the Senate passed a resolution against the methane emission fee. This is a mistake. Many large NG producers quietly support methane regs because they know the industry is stronger in the long term if viewed as responsible stewards of the environment.

Nat gas is and will continue to be a vital fuel for the energy system for a long time. We don't have the technologies or scaling capability to stop using fossil fuels in the foreseeable future. As such, minimizing GHG emissions should be part of the industry's societal license to operate. And given the commodity nature of the product, there must be regs to mandate responsibility at the corporate level.

Minimizing methane leaks is perhaps the most cost effective way to reduce the industy's environmental footprint. Knowing this, many producers are making the investment to improve their practices today. Repealing the methane regs just rewards those who aren't and weakens the industry over the long term.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

I wonder if in retrospect this will have been the biggest news of February 2025, rather than any of the political controversies most people are exercised about. History often turns out like that.

[Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler]

Everything hipsters were into 15 years ago went mainstream. You can buy raw denim at Uniqlo. Target has vinyl records. Your corner store has craft beer. Right wing chuds dress like urban lesbians and graphic designers did in 2010. Everyone drinks fancy coffee now. They won.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Good morning!

As I continue work on yesterday's project, I want to share the most valuable tool I've ever created—published under my real name.

This resource cross-references Bible verses with the Ante-Nicene Fathers, a 19th-century classical series documenting early Christian writings. Click on any blue-highlighted verse, and you'll see which Church Fathers (pre-325 AD) referenced it.

Why does this matter?
The New Testament is unique in all of antiquity—it can be largely reconstructed entirely from quotations in contemporary writings. By comparison, the earliest surviving manuscript of The Iliad dates to the 10th century AD despite being written in 8th century BC, yet it is still considered the second most well-attested ancient text in history.

The very existence of the Gospels affirms Luke 16:31.

🔗 [Link below]

[Joshua Charles🇻🇦 @JoshuaTCharles]

There is profundity beyond mystery beyond power in singing ancient hymns in a universal liturgical language (Latin) that binds Catholics of every tongue across the world, and is itself the tongue of the pagan empire that tried to destroy us.

All in the shadow of an obelisk that stood in Nero’s Circus, witnessed the crucifixion of St. Peter the fisherman, is now topped by a cross as a symbol of Christianity’s triumph over paganism, and being sung on behalf of the 265th successor of the fisherman who is still the head of the Roman Church, and thus the head of Christ’s Church on earth.

We do not deserve the Catholic Faith, but thank you Jesus Christ for revealing Yourself to us through it.

If his time is near, may Pope Francis die a holy death.

[Daniel @growing_daniel]

Carlo Acutis was an Italian teenager renowned for living a blessed life and for developing a website that catalogued miracles that launched a traveling exhibition. He died in 2006 of leukemia.

This year he will be canonized as a saint. We expect he will become the patron saint of computer programmers.

I have been working with Star of the Sea parish in San Francisco to commission a Carlo Acutis shrine. The shrine will include a statue, a kneeler, a candle rack, and a prayer of intercession for technical and programming problems.

I believe it is incumbent on the Catholic Church to reach out to the communities in which it exists in ways that serve that community's distinct needs. It is right and fitting that Carlo should have a shrine in the global heart of the technology industry.

We need $12,000 and have raised $5,000. If you would like to donate, please venmo your donation to @starparish with reason "Carlo Acutis Shrine". Donations are tax deductible.

[Matthew Fasman @mfasman]

For all we know, this might have been the moment COVID became less lethal.

[Seth Wieck @sethwieck]

I don’t know who this nerd is who goes to our church, but I will find them and befriend them.

[Matthew Fasman @mfasman]

Continue to pray for the Holy Father, that he might make a full recovery. https://t.co/SXonYm2Fo1

[Ken Ashley @kenashley]

Young people in commercial real estate brokerage:

You are starting at the right time of the cycle. I'd rather you start at the bottom and ride things up.

Than start at the top and ride them down.

Get after it!

[𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗 @shagbark_hick]

If I were an enemy of America, and aimed to subvert and ruin this country, here's what I would do:

I would infiltrate right-wing, patriotic circles, and infect them with pessimism. I would convince young conservative men who love their country to give up on everything.

Rural America? Universities? The legacy media? The arts? The trades? I would make incisive, seemingly-rational arguments against any involvement in any of these, and I would do so with an arrogant tone, so as to imply that anyone who has any optimism on these fronts is an idiot.

I would aim to supplant any optimism for these things with one thing: A mode and manner of living and working that is structurally unobtainable for a majority of the population, and a series of cultural and political ambitions that my own people can easily counteract. I would tell them to uproot themselves from wherever they came from, compete for expensive houses in top-10 metro areas, work pointless white-collar jobs, and channel 100% of their optimism toward the demographically impossible task of "taking back the cities." Wherever they might gain a foothold there, I'd make sure my own political machine was one step ahead of them.

I would try to convince any young, conservative, patriotic man that if he does anything other than working in an office in a major metro and paying a gigantic mortgage on a big house -- he is wasting his time. I would try to influence him to believe that literally any other path is worthless.

And in maybe two generations, it would work. America would be weaker, and there would be fewer bulwarks against radical progressivist change in this country. Optimism would be marked as "low status," and fixing, changing, or improving anything would be known as "loser behavior." All of the real players would, by then, be running the hamster wheel I set up for them.

[Matthew Fasman @mfasman]

Sign up for adoration at St. Joe's and be part of the mission! https://t.co/0851QntF4p

[Josh Smith @smithtjosh]

When is the last time you read something where the headline _understated_ the argument and evidence?

@CharlesCMann's piece is that good

[Kendall Dickieson @flexiblefoodie]

nyc needs more coffee shops that open at like 7am

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

This is blowing up, but most don’t get why the U.S. fell behind in shipbuilding—or the massive forces keeping it that way.

Here’s a 🧵 breaking it down. I have to tread carefully and keep this at 10,000 feet, but hopefully some flesh them out in the comments

[Solana Developers @solana_devs]

Meet gill — a new javascript/typescript client for Solana devs 🐟🐟🐟

[𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗 @shagbark_hick]

Here's an idea that seems to be an axiomatic truth:

The groups of people who will end up steering the intellectual and cultural zeitgeist of the wider culture are the ones who can tolerate whatever form of housing is cheapest in a particular era.

Cheap apartments in 1970's NYC filtered for a certain type of person. Not afraid of violent crime. Edgy, 'existential,' experimental -- the types of people who can keep cool and thrive in chaotic, seedy urban environments.

These were the forerunners of the present-day cultural regime.

You have to ask yourself: What's the equivalent to this today? It's almost certainly cheap small-town rural housing. Whatever types of people are willing to tolerate those areas -- they will be the ones whose lives are cheap enough that they can write the novels, make the music, paint the paintings, and hatch the ideas that will shape the next generations.

They'll live together in towns like Ogdensburg NY. Guymon OK. Mount Carmel PA. Octonagon MI. They won't work much. The'll have the free time necessary to be real cultural heavyweights -- to write, paint, think, and discourse among peers who live a similar sort of life. And because these regions are fairly conservative -- those who can tolerate living in them will probably not have the same habits and ideas as those presently living in Brooklyn, Oakland, etc. They'll probably be conservative, too. The whole culture will change.

Unless we're in truly unprecedented times, I think this is a sound formula for thinking about how culture moves in modern America. It's all about housing.

[Kenneth Cassel @KennethCassel]

at the same time we’re building supersonic passenger jets, we should make it 3x faster to get through airport security / take off

[Matthew Fasman @mfasman]

New pickup line just dropped!

[Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, OP @FrAquinasOP]

Some of our students tried their hand at composing Valentine candy messages. Either the messages need to get shorter, or the candies need to get a lot bigger. @CathUMinistry

[The Catholic Engineer @TheCatholicEngr]

Just like modern women were lied to by feminists, modern men are being lied to by Redpillers

No, sleeping around does not make you a "high value man"

Controlling your sexual urges does

If you're not a virtuous man, you shouldn't expect to attract and marry a virtuous woman