Antifa complaint department chairperson and memeber of the "radical left."
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Last Notes npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/paramount-skydance-debt-junk-ratings-fitch-warner-bros-discovery-1236678023/ npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich Can we all please stop calling it "sex trafficking?" npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/030/467/339/268/353/original/924ad3e3e60faed4.jpg npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/030/449/300/151/701/original/acf8094917180ae1.webp npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich "Writing shares a strange feature with painting. Paintings stand there as if they are alive, but if anyone asks them anything, they remain most solemnly silent. The same is true of written words. You'd think they were speaking as if they had some understanding, but if you question anything that has been said because you want to learn more, it continues to signify just that very same thing forever." - #Socrates, speaking about #AI 2500 years ago npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich Just finished reading The Count of Monte Cristo, and I have to ask, was Dumas being paid by the word? The first act of this story is a real banger! Totally solid. Then Dumas redefined for me the true meaning of "second act problems." In fact, I'll call what I read here: "second AND third act problems." He originally serialized this from 1844-1846, and it reads like it. Maybe it's better in the original French? (I doubt it.) I still recommend ... with caveats. #Books #Reading npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich Taking a long break from Mastodon really boosted my mental health, but I do miss seeing all your beautiful faces and reading your posts, so I do check in from time to time. I just wanted to say hello and let you know I hope you are all doing as well as you can be. npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich "Ronald Reagan wasn't qualified to be governor, let alone president. I was a vice president of the Screen Actors Guild when he was its president. My duties consisted of attending meetings and voting. The only thing I remember is that Ronnie never had an original thought and that we had to tell him what to say. That's no way to run a union, let along a state or a country." James Garner npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich Finally got around to reading The Bezzle, by @npub1fdr…lvhs npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich I just re-watched the #BlackMirror episode "Joan is Awful," and two years after it's original release date, it was even better in my second viewing. npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich We need to start testing commercial #art for #AI the way we test professional athletes for steroids. npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich Now up to 63,321 words written for the first draft of my #scifi novel. Tonight's scene was emotional. Our hero was made to confront a huge flaw in himself and he could almost do it. But the call back to the world he can never return to was just too strong. Better shake it off and come up with a plan to get out of this mess! npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich I'd love to see this! npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich Good luck with that! I envy you getting to go, and I hope you meet some cool people. npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich "Welcome to the USAX, founded by Elon Musk in 1776. Just indicate you would like a blue check verified citizenship badge when you file your taxes and the customary amount will be added to your tax bill." - Coming soon to a government document you'll be required to sign! npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich That’s terrible. And that’s why I’m overtly political. This garbage affects the arts! npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich They really just put on an act at this point. Correction, they've BEEN putting on an act for decades--the same decades the right has been systematically and successfully working their to-do list, and chipping away. npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich Anybody out there seen the Democratic party's decades long plan to reshape the system in the diametrically opposite vision as where the capitalist right-wingers long-term plans have taken us today? What? There isn't a plan? It's just going to be losing short term battles forever, with modest, occasional, temporary victories? npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich The most unrealistic thing to me npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich This one is, in a perverse kind of way. https://www.newsweek.com/justice-alito-porhub-playboy-articles-supreme-court-2015993 npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich I only watch Pornhub for the articles. npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich It’s official. Mastodon is now my only social network! npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich I was just about to say. That breakfast program was one of the contributing factors to the FBI and the cops murdering Fred Hampton. @npub18x7…p6e7 npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich I'm starting to feel like if the USA empire is so hell bent on collapsing, could we please just get it over with? npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich I'm officially calling this show Game of Dunes. #DuneProphecy npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich Pro tip: stop using all Google products, and that includes Gmail and Chrome. Google will do a rug pull on anyone, and no one there will lose a millisecond of sleep over anyone they hurt with their caprice. You have been warned. npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich Actual LOL for that one, Khalid! 🤣 npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich So it’s come to my attention that the Honey digital-coupon browser addon has been ripping off YouTube “influences,” and I have prepared my official statement on the matter. npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich Why? Because this list of titles is epic from beginning to end, but I have some big gaps. npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich I have two new year’s reading resolutions. 1. Fill in all the gaps in my reading history from the entire list of Nebula Award winners. 2. Read more writings from people I have met or connected with on social networks. So send me what you got! npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich This is so good, I’m migrating it to my IRL shares! npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich It's like if I were to say, "I SURVIVED MY FIGHT WITH CANCER, SO YOU SHOULD HAVE TO FIGHT CANCER TOO!!!" npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich 2015 npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich This article feels like it was written by NextDoor. npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich F the New York Times (for a variety of reasons , but I'm for adding this to the list). I'm from California, and I've been a y'aller for decades. It's always been a far more civilized term. "Y'all," "You folks," "all of you," "my friends," and so many more are sitting right there for everyone to use! "You guys," is something a typical dude-bro would champion. npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich Now that I'm looking at it on a larger screen, I'm deducting points for him leaving the AirPods in his ears. 😂 @npub1faz…vc22 npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich At first I didn’t even get it, just thinking the choreography was tight. 😂 (Also may have been distracted by how much I love Kool & the Gang. They were the first big concert I ever attended.) npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich With regard to #Firefox dumping its Do Not Track feature, I've been browser shopping. npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich They are both on my Luigi nomination list. npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich Ubuntu is on mine. npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich Once again I feel compelled to encourage everyone to leave anonymous notes throughout the common spaces, restrooms, lobbies, break rooms, wherever possible saying. “Thanks for demanding we all returned to the office for the sense of camaraderie and collaboration. It makes union organizing so much more convenient.” npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich Yeah, I remember when we’d go to lunch back then, my friends and co-workers used to call $20 bills yuppy food coupons. Now that could nearly apply to the $100. npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich Back in the days when we used cash money, I’d do this to pass the time. npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich Yeah, I remember it. And Scalise definitely falls into the antisocial personality category. Absolute psycho. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_baseball_shooting npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich But only congressman Steve Scalise was shot. One congressman. I said a ***score*** of congressmen. That's 20. And even with 20 congressmen, I still don't think that would move the needle on congress even considering any kind of gun control legislation. These politicians are all owned by NRA lobbyists. npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich I think you’d have to gun down a score of congressmen before it would even be considered, and even then only after passing numerous laws against masks and the antifas. npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich For sure. For my case scenario, it's about finding people you vibe with, to then take the conversation elsewhere. I find a lot of people I superficially vibe with here, but I think the results would be not great if I started PMing them with a "I'd love to get to know you better, Want to talk on Signal some time?" npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich I've followed all the suggested #writing hashtags here, and it seems that the posts within tend to focus on discussions of writing theory. (I'm not terribly interested in the question of "Which is more important: character or plot?") npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich I’ve heard it’s because the hotness is in the pepper oils, so foods that can neutralize oil are helpful. Or drinking dish soap, in really extreme cases. (I was once locked out of the old Twitter for this very joke.) npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich 10,017 words written for my little sci-fi book, synopsis/outline. I'm at about the midpoint of the story now, and things are really getting more complicated for our hero. npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich #Movies #VagueSpoilers Alien: Romulus was okay, I guess. I just felt like I’ve seen it before, in every installment of the franchise starting after Alien 2: Season of the Bitch. (Get it? It’s a play on words with a different horror movie franchise featuring a substandard entry.) npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich Did you know you can save 100% of the purchase price of any item in Amazon’s Black Friday sale by not purchasing that item? Unleash your inner saving demon today! npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich I was just chatting with someone else abut this very issue, and there's something going on that I don't understand. I could speculate that Mastodon is perhaps a microcosm of the society at large, where things like racism are truly invisible to swaths of the population. Not ignored, but just insulated from, and then blind to. I'm i straight white guy, and I honestly don't see blatant racism, or homophobia, or other bigotry here, but I know it exists. npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich Question: When you sometimes block an account, do you fantasize that causes them to immediately die? npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich Honest question: Why do YOU think people want Mastodon's user base to get bigger? You may even be one of those people, and if so, why do YOU want Mastodon's user base to grow? npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich And so it begins. npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich The seeds for the story of my new book are taking root. npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich Le Tigre will always be in rotation on my personal playlist. npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich Vandalism creates jobs! npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich You can have either #ClimateChange protesters blocking traffic, or you can have the climate blocking traffic. Your choice. npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich I have a pet peeve about work I'd like to share. After sending my work on to the next stages in the assembly line, there are some #VFX producers who say "Thanks!" And then there are some producers who say, "We received your upload and will let you know if there are any issues." npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich A problem I see with, Just Go Independent,” is somewhat related to the power of unions. Workers in a union are harder for bosses to fire on a whim. npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich This was a really good one! npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich Mastodon, the place where YMMV becomes really, really clear! 😆 npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich And this is exactly why I follow you. npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich So I like the feeds of others I’ve connected with here, like yours, for example. But the more people on a site, all fighting for my attention, just takes away from that. npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich I guess it’s all a matter of what one wants out of their social media. Most of social media, as I see it, is people trying to cultivate the attention of others, but with little to offer those others. It’s a never ending list of wannabe influencers, mixed with the actual “influencers,” whom I find grating and insufferable. If I could replace Mastodon with a BBS, I’d do it in a heartbeat. npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich What makes you say that? npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich What a kooky lunatic! 🤣 @npub1we7…x6u8 npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich Meh. This is the same tired argument that democrats in the US keep resuscitating over and over. It's Ralph Nader nonsense, version 2.0. Instead of attacking the right, neoliberals always go after anyone to their left, and will fabricate whatever "facts" they need to support their assertion. Only Hillary cost Democrats votes in battleground states in 2016. npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich Reminds me of this aphorism: "The left looks for traitors. The right looks for converts." - unknown npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich Was watching a favorite YouTube Chess channel livestream, and some dork started posting "Trump 2024" on the chat. To which I couldn't stop myself from replying, "Trump doesn't care about you or anyone else watching this." npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich To me, this was your subtoot to everyone. 😂 npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich It really depends on the cooling system. Yours may just have heat sinks. But if there is liquid cooling, it will run through radiators that have fans. And those radiator grills can get a lot of dust buildup. npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich if it’s an older machine, be sure to remove the radiator dust. That can cause a lot of the issues you describe. npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich We don’t tax the rich to pay for things. We tax the rich to disempower them from buying governments. npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich BREAKING good news! npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich Happy #Monday. npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich Who was I recently speaking with about the sliminess of academic journals, JSTOR, and Elsevier? Well, today, @npub1fdr…lvhs dropped a real barn burner into my email inbox with this great piece. Enjoy, all of you who like the free flow of academic knowledge! npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich Technically it wasn’t Reagan, and this is not a “well actually,” that I’m proposing. It actually starts with Reagan’s money sorcerers. It’s a cart/horse thing. The blame always lies with the money sorcerers who all studied at the Chicago school of economics. Reagan was THEIR tool. However, they were the tool of the ultra wealthy. I could draw you a diagram, but it would involve me using photos, push pins, a lot of string, and screaming. 🤬 npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich The facts are pretty clear on this. There are no credible sources claiming JD Vance didn't actually fuck a couch. @npub1xjw…3c9q npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich Well, he did fuck a couch. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich #VFX #AI Just had someone sincerely suggest that the SynthEyes user manual could be re-written by Chat GPT. 🤣 I am still laughing! npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich Thank you for all you wrote here. Not only is the math wrong, the pontificating and shaming approach to voter outreach should be embarrassing. Small “d” democrats never seem to learn that. npub1utcnll48dvczwhh24cga63raj70ttjumluc5tlc56u057p8m5caqa8zd0h Matthew Merkovich I just had a conversation with a guy who said, “Yeah, well I’m a capitalist.”
