Matt Pearce

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investors should be aware that we might be doing a slavery

If the golem becomes ensorcelled, the coven may need to assume operational burdens related to ensorcellation and the golem’s fel status. This may cost extra mana points.

A fantastic essay that holds up immaculately. But I will never forgive Sara for making me think this awful awful drink was something I should try. robbreport.com/food-drink/s...

I have more thinking to do but this piece by Matt Pearce gets at some of where I’m leaning. mattdpearce.substack.com/p/nathan-fie...

Sunday newsletter: Another thinkpiece about Nathan, for you! mattdpearce.substack.com/p/nathan-fie...

It happened to me: I have no idea who Ethan Klein is.

Clarification: 99% of Californians hate other peoples’ cars.

Has there ever been a documentary subject like Amanda Seyfried?

to be fair, you need an extraordinarily high IQ to appreciate Who’s on First

I was gobsmacked.

We can combat rich people's control of the media, Mostly Economics with Matt Peace, director of policy at Rebuild Local News www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j3b...

For fuck’s sake

NEW EP: The US has lost 80%+ of its local journalists since 2002. @deanbaker13.bsky.social and @mattdpearce.com of @rebuildlocalnews.bsky.social discuss California’s bid to fund local reporting by ending a tax break for excess CEO pay. Tune in: youtu.be/5j3b9fJDFZE?...

US garment workers helped pioneer multi-ethnic labor unions, which united people across racial, religious, gender, linguistic, and cultural divides. Also native-born citizens and immigrants. I think about that sometimes when I see people suggest such divides are unbridgeable.

"Oceans are now football fields"

How in the world is California paying for its new bill providing state support of local news outlets outlets? By taxing executive compensation above one million dollars. @mattdpearce.com joins @greenwell.bsky.social on the Kicker. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

“One of the dynamics I’ve been watching play out in the news sector is the completely imbalanced relationship between #AI companies & news publishers juxtaposed against the completely imbalanced relationship between AI-using #news #publishers & their embattled #journalists.” #KnowledgeWork #learning

“But what has been especially irritating about AI to many working in… knowledge production is AI’s ruthless exploitation of others’ intellectual property and community norms alike. There’s a lot of taking without a sufficient giving back; an openness for thee but not for me.” Via @mattdpearce.com

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Been talking for a while about how pure math with its formally verifiable problems is a bellwether to look to for how these disruptions are going to play out and to start working through how to handle them. It won’t be the same everywhere, but if we can’t even figure out this one, we’re cooked.

I wrote about knowledge work, the reasons people do knowledge work, and why AI makes many knowledge workers mad. mattdpearce.substack.com/p/the-two-sp...

When you lose a local newspaper, local bond prices go up. @mattdpearce.com, a journalist turned policymaker, tells @greenwell.bsky.social how he helped create a landmark new law, on this week's Kicker. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

The Sunday argument: Tax AI to fund knowledge jobs. mattdpearce.substack.com/p/the-idiots...

Talked ball with longtime ball-knower @greenwell.bsky.social. Had fun. Got stipple-portraited so that my funky hotel room background decor will live forever.

Kicker host @greenwell.bsky.social interviewed @mattdpearce.com, a longtime Los Angeles Times reporter who switched to government advocacy, about California’s big bet on government-funded local news. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

launching a new experiment where i log on to Threads and just block the first ten accounts it shows me and then immediately log off

I went back on Twitter a bit recently to post about my journalism bill (because Newsom hangs out on there and we wanted him to sign it), and after a few years away I was most struck by how it was a lot of the same people doing all the same bits they were doing when I left. That’s it? All there is?

Any other freelancers want to relocate to California with me and start a magazine? (Joking, you'll never get me out of Austria. But unironically I expect this amazing law to lead to lots of shared houses full of journalists popping in California within a year or so, hah).

The Sunday argument: Tax AI to fund knowledge jobs. mattdpearce.substack.com/p/the-idiots...

(defending my friend after the truth about his mechanical turk is revealed) but is this biological turk not an even more incredible invention??

kills me every time man

oh my god I was going to joke "he's actually centre-left" and turns out he IS

Anne Carson’s lovely piece, “Merry Christmas from Hegel.” It has it all: Hegelian speculative thought, snow standing, grief, and the sudden experience of peace "at the very core of the care of snow."

New economics term: Total Larry Ellison Risk. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...