Writer. Comms person.
Mostly sci/tech/health.
Sometimes music/food/culture.
Lifelong Eagles fan from the South. (We exist!)
Let’s make the South better, y’all.
Stuff I write for fun here: https://medium.com/@shiplives
Matt Shipman (he/him)
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This is an amazingly well-reported story by @joshuasokol.bsky.social. And a wonderful use of "synecdoche".
www.science.org/content/arti...
Researchers see enormous power in new tools—but also the potential end of astrophysics as a human endeavor
LOL. “We used AI to make shirts that look like they were made by your kids in their third-ever sewing project.”
F**king priceless.
I wonder how much Nike paid for the privilege of using AI to do a shit job on a global stage?
Have they considered using…tailor/designers?
LOLOL
Jonathan O'Callaghan
Well, this is just plain delightful. I've always found goblin sharks fascinating.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Matt Shipman (he/him)
I see raw milk is in the news.
Allow me to introduce you to my favorite moment in West Virginia legislative history: www.eater.com/2016/3/9/111...
I spent much of this morning trying to teach myself about twistronics and moiré superlattices to prep for an interview next week.
Looking forward to the interview, because I have *NO IDEA* if my understanding of these things is even remotely correct. LOL
It feels like AI is coming for us right now: its fuckwit face is there in so many things, but also, more incipiently, in the decisions companies who should have nothing to do with it are making.
But people will always want something real.
The resistance is in DIY. It's in doing bold, small stuff.
F*** that nice write-up I got in the Guardian. This is my all-time favourite review of one of my books.
Heads up, reporters. Here's a list of experts on the New World screwworm, which has been found in the US for the first time in 40 years. The researchers can talk about what this means for agriculture, the economy, and pets.
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news.ncsu.edu/2026/06/nc-s...
Heads up, reporters. Here's a list of experts on the New World screwworm, which has been found in the US for the first time in 40 years. The researchers can talk about what this means for agriculture, the economy, and pets.
🧪
news.ncsu.edu/2026/06/nc-s...
Google’s attempt to use the National Enquirer defense (“we’re inherently untrustworthy”) fails!
“Google argued that users could check the linked sources themselves to verify whether the AI summary was correct. Users generally knew ‘that information generated with AI shouldn’t be blindly trusted.’”
