Matthew McDowell-Sweet

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And we’re live on iOS. Go ahead and give the gift of interesting with Subset. Save, share and search the best web and app content; it's simple, fast and secure. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/subset-network/id6745224934

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“The first publication to look at protocols across a wide range of disciplines…” /sop https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/152113 Hmm.

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Books books books https://www.essayful.co/p/1-the-bibliography-of-a-writing-life-42b

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Luke-warm take following Halliburton’s and Tatum’s achilles issues and the general pattern of these injuries: it’s some unholy combination of… 1) super early athlete specialisation 2) all time high load accumulation compounding 3) proliferation of “high tech footwear”, limb supports etc. 1) kills general vitality in relation to unexpected stimuli. 2) means that mid-20s players probs have equivalent wear and tear of 10-15 yrs vets in comp to prior eras. 3) results in distribution of forces as players sink and draw energy from the ground diverging from actual human movement patterns and leaking in weird ways.

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Are protocols non-spaces? What do we think /sop? https://farcaster.xyz/simondlr/0x11971903

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Trying something new to compel myself to Have More Thoughts. Dialogue with an LLM > post chat to open repo. https://roamresearch.com/#/app/kinocomputing/page/2dweGXvkB

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books books books https://basecase.vc/booklist/about

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Does “no one plays defence” map to “no one thinks critically anymore”? Suspect it does. And it may be a part of the answer to WTF is going on with Cluely.

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Hyped for Game 7 of the NBA Finals. Suspect that if the Thunder are allowed to get away with physical harassment then it’s over for the Pacers. If OKC guards aren’t allowed to slap up the Pacers, though, then the Haliban are gonna snag the W. https://youtube.com/watch?v=KwzHW-c5h7M

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Not sure about P1 of this but P2 is definitely true—just ensure that instructions essentially resolve to file system operations. https://x.com/inductionheads/status/1935744474551836884

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Reminds me of when someone told me, with a straight face, that 1k words was considered long form. Wondering if we’re seeing a further collapse now where even 100 words is an instant DQ for consumption. https://x.com/antoniogm/status/1936423068630679726

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This seems correct to me. Seems to have started with all the RTO stuff post-pandemic, though. There was a mere glimmer of more equitable hiring and ways of working and then, squish! https://x.com/impactology/status/1936309226646958332

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On good days: “ahh, reality has a surprising amount of detail—so cool.” On bad days: “ahh, reality has a surprising amount of detail—fml.” Winning is when the former outnumber the latter. http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-amount-of-detail

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I have been successfully Claude Code pilled.

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If you’ve read people like Roberto Saviano or Ioan Grillo, or enjoyed Don Winslow’s Power of the Dog series, then FT’s Hot Money season 2 is kinda fun. https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/hot-money/introducing-hot-money-the-new-narcos

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Technology and globalisation massively reduced daily physical load for large segments of the world. AI is potentially reducing daily cognitive load for large segments of the world. Q: Will we see the same chronic decay in our evolved cognitive capabilities? https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

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New favourite @subset flow: listen to podcast episode, fetch links from show notes, and dive into sources.

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(In)sufficiently advanced pluralism is indistinguishable from a threat to democracy.

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Continued on with Decentralised Law this AM. Quick review of international law’s origin then onto its entanglement with NGOs and suprastate orgs. https://decentralizedlaw.org/book/

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Uh oh: stumbled on debates concerning philosophical underpinnings of football. https://jogofuncional1.blogspot.com/2025/01/deeper-than-two-touchisms.html

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