Arthur Dent aka Matt Browne

Arthur Dent aka Matt Browne

@arthurcdent.bsky.social

Australian, professor, statistician, Senior podcast co-host. “The heart and soul of Decoding the Gurus”. I really do know where my towel is

9,466 Followers 597 Following 128 Posts Joined May 2023
1 year ago

Evaluating Curtis "dark enlightenment" Yarvin's arguments for @GurusPod is like looking at a bunch of jigsaw pieces scattered over the table, none of which are fitting together.

Then you see they're not jigsaw pieces but the little plastic prizes included in breakfast serial.

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1 year ago
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Walking down the trail from Lookout Mtn at Chattanooga I passed what i assume to be one of the doors to Moria

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1 year ago

Hella-good move

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1 year ago
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Sounds like a plan

www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/aus...

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1 year ago

“To his supporters, Bhattacharya’s supposed status as a victim of government censorship is the key element of his hero’s journey. And it’s simply not true.”

I very much regret listening to Stanford when it told me I shouldn’t respond to Jay’s lies ab our work. They were wrong & I knew it then too.

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In episode five of #WolfHall: The Mirror and the Light, the incomparable Abraham tapestries in Hampton Court’s majestic Great Hall have been meticulously recoloured to show their original vibrancy. The result is stunning—so much kudos to the brilliant art department.

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1 year ago

Downloading this now, thx for the tip

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1 year ago
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Easily the most pretentious conversation two brothers have ever had in the entire history of the world.

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Forgot to mark the anniversary a few days ago of this uncanny “Plato and Aristotle in conversation” moment for our times.

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1 year ago

Not at this particular point in time, but CONGRATULATIONS NEVERTHELESS ;)

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1 year ago

Sheesh, the Economist taking a huge L there by the sounds of it

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1 year ago

Thanks Ryan! I take a far dimmer view of the motel bathroom fixtures, however

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1 year ago

appreciated this analysis of American culture by @arthurcdent.bsky.social

“[In America] everyone has got main character syndrome, but in a pretty good way”

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1 year ago

They’re all so fascinating

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Adair, Iowa, had a population of 794. So, it seemed suspicious when its three-person police department asked regulators to buy 90 machine guns, including an M134 Gatling-style minigun capable of shooting up to 6,000 rounds of ammunition every minute.
Federal agents later discovered Adair's police chief, Bradley Wendt, was using his position to acquire weapons and sell them for personal profit. A jury convicted Wendt earlier this year of conspiracy to defraud the United States, lying to federal law enforcement and illegal possession of a machine gun.
Wendt is unapologetic and has appealed his conviction.
"If I'm guilty of this, every cop in the nation's going to jail," Wendt told CBS News just days before a federal judge sentenced him to a 5-year prison term.
Wendt's crimes appear to be part of a nationwide pattern.

This story is uh, insane www.cbsnews.com/news/police-...

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1 year ago

People often wonder about if the various gurus and grifters we cover are conscious liars or self-deluded. As Ponzi illustrates, it’s often a bit of both, and unbridled confidence & narcissism is the glue that holds it all together.

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YouTube
Charles Ponzi The Documentary YouTube video by Patrick Boyle

A nice overview of a fascinating character

youtu.be/w4waqVKanxA?...

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1 year ago

*regular* Tim Tams are unbeatable

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1 year ago
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Sanitising a Paranoid Crank Misleading and irresponsible journalism is being used to launder the reputation of RFK Jr.

He is a paranoid anti-vax crank, but we’ll need to sanitise him to make some sense of the current situation

quillette.com/2024/12/03/s...

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1 year ago
A [FAKE] tweet from South Korea's soon-to-be-ex-President Yoon Su, reading "The haters said we couldn't do it. And they were correct. Honestly great call from the haters"
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1 year ago

Hullo you :D

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1 year ago

“I studied the blade” level cringe

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1 year ago

Correct. Those, including other ‘scientists’, who have made continual baseless claims about our paper, that it was ghost written, plagiarised, or we were paid off, should reflect hard on the misinformation they have spread and the hate they have sown.

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1 year ago

Indeed. I just read Barbara Tuchman’s history of the 14thC and there are too many modern resonances

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1 year ago

IDK he’s never gotten this far before

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1 year ago

If the King only knew about the injustices we suffered, he’d soon put things to right

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Not much on the internet sparks joy these days, except the ITYSL subreddit of course

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1 year ago

Most people know Sam Beckett’s plays, but I personally far prefer his novels. Highly recommended, they are a reading experience like none other

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Most people know Sam Beckett’s plays, but I personally far prefer his novels. Highly recommended, they are a reading experience like none other

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