Matthew Bennell

Matthew Bennell

@matthewbennell.bsky.social

"No one does it alone, not even the madness." — Nicholas Ray If it's possible, it may happen. If it's impossible, it might happen. "Shut your eyes and you'll burst into flames." — Log Lady

1,599 Followers 1,949 Following 3,585 Posts Joined May 2025
8 hours ago

In your i!

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8 hours ago

Does that apply to right-wing AM talk radio? And all Sinclair TV stations?

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Susan Pedersen · Diary: Men explain Epstein to me You might think, given the subject, that the male hosts I think of as the podcast bros would have invited on a woman or...

"Men explain Epstein to me"

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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8 hours ago
AI-generated hallucination showing Trump and another official hanging from makeshift gallows outside smoking White House as men with torches look on.

Done.

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Early life and education of Donald Trump - Wikipedia

He "became a corporal his sophomore year and a supply sergeant the following year. After his alleged lack of oversight of a subordinate, Trump was relieved of his position and reassigned as a battalion training officer. ..."

Wiki portrait "with borrowed medals."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_l...

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Pi and the Seductions of Infinity This essay and poem are part of the Universe in Verse book. “My business is circumference,” Emily Dickinson wrote in one of her most cryptic letters. Since ancient times, human beings have been enc…

The calendar compels remarking on the date.

www.themarginalian.org/2026/03/14/u...

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9 hours ago

That works, too. But I think the prison unit would cost taxpayers more.

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Why the ‘narrow,’ ‘short-term’ sanctions reversal for Russia is neither Sanctions relief for Russia will be difficult to undo.

Trumpstein's sanction relief for Russia will be hard to undo.

As with every other gift to Putin, who could have predicted that?

www.defenseone.com/threats/2026...

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Vineyard Wind puts final blade on long coming project Vineyard Wind and Revolution Wind, the nation's largest offshore wind projects, are generating power off the New England coast.

The future is blowin' in the wind, off NE —

"America’s offshore wind industry achieved a historic milestone late Friday when the country’s first major sea-based wind project completed construction and a second one announced it had begun generating electricity."

www.eenews.net/articles/2-l...

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Yet about 82% of the comments are identical to a letter that appeared on the website of a secretive advocacy group called Medicare Advantage Majority, a data analysis by KFF Health News has found.

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Judging by more than 16,400 comments recently posted on a federal government website, you’d think there was a groundswell of older Americans demanding that federal officials hike payments to their Medicare Advantage health insurance plans.

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Medicare Advantage ‘Dark Money’ Group Attempts To Win Higher Payments for Insurance Companies - KFF Health News Medicare Advantage insurers say a proposal by the Trump administration to keep their payments nearly flat next year may lead to service cuts that harm seniors struggling to afford health care. A decis...

The insurance pigs are bellying up to the trough once again —

Medicare Advantage ‘Dark Money’ Group Attempts To Win Higher Payments for Insurance Companies

kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

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Executives say AI boosts productivity but the real gain is just 16 minutes per week A Foxit study claims AI boosts productivity, yet once validation time is included executives gain just 16 minutes per week and end users lose time reviewing outputs.

How much is AI boosting "productivity"?

16 minutes/wk.

nerds.xyz/2026/03/foxi...

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Exclusive: Meta planning sweeping layoffs as AI costs mount The cuts could affect 20% or more of the company as ‌Meta seeks to offset artificial-intelligence infrastructure spending and prepare for the efficiency brought about by employees working with AI.

Where there's smoke, there's AI —

Bloomberg: A survey of 1,000 hiring managers: 59% say they stress AI's role in layoffs or hiring freezes “because it plays better”; only 9% say AI has fully replaced roles.

Reuters: Meta plans sweeping layoffs as AI costs mount

www.reuters.com/business/wor...

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10 hours ago
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Live Nation, Ticketmaster trial to resume after 7 states join a Justice Department settlement More than 30 states will resume their antitrust trial against Live Nation and Ticketmaster on Monday after negotiations this week failed to result in many states joining a tentative settlement reached...

Only seven AGs, all from red states, joined the settlement.

Monday, the trial resumes.

apnews.com/article/live...

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11 hours ago
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The Internet has a Cat! Meet Purrli, the online cat purr generator. Not just a cat purr, but a cat purring next to you. Purrli recreates the sound and the presence of a cat, online. It's soothing, it's free, and it's purrfect!

Every day can be Caturday.

(An oldie, but maybe it will help you carry on.)

purrli.com

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11 hours ago

Remind me what he's sacrificed.

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11 hours ago

He should be in a straight jacket and locked away in a psychiatric hospital — along with Kegsbreath, Miller, Bondi, Rubio and the rest of the gang/

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11 hours ago

Apologies, was moving fast and scrambled the title. It's "Faraway, So Close." Enjoy.

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1 day ago
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Ukraine opens battlefield AI data to allies in world-first move Ukraine is giving international partners and defense companies access to its trove of real combat data to train AI models for autonomous drone systems.

Ukraine opens battlefield AI data to allies in world-first move

www.defensenews.com/flashpoints/...

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Thousands of Chinese boats mass at sea, raising questions Thousands of Chinese fishing boats have been massing in geometric formations in the East China Sea, in coordinated actions that experts believe are part of Beijing's preparations for a potential regio...

Exploit your enemy/frenemy/rival when it has tied itself in war knots elsewhere. China appears on the move in the East China Sea.

www.france24.com/en/live-news...

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Hegseth orders ‘ruthless’ review of JAGs. Some see an attempt to evade accountability Current and former military lawyers question the secretary’s motives and timing.

War weasel Kegsbreath has "ordered an overhaul of the military’s civilian and uniformed legal offices, raising fears among current and former members of the judge advocate general corps that he will gut legal oversight of the administration’s actions."

www.defenseone.com/policy/2026/...

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1 day ago

Looks like you've got an issue with dependent claws.

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1 day ago
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Donald Trump Boasts Sinking 46 Iranian Ships, Says "Sinking Is More Fun Than Capturing Them" YouTube video by NDTV

Here's the brief clip of the criminal laughing about murdering Iranians who could have been asked to surrender. If this doesn't make you sick your stomach, I don't know what will. This man is a monster. And the people laughing with him are just as bad.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=QFV2...

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Rube Goldberg's Professor Butts and the Self-Operating Napkin (1931). Soup spoon (A) is raised to mouth, pulling string (B) and thereby jerking ladle (C), which throws cracker (D) past toucan (E). Toucan jumps after cracker and perch (F) tilts, upsetting seeds (G) into pail (H). Extra weight in the pail pulls cord (I), which opens and ignites lighter (J), setting off skyrocket (K), which causes sickle (L) to cut string (M), allowing pendulum with attached napkin to swing back and forth, thereby wiping chin. Via Wikipedia.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Go...

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Musk admits xAI 'not built right' — weeks after Tesla invested $2 billion Elon Musk admitted today that xAI, his artificial intelligence venture, “was not built right first time around” and “is being...

Muskrat admits xAI "not built right," so he's reinventing his broken wheel.

Think Rube Goldberg.

electrek.co/2026/03/13/e...

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1 day ago

Comer's letter:

oversight.house.gov/wp-content/u...

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House Oversight calls prison guard on duty during Epstein's death to testify Chairman James Comer requested that Tova Noel appear March 26 for a transcribed interview.

Prison guard on duty during Epstein's death has been asked — not subpoenaed — to appear before James Comer's House Oversight panel on March 26.

www.axios.com/2026/03/13/o...

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All 6 crew members of US KC-135 tanker confirmed dead after crash in Iraq All six crew members aboard a U.S. KC-135 aerial tanker that crashed in Iraq on March 12 have been confirmed dead.

A little more fog of war re crash of refueling tanker in Iraq.

Apparently TWO kC-135 Stratotankers were involved in midair mishap.

Based on the same design as the Boeing 707 passenger plane, the tankers have been in service for more than 60 years.

taskandpurpose.com/news/militar...

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