Matt Zimo

@zimo

Living in North Carolina. Creator of the Vols and Master and Commander feeds.

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Matt Zimo@zimo· Jul 11

Four panel image from The Good Place.
Panel 1: woman asks Are we sure we should be listening to these guys?
Panel 2: Woman says, "It's like, who died and left Aristotle in charge of ethics?"
Panel 3: Image of man in front of a blackboard with Ethics 101 written on it.
Panel 4: man points at blackboard and says, "Plato."

Matt Zimo@zimo· Jun 25

Not sure this counts as a flop. Name a movie that flopped at the box office but is actually great. #FilmSky

65 movie poster showing Adam Driver in a forest holding a rifle. There's a giant Tyrannosaurus Rex skull behind him.

Matt Zimo@zimo· Jun 25

Matt Zimo@zimo· Jun 6

Entrex Software's The Civil War game on Mac

Screenshot of a black and white map of the United States overlaid with a status report box showing a drawing of General George McClellan. It says Round: 1 Apr 1861

Matt Zimo@zimo· May 14

A short but powerful book.

The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism

By David Golumbia

Matt Zimo@zimo· Apr 28

I was waaaay too young to see this on tv.

Poster for IT with Tim Curry as Pennywise, the evil clown.

Matt Zimo@zimo· Apr 24

Kubrick got it out of his system early.

Movie poster for Stanley Kubrick's Fear and Desire. Shows a soldier with his hand over a woman's mouth.

Matt Zimo@zimo· Dec 2

Steven Levy begins an article in Wired with these questions. My irony meter is broken, so I can't tell if thus is tongue-in-cheek or not.

What happened to Silicon Valley? Why did the Ayn Rand-loving heroes of tech become Donald Trump's bootlickers?

Matt Zimo@zimo· Oct 24

Picture of a miniature schnauzer sitting on a couch. Its mustache is uneven, suggesting it just woke up from a nap.

Matt Zimo@zimo· Sep 21

Bar scene from Wages of Fear where all the characters are lined up and staring somewhere off screen with serious faces.

Matt Zimo@zimo· Sep 3

My current POV

Close-up and blurry photo of the face of a miniature schnauzer taking up the entire screen.

Matt Zimo@zimo· Aug 31

Finally reading Morgan Ames's book about One Laptop per Child, The Charisma Machine. Charismatic technology is such a great term.

Excerpt from a book:
'In this account, a charismatic technology derives its power experientially and symbolically through the possibility or promise of action: what is
Important is not what the object is but how it invokes the imagination through what it promises to do. The material form of a charismatic technology may be part of this but is less important than the technology's ideological commitments--its "charismatic promises."'

Matt Zimo@zimo· Aug 6

Hilarious review of Black Skinhead by @brandicd.bsky.social on the Storygraph app. I liked it, too. Good book!

Screenshot of Storygraph app review by byrningup of
Black Skinhead: Reflections on Blackness and Our Political Future by Brandi Collins-Dexter
5 Stars

Devastatingly prophetic. Recommend to the hosts of Pod Save America (derogatory)

Matt Zimo@zimo· Jul 20

The Ebola Syndrome

Ebola Syndrome dvd cover. Combines three pictures: a sweaty man with a knife, an African tribal ceremony, and people in haz-mat suits running in a fiery crowd.

Matt Zimo@zimo· Jul 11

Jeff Goldblum driving a chopper motor tricycle and wearing giant tinted glasses in the movie Nashville.

Matt Zimo@zimo· Jul 4

I love the little demon drawing in this wikipedia article.

Screenshot of a wikipedia article about Maxwell's Demon thought experiment. The top shows a diagram with two squares divided in half with small doors operated via string by a demon with a pitchfork, horns, and pointy tail. Inside the squares are red and blue dots, representing fast and slow-moving particles, respectively. On the left square, the demon opens the door from one half of the square to the other half only for a red dot. On the square in the right, the demon has closed the door and one half of the square is filled with blue dots and the other half with red dots.
What follows is the text from the Wikipedia paragraph.

In the thought experiment, a demon controls a door between two chambers containing gas. As individual gas molecules (or atoms) approach the door, the demon quickly opens and closes the door to allow only fast-moving molecules to pass through in one direction, and only slow-moving molecules to pass through in the other. Because the kinetic temperature of a gas depends on the velocities of its constituent molecules, the demon's actions cause one chamber to warm up and the other to cool down. This would decrease the total entropy of the system, seemingly without applying any work, thereby violating the second law of thermodynamics.

Matt Zimo@zimo· May 10

The Max app has a special section for Mothers Day to promote HBO series called "Mothers of Max." For The Sporanos, they show Carmela. They could have done the funniest thing and showed Livia instead.

Picture of a section of the Max app screen promoting The Sopranos in a section called Mothers of Max. The thumbnail image for the Spranos shows Tony's wife Carmela instead of his famously monstrous mother, Livia.

Matt Zimo@zimo· Apr 16

"I told them I wanted to watch a show about singers, T, and they gave me this!"

Chria Moltisanti from The Sopranos shouting. He's wearing a blue shirt and black pants.

Matt Zimo@zimo· Apr 3

This is from Cyberlibertarianism.

Unlike many academic and even political debates, those over the politics of the digital are conducted between one side that directly represents the interests of existing and new businesses and the accumulation of capital more generally; the *other" side consists of academics and other writers who believe the ideas at issue are fundamentally questionable. Further, nonprofits like the Mozilla Foundation and the Open Society Foundation- to say nothing of NGOs with explicit tech-lobbying roots like EFF, CDT, and the parts of ACLU that focus on digital technology (see Franks 2019a), which on the surface looks as if it could not possibly be pro-business provide critical propagandistic power for the unfettered development of technology. For contrast, truly pro-regulation and pro-democracy NGOs like the Electronic Privacy and Information Center tend to promote much more skeptical and well-considered platforms but receive much less attention than do the others.

Matt Zimo@zimo· Mar 28

Picture of Richard Nixon next to a quote. "I always remember that whatever I have done in the past or may do in the future, Duke University is responsible in one way or another."

Matt Zimo@zimo· Mar 19

Post a fictional character who you think would be an antivaxxer. Hard mode: No villains

Matt Zimo@zimo· Mar 12

I'm disappointed. There was no tech bias element in Werewolf Lawyer like the Storygraph AI said there would be. Instead, it was just a high-stakes, can't-put-it-down legal thriller about a lawyer defending a werewolf in murder trial.