Matthew Merkovich

@MattMerk
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I am officially dipping my toe back into the world of social networking. I mostly log in here from time to time to read and favorite other people's posts.
TIL that the NRA campaigned to avoid the TV series *MacGyver* and to boycott its sponsors because MacGyver didn’t use guns.

The correct way to run a headline for this story. The reg does not disappoint

#uspol #routers #surveillance #privacy #nationalsecurity #cybersecurity #infosec #cisco #theregister

I learned that the artist behind the artwork for the game Elite was none other than Philip Castle, the designer of the posters for A Clockwork Orange and Full Metal Jacket, among others.

He passed away on February 20, 2026, at the age of 83 🙏

#PhilipCastle #Elite #RetroGaming #SciFi

what we thought we knew about autism and... whatnot

'For decades, researchers had been measuring the wrong thing. Conflating communication style differences with empathy deficits produced dramatically inflated effect sizes and an illusion of empathy impairment'

#autism #actuallyAutistic #science #psychology

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/positively-different/202601/what-the-world-got-wrong-about-autistic-people

What the World Got Wrong About Autistic People

For decades, autism research compared autistic people to animals, denied them moral sensitivity, and assumed autistic traits made them miserable. All wrong.

Psychology Today
Walt Disney was a very bad man.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/r4ctfBjOQMU
Disney was a Union Buster?!

YouTube
For all my fellow Adobe haters out there (and those still trapped in Software Landlord™ Adobe's clutches):
https://www.wheresyoured.at/hatersguide-adobe/
Premium: The Hater's Guide To Adobe

I hear from a lot of people that are filled with bilious fury about the tech industry, but few companies have pissed off the world more than Adobe. As the foremost monopolist in software, web and graphic design, Adobe has created one of the single-most abusive, usurious freakshows in capitalist

Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At
This is your reminder that Chuck Norris was a hateful, racist ghoul.

Finding out about César Chavez today reminded me:

No gods, no masters.