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Mat Honan ✅

@mathonan.com
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Editor in chief of MIT Technology Review. Formerly SF Bureau Chief at Buzzfeed News. Formerly Wired. Formerly @mat on twitter. Discos in Frisco

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Mat Honan ✅ @mathonan.com · 5h
“We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot and take ourselves far off the frontier—that’s just a horrible strategy” New from @willdouglasheaven.bsky.social talking to OpenAI chief research officer www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/30/1...
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“We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallout, says OpenAI’s chief research officer
Mark Chen on what the firm is doing to make its models safe, how a slowdown would work, and why the world is better off with OpenAI in it.
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Like 20 years ago I was having lunch with @mathonan.com, and after I finished marveling at a bunch of San Francisco weirdness—tilting skyscrapers, corroding bus terminals, small homes with giant secret multilevel basements—Mat said, well, it’s all the corruption, right?
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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Interviewing the inventor of napalm about his hats
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Mat Honan ✅ @mathonan.com · 25/09/2026
I am telling you, there is no such thing as a gentle nudge
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Eileen Guo @eileenguo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Days after we published our story on deaths by border towers, Rep Delia Ramirez announced a plan to terminate CBP's surveillance tower program—and dismantle DHS. Citing our reporting, she said: "The towers that we have paid a billion $ to just don’t work.” www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/23/1...
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A congressional representative just proposed killing America’s border tower program
The proposed bill comes days after an MIT Technology Review investigation revealed that over 1,050 people have died within the advertised range of surveillance towers.
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Mat Honan ✅ @mathonan.com · 23/09/2026
Unless the answer to this is an unambiguous yes (and oh boy, it is not that!) I do not understand why you would send this email
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Steve Kovach @stevekovach.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Facebook did this 11 years ago! @mathonan.com bought a parrot for @kevinroose.com www.buzzfeednews.com/article/math...
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Using Parrots To Pull The Curtain Back On Facebook’s M
It’s contractors, all the way down.
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Mat Honan ✅ @mathonan.com · 21/09/2026
Our reporters spent the past year and some months investigating deaths along the "virtual wall" of the southern border. Their investigation reveals that a humanitarian crisis at the border has unfolded in view of the government’s own cameras: www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/21/1...
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The US spent billions on border surveillance. Why can’t it catch people before they die?
Surveillance towers, increasingly powered by AI, promised faster responses to crossings. Our investigation of deaths near the towers found they are failing to deliver.
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Mat Honan ✅ @mathonan.com · 18/09/2026
Good morning San Francisco
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"My department has also dispatched three of our finest schooners to explore the part of our maps that say 'here be dragons.' We vow to get to the bottom of this mystery."
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Mat Honan ✅ @mathonan.com · 18/09/2026
I feel I owe it to everyone to let you know that Mushroom Grandpa cassettes are back in stock mushroomgrandpa.bandcamp.com/merch
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Merch from Mushroom Grandpa
Merch from Mushroom Grandpa
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Type Investigations @typeinvestigations.org · 10/09/2026
A pastor and his wife created a cryptocurrency and hawked it in Christian communities. When it came crashing down, investors lost millions―and they were accused of fraud. Katia Savchuk reports for @technologyreview.com: typeinvestigations.org/investigatio...
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God told them to sell crypto. Their investors lost everything. - Type Investigations
© Type Media Center document.write(new Date().getFullYear()). All Rights Reserved.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
BREAKING via TMZ Milo Yiannopolous has been apprehended by ICE and is currently in a detention center.
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Mat Honan ✅ @mathonan.com · 28/08/2026
Apropos of nothing.... www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jose...
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Here's How Breitbart And Milo Smuggled Nazi and White Nationalist Ideas Into The Mainstream
A cache of documents obtained by BuzzFeed News reveals the truth about Steve Bannon’s alt-right “killing machine.”
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James Temple @jtemple.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I caught the West Coast premiere of the new Phoebe Bridgers album at the MOSAC planetarium in Sacramento. It’s a once-in-a-generation artist in full control of her talents & at the peak of her powers. She has reached new heights in terms of musical complexity, originality, arrangement & production.
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Mat Honan ✅ @mathonan.com · 13/08/2026
Shit is about to get so crazy. This Mission Local story is basically like one of those early dispatches about a mysterious new infectious disease in China missionlocal.org/2026/08/the-...
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The Dissent has AI ‘reporters’ cover S.F. — reusing the work of human journalists
A 27-year-old BlackRock portfolio specialist created the AI news website in his spare time. Media experts are skeptical.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Also thrilled to announce that Natalie Portman is developing my short story "Constellations" for film, thru her MountainA production company. I'm psyched at the prospect of her starring in it. "Constellations" appeared in the MIT Technology Review earlier this year (see today's pinned post for link)
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Rachel Courtland @rachelcourtland.com · 23/07/2026
I'm working on booting up fiction again at @technologyreview.com. Tell me your favorite sci-fi and sci-fi-adjacent authors. Who would you love to see in our pages? Bonus points for new and emerging folks!
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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
i for one have full confidence in the trump administration's ability to adequately refit a plane donated by a foreign government into a highly secure mobile command center for the united states executive, following their unquestionably successful renovation of A Large Pool of Water
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Mat Honan ✅ @mathonan.com · 17/06/2026
Huh
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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
none of this is true and the place where this is going is potentially very awful
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Mat Honan ✅ @mathonan.com · 12/06/2026
I need more friends on the bird app roostsocial.app/invite/KMCNG2
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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 12/06/2026
OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO A DEAL WITH EURASIA
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Mat Honan ✅ @mathonan.com · 08/06/2026
I am in Dutch with the robots
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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 03/06/2026
Imagine being in the control room at your grownup TV job the first time you realize that television is created by people making choices, and doesn’t just happen organically.
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I was an intern at @CBSNews when Pelley would fill in for Katie Couric on the evening news. I watched in the control room one day as he directed them to slowly push the shot in on him as he took his glasses off. It was so fake l've remembered it for 15 years.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
“I have been in combat in Afghanistan,” Scott Pelley told the NYT just after he was fired. “I have been in combat in Iraq. I have been in the war zone in Ukraine multiple times, risking my life and the happiness of my family because of my devotion to the broadcast.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/b...
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CBS News Fires Scott Pelley of ‘60 Minutes’
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I tell ya, if you agree to judge any literary contest, you better put your full self into it, in this age of AI slop and plagiarism. And that includes how you describe the winners, so we don't think you had AI help writing those fulsome anodyne descriptions lol.
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Grace Huckins @gracehuckins.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The Android XR sunglasses are pretty cute. I'm surprised they went with such a feminine design, especially given how much more skeptical of AI women seem to be in general.
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Grace Huckins @gracehuckins.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
One interesting piece of coding news—agentic coding is being consolidated under the Antigravity brand. Gemini CLI is becoming Antigravity CLI. Perhaps that heralds some much-needed refocusing for the company's agentic coding efforts.
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Grace Huckins @gracehuckins.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I'm @ Google I/O in sunny Mountain View today, and I'll be sharing my thoughts here throughout the day. We're just over halfway through the keynote now, and one thing is already pretty obvious—Google isn't coming for Anthropic and OpenAI's shared agentic coding crown anytime soon
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I understand this may come off as salty (and maybe it is!) but it's accurate. Thiel may have never told anyone on record that he did what he did had we not published it first at Forbes.
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Mat Honan ✅ @mathonan.com · 07/05/2026
What?
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Mat Honan ✅ @mathonan.com · 06/05/2026
Look, look, look, I'm sorry. Look. I don't do the best job of promoting my own work. So, here I am. Posting.
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Mat Honan ✅ @mathonan.com · 29/04/2026
Cool. Cool. The venue holds 2900 people. Cool.
Ticketmaster screen showing 10436 people are ahead of you in the queue
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Michelle Kim @michelletomkim.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
OpenAI's lawyer pulls up a photo of the founding members of OpenAI during the company's early days, wearing T-shirts and jeans in a scrappy office and “working day and night," he says. Musk, who was at Y Combinator, came by occasionally to “yell at people for not moving fast enough,” he says.
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Michelle Kim @michelletomkim.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
“No one should be allowed to steal a charity,” says Musk's lawyer. Musk brings two claims against OpenAI (breach of charitable trust and unjust enrichment) and one claim against Microsoft (aiding and abetting breach of fiduciary duty).
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Michelle Kim @michelletomkim.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
“Either go do something on your own or continue with OpenAI as a nonprofit,” Elon Musk told Sam Altman and Greg Brockman in the company's early days. Musk's lawyer says Altman and Brockman reassured him that they were comitted to keeping OpenAI a nonprofit.
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Michelle Kim @michelletomkim.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I'm a reporter (and lawyer) covering Musk v. Altman for @technologyreview.com . Here's what's going on day 2 of the trial at the Oakland federal courthouse. Elon Musk and Sam Altman are here. Musk will likely testify today. Opening statements from both parties' lawyers to come soon.
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Michelle Kim @michelletomkim.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I'll be reporting on the Musk v. Altman trial at the Oakland courthouse for @technologyreview.com. I'm a lawyer who clerked for a federal judge in California, so follow me to unpack what's really happening in the courtroom! www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/27/1...
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Elon Musk and Sam Altman are going to court over OpenAI’s future
Elon Musk says he’s suing to save the company’s mission. The case could have huge consequences for OpenAI and the AI race.
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Mat Honan ✅ @mathonan.com · 28/04/2026
This is my district. You know things are bad when the URL slug is "supervisor-silly" (the url slug is not wrong) missionlocal.org/2026/04/dist...
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District 4 shaping up to be San Francisco’s loudest and silliest race. As predicted.
Re-litigating political done deals and fervently focusing on crime in one of the city's safest neighborhoods is bizarre. But we're doing it.
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Rachel Courtland @rachelcourtland.com · 28/04/2026
"Cringey texts, raw diary entries, and endless scheming behind the founding and growth of OpenAI are expected to come to light," in Elon Musk's case against OpenAI, @technologyreview.com's Michelle Kim writes. She'll have up-to-the-minute coverage on X www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/27/1...
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Elon Musk and Sam Altman are going to court over OpenAI’s future
Elon Musk says he’s suing to save the company’s mission. The case could have huge consequences for OpenAI and the AI race.
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Dustin Moskovitz @moskov.goodventures.org · 27/04/2026
Last night @carnage4life.bsky.social accused me of helping perpetuate negative myths about AI. I hate when people perpetuate negative myths about AI, so this thread will be about the very many real harms committed using AI by Dare's employer Meta. 1/
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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Once again, I repeat: data centers are a political issue and their capacity to motivate voters should not be underestimated. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...
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A town of 7,000 planned so many data centers, it’s like adding 51 Walmarts
Developers plan to build six sprawling data center campuses in Archbald, Pennsylvania, covering about 14 percent of the town’s land. Residents are fighting back.
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I know the whole world appears to be going in the other direction. But someone is going to make an authentic appeal to basic morality and justice one of these days, and that person will become President of the United States.
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Trump's new Navy Secretary is very concerned about an implacable foe: "Witchcraft," which has "really taken over" in places like California. www.businessinsider.com/hung-cao-gop...
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GOP Senate candidate Hung Cao warns of 'witchcraft' happening in California: 'We can't let that happen in Virginia'
Cao, who was the GOP nominee against Democratic Rep. Jennifer Wexton in 2022, also said he was "African-American because I grew up in Africa too."
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Jay Bhattacharya falsely accused people of “censoring” him for years — including Stanford Internet Observatory. He has his job because of pretend censorship — he parlayed being a fake victim into a government appointment. Here he is suppressing a paper because he doesn’t like its conclusions.
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Niall Firth @niallfirth.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Plus we have this really perceptive feature from @gracehuckins.bsky.social about the new super-powered surveillance state that is emerging. www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/21/1...
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How LLMs could supercharge mass surveillance in the US
The technology could make commercially available bulk datasets even more of a privacy concern.
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Niall Firth @niallfirth.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
As well as the list itself we have this really fun essay from @mathonan.com about 'malaise', the general sense of uncertainty and concern that many of us are feeling. www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/21/1...
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The era of AI malaise
AI is everywhere, all at once. How does that make you feel?
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Niall Firth @niallfirth.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Our big new list, all about AI, is live now! We asked our reporters and editors: what do our readers really NEED to know about where we are right now. This is what they said. www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/21/1...
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10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now
MIT Technology Review's authoritative overview of the 10 technologies, emerging trends, bold ideas, and powerful movements in AI in 2026.
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Mat Honan ✅ @mathonan.com · 21/04/2026
I wrote about the era AI malaise, which we are all living in. www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/21/1...
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The era of AI malaise
AI is everywhere, all at once. How does that make you feel?
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