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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 · 14h
“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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Mat Honan ✅ @mathonan.com · 25/09/2026
But also maybe you’re hired immediately. I could see that.
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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
Any nudge is an act of violence
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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
You can read the entire series here: www.technologyreview.com/supertopic/b...
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Dying on Camera
AN MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW INVESTIGATION Dying on Camera The US has spent billions building a “virtual wall” of surveillance towers along its southern border over the past 25 years, promising they will ...
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Mat Honan ✅ @mathonan.com · 21/09/2026
We also partnered with Times of San Diego part of the nonprofit ASU Newswell team. Read Lillian Perlmutter's report on Graciela Gómez Hernández, who died along the border within view of a General Dynamics surveillance tower www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/21/1...
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She died at the San Diego border. A surveillance camera was in plain sight
In Southern California’s Otay Mountain Wilderness, the federal surveillance network seems unavoidable. But year after year, migrant deaths persist.
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Mat Honan ✅ @mathonan.com · 21/09/2026
CBP has never formally examined whether its towers should have caught these deaths. We also have a policy story addressing this.  www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/21/1...
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4 ways to address the failures we found along the US border’s “virtual wall”
The US has spent billions on surveillance towers, but hundreds of people have died near them. Here’s how to strengthen federal oversight.
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Mat Honan ✅ @mathonan.com · 21/09/2026
You can read all about our methodology here: www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/21/1...
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How we made the first comprehensive map of deaths along the US border’s “virtual wall”
We analyzed whether nearly 4,000 migrant deaths occurred within sight of the US government’s  surveillance towers. Here’s our methodology.
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Mat Honan ✅ @mathonan.com · 21/09/2026
Through interviews with more than 45 people, including former White House advisors, Border Patrol agents, medical examiners, and humanitarian volunteers, the story shows that the technology both fails to detect people and agents fail to respond and looks at the reasons why for both.
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Mat Honan ✅ @mathonan.com · 21/09/2026
*Our topographical analysis found that some have sight of as little as 10% of their advertised surveillance area *We found more than 110 people have died within range of modern autonomous towers from Anduril, among the most advanced systems CBP has deployed, since 2021
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Mat Honan ✅ @mathonan.com · 21/09/2026
Among our findings: *More than 1,050 people died within range of border surveillance towers between 2015 and early 2026 - that's nearly one out of every four deaths we analyzed. *We found deaths within the advertised range of nearly two-thirds of all the towers we analyzed.
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Mat Honan ✅ @mathonan.com · 21/09/2026
We cross-referenced nearly 4,000 locations where human remains were found with data on almost 600 towers, and combined that with a new topographical analysis of towers range. We used this to build a first-of-its-kind map of deaths new the towers
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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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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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Mat Honan ✅ @mathonan.com · 02/07/2026
Paul.
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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 · 08/05/2026
Thank you Brandon, I miss you buddy! Human connection! Need more of it
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Mat Honan ✅ @mathonan.com · 08/05/2026
Sokin many ways!
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Mat Honan ✅ @mathonan.com · 07/05/2026
What?
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Mat Honan ✅ @mathonan.com · 07/05/2026
Heaviest of sighs
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Mat Honan ✅ @mathonan.com · 06/05/2026
Ross! A real human being!
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Mat Honan ✅ @mathonan.com · 06/05/2026
Okay? Okay! That's all from me, for now. You can go back to chatting with Claude, or whatever. Enjoy the rest of your day. Find that treasure.
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Mat Honan ✅ @mathonan.com · 06/05/2026
I also wrote this piece, a while ago now, on data centers. And it is also a thing that I hope readddddddds like something a human being wrote. And moreover it's just gotten to be more true and more true and more true. www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/14/1...
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Data centers are amazing. Everyone hates them.
In these politically divisive times, there’s one thing we all agree on—we don’t want a giant data center in our backyard.
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Mat Honan ✅ @mathonan.com · 06/05/2026
I wrote this piece on AI Malaise. And I think it's good! Or maybe not. Maybe you will hate it, like licorice. But it's distinctly un-AI. (I hope.) 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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