Mat Honan ✅

@mathonan

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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¿Es tu perfil?Reclámalo y mathonan.dirty.social es tuyo.Reclamar perfil

Mat Honan ✅@mathonan· Jun 17

Huh

Mat Honan ✅@mathonan· Jun 8

I am in Dutch with the robots

Mat Honan ✅@mathonan· May 7

What?

Mat Honan ✅@mathonan· Apr 29

Cool. Cool. The venue holds 2900 people. Cool.

Ticketmaster screen showing 10436 people are ahead of you in the queue

Mat Honan ✅@mathonan· Apr 15

Cool, cool, well as long as they are happy

Mat Honan ✅@mathonan· Mar 26

Golly I remember when Trump said he was going to throw Mark Zuckerberg in prison. I wonder what changed?

Mat Honan ✅@mathonan· Feb 20

I have a very short Cash App user name which means I get a *lot* of mistaken payments (I always refund them!) but this was pretty good

Mat Honan ✅@mathonan· Jan 27

I l u npr but gtfo of here with this question

Mat Honan ✅@mathonan· Jan 14

This is the Ted Cruz-iest Ted Cruzing paragraph I think I’ve ever read (Via www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...)

Mat Honan ✅@mathonan· Jan 11

In the early days of the pandemic my older kid got into the Grateful Dead. In 2021 we went to see Dead & Co. at the Hollywood Bowl. I have so many good memories of Dead shows dating back to when I was a teenager, but that was maybe my favorite. I loved getting to share that with my kid. RIP Bob Weir

Photo of myself and my older kid in the parking lot of the Hollywood Bowl. My tshirt says “Not my first Dead show” and hers says “It’s my first dead show”

Mat Honan ✅@mathonan· Dec 18

Seriously gtfo of here with this

Mat Honan ✅@mathonan· Dec 17

Spotify, wtf have you done?

Mat Honan ✅@mathonan· Nov 10

What???? No.

A spotify banner ad that says "Classic Christmas Music." And reads "It's time! GEt in the holiday spirit with your favorite Christmas Classics"

Mat Honan ✅@mathonan· Aug 19

60 years ago to the hour my parents were at this concert. (FWIW inflation calculator tells me it woulda cost $46.15 to see The Beatles)

A concert ticket to see The Beatles at Atlanta Stadium, Wednesday August 18 1965, 8:15 pm. Ticket price is $4.58

Mat Honan ✅@mathonan· Jun 22

Always thought I’d find out the world was ending from Twitter but obviously I wasn’t thinking dumbly enough.

Screen shot of two iPhone Lock Screen notifications from Truth Social that read “Breaking: Trump announces US bombing of Iran nuclear sites”

Mat Honan ✅@mathonan· Jun 14

Ocean Beach in San Francisco

Mat Honan ✅@mathonan· Jun 13

Uh-huh

Photo showing tickets purchased for Tuenstile concert

Mat Honan ✅@mathonan· May 20

We address this. Not as easy a fix as it may seem www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

But there’s one glaring potential roadblock: timing. “There are needs on different time scales,” says Patrick White, former research director at the Nuclear Innovation Alliance. Many of these tech companies will require large amounts of power in the next three to five years, White says, but building new nuclear plants can take close to a decade.

Some next-generation nuclear technologies, especially small modular reactors, could take less time to build, but the companies promising speed have yet to build their first reactors—and in some cases they are still years away from even modestly sized demonstrations.

Mat Honan ✅@mathonan· May 17

Still got it

Mat Honan ✅@mathonan· Apr 14

Sora vs. Don DeLillo

Mat Honan ✅@mathonan· Apr 14

Veo2 vs. Don DeLillo

Mat Honan ✅@mathonan· Apr 12

Lovely morning in SF to ride over Hawk Hill, complete with whales in the golden gate. 🐳🐳🐳

Selfie from the top of Hawk hill with the Golden Gate Bridge in the background.

Mat Honan ✅@mathonan· Mar 15

Grocery shopping

Photo of a car seat with a carton of eggs and a full tote bag with text that reads “Character Limit,” a reference to the book about Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter.

There is also a tub of Crazy Aaron’s Thinking Putty visible in the shot but that’s not a reference to anything or meant to symbolize something it’s just that I have kids.

Mat Honan ✅@mathonan· Feb 14

Ah, okay, that explains it. Thank you Google

Mat Honan ✅@mathonan· Jan 23

Truly, artificial intelligence is the wonder of our age

An image showing a conversation with Google Gemini where the user asks for a transcript of the conversation and Gemini replies “sure here’s a transcript of our conversation” then repeats the users question and its previous answer

Mat Honan ✅@mathonan· Jan 10

I had this in my newsletter today. Times change I guess?

A photo from Mark Zuckerberg’s Instagram feed showing him at a pride festival in Omaha during his nationwide listening tour.

Mat Honan ✅@mathonan· Dec 12

Important Santa news from ChatGPT’s new Santa mode

Mat Honan ✅@mathonan· Dec 5

Keep seeing what (I think are) news helicopters flying over Ocean Beach (in SF, not SD). I can report that the ocean is still down there, and not up here. (Also the warning was canceled.)

A screenshot of notice from the national tsunami warning center that the tsunami warning has been canceled for the coastal areas of California and Oregon

Mat Honan ✅@mathonan· Dec 5

Well damn

Mat Honan ✅@mathonan· Dec 5

First time I think I’ve gotten one of these with the “Critical” label.