Matt H 🇳🇿

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I wouldn’t follow me.

[Matt H 🇳🇿 @InfovoreMatt]

Book I have read and am reading. A thread in progress

[dandelion georgism 🔰🏗 @DolphinMossad]

1995: oh cool you can buy books online now

2026: the company that owns Whole Foods and Lord of the Rings is experiencing setbacks with its space program

[Christianity On The Spectrum @ChristianityOn]

*puts on video of B2 spirit refuelling*
Toddler, judgementally: "daddy that one is too old, she's not allowed to do that anymore, that isn't for big girls that is only for babies"

[Gabriel @gbrl_dick]

"as soon as Mosley sat down, Karp began reciting from memory, for several minutes, one of Oswald's 1939 speeches demanding Britain seek peace with Nazi Germany. when finished, Karp executed tai chi moves and walked out without saying goodbye."

funnier because he got the job

[Matt H 🇳🇿 @InfovoreMatt]

@cremieuxrecueil I think this is right for NZ but would welcome a check by @Charteddaily

[Matt H 🇳🇿 @InfovoreMatt]

Slow Gods
By Claire North
@ClaireNorth42
4/5

[Matt H 🇳🇿 @InfovoreMatt]

Books I’ve read this year. A thread in progress

[Matt H 🇳🇿 @InfovoreMatt]

The WEIRDest People In The World: How the West became psychologically peculiar and particularly prosperous
By Joseph Henrich
5/5

[Matt H 🇳🇿 @InfovoreMatt]

I wonder if NZ internal memos from the same time period would have had the same flourish
Sadly I would think not

[Aaron Bateman @aaronbateman22]

The declassified 1962 memo for the UK prime minister informing him (in shakespearean prose) that the US accidentally fried Britain's Ariel satellite with its Starfish Prime high-altitude nuclear test.

[kasey @kaseyklimes]

nobody to shoot

[Kyle Buchanan @kylebuchanan]

I talked to Sam Neil and his JURASSIC PARK costars a few years ago and have rarely laughed so much https://t.co/hZSPO0Aoyw

[Jack @tracewoodgrains]

2010: a scrappy new startup is brushing past entrenched regulations to face the taxi system head-on

2026:

[Louise Jensen Duffy (also Ernest Jensen) @LouiseWeebe]

You’re listening to Sisyphus FM, the home of non-stop rock.

[Nicholas Decker @captgouda24]

This paper is one of the most astonishing feats of sustained data wizardry I have ever seen. Using data from Uber, they are able to estimate the roughness of every road in America and precisely estimate the value people place on it, and so much more. 1/

[Lew @LewSOS]

All true:
* Feral cats are a real problem, especially rurally where nobody is adopting them at scale
* Killing 400+ in a weekend with no false-negatives is a big achievement
* No need to be a cock about it and woke-baiting townies will not help matters
https://t.co/FAsNoo0PoM

[West Coast Kenny @kenthecowboy_]

In martial arts, you dont spar the master at first. The first time you do, you realize you arent just butting heads and exercising your habits. You are being paid attention to by someone who is in total control, who can decide where and how
to hurt you. All of your knowledge of how sparring works, how to defend yourself, is instantly exposed as useless. It isnt even a contest, hes just deciding which of your bad habits he wants to punish. Its completely unnerving.

The way I learned to deal with it is by returning to my training, but also forcing my brain to turn on and try to pay as much attention as I was receiving, without panicking. And realizing that my teacher didn't actually want to damage me. Hurt me a little maybe, to make certain lessons stick, but not damage.

Words behave differently than fists, so you can just decline someone's frame in a way you cant with fists. But its the only thing i know that comes close

[a vespa is not a motorcycle @kein_motorrad]

literally all of these languages are related

[fabian @fabianstelzer]

fascinating - my “picture of a rose” viral prompt injection from 2023 made it into Fable’s weights as the canonical image prompt injection, triggering it as a hallucination for suspected image hacks

what you’re posting here travels into the future in unforeseeable ways...

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

When Google altered the routing system for 2% of cars using Google Maps to prefer routes that are just as fast but avoided areas that are congested it increased speeds and decreased fuel consumption for all cars across the city.

[Matt H 🇳🇿 @InfovoreMatt]

@selentelechia This is something we struggle with. My MIL loves buying stuff online for the toddler but he already has so much stuff. Thankfully the toy library will always take the items as they don’t get many donations at all
But she just doesn’t know why we think less is more

[Ashlee Vance @ashleevance]

This moment from my last book still makes me laugh.

I hit up for the former New Zealand prime minister John Key and asked for an interview. Next thing I know, we're planning brunch. He's offering to pick me up at my Airbnb. It feels too weird to have a prime minister pick me up, so I make my own way only to find Key dressed in a t-shirt and shorts and cool as can be.

We have a nice breakfast. People in the restaurant say hi to him like he's just some bloke. He tells me that his son is a fan of my writing and will be impressed that he met me. 😂🤣

Such a lack of pretention. Very nice dude.

Equally hilarious is his reaction when Peter Beck informed him that he planned on building a rocket in New Zealand.

[Jonathan O'Brien @jonobri]

More than *three quarters* of all residential land across Australian capital cities is highly restricted.

Today we @yimbymelbourne launch the Australian Zoning Atlas: the first nation-wide analysis of land use planning controls.