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Leitha Matz @leithamatz.com · 21h

“One side offers me no guiding light to direct my vision towards the truth, while the other just gouges my eyes out” 👀

Leitha Matz @leithamatz.com · 21h

Seneca says we need to avoid garbage information. Apparently that was a problem even 2000 years ago. “Measure your life: it just does not have room for so much.” 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Leitha Matz @leithamatz.com · 12d

Not a lot of majestic around here. Unless maybe lakes and fields can be majestic.

Leitha Matz @leithamatz.com · 12d

Great shots! Mountain 🏔️

Leitha Matz @leithamatz.com · 17d

Idiotic, but it does again demonstrate how imaginary (and politically biased) most “awards” are. Maybe you could should just establish the “Kabas Award for Responsible Journalism” as a counterpoint.

Leitha Matz @leithamatz.com · 19d

A nice — though unexpected — alignment between Portuguese (saudade) and German (Sehnsucht) for the concept of "a vague and constant desire for something that does not (and possibly cannot) exist." 😔

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Leitha Matz @leithamatz.com · Sep 10

Could it be last year’s survivors breeding an elite fruit fly force?

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Leitha Matz @leithamatz.com · Sep 4

Helpful to get a friend to offer a perspective. You’re too close to the subject matter. 😁

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jay Dragon is recovering @jdragsky.bsky.social · Aug 4

my mom taught me there's two kinds of businesses: hot dog stands and art galleries

- hot dog stands protect territory and keep competition off their turf
- art galleries benefit from more adjacent art galleries, cluster together to amplify reach/support

youre an art gallery, not a hot dog stand

Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · Aug 4

Play and discuss as if you were friends trying to get to know each other better, rather than as if you were rival squawking merchants trying to sell competing goods in a marketplace. The world is full of friends and potential friends, and it's much lonelier and more frightening when it isn't.

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Leitha Matz @leithamatz.com · Aug 3

“… what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously — I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in un-certainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.” - Keats

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Leitha Matz @leithamatz.com · Jul 20

First they came for chess, and I said nothing.

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Leitha Matz @leithamatz.com · Jul 20

As we enter the era in which companionship, therapy, art, labor and sport are all performed by AI, I wonder when we’ll just fully embrace the idea that “passive consumption” is now the definitive occupation of humanity? Glad I lived in the before times.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

China hosts fully autonomous AI robot football match

Footage of three-a-side game shows humanoids struggling to kick the ball or stay upright

www.theguardian.com

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Leitha Matz @leithamatz.com · Jul 7

“The act of deletion is not a failure of recordkeeping. It is a reassertion of agency.”

Thoughts on the limits of PKM and the power of minimalism for the brain.

www.joanwestenberg.com/p/i-deleted-...

I Deleted My Second Brain

Why I Erased 10,000 Notes, 7 Years of Ideas, and Every Thought I Tried to Save

www.joanwestenberg.com

Leitha Matz @leithamatz.com · Jun 30

I always try to keep gratitude in the forefront of my mind, but when it looks like my apartment might be on fire, but it’s actually a different building, the feeling comes pretty readily.

Black smoke rising above a quiet street.

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Leitha Matz @leithamatz.com · Jun 30

Congrats! ✨

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Leitha Matz @leithamatz.com · Jun 23

Not going to pass judgement on anyone, but I’m finding that my feelings of mortality surpass any drink or party drug for life-affirming weekend shenanigans. Bonus points for fewer side effects, too. 💃🏻🪩

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Leitha Matz @leithamatz.com · Jun 14

This post makes me nostalgic for the old days of the internet when people had basic blogs and would focus on a narrow topic, such as field research into what media was produced for children in a particular country and era.

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Leitha Matz @leithamatz.com · Jun 7

In case it helps anyone else manage their weird little brain🧠 , I’ve started calling the easily eaten snack-size vegetables my “Strategic Crudités Reserve,” and it’s a tiny game that helps me romanticize (and restock) my radishes, carrots and cherry tomatoes. 🍅🥕🫜

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Leitha Matz @leithamatz.com · Jun 3

This line of thought actually makes me want to see a dozen more variations of costumes, lighting, positioning and interaction between the players in a staged version.

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Leitha Matz @leithamatz.com · Jun 3

I think they’re often unengaged, but it’s interesting to see the interaction between the performers when they’re “on” and playful.

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Leitha Matz @leithamatz.com · Jun 2

Just realizing I’ve never heard applause for a particularly lovely rendition of the “brief airline safety demonstration,” on a flight, but the choreography on LH1711 was honestly excellent. Wondering if I’m the only person who watched the show?

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Leitha Matz @leithamatz.com · Jun 2

Perhaps the earliest evidence of pareidolia in our ancestral findings? 🥰

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · May 27

😱 NEANDERTHAL FINGERPRINT! NEANDERTHAL FINGERPRINT! NEANDERTHAL FINGERPRINT! NEANDERTHAL FINGERPRINT! NEANDERTHAL FINGERPRINT! NEANDERTHAL FINGERPRINT! NEANDERTHAL FINGERPRINT! NEANDERTHAL FINGERPRINT! NEANDERTHAL FINGERPRINT! NEANDERTHAL FINGERPRINT! 🤯

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Photo of a fingertip's print in red colour.

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Leitha Matz @leithamatz.com · May 25

Wondering how old one needs to be before we stop feeling some lack of agency while in the presence of our parents. Apparently 50 isn’t enough.

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Leitha Matz @leithamatz.com · May 20

Does anyone look at this and NOT have a pareidolia moment? I would be as surprised as this power socket.

A power socket that appears to have eyes, a mouth and a nose configured in a position that resembles surprise.

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