Leitha Matz
@leithamatz.com
Former NYC. Currently Berlin. Neurospicy. Emodiverse. Working online since forever. Technology product person by profession, artsy/athletic in my free time.
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Happy birthday to the only two women with elements named after them on the periodic table: #MarieCurie & #LiseMeitner.
As I do every year, I will once again repeat my proposal that November 7 should be International #WomenInSTEM Day!
#histSTM #chemistry #physics
#OnThisDay #OTD #PeriodicTable👩🔬🗃️📜
As I do every year, I will once again repeat my proposal that November 7 should be International #WomenInSTEM Day!
#histSTM #chemistry #physics
#OnThisDay #OTD #PeriodicTable👩🔬🗃️📜
November 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Happy birthday to the only two women with elements named after them on the periodic table: #MarieCurie & #LiseMeitner.
As I do every year, I will once again repeat my proposal that November 7 should be International #WomenInSTEM Day!
#histSTM #chemistry #physics
#OnThisDay #OTD #PeriodicTable👩🔬🗃️📜
As I do every year, I will once again repeat my proposal that November 7 should be International #WomenInSTEM Day!
#histSTM #chemistry #physics
#OnThisDay #OTD #PeriodicTable👩🔬🗃️📜
“It would be some relief to our condition and our frailty if all things were as slow in their perishing as they were in their coming into being; but as it is, the growth of things is a tardy process and their undoing is a rapid matter.” Seneca spilling the T. This is just a stoic feed now. 🤷🏻♀️
November 7, 2025 at 8:17 PM
“It would be some relief to our condition and our frailty if all things were as slow in their perishing as they were in their coming into being; but as it is, the growth of things is a tardy process and their undoing is a rapid matter.” Seneca spilling the T. This is just a stoic feed now. 🤷🏻♀️
An artwork is incomplete without the bridge between the work and the audience, so I’m so pleased my book (in both language editions) is connecting with a bookworm. 🐛
November 3, 2025 at 7:55 AM
An artwork is incomplete without the bridge between the work and the audience, so I’m so pleased my book (in both language editions) is connecting with a bookworm. 🐛
Refreshingly practical agentic AI talk by Slavik Dimitrovich at the AWS session in Berlin this morning. “The value of AI isn’t guaranteed, but the monthly bill is.”🤖
October 29, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Refreshingly practical agentic AI talk by Slavik Dimitrovich at the AWS session in Berlin this morning. “The value of AI isn’t guaranteed, but the monthly bill is.”🤖
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.” 🤷🏻♀️
October 26, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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.” 🤷🏻♀️
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." 😔
October 8, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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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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
- 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
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.
August 4, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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
- 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
“… 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
August 3, 2025 at 10:03 AM
“… 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
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...
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
July 20, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
“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-...
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
July 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM
“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-...
Thoughts on the limits of PKM and the power of minimalism for the brain.
www.joanwestenberg.com/p/i-deleted-...
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.
June 30, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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.
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. 💃🏻🪩
June 23, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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. 💃🏻🪩
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. 🍅🥕
June 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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. 🍅🥕
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?
June 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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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😱 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...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
May 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
😱 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...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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.
May 25, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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.
Does anyone look at this and NOT have a pareidolia moment? I would be as surprised as this power socket.
May 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Does anyone look at this and NOT have a pareidolia moment? I would be as surprised as this power socket.
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“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
#MarieCurie
#MarieCurie
May 14, 2025 at 6:00 AM
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
#MarieCurie
#MarieCurie
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Wanna reduce crime?
Open more libraries.
"we find within the nearby proximity of the library; there is a substantial reduction in frequency of burglaries, vandalism, robberies, fraud, and assaults."
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Open more libraries.
"we find within the nearby proximity of the library; there is a substantial reduction in frequency of burglaries, vandalism, robberies, fraud, and assaults."
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Do public libraries help mitigate crime? Evidence from Kansas City, MO - Journal of Cultural Economics
We examine the relationship between public libraries and local crime rates. Previous studies have looked at different factors that could account for changes in crime, but few have focused on cultural ...
link.springer.com
May 12, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Wanna reduce crime?
Open more libraries.
"we find within the nearby proximity of the library; there is a substantial reduction in frequency of burglaries, vandalism, robberies, fraud, and assaults."
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Open more libraries.
"we find within the nearby proximity of the library; there is a substantial reduction in frequency of burglaries, vandalism, robberies, fraud, and assaults."
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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people will make fun of ancient civilization for consulting oracles and cutting up livers to tell the future and then type “what is the meaning of life?” into ChatGPT
May 5, 2025 at 12:47 AM
people will make fun of ancient civilization for consulting oracles and cutting up livers to tell the future and then type “what is the meaning of life?” into ChatGPT
I probably have really strong pareidolia, but maybe that just makes me feel more connection to strange little corners of the world.
May 3, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I probably have really strong pareidolia, but maybe that just makes me feel more connection to strange little corners of the world.
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The most 2025 thing I’ve seen in Italy. 🤖 I’m guessing it’s cutting the grass, but really, the sign is vague enough. It could be doing anything.
April 29, 2025 at 3:53 PM
The most 2025 thing I’ve seen in Italy. 🤖 I’m guessing it’s cutting the grass, but really, the sign is vague enough. It could be doing anything.
The Merlin Bird ID app is your best friend at 6 AM when you absolutely have to know which bird is waking you up. (It was definitely the Wryneck.)
April 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The Merlin Bird ID app is your best friend at 6 AM when you absolutely have to know which bird is waking you up. (It was definitely the Wryneck.)
Was unreasonably gleeful this morning to bike through an orchard and find an honesty-box farm stand full of apple juice, apples, and dried apple slices.
I think it touches me so much because it makes me think of a utopia filled with trust, honor and delicious farm-fresh produce.
I think it touches me so much because it makes me think of a utopia filled with trust, honor and delicious farm-fresh produce.
April 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Was unreasonably gleeful this morning to bike through an orchard and find an honesty-box farm stand full of apple juice, apples, and dried apple slices.
I think it touches me so much because it makes me think of a utopia filled with trust, honor and delicious farm-fresh produce.
I think it touches me so much because it makes me think of a utopia filled with trust, honor and delicious farm-fresh produce.