Katie Notopoulos

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Dad, husband, dog lover, java fiend, Inventor of Facebook. (Correspondent at Business Insider.)

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SBF's mom emailed him asking for $92K. As a parent who recently raided her own son's piggy bank for the tooth fairy..... hey, i get it www.businessinsider.com/sam-bankman-...

Sam Bankman-Fried's mom asked him for $92,000 — to be delivered within a day. I can (sort of) relate.www.businessinsider.com Sam Bankman-Fried's mother asked him for $92,000 to be delivered within a day, new emails reveal, the WSJ reports. I can sort of relate?

I feel like one day it will come out that like 35% of people at the highest levels of gov't security clearance are furries www.404media.co/r-securitycl...

r/SecurityClearance Is the Best Subredditwww.404media.co An unhinged subreddit of people sharing their secrets before they share them with the U.S. government.

I wrote about Hawk Tuah Girl, the history of Viral Humans, and her plans to avoid the exploitation that other meme humans have encountered. "We're here to protect the hawk from the vultures," her manager told me. Which... lol www.businessinsider.com/hawk-tuah-gi...

'Hawk Tuah Girl' has our attention. Next, she would like our money.www.businessinsider.com Hailey Welch went viral for her R-rated "hawk tuah!" Now she wants to cash in on all those "likes." But can she be more than a meme?

I can't stop wondering why Facebook just doesn't ban the AI slop www.businessinsider.com/meta-faceboo...

Why doesn't Facebook just ban AI slop like Shrimp Jesus?www.businessinsider.com Engagement bait AI images like Shrimp Jesus are all over Facebook. Why won't Mark Zuckerberg's team just ban them?

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How I introduce myself in an icebreaker session

This is, by far, the most cohesive thing you can read to understand the Hawk Tuah phenomenon within the fratbro internet culture maxread.substack.com/p/hawk-tuah-...

Hawk Tuah and the Zynternetmaxread.substack.com Plus, for some reason, some thoughts about the debate

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I often think about this piece in The Nib (RIP) about how sleeping in public became criminalized thenib.com/sleeping-isn...

Sleeping Isn’t a Crime | The Nibthenib.com How we’ve criminalized a basic human need in order to target the poor, vulnerable, and homeless.

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I ran into your ex, he looks awful

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Gizmodo is also hiring a social media editor

Gizmodo is hiring a senior tech reporter. We just got new ownership, so I can honestly endorse working here again.

Gizmodo Is Hiring a Senior Tech Reportergizmodo.com Gizmodo has a new owner, the firm Keleops, and we are looking to grow our team.

Gizmodo Is Hiring a Social Media Editorgizmodo.com Gizmodo has a new owner, the firm Keleops, and we are looking to grow our team.

some cereal bags have a "clean" opening rip, while some are harder to open and tear down the middle. much to think about

I love the r/tiktokgossip subreddit because I even though I watch A LOT of tiktok, i have never heard of any of the creators they're talking about, and the posts are all incomprehensible like this (this is an explanation for why someone was posting an apology video)

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"Veterinary prices have soared more than 60% over the past decade, according to federal stats. Private equity firms and large corps have bought 100s of facilities around the country, an acquisition spree reminiscent of the corporate roll-ups of doctors’ offices." www.nytimes.com/2024/06/23/h...

Why You’re Paying Your Veterinarian So Muchwww.nytimes.com People have grown more attached to their pets — and more willing to spend money on them — turning animal medicine into a high-tech industry worth billions.

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Gizmodo is hiring a senior tech reporter. We just got new ownership, so I can honestly endorse working here again.

Gizmodo Is Hiring a Senior Tech Reportergizmodo.com Gizmodo has a new owner, the firm Keleops, and we are looking to grow our team.

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The shuttle to take New Yorkers to the beach was so crowded that hundreds of people were left on the platform. This is what the city will look like more and more without congestion pricing funding the MTA.

I'm sorry, the monster truck in Maine that was shaped like a lobster was called the... Crushstation ("crustacean")????https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/public-safety/several-injured-at-monster-truck-show-in-topsham-maine/97-77531c6e-b679-4c95-a5b6-5a7e11e32a95

Topsham police won't bring charges after monster truck accident injures several spectatorswww.newscentermaine.com Spectators were injured Saturday when utility poles snapped, and a transformer tumbled to the ground at the Topsham Fairgrounds.

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listen please this is important, we made it free to read at @flaminghydra.com

THE INTERNET ARCHIVE IS A LIBRARY pass it on flaminghydra.com/issue-97/

Shelves without endflaminghydra.com Today: Editor and journalist Maria Bustillos. Issue No. 97 The Internet Archive Is a Library Maria Bustillos The Internet Archive Is a Library by Maria Bustillos Five hundred thousand books h...

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lmao Google's AI is eating itself already -- telling you how much glue to put on pizza, citing a @katienotopoulos.bsky.social Business Insider article about Google's AI telling people to put glue on pizza

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Okay @bencollins.bsky.social has the chance to do the funniest thing possible

Alex Jones agrees to liquidate his assets to pay Sandy Hook families, in move that would end his ownership of Infowars

Alex Jones agrees to liquidate his assets to pay Sandy Hook families, in move that would end his ownership of Infowars | CNN Businesswww.cnn.com Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Thursday moved to liquidate his personal assets, agreeing to demands from the families of Sandy Hook victims whom he owes more than $1.5 billion in damages...

AI thrives on hype (including the hype of those that say it’s going to kill us all), which means AI is full of personality hires www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-p...

Is Sam Altman the ultimate personality hire?www.businessinsider.com AI is a field where hype is everything, and the personality hire reigns supreme. Just look at OpenAI's Sam Altman. He's the ultimate hype man.

Freedom isn’t free www.businessinsider.com/alex-choi-yo...

Oh, so now I can't shoot fireworks at a Lambo from a helicopter?www.businessinsider.com We used to be a country founded on freedom! But I guess that doesn't extend to some YouTube stunts, as Alex Choi has found out.

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So lots going on in the story, but the implication that Byers traded for access does not go unnoticed: www.npr.org/2024/06/06/n...

Jack Dorsey gave $10M to fund Nostr, and about $245k personally to its anonymous founder, not knowing who he is IRL. Turns out the guy has made fanpages dedicated to a Brazilian right-wing conspiracy theorist www.businessinsider.com/jack-dorsey-...

Jack Dorsey gave $10 million to an anonymous founder with a deep devotion to a fascist 'guru'www.businessinsider.com Twitter's cofounder Jack Dorsey personally gave $245,000 in crypto to a developer who's a follower and student of a well-known Brazilian fascist.

Between her and the woman who flashed the NYC-Dublin portal, OnlyFans creators are true agents of chaos

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Facebook's plan is to lean into utility features like Marketplace to lure back "young adults" and not even try things like "see what your friends are up to". Tbh... based just on how useful FB Marketplace is, I think this might actually work www.businessinsider.com/facebook-gen...

Facebook has a plan to win over Gen Z. Don't laugh.www.businessinsider.com Facebook Marketplace is a secret weapon in winning over 20-somethings. I think Mark Zuckerberg's plan might actually work.

Jumpscare

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oh is there a courtball happening

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Great Washington Post nostalgia study. Adults think U.S. society was historically nicest and comfiest—most moral and close-knit, families happiest—whenever they happened to be little kids, and culture (music, movies, TV, fashion, sports, food) best whenever they were adolescents. wapo.st/3WXd9xS

Imagine the sound of trump saying “skibidi toilet”

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You KNOW you're Gen X if you: - drank from the hose - called your friend's house on a landline to talk about drinking from the hose - consumed liquids from a flexible tube in the yard - had a big-ass book of CDs with sounds of ppl drinking from the hose - played Hose Drinkin' on NES - are depressed