Kat Tenbarge

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Tech and culture reporter at NBC News

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If Biden were to use “absolute immunity” to do useful and cool things for the next four months, that would be awesome. Which is why I know he won’t

Pretty sure this is the NYPost using an AI-generated image front and center in their article 🥴

The weekend before Apple announced a slew of new genAI features, the technology was used to create yet another widely-viewed nonconsensual sexually-explicit deepfake of a woman. This time it was Megan Thee Stallion after she hit a touring record for a female rapper. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

Megan Thee Stallion calls out ‘fake’ sexually explicit video circulating on Xt.co A spokesperson for X said the platform's "rules prohibit the sharing of non-consensual intimate media and we are proactively removing this content.”

My cat when I start to clip his nails

It’s wild to me that people are constantly defending Alex Jones from facing the consequences of his own actions. “But he apologized!!!” Okay! I don’t give a fuck! APOLOGY NOT ACCEPTED!!! PAY UP!!!

My shoulder muscles have always been incredibly tight. When I was in ballet in eighth grade my dance instructor was like wtf do you have to pay taxes or something

Disney’s no good, very bad year: - narrowly avoided hostile takeover - incoming PR nightmare from kicking tens of thousands of disabled people off FastPass - failed PR spin from viral 4-hour Galactic Starcruiser review - Universal opening third gate in Orlando - Moana 2 trailer looks abysmal

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We've all been laughing at the obvious fails from Google's AI Overviews feature, but there's a serious lesson in there too about how it disrupts the relational nature of information. More in the latest Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 newsletter: buttondown.email/maiht3k/arch...

Information is Relationalbuttondown.email Google's AI Overviews Fails Helpfully Highlight a Source of Danger By Emily The local volcano that did erupt during my lifetime: Mt St Helens on May 18,...

After a long time of being too afraid to confront my own screen time I’ve started looking at it more and Jesus fucking Christ

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Had a chance to chat with @kattenbarge.bsky.social about udm14.com and the Google AI mess, including how this pop-up site I built in an hour had managed to upstage the best day that Tedium ever had. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

Glue on pizza? Google’s AI faces social media mockerywww.nbcnews.com A Google spokesperson said the company believes users are posting responses to uncommon questions on social media.

All the people who made bank off disparaging Amber Heard are terrible fucking people? Wow who could have seen that coming? Oh wait people were literally saying it before, during, and after the US trial because it was painfully obvious the ENTIRE TIME

This is a bizarrely worded argument for a philosopher to make to begin with, but since he brought up cope, may I also add that it reeks of cope

Here’s a sentence that isn’t in the Bible: a YouTube legal expert who streamed himself making fun of the ASMR channel I made in college has been arrested for drug and firearm possession

Google is very VERY mad at everyone lol

It used to be easy to get an angel food cake. But not anymore. Because of yolk

Industry leaders everywhere: Generative AI produces incredibly low quality output, is impossible to identify 100% of the time, and has thus far mainly been used to abuse, manipulate, and scam people. Therefore we will be integrating it into every product and service we offer

I don’t think abortion is an ugly or tragic reality, I think the total lack of support for children and mothers in our society is what’s tragic and ugly — and the people who can simply choose to ignore those issues while campaigning to put MORE children in such situations

Customer service for the mainstream social media platforms that dominate our lives is already functionally nonexistent and AI is going to make that the case for every industry. On the plus side, even rich people are going to suffer

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"...a would-be hacker would need to gain physical access to your device, unlock it and sign in before they could access saved screenshots." I've got some news for Microsoft about how domestic abuse works. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Microsoft Copilot+ Recall feature 'privacy nightmare'www.bbc.com The ICO wants to know the safeguards around Recall, which can take screengrabs of your screen every few seconds.

Scarlett Johansson says Sam Altman asked her to voice ChatGPT, she said no, and he used an imitation of her voice anyways. Perhaps this says something about his treatment of women and people in general www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

Scarlett Johansson says she was 'shocked, angered' when she heard ChatGPT voice that sounded like herwww.nbcnews.com The “Her” actor released a statement following OpenAI pulling its “Sky” voice from ChatGPT, which many people said sounded like her.

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I think the really newish aspect is the idea of social capital from upsetting people your audience hates, so you’ve got existing aberrant behaviors and new perverse incentive structures

There’s this intriguing sort of digital age analysis that suggests that the internet made certain human behaviors worse when you could argue it simply made them *visible*

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This feels like such a key insight for conservatism in general. Abused people kicking others lower on the ladder because they got kicked.

The Lauren Southern piece where she said that a bunch of conservative tradwives have a secret chat about the abuse they face while continuing to promote their “lifestyle” haunts me. These women are victims while they’re simultaneously perpetuating the cycle of abuse on a massive scale

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if folks want to read

Lauren Southern: how my tradlife turned toxicweb.archive.org

It is terrifying to me that nurses are allowed to be loudly anti-abortion. Imagine being a woman in the care of a nurse like this and you have no idea. You could literally die because of their beliefs

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here's something ive been working on for over a month: the story of a jewish women's sex strike, the reasons behind it, and why no woman should be chained:

‘Mitzvah Night Is CANCELLED’www.thecut.com Inside the sex strike that has infuriated husbands and shaken the ultra-Orthodox world.

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There has never been a single shared/common reality. There was a time when some people thought they did inhabit one. But that was because it was a lot easier to ignore all the people who contradicted it before social media. And some people like me were never able to.

Do NOT read the latest interview with a top evolutionary biologist about inevitable societal collapse before bed

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If you are wondering why I shitpost, earnest post, emotional post, politic post, sports post and video game post all within the span of the same 5 minutes it is because I have been rawdogging ADHD without medication for 25 years so I am just kinda along for the ride as brain goes VRRRROOOOM