Caitlin Welsh
@caitlinwelsh.bsky.social
editor, writer, anxious DJ, snack wizard, the Ricky Bobby of pub trivia
playlists etc @sydneymusic.net
playlists etc @sydneymusic.net
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The difference between them and me and presumably you, is that you and I don't think that having no moral constraints is some kind of sophisticated strategy no one's ever thought of before. They do and think that's what separates them from the little people who are too dumb to think of it.
February 15, 2026 at 8:00 PM
The difference between them and me and presumably you, is that you and I don't think that having no moral constraints is some kind of sophisticated strategy no one's ever thought of before. They do and think that's what separates them from the little people who are too dumb to think of it.
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Feel like this is a good lesson to keep generative AI far from your editorial process as a matter of policy. Ars is a great website. If it can happen there it can happen to anyone that allows these tools in
Ars Technica Pulls Article With AI Fabricated Quotes About AI Generated Article
A story about an AI-generated article contained fabricated, AI-generated quotes.
www.404media.co
February 15, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Feel like this is a good lesson to keep generative AI far from your editorial process as a matter of policy. Ars is a great website. If it can happen there it can happen to anyone that allows these tools in
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According to a new study from a team of researchers in Europe, vibe coding is killing open-source software (OSS) and it’s happening faster than anyone predicted.
Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source Software, Researchers Argue
‘If the maintainers of small projects give up, who will produce the next Linux?’
www.404media.co
February 15, 2026 at 8:26 PM
According to a new study from a team of researchers in Europe, vibe coding is killing open-source software (OSS) and it’s happening faster than anyone predicted.
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At 9:18, 3rd period of the Finland-Switzerland women's ice hockey QF game, the ice crew came to clean the ice during a pause
What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling
What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling
February 15, 2026 at 12:14 AM
At 9:18, 3rd period of the Finland-Switzerland women's ice hockey QF game, the ice crew came to clean the ice during a pause
What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling
What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling
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friend shared this, immediately updated my settings
October 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
friend shared this, immediately updated my settings
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This is what a rigged economy looks like.
February 14, 2026 at 11:01 PM
This is what a rigged economy looks like.
Reading a book set in the UK that spells perimeter “perimetre”. Find-and-replace gone awry (it always does) or just an overzealous American editor assuming we switch the ER ending around everywheer?
February 14, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Reading a book set in the UK that spells perimeter “perimetre”. Find-and-replace gone awry (it always does) or just an overzealous American editor assuming we switch the ER ending around everywheer?
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reading about the effects of cutting USAID. i think a painting of elon musk should be hung in public for everyone to see. a painting of elon musk should be put up against a wall and shot with a nice camera
February 14, 2026 at 9:40 PM
reading about the effects of cutting USAID. i think a painting of elon musk should be hung in public for everyone to see. a painting of elon musk should be put up against a wall and shot with a nice camera
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The genres animating the current authoritarian Right--sf (Musk, Thiel, etc.), the western (CBP, Noem, etc.), and fantasy (Palantir)-- originate in coming-of-age stories for boys. We're all stuck in their perpetual adolescence.
Thought brought to you by @rangedtouch.bsky.social's Shelved by Genre.
Thought brought to you by @rangedtouch.bsky.social's Shelved by Genre.
February 14, 2026 at 6:56 PM
The genres animating the current authoritarian Right--sf (Musk, Thiel, etc.), the western (CBP, Noem, etc.), and fantasy (Palantir)-- originate in coming-of-age stories for boys. We're all stuck in their perpetual adolescence.
Thought brought to you by @rangedtouch.bsky.social's Shelved by Genre.
Thought brought to you by @rangedtouch.bsky.social's Shelved by Genre.
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Meta Wants to Scan Every Face You Walk Past 👓🔴
Meta plans to add facial recognition to Ray-Ban smart glasses. An internal document says they timed launch during political crisis so civil society wouldn't notice.
blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/14/m...
Meta plans to add facial recognition to Ray-Ban smart glasses. An internal document says they timed launch during political crisis so civil society wouldn't notice.
blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/14/m...
February 14, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Meta Wants to Scan Every Face You Walk Past 👓🔴
Meta plans to add facial recognition to Ray-Ban smart glasses. An internal document says they timed launch during political crisis so civil society wouldn't notice.
blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/14/m...
Meta plans to add facial recognition to Ray-Ban smart glasses. An internal document says they timed launch during political crisis so civil society wouldn't notice.
blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/14/m...
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My last child,Ibrahim,is fading😔
He is constantly falling ill in this freezing tent,with no medicine or food to help him fight
His small body cant take it anymore
🚨Iurgently need€200to save his life TODAY🙏
Please,dont let my only son become amemory🥺
Help him survive😭💔
chuffed.org/project/161145
He is constantly falling ill in this freezing tent,with no medicine or food to help him fight
His small body cant take it anymore
🚨Iurgently need€200to save his life TODAY🙏
Please,dont let my only son become amemory🥺
Help him survive😭💔
chuffed.org/project/161145
February 14, 2026 at 4:12 PM
My last child,Ibrahim,is fading😔
He is constantly falling ill in this freezing tent,with no medicine or food to help him fight
His small body cant take it anymore
🚨Iurgently need€200to save his life TODAY🙏
Please,dont let my only son become amemory🥺
Help him survive😭💔
chuffed.org/project/161145
He is constantly falling ill in this freezing tent,with no medicine or food to help him fight
His small body cant take it anymore
🚨Iurgently need€200to save his life TODAY🙏
Please,dont let my only son become amemory🥺
Help him survive😭💔
chuffed.org/project/161145
John Jeremiah Sullivan has entered the chat
I was so impressed with this story about measles in the Atlantic -- the depth of reporting it would take to weave in all these details so fluidly.
Turns out, it was a work of fiction. She researched the effects of measles, but lots of fiction writers do research. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/the-...
Turns out, it was a work of fiction. She researched the effects of measles, but lots of fiction writers do research. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/the-...
The Atlantic’s Elizabeth Bruenig on her “hypothetical,” heavily reported measles essay
"We were attracted to the idea of providing a play-by-play of the progression of measles in granular detail."
www.niemanlab.org
February 14, 2026 at 9:48 PM
John Jeremiah Sullivan has entered the chat
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As Israel's security cabinet agreed on a plan that would pave the way for future settlements in the occupied West Bank, Palestinians say the pressure from Israeli settlers is relentless.
Palestinians say Israel's new plans for West Bank kill statehood hopes
As Israel's security cabinet agreed on a plan that would pave the way for future settlements in the occupied West Bank, Palestinians say the pressure from Israeli settlers is relentless.
www.abc.net.au
February 14, 2026 at 6:58 PM
As Israel's security cabinet agreed on a plan that would pave the way for future settlements in the occupied West Bank, Palestinians say the pressure from Israeli settlers is relentless.
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One of my lasting memories of working in the gallery was ducking into the House of Reps in the night during speeches on the marriage equality bill and Katter said some of the most homophobic stuff I've heard there.
Pyne was one of the only MPs in the chamber and said: "Bobby this is rubbish"
Pyne was one of the only MPs in the chamber and said: "Bobby this is rubbish"
February 14, 2026 at 5:01 AM
One of my lasting memories of working in the gallery was ducking into the House of Reps in the night during speeches on the marriage equality bill and Katter said some of the most homophobic stuff I've heard there.
Pyne was one of the only MPs in the chamber and said: "Bobby this is rubbish"
Pyne was one of the only MPs in the chamber and said: "Bobby this is rubbish"
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At least Grindr message screencaps had a frisson of sexual intrigue, mutual inadequacies, and accidental humour. AI chat log screencaps have only the depressing weight of watching someone lose first their dignity and then their mind.
February 13, 2026 at 7:46 PM
At least Grindr message screencaps had a frisson of sexual intrigue, mutual inadequacies, and accidental humour. AI chat log screencaps have only the depressing weight of watching someone lose first their dignity and then their mind.
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This elitist view that only rich/Ivy/private school kids should study/have access the liberal arts is so deeply ingrained in so many highly educated Democrats’ views (including tons who majored in the lib arts themselves) that they don’t even realize they hold it, let alone how ugly & elitist it is
(3) But the Democrat view is also bad: while it's fine for people at Princeton and Harvard to study Latin and Sanskrit, public higher education is about job training and $ ROI. There is no room for the idea that curiosity-driven inquiry is a good that should be supported by the public.
February 13, 2026 at 3:54 PM
This elitist view that only rich/Ivy/private school kids should study/have access the liberal arts is so deeply ingrained in so many highly educated Democrats’ views (including tons who majored in the lib arts themselves) that they don’t even realize they hold it, let alone how ugly & elitist it is
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Christopher Poole, the creator of 4chan, is now on the record saying Jeffrey Epstein had nothing to do with the creation of /pol/, the infamous alt-right board. He says they met 24 hours later at a social event and again for lunch. From me:
www.theverge.com/tech/877903/...
www.theverge.com/tech/877903/...
Jeffrey Epstein might not have created /pol/, but he helped carry out its mission
4chan combined things the sex trafficker loved, like white supremacy and misogyny, and he was close to alt-right figures who drew from it to influence the world stage.
www.theverge.com
February 13, 2026 at 8:50 PM
Christopher Poole, the creator of 4chan, is now on the record saying Jeffrey Epstein had nothing to do with the creation of /pol/, the infamous alt-right board. He says they met 24 hours later at a social event and again for lunch. From me:
www.theverge.com/tech/877903/...
www.theverge.com/tech/877903/...
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This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 8:09 PM
This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.
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Outstanding. A triumph for liberty and against unrestrained state power. The government should be ashamed of having to be forced into this position.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule
Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 10:24 AM
Outstanding. A triumph for liberty and against unrestrained state power. The government should be ashamed of having to be forced into this position.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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In terms of what cures are being lost:
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
February 13, 2026 at 5:44 AM
In terms of what cures are being lost:
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
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This is genuinely insane, I clicked to see the years expecting the low part to be 70s or maybe 90s but its 2015!!!!! The entire anti trans panic is a decade old
a stat i always cite is the number of anti-trans articles in the press went from 60 in a year, to 7,500
February 12, 2026 at 8:43 PM
This is genuinely insane, I clicked to see the years expecting the low part to be 70s or maybe 90s but its 2015!!!!! The entire anti trans panic is a decade old
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Did my best to explain why Pinegrove meant so much to me back then and everything that happened to complicate those feelings
Pinegrove's 'Cardinal' Turns 10
Pinegrove felt like the future — like my future, like our future. It wasn’t on the scale of the current Geese-mania, but a decade ago, a palpable excitement was building behind the Montclair, NJ group...
stereogum.com
February 12, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Did my best to explain why Pinegrove meant so much to me back then and everything that happened to complicate those feelings
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The striking thing this encapsulates for me is the entire class of people unable to conceive that it is possible to both mourn and protest, that we can hate what happened in Bondi AND continues to happen in Gaza, an assumption entirely projected from their own inability to care about Palestinians.
February 12, 2026 at 8:22 AM
The striking thing this encapsulates for me is the entire class of people unable to conceive that it is possible to both mourn and protest, that we can hate what happened in Bondi AND continues to happen in Gaza, an assumption entirely projected from their own inability to care about Palestinians.