kelly pendergrast
@kellypendergrast.bsky.social
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Open invitation for anyone to DM me if you want to gossip
New open invitation - DM me if you are (ever) in the Bay Area and want to meet up irl - it’s 2025 & we’re going offline, comrades!
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Even when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.
Deaths, detentions and deportations of American citizens in the second Trump administration - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 25, 2026 at 3:09 AM
Even when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.
Another angle clearly showing the victim’s firearm being removed from his person by an agent before he was shot www.reddit.com/r/law/s/TerM...
January 24, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Another angle clearly showing the victim’s firearm being removed from his person by an agent before he was shot www.reddit.com/r/law/s/TerM...
Footage from the woman in pink (now available) shows the man who was murdered attempting to help someone who was being pepper sprayed by ice agents. He was pulled off the pepper spray victim and beaten, executed
January 24, 2026 at 6:57 PM
Footage from the woman in pink (now available) shows the man who was murdered attempting to help someone who was being pepper sprayed by ice agents. He was pulled off the pepper spray victim and beaten, executed
Everyone wants to go to the galley but no one knows how to look at the art
January 23, 2026 at 11:43 PM
Everyone wants to go to the galley but no one knows how to look at the art
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Awful.
Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA ’24, will be rearrested and deported to Algeria, DHS says
Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA ’24, will be rearrested and deported to Algeria, Tricia McLaughlin, Department of Homeland Security assistant secretary for public affairs, announced Thursday, as the federal gove...
www.columbiaspectator.com
January 22, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Awful.
Ruined my life by going to gym + sauna every morning - now by 9:15am I've accomplished too much and am too relaxed to work
Jointed the YMCA and there’s a sauna so I can go to the sauna every day and now my life is too good
January 22, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Ruined my life by going to gym + sauna every morning - now by 9:15am I've accomplished too much and am too relaxed to work
Wow is cinema back??? Screenings tonight at the PFA in Berkeley, Grand Lake theater in Oakland, and the Roxie in San Francisco are all completely sold out. Happy about it, but what about moi?
January 18, 2026 at 12:10 AM
Wow is cinema back??? Screenings tonight at the PFA in Berkeley, Grand Lake theater in Oakland, and the Roxie in San Francisco are all completely sold out. Happy about it, but what about moi?
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Because Wikipedia content is openly licensed for anyone to reuse for free, its servers are currently being hammered by AI scrapers. This enterprise deal gives the companies access to a high speed feed, a privilege they pay for. That’s all. No AI content in Wikipedia. techcrunch.com/2026/01/15/w...
Wikimedia Foundation announces new AI partnerships with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Perplexity, and others | TechCrunch
The AI partnerships allow companies to access the org's content, like Wikipedia, at scale.
techcrunch.com
January 15, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Because Wikipedia content is openly licensed for anyone to reuse for free, its servers are currently being hammered by AI scrapers. This enterprise deal gives the companies access to a high speed feed, a privilege they pay for. That’s all. No AI content in Wikipedia. techcrunch.com/2026/01/15/w...
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For the past year, I've been quietly doing all sorts of experimenting with different form factors of AI decision legibility. Like all infrastructure-type things, it's just not that interesting when there's so much hype surrounding what's happening.
January 15, 2026 at 5:01 PM
For the past year, I've been quietly doing all sorts of experimenting with different form factors of AI decision legibility. Like all infrastructure-type things, it's just not that interesting when there's so much hype surrounding what's happening.
One thing giving me a grim chuckle these days is that after years of "LEARN TO CODE" snark from smug SWEs who hate reading, wordcels can now create software without ever touching a command line, while software engineers are the ones perhaps most in need of an alternate career path.
January 14, 2026 at 11:37 PM
One thing giving me a grim chuckle these days is that after years of "LEARN TO CODE" snark from smug SWEs who hate reading, wordcels can now create software without ever touching a command line, while software engineers are the ones perhaps most in need of an alternate career path.
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Iran's internet shutdown is systematically crippling Starlink, the satellite internet service from Elon Musk that is said to be almost impossible to jam
restofworld.org/2026/iran-st...
restofworld.org/2026/iran-st...
Iran crippled Starlink and why the rest of the world should worry
The service became synonymous with censorship-proof connectivity. Iran has just proved that assumption wrong.
restofworld.org
January 13, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Iran's internet shutdown is systematically crippling Starlink, the satellite internet service from Elon Musk that is said to be almost impossible to jam
restofworld.org/2026/iran-st...
restofworld.org/2026/iran-st...
Jointed the YMCA and there’s a sauna so I can go to the sauna every day and now my life is too good
January 13, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Jointed the YMCA and there’s a sauna so I can go to the sauna every day and now my life is too good
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I've put together a list of the most helpful activities/visualizations/tools I've found for introducing students to the mechanics of LLMs (which I do every year). miriamposner.com/blog/introdu...
Introducing beginners to the mechanics of machine learning – Miriam Posner
miriamposner.com
January 12, 2026 at 10:04 PM
I've put together a list of the most helpful activities/visualizations/tools I've found for introducing students to the mechanics of LLMs (which I do every year). miriamposner.com/blog/introdu...
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Bill Ackman has now confirmed what I first reported yesterday morning, that he donated $10K to the GoFundMe for Jonathan Ross, in a tweet.
January 12, 2026 at 12:34 PM
Bill Ackman has now confirmed what I first reported yesterday morning, that he donated $10K to the GoFundMe for Jonathan Ross, in a tweet.
Startup guys once again validating my theory of combinatory slop and cultural stagnation!!
January 12, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Startup guys once again validating my theory of combinatory slop and cultural stagnation!!
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NEW: It appears billionaire Bill Ackman has donated $10k to a GoFundMe for Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who killed Renee Good.
Ackman has reposted the fundraiser but hasn’t posted about his own donation.
Ackman has reposted the fundraiser but hasn’t posted about his own donation.
January 11, 2026 at 1:02 PM
NEW: It appears billionaire Bill Ackman has donated $10k to a GoFundMe for Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who killed Renee Good.
Ackman has reposted the fundraiser but hasn’t posted about his own donation.
Ackman has reposted the fundraiser but hasn’t posted about his own donation.
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AIER’s finest weighing in.
January 10, 2026 at 7:12 PM
AIER’s finest weighing in.
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they think we're fucking stupid www.404media.co/dhs-is-lying...
DHS Is Lying To You About ICE Shooting a Woman
At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.
www.404media.co
January 7, 2026 at 10:30 PM
they think we're fucking stupid www.404media.co/dhs-is-lying...
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This is a direct result of living in such a post-information fascist cyber-fantasy world. The conspiracist disinfo and networked harassment couple with the performative reaction videos and social media amplification to create a never-ending justification for extra-legal violence and dehumanization.
You can draw a draw a straight line from a right wing YouTuber's unverified viral video about Somali American daycares to ICE showing up in Minneapolis to this killing.
This feels like a galvanizing moment for the city in the same way George Floyd's death was five years ago.
This feels like a galvanizing moment for the city in the same way George Floyd's death was five years ago.
January 7, 2026 at 7:08 PM
This is a direct result of living in such a post-information fascist cyber-fantasy world. The conspiracist disinfo and networked harassment couple with the performative reaction videos and social media amplification to create a never-ending justification for extra-legal violence and dehumanization.
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BREAKING: OpenAI is predicted to buy Pinterest, $PINS, in 2026, per the Information
January 2, 2026 at 6:36 PM
BREAKING: OpenAI is predicted to buy Pinterest, $PINS, in 2026, per the Information
Stop saying needle drop!!!!!!!
January 2, 2026 at 6:37 AM
Stop saying needle drop!!!!!!!
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This ICE post is a reference to a Rhodesian Army recruiting poster ("Be A Man Among Men") that's very popular with white supremacists.
January 1, 2026 at 12:25 AM
This ICE post is a reference to a Rhodesian Army recruiting poster ("Be A Man Among Men") that's very popular with white supremacists.
Already seeing this CFP inspire a bunch of dipshit pontificating from people who have no business talking about aesthetics let alone attempting to define a new one
<$250k grants from Tyler Cowan and the Stripe founder guy if you can come up with a “new aesthetic” for the 21st C. Hmmmmm ok! Hope one of my friends gets this weird money. newaesthetics.art
A Call for New Aesthetics
A Call for New Aesthetics
newaesthetics.art
December 30, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Already seeing this CFP inspire a bunch of dipshit pontificating from people who have no business talking about aesthetics let alone attempting to define a new one
<$250k grants from Tyler Cowan and the Stripe founder guy if you can come up with a “new aesthetic” for the 21st C. Hmmmmm ok! Hope one of my friends gets this weird money. newaesthetics.art
A Call for New Aesthetics
A Call for New Aesthetics
newaesthetics.art
December 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
<$250k grants from Tyler Cowan and the Stripe founder guy if you can come up with a “new aesthetic” for the 21st C. Hmmmmm ok! Hope one of my friends gets this weird money. newaesthetics.art