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Karissa Bell

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Senior reporter 🗒️ for Engadget, covering social media. Say👋 at [email protected] or on Signal: karissabe.51

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Karissa Bell @karissabe.bsky.social · Mar 5

New from me: For the past several weeks, dozens of Facebook pages have been running hundreds of ads featuring deepfakes of Elon Musk, Fox New hosts and other public figures claiming Musk can cure diabetes. It's part of an elaborate scam to sell supplements that purport to help treat diabetes.

Facebook scammers want you to think Elon Musk can cure diabetes

Facebook ads depicting deepfakes of Elon Musk and Fox News personalities claiming that the Tesla CEO has discovered the cure for diabetes have been circulating on the platform for weeks.

www.engadget.com

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Karissa Bell @karissabe.bsky.social · 2h

“She plays to an audience of 200 people,” one Hollywood executive with ties to Weiss told Variety. “It just happens to be that audience is made up of people like Jeff Bezos and Bill Ackman. The superrich f------ love her.”

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 1d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

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Karissa Bell @karissabe.bsky.social · 7h

this all seems chill and normal

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h

Good lord.

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Karissa Bell @karissabe.bsky.social · 13d

this is so fucking bleak

Neon, the No. 2 social app on the Apple App Store, pays users to record their phone calls and sells data to AI firms | TechCrunch

A new call recording app is gaining traction for offering to pay users for voice data from calls, which is sold to AI companies.

techcrunch.com

Karissa Bell @karissabe.bsky.social · 14d

I got so much hate for being skeptical of a ban and pointing out that there has never been any tangible evidence that the Chinese government is manipulating the TikTok algorithm. Wonder if they all feel so much safer from the scary TikTok algo now
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Trump turns Biden’s TikTok law into a big win

Biden officials said selling TikTok would safeguard it from political influence. Now, critics of a spinoff deal to Trump allies say that aim could be subverted.

www.washingtonpost.com

Karissa Bell @karissabe.bsky.social · 14d

Already getting close to 3 million views on YouTube and this video has only been up a couple hours

Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 15d

The first half of tonight's Jimmy Kimmel is up on YouTube, and what I've watched so far is good stuff.

Jimmy Kimmel is Back!

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live

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Karissa Bell @karissabe.bsky.social · 19d

I preferred sand for me/my face but I saw some folks wearing the black frames and thought it looked good on them. There are also two sizes of frames, regular and large so there’s a bit of variation. Sand is also a bit translucent which might not be everyone’s thing

Karissa Bell @karissabe.bsky.social · 19d

Meta’s new Ray-Ban Display glasses. These are def thicker than their other smart glasses but 1) my face is kinda narrow so all Wayfarers look wide on me 2) they are wayyy more “normal” looking than any other glasses I’ve tried with an lcos display. More: www.engadget.com/wearables/me...

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d.ly @dly.bsky.social · 26d

the one trick mods don’t want you to know

A Bluesky appeal for suspension. The reason for appeal is a line from Mean Girls:
I don't think my father, the inventor of Toaster Strudel, would be too pleased to hear about this

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Feminist Proper Gander @dappergander.bsky.social · 27d

update: reports about the 'engraved shell casings' may not be accurate, according to law enforcement comments made to NYT

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Karissa Bell @karissabe.bsky.social · 29d

These days I'm very much on the side of "keep your phone as long as possible and don't upgrade until you have to" .. for a lot of people the limiting factor ends up being storage so I'm happy that Apple finally upped its base amount of storage. www.engadget.com/mobile/smart...

All of the new iPhones start with 256GB of storage. Finally.

All of the new phones share one important upgrade you might have missed during Apple's 72-minute livestream: they all start at 256GB of storage.

www.engadget.com

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Karissa Bell @karissabe.bsky.social · Sep 6

Buying a $30 IMAX ticket to see the new Conjuring really makes me miss MoviePass.. I milked that so much before it all imploded

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Karissa Bell @karissabe.bsky.social · Sep 5

I love it when I reach out so someone for a story and they never respond but then like 2 weeks later I'm suddenly subscribed to their Substack

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Karissa Bell @karissabe.bsky.social · Sep 5

"I wasn't sure what number you wanted to go with" 🤔

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Sep 5

Zuckerberg saying Meta intends to spend at least 600 billion in the US

Zuckerberg at the end caught on a hot mic

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Karissa Bell @karissabe.bsky.social · Sep 5

Incredibly, after 21 years, Meta still hasn't given up on the poke 👉 www.engadget.com/social-media...

21 years later, Meta still hasn't given up on the Facebook 'poke'

Meta wants poking to make a comeback on Facebook for some reason.

www.engadget.com

Karissa Bell @karissabe.bsky.social · Sep 4

I feel personally attacked by this

Karissa Bell @karissabe.bsky.social · Aug 10

wtf is this

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Karissa Bell @karissabe.bsky.social · Aug 6

I recently decided I wanted to get back into making proper espresso with my breville and for the past two weeks have been using chatGPT to experiment with different settings and .. it's actually been really, surprisingly helpful.

Karissa Bell @karissabe.bsky.social · Aug 5

it does! If you click on "Examples of hateful and derogatory content" there's a (somewhat hidden) drop-down menu that includes it

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Karissa Bell @karissabe.bsky.social · Aug 5

2010s tumblr was such a vibe gen z could never

Karissa Bell @karissabe.bsky.social · Jul 30

A year ago, Zuck pubbed a diff memo saying "Open Source AI is the Path Forward" today he said "safety concerns" might prevent superintelligence from being open source.
www.engadget.com/ai/is-mark-z...

Is Mark Zuckerberg flip flopping on open source AI?

During Meta's second quarter earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg further acknowledged there could be a shift, though he downplayed the significance of it.

www.engadget.com

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molly taft @mollytaft.com · Jul 30

NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —

Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work

A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED.

www.wired.com

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Karissa Bell @karissabe.bsky.social · Jul 30

Huge bummer to see this from Ziff www.theverge.com/news/715220/...

Layoffs hit CNET as its parent company goes on a buying spree

23 people are affected

www.theverge.com

Karissa Bell @karissabe.bsky.social · Jul 30

New from me: LinkedIn quietly removed references to deadnaming and misgendering from its hateful content policy this week. The company says it's underlying rules have not changed but advocates say it's part of a trend to loosen rules meant to protect vulnerable users.

LinkedIn quietly removed references to deadnaming and misgendering from its hateful content policy

LinkedIn quietly changed the language of its hateful conduct policy this week, removing a line that referenced a prohibition on misgendering and deadnaming of transgender individuals.

www.engadget.com

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Karissa Bell @karissabe.bsky.social · Jul 30

Yep! I talked about this in a review I just did of the Oakley glasses .. the cameras and speakers are useful in certain scenarios (bike rides) when you want your hands to be more free but the AI features still feel like they’re trying to find a problem to solve (translation maybe being an exception)

Karissa Bell @karissabe.bsky.social · Jul 30

His fascination is that it would let meta control a hardware platform/distribution of their AI in a way they don’t currently bc of Apple/google

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