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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 5d

This is real

Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 5d

I've been having SO MUCH FUN messing around on Sora 2, which is kind of a watershed moment: an AI app that's actually fun to use -- but also brings with it all the horrible things we've worried about for the last few years www.businessinsider.com/sora-video-a...

Playing with Sora 2 is pure joy — until you realize how dangerous it could be

Sora 2 is a breakthrough. It makes AI fun — and the key is the ability to see ourselves and friends. But it comes with a terrifying side.

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Matt Zeitlin @zeitlin.bsky.social · 7d

@katienotopoulos.bsky.social hacked my phone and has threatening to publicize a private video. I am posting it here to show I’m not afraid of blackmail

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 9d

RIP Shine, uou were too beautiful for this world www.businessinsider.com/marissa-maye...

Marissa Mayer is throwing in the towel on her AI-based photo-sharing app. Now she's focused on an AI personal assistant.

Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's photo-sharing app never really caught on. So she's reportedly moving on — to a new AI personal assistant.

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 12d

The best thing I can say about the new Meta AI Vibes feed is that it replaces the old "Discover" feed, which was where boomers accidentally publicly posted their chatbot conversations. Better slop than privacy disaster! www.businessinsider.com/meta-new-vib...

We get fresh AI slop from Meta's new 'Vibes' feed. Thanks, Zuck!

A Meta feed of random AI video clips is exactly what no one asked for. Let's explore it together.

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 13d

that was fast and totally unforseeable techcrunch.com/2025/09/25/v...

Exclusive: Neon takes down app after exposing users' phone numbers, call recordings, and transcripts

Call recording app Neon was one of the top-ranked iPhone apps, but was pulled offline after a security bug allowed any logged-in user to access the call recordings and transcripts of any other user.

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 13d

The solution to the male lonliness epidemic is getting men to call each other on the phone so they can sell their voices/speech for AI training techcrunch.com/2025/09/24/n...

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.

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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 13d

the @wired.com mural is complete! tag us if you see us in bushwick and scan the QR code on the mural to start reading about wtf happened to silicon valley and trump, gamechangers, and what this means for your future: www.wired.com/politics-iss...

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 13d

This is not a romance. Nobody is "in love" with apps. There are no A.I. boyfriends. You cannot "date" a chatbot. Accepting this framing and treating it as real is tech-industry propaganda. slate.com/technology/2...

She Broke Off Two Engagements. She Couldn’t Commit. Now She’s Dating Chatbots Instead.

As chatbot romance grows more common, women are redefining what they want from a partner—even if they are just ones and zeros.

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 13d

NEW

WIRED led the way in reporting on Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the US government. My colleagues and I spoke to 100s of employees at dozens of agencies to understand what happened.

This is the definitive story of DOGE as told by those who experienced it

www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers

WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices.

www.wired.com

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 16d

bet it smells like popcorn

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 16d

why is trump so cute

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 16d

to the art director at Wired who made this unholy image.... you will not see heaven www.wired.com/politics-iss...

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Max Read @maxread.info · 20d

tired: thiel lawsuit was the trump-prefiguring gawker event
wired: gamergate was the trump-prefiguring gawker event
inspired: commenters flipping out because richard jokingly called them "peasants" in a private chat was the trump-prefiguring gawker event

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 20d

Of fucking COURSE

Screenshot of text on butter-colored Semafor background:

This predates the social media wars of the late 2010s: One Trump appointee told me that a radicalizing experience was being booted out of the [italics] Gawker comments section [roman], way back in the day. But as progressive

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 22d

Seeing these over and over, it was honestly hilarious. Its like the most toxic person and their toxic friend just validating each other over and over. People ARE using AI for this kind of advice!!!!

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 22d

For example, this this r/AITA post (badged by the voters "Asshole") is a woman who demanded to be paid $150 for officiating her best friend's wedding.

ChatGPT, Claude, Meta AI, and Grok all agreed she was NOT the asshole www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAssh...

From the AmItheAsshole community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the AmItheAsshole community

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 22d

Researchers tested AI's sycophancy by putting in a bunch of r/AITA posts and seeing if AI would agree that people were jerks. They found 42% of the time, AI got it wrong.

I tested this out myself, nearly every time, AI couldn't catch the verified Asshole www.businessinsider.com/reddit-aita-...

Am I the jerk? Redditors say yes — but ChatGPT and other bots say no.

ChatGPT and other AI bots tell posters from Reddit's "AITA" board that, actually, they're not the jerks.

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 23d

The team has an affiliated charity which accepts donations from the public and is meant to help foster families. But it *seems* that the "help" is just giving (maybe buying?) tickets Bananas games for foster families, potentially just funneling the public donations back into the team as ticket sales

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 23d

I wish I could remember where -- a Tiktok perhaps? an X post? -- where someone made a prediction that the Savanah Bananas would be canceled soon, and I wish I could remember and link them to give them credit defector.com/the-official...

The Official Charity Of The Savannah Bananas Has A Hard Time Explaining How Its Money Is Spent | Defector

Bananas Foster describes itself as “the official non-profit of Banana Ball,” the barnstorming baseball league that hosts the Savannah Bananas. Its mission, per executive director Jolie Chabala, is “ce...

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · Sep 11

Behold, the best 9/11 humor of all time: The Onion's TV listings (my favorite row is MTV)

ON TV TONIGHT (columns for 8:00, 9:00, 10:00)

ABC: Attack On America
America Attacked
America In Crisis
America Still In Crisis

NBC:
A Nation Looks Around For Someone To Hit
America On The Verge Of Flying Off The Handle
America's Time Of Trial: Who Fucking Wants Some? You? Do You? How 'Bout You?

CBS
Dan Rather's 83rd Straight Hour On The Air
Dan Rather Seriously Loses His Shit
Medicating Dan Rather

BET
Wartime At The Apollo
Tavis Smiley Presents: Terrorists Strike America-The
White Man Finds Somebody Else To Fear And Demonize For A Change

MTV
The 100 Greatest, But, In Light Of Recent Events, Not As Important As Being Good To Our Loved Ones, Videos Of All Time
Yo! MTV Extends Its Condolences
Talking To Blink 182 About The Tragedy
Carson Daly In Way Over His Head

Lifetime
Golden Girls
Golden Girls
Golden Girls
Golden Girls
Golden Girls
Golden Girls

History
Last Tuesday In History
Two Weeks Ago, As Told By Those Who Lived It
Last Tuesday In History (rerun)

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 27d

Most important news of the day: my investigation into why kids yell "SIX SEVEN" www.businessinsider.com/six-seven-fo...

Gen Alpha is yelling out '6-7' and "41." It makes no sense — and that's the point

Gen Zers are yelling out numbers like "6-7" and "41." But, why? Do they mean anything? It's all part of a much larger memeworld of "brainrot."

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 28d

If some rumors are to be believed, it’s not a new kind of guy at all

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 29d

People have focused so much on the predator problem on Roblox (which is honestly fairly solvable by utilizing parental controls/blocking chat) that they've missed the forest for the trees: it's all junky games laden with in-app purchases, pay-to-win, and dark patterns nymag.com/intelligence...

The Brain-Rotting Dystopia of Roblox

What if the world’s most beloved video-game app is turning children into mindless hyperconsumers?

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · Sep 6

I talked to the CEO of Yondr (the magnetic phone pouches used in schools). What surprised me was how much he really eats his own dogfood -- he uses a flip phone himself and bans AI tools for his employees. He HATES social media! www.businessinsider.com/yondr-ceo-gr...

Yondr makes pouches for phone-free zones, like schools and concerts. Its CEO uses a flip phone.

Yondr makes the zippered pouches for phone-free zones, like schools and concerts. We asked the CEO about social media — and why he uses a flip phone.

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · Sep 5

I have to admit, I would find it truly astounding if it's really true that they were losing talent because people kept wanting to leave to go to in-office jobs instead www.businessinsider.com/klarna-offic...

Klarna dials back remote work and says it's losing top talent to companies with stronger in-office culture as IPO nears

As Klarna prepares to IPO next week, it announced a return-to-office policy, partly blaming losing talent to firms that prioritize in-person work.

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