Kate
@hellapants.bsky.social
She'll come back as fire, to burn all the liars, leave a blanket of ash on the ground
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🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨
While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.
While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.
September 10, 2026 at 1:02 PM
🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨
While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.
While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.
Watching Beavis & Butthead Do the Universe and you know what just occurred to me? I bet being very stoned and at a Michael Bolton concert could really rule
September 5, 2026 at 4:13 AM
Watching Beavis & Butthead Do the Universe and you know what just occurred to me? I bet being very stoned and at a Michael Bolton concert could really rule
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MapQuest is now the No. 1 U.S. app after bucking Trump’s ‘Lake America’ renaming
MapQuest is now the No. 1 U.S. app after bucking Trump’s ‘Lake America’ renaming
The once-dominant mapping app has surged to the top of Apple’s U.S. App Store after refusing to adopt Trump’s “Lake America” name, drawing more than half of its 2026 U.S. downloads in just six days.
techcrunch.com
September 2, 2026 at 8:13 PM
MapQuest is now the No. 1 U.S. app after bucking Trump’s ‘Lake America’ renaming
I gotta admit, I misread this myself the first time and was kind of into "fearmongrel"
September 1, 2026 at 7:53 PM
I gotta admit, I misread this myself the first time and was kind of into "fearmongrel"
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Never forgiving Apple or Google for participating in this bullshit.
August 27, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Never forgiving Apple or Google for participating in this bullshit.
My first wedding, I walked down the aisle to that song and it was pretty pimp
August 27, 2026 at 2:26 PM
My first wedding, I walked down the aisle to that song and it was pretty pimp
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"We can't use your product if anyone knows it's your product because everyone hates your product" is maybe a sign that your company stinks
lmfaoooooo
www.businessinsider.com/claude-users...
www.businessinsider.com/claude-users...
Claude users are canceling their subscriptions, citing Anthropic’s new AI watermark
One developer said they feared Anthropic's watermark could lead clients to flag their work as AI-generated and raise questions about authorship.
www.businessinsider.com
August 15, 2026 at 3:10 PM
"We can't use your product if anyone knows it's your product because everyone hates your product" is maybe a sign that your company stinks
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Technology is cool, too bad they made it evil
July 31, 2026 at 1:50 AM
Technology is cool, too bad they made it evil
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK
I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:
How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran
The question is: what on earth is Google doing?
www.digitaldigging.org
July 31, 2026 at 12:36 PM
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK
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looking at the headlines and reflecting once again on how all the smart, hard-working, honest people I know feel like they’re going at least a little insane in our era of total Stupid Immoral Asshole ascendancy
July 31, 2026 at 11:54 AM
looking at the headlines and reflecting once again on how all the smart, hard-working, honest people I know feel like they’re going at least a little insane in our era of total Stupid Immoral Asshole ascendancy
This Fred Meyer is playing Silverchair and I think that means I now have to walk into the sea
July 29, 2026 at 12:49 AM
This Fred Meyer is playing Silverchair and I think that means I now have to walk into the sea
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This shit is not inevitable, it could be made illegal tomorrow if our governments weren't in the pocket of Big Pervert.
AI devices that see, listen and record: Are we ready for the post-smartphone world?
AI devices that see, listen and record: Are we ready for the post-smartphone world?
Major tech companies and startups are developing new types of wearable gadgets that can “see” or “hear.” Meta is selling millions of its EssilorLuxottica AI glasses with embedded cameras and microphones; Samsung will launch its own smart glasses later this year.
www.ctvnews.ca
July 26, 2026 at 4:56 PM
This shit is not inevitable, it could be made illegal tomorrow if our governments weren't in the pocket of Big Pervert.
Tor Thom's unabashedly but contextually surprisingly misogynistic and homophobic voices in the Game Changer series audiobooks are basically unforgivable, but also up there is his mispronunciation of the word "toque."
July 24, 2026 at 1:33 PM
Tor Thom's unabashedly but contextually surprisingly misogynistic and homophobic voices in the Game Changer series audiobooks are basically unforgivable, but also up there is his mispronunciation of the word "toque."
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"The future offers us little hope for those who expect that our new mechanical slaves will offer us a world in which we may rest from thinking. Help us they may, but at the cost of supreme demands upon our honesty and our intelligence.”
~Norbert Wiener, God and Golem (1964)
~Norbert Wiener, God and Golem (1964)
August 9, 2025 at 11:18 PM
"The future offers us little hope for those who expect that our new mechanical slaves will offer us a world in which we may rest from thinking. Help us they may, but at the cost of supreme demands upon our honesty and our intelligence.”
~Norbert Wiener, God and Golem (1964)
~Norbert Wiener, God and Golem (1964)
Was in the backyard yesterday, reclaiming some space from all the stuff growing up through the fence, when these guys came along and made a pretty persuasive case for leaving the lilac intact
July 13, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Was in the backyard yesterday, reclaiming some space from all the stuff growing up through the fence, when these guys came along and made a pretty persuasive case for leaving the lilac intact
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"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps.
www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...
www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...
These Maine librarians are helping patrons resist AI and Big Tech
Despite breathless reporting on how AI is going to change the world, Hannah Cyrus, a Bangor librarian, said that, in her experience, most library patrons aren’t finding it helpful.
www.bangordailynews.com
July 8, 2026 at 12:31 AM
"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps.
www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...
www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...
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Meta Glasses are like, a Cybertruck for your face.
July 7, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Meta Glasses are like, a Cybertruck for your face.
I dunno about great, but it definitely popped back into my head fully formed just from seeing that post, so
That show had one of the all-time great theme songs. youtu.be/77wNujaN0x8?...
June 22, 2026 at 1:57 PM
I dunno about great, but it definitely popped back into my head fully formed just from seeing that post, so
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this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to show up in full combat gear on a hot summer day to the pool he filled with algae because he gave a paint job to one of his cigar puffing cronies. you are ordered to stop tourists from touching the green water. good luck soldier
national guard deployed to keep people from touching the reflecting pool
June 20, 2026 at 6:48 PM
this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to show up in full combat gear on a hot summer day to the pool he filled with algae because he gave a paint job to one of his cigar puffing cronies. you are ordered to stop tourists from touching the green water. good luck soldier
Watching that episode of the Good Place where everyone is served their favorite meal from life and wondering desperately what mine would be
June 14, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Watching that episode of the Good Place where everyone is served their favorite meal from life and wondering desperately what mine would be
Tbf, remaining uncommitted is very Washington of us
At least six states have RSVP'd 'no' to Trump's America 250 state fair.
www.notus.org/donald-trump...
www.notus.org/donald-trump...
At Least Six States Have RSVP'd ‘No’ to Trump’s State Fair
Some states say the Freedom 250 birthday bash is too expensive, too rushed and too politicized. The organizers say every state will be represented at the "once in a generation event."
www.notus.org
June 12, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Tbf, remaining uncommitted is very Washington of us
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Picard morality tip: If one side of a conflict preaches purity of bloodline above communal benefit for all, join the other side.
May 25, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Picard morality tip: If one side of a conflict preaches purity of bloodline above communal benefit for all, join the other side.
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