Katie Notopoulos
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Blogger at Business Insider, covering tech, business, culture.
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I would never lead any of you astray with a link that is bad, so please just trust me when I say you should open this and listen to the entire thing
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Poo-Poo Stains, by Seamonkey
from the album Comin' Out Tha Closet
https://seamonkey.bandcamp.com/track/poo-poo-stains
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We’re so back (literally)
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The 20 Worst Things On The Internet In 2025
We're back, baby
https://www.garbageday.email/p/the-20-worst-things-on-the-internet-in-2025
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Spotify gets 50k AI songs per day (uploaded to just one of the the 3rd party distributors that you hav eto go thru to put stuf on Spotify)
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"Iger said the deal also fulfills a longtime desire by Disney to put user-generated content on its Disney+ streaming platform. Disney initially plans to put select videos created on Sora onto Disney+ to increase engagement with users, especially younger ones."
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Disney CEO Bob Iger explains why he just did a blockbuster OpenAI deal
Disney CEO Bob Iger said the company's licensing deal with OpenAI will let it capitalize on a fast-growing technology and engage younger audiences.
https://www.businessinsider.com/disney-bob-iger-explains-billion-deal-with-open-ai-2025-12
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26 days ago
RALLY FOR NEWS, NOT SLOP: Join us at 1PM ET Thursday outside @BusinessInsider HQ. We will be rallying to let management know what we think of their plans to roll out AI-generated news stories. Details here …
#NewsNotSlop
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I feel much ire for those who waste the resources and risk the lives of rescue teams
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Viral videos of dangerous ski stunts spur ‘unprecedented number of lost skiers,’ Vermont rescue squad says - The Boston Globe
Stowe's town rescue squad described an “unprecedented number of lost skiers” who had accessed the backcountry this snowy early season — only to contact first responders when they became stranded.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/03/metro/vermont-backcountry-tiktok-rescues
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My Spotify listener age was 59, which I accept with grace. But some people are finally experiencing the humiliation at the hands of Spotify Wrapped for being "unc"
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Spotify Wrapped says his 'listening age' is 86, but he's only 36
Spotify Wrapped is calling out 23-year-old Gen Z'ers for having the listening habits of a boomer. What's "listening age" tell us about ourselves?
https://www.businessinsider.com/spotify-wrapped-listening-age-2025-12
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Californians load on the Patagonia when it hits 61 degrees, meanwhile ~10% of 8-24yo males in New Hampshire wear shorts every single day of winter
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Just learned that Karoline Leavitt's brother was in the local Massachusetts news in 2014 for winning $1 million from Draft Kings by betting on the Patriots. The baby in the photo is his (in recent news, the baby's mother, born in Brazil, has now been detained by ICE)
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Fantasy football produces an instant millionaire - The Cullman Times
Mike Leavitt knew going into the Monday Night Football game between the Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins that a poor outing from Cowboys superstar wide receiver Dez Bryant would mean a $1 millio...
https://cullmantimes.com/2014/10/29/fantasy-football-produces-an-instant-millionaire/
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As an elder millenial, I will happily accept the thesis that the last gasp of interesting culture happened in the early 00s (oddly coinciding with when I was in my early 20s?) and has all gone downhill from there (as I have lost touch). Will happily buy this book
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Pop Culture Got Stale. Counterculture Went Right-Wing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/books/review/culture-right-wing-david-marx.html
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good byline
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Larry Summers' True Record on Women
Many people note that our nation has few economists with Larry Summers' intelligence. They should also know that we have few leaders, if any, in the financial world who have done more for women.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/what-larry-summers-has-do_b_142126
about 1 month ago
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"Trump Mobile, for the third week in a row, did not respond to a request for comment."
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Why we’re going to keep talking about the Trump phone
It’s not because we’re fans.
https://www.theverge.com/news/820887/why-we-keep-writing-about-trump-phone-t1
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Facebook Marketplace is adding a comments section. But it still isn't solving the biggest problem: people asking "is it available" over and over and over
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Mark Zuckerberg: You missed one big thing in Facebook Marketplace's new updates!
Facebook Marketplace is getting new features, but not the one change I recommended to Mark Zuckerberg: ending the "Hi, is this available" message.
https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-marketplace-is-this-still-available-message-change-mark-zuckerberg-2025-11
about 2 months ago
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internet is crazy
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Again:
@katienotopoulos.bsky.social
covered this in 2017.
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Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
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One of my favorite thing to tell normal people is "Sam Altman also runs a failing business were he scans the eyeballs of people in poorer countries with a device called "the Orb" and puts the data on the blockchain" and watch their heads spin
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Sam Altman's eye-scanning Orb startup wants to hit a billion users. It's less than 2% of the way there.
Sam Altman's startup, Tools for Humanity, wants its Orb to scan a billion irises to create a "World ID." Regulators worldwide are sounding the alarm.
https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-orb-eye-scanning-startup-billion-user-goal-viability-2025-11
about 2 months ago
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I went out and bought the new Taco Bell mountain dew Baja Blast pie because I love neon food (it was good!) and also I need to test out my Mr Beast thumbnail face
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Taco Bell's new Mountain Dew Baja Blast pie is part of a strategy to reach Gen Z. I tried it.
Taco Bell's bright green Mountain Dew Baja Blast pie looks disgusting. But it's part of a strategy to reach Gen Z. And it's surprisingly good.
https://www.businessinsider.com/taco-bell-mountain-dew-baja-blast-pie-review-photos-2025-11
about 2 months ago
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don't worry -- the OLD Farmer's Almanac (founded in 1792 with the old timey-cover you see at the grocery store) is still going
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about 2 months ago
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I went to go check back in on Meta AI's Vibes feed, and found that it's full of boomerbait, memey videos of Trump now
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How 'boomerslop' is taking over Meta AI's video feed
Meta's stand-alone AI app has a video feed called Vibes. It's being taken over by Donald Trump memes and political stuff. I'm calling it "boomerslop."
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-vibes-app-videos-trump-slop-boomer-2025-11
about 2 months ago
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One thing about Dick Cheney is that he had zero rizz. No one, not even Republicans, liked him. Now you can do all sorts of evil stuff as a politician, but you have to have memetic charm. Really the last of his kind.
about 2 months ago
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This article is really great bc it's about an org everyone knows but seems so boring we forget about it (Common Crawl) and turns out they're doing something extremely shady, AND the guy in charge keeps saying the most damning things to a reporter
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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The Nonprofit Doing the AI Industry’s Dirty Work
The web archive Common Crawl has been quietly funneling paywalled articles to AI companies—and lying to publishers about it.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/11/common-crawl-ai-training-data/684567/?gift=KnPEUGay_6wcqYyilJ5WULrtiP78Ib2xWNAoPUmW_KI&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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NEW! I'm doing a video podcast (vodcast? It's literally not even available as audio lol) about my favorite thing to talk about: ~consumerism~
@emilystewart.bsky.social
and I talked about rEaL eStaTe for the first episode. Check it out!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdLZMgXHvYQI'm
about 2 months ago
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Wikipedia's traffic is down, due to Google's AI Overviews and ChatGPT. I think AI will continue to cut into Wikipedia traffic -- but only to a point. There's something Wikipedia offers that is more than just a quick answer
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AI answers are taking a bite of Wikipedia's traffic. Should we be worried for the site?
Wikipedia's traffic is down — but there's reason to be hopeful for its future, even with Elon Musk nipping at its heels with its new Grokipedia.
https://www.businessinsider.com/wikipedia-traffic-down-ai-answers-elon-musk-grokipedia-wikimedia-2025-10
about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
big story that should get more attention from bayliss, who as always is the GOAT:
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Even though I've heard "Golden" 300,000 times (at minimum), I didn't realize that EJAE was the co-writer of the song, not just the vocalist. Great interview, she seems fascinating
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How ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Star EJAE Topped the Charts
Kids everywhere know her voice—if not her name. WIRED talks to the former SM trainee about her rise to global superstardom with her hit song “Golden.”
https://www.wired.com/story/how-k-pop-demon-hunters-star-ejae-topped-the-charts/
about 2 months ago
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"These nice young people don't like phones!" is the nytimes version of boomerbait that's the same as the Fox News "litterboxes in high schools" story. Same story over and over, zero skepticism
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/s...
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They’ve Come to Free the ‘iPad Babies’
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/style/lamp-club-luddites.html
2 months ago
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This is long but truly one of the most fun things I've read online in a long long time
harpers.org/archive/2025...
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The Goon Squad, by Daniel Kolitz
Loneliness, porn’s next frontier, and the dream of endless masturbation
https://harpers.org/archive/2025/11/the-goon-squad-daniel-kolitz-porn-masturbation-loneliness/
2 months ago
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Scoop: I sent a public record request to the FTC for complaints mentioning ChatGPT. I got 200 complaints back, but a couple stood out. They described experiencing severe delusions, paranoia, and spiritual crises, and they attributed it to ChatGPT:
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People Who Say They’re Experiencing AI Psychosis Beg the FTC for Help
The Federal Trade Commission received 200 complaints mentioning ChatGPT between November 2022 and August 2025. Several attributed delusions, paranoia, and spiritual crises to the chatbot.
https://www.wired.com/story/ftc-complaints-chatgpt-ai-psychosis/
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Sora doesn't allow nudity, but it's full of niche fetishists who make videos of women as centaurs, giantesses (or miniature), feet vids, pregnancy, belly inflation, etc... Who could have guessed!! Ihttps://www.businessinsider.com/sora-video-openai-fetish-content-my-face-problem-2025-10
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OpenAI might have a 'creeper problem' on its hands with Sora
Sora lets you make videos using other people's faces. Great! Except when your face is used in a "fetish" video, like one about feet or pregnancy.
https://www.businessinsider.com/sora-video-openai-fetish-content-my-face-problem-2025-10
2 months ago
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This story rules
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2 months ago
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2 months ago
This single story is worth the cost of my year's subscription to
@wired.com
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This is a great article because the “common item from 2007” is a never opened iPhone 1 in sealed packaging — something people definitely have lying around a junk drawer
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Check your junk drawer — this common item from 2007 could soon be worth $50,000: expert
Old gadget, new money.
https://nypost.com/2025/10/11/lifestyle/check-your-junk-drawer-this-common-item-from-2007-could-soon-be-worth-50000-expert/?utm_campaign=nypost&sr_share=facebook&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwZnRzaANaP7pleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHmaM3w1ZYUiSh22CyrZmP28V8RPvFxx_-j5b6NwRfuUfa3dVo0GGjdGxWGvj_aem_aYwBe2e8PVyu9ZJCWYgxzw
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The biggest problem with Sora as a social platform isn't the copyright or misinfo. It's that it's full of Jake Paul fans
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Sora 2 is drawing a huge crowd of teenage boys. This doesn't bode well — trust me.
Sora 2 seems to encourage people to make fun of each other. It's also attracting a lot of teenage boys. This could be a nightmare for Sam Altman.
https://www.businessinsider.com/sora-videos-openai-content-moderation-celebrities-teens-boys-girls-2025-10
3 months ago
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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
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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.
https://www.businessinsider.com/sora-video-app-openai-pros-cons-explained-why-2025-10
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@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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RIP Shine, uou were too beautiful for this world
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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.
https://www.businessinsider.com/marissa-mayer-ai-startup-sunshine-shutting-down-dazzle-2025-9
3 months ago
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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!
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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.
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-new-vibes-feed-ai-slop-2025-9
3 months ago
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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...
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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.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/24/neon-the-no-2-social-app-on-the-apple-app-store-pays-users-to-record-their-phone-calls-and-sells-data-to-ai-firms/
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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:
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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.
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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.
https://slate.com/technology/2025/09/artificial-intelligence-chatbot-boyfriends-dating-romance-intimacy.html
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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
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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.
https://www.wired.com/story/oral-history-doge-federal-workers/
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to the art director at Wired who made this unholy image.... you will not see heaven
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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
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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
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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.
https://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-aita-chatbots-chatgpt-jerks-sycophant-2025-9
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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
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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...
https://defector.com/the-official-charity-of-the-savannah-bananas-has-a-hard-time-explaining-how-its-money-is-spent
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Behold, the best 9/11 humor of all time: The Onion's TV listings (my favorite row is MTV)
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Most important news of the day: my investigation into why kids yell "SIX SEVEN"
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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."
https://www.businessinsider.com/six-seven-forty-one-gen-alpha-slang-meme-brainrot-ai-2025-9
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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
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The Brain-Rotting Dystopia of Roblox
What if the world’s most beloved video-game app is turning children into mindless hyperconsumers?
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/what-is-roblox-video-game-app-metaverse-safe-children-ban.html
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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!
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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.
https://www.businessinsider.com/yondr-ceo-graham-dugoni-phone-pouch-2025-9
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