I wrote about the queasy feeling I got watching Google I/O about the new AI Search, which — aside from the obvious implications to traffic — feels very WRONG to me about how to interact with the open web. It’s like an HOA for the internet

Like @davelee.me, I'm on team HELL NO to constantly verbally commanding computers. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Smarties….. underrated candy

It's almost like a really bad landlord... "In 2023, librarian Rebecca Harlow in Orange, Connecticut paid $65 to license the e-audiobook "Five-Star Weekend" by Elin Hilderbrand for two years. This year, that same license cost her $101.99, a 57% increase." www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/...

Parents is your teen texting things like "let's go hack" or "don't forget to bring your sack to school"? Be careful, they MAY be doing the latest dangerous teen trend: playing Hacky Sack www.businessinsider.com/hacky-sack-f...

"Why are all the journalists laid off now" this is why. Pretty simple.

Finally, the AI feature we all wanted and needed: Amazon now creates an AI “podcast” about products where two AI “hosts” discuss the product and take your questions as if it’s a call-in show. www.businessinsider.com/amazon-ai-ge...

not marked safe from entering last week's Geese discourse www.businessinsider.com/clipping-soc...

This headline really has it all www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

We're in such a beautiful, perfect moment of celebrity gossip right now, I am so happy and feel alive but also can't help but worry that like, the world is going to explode

I think Loverboy could’ve been one of the most important bands of the 80s if they had only had at least 1 good looking guy in the band

What absolute fucking idiots lol. Good for them.

Texting my friends “can I be a bitch for a minute?” and then dropping this shady gossip

"A ... federal judge has dismissed a writer's lawsuit accusing a bestselling fiction author of stealing her romance-fantasy book drafts to create the popular 'Crave' series, issuing a lengthy opinion finding tropes of the genre —such as 'hot, sexy, dangerous boys'— are not protected by copyright."

based on my middle school sex ed class in the 90s, i really thought diaphrams would have a more important role in adult life

One of the most annoying byproducts of AI that is destroying the web is that because so many AI bots are constantly trying to scrape pages, CloudFlare is constantly having autoimmune flareups and giving you "bad gateway" to websites all the time

Garbage Day Live is coming back to Brooklyn next week. Baby's All Right in Williamsburg. Doors at 6:30pm. Special guest @katienotopoulos.bsky.social! It's going to be very very very fun. We only have a few tickets left, so grab 'em while you can!!! www.eventim.us/wafform.aspx...

Have you ever noticed that AI video like Sora always puts people in skinny jeans? I feel like ChatGPT is like that too -- it speaks in millenial cringe because it was trained on Reddit and 2010s internet posts www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-mill...

I enjoyed @thomasgermain.bsky.social's prank about getting LLMs to believe he won a hot dog eating contest by simply writing it on his personal website that I attempted to recreate it. I failed, which is embarassing, but I refuse to be defined by failure www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-gemi...

Last night I was pontificating to my husband on a topic I felt expertise in because I had read (but not finished) a book about it a while ago. I pulled the book off the shelf to show him and noticed where I had left a page corner turned down. Turns out I had only made it to page 20

OpenAI just hired Charles Porch, who was in charge of making celebrities love Instagram. It's not hard to guess why they might need someone try to win over the hearts and minds of celebs www.businessinsider.com/openai-holly...

“All of the people I love hate this stuff, and all the people I hate love it.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...

Nothing more that I love than doing some googling and stumbling into someoen’s 20 year old college webpage www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs...

And we’re got big news! Next year’s artist in residence is none other than @roxanegay.bsky.social!!!! Imagine getting to study writing with her AND me!!! At the same time!! APPLY!!!

The pivot to video is a tax on women's time and dignity, I will die on this hill.

Moltbook is Reddit for AI bots, and some people are freaking out about how amazing and sci-fi it is to see bots talk to each other. But..... it just sucks lol www.businessinsider.com/moltbook-ope...

My RETVRN belife is that people should just call each other on the phone without scheduling it in advance www.businessinsider.com/iphone-scree...

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

"there could be real risk for you. But the bigger risk is silence." www.businessinsider.com/business-lea...

SEE you monsters? You're hurting its feelings

Keep calm and chive on

Helpful org chart www.ft.com/content/ad94...

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 seamonkey.bandcamp.com/track/poo-po...

We’re so back (literally) www.garbageday.email/p/the-20-wor...

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) www.theverge.com/report/84445...

"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." www.businessinsider.com/disney-bob-i...

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 (1/3)

I feel much ire for those who waste the resources and risk the lives of rescue teams www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/03/m...

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" www.businessinsider.com/spotify-wrap...

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

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) cullmantimes.com/2014/10/29/f...

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 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/b...

good byline www.huffpost.com/entry/what-l...

"Trump Mobile, for the third week in a row, did not respond to a request for comment." www.theverge.com/news/820887/...

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 www.businessinsider.com/facebook-mar...

internet is crazy

Again: @katienotopoulos.bsky.social covered this in 2017.

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

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 www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-o...

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 www.businessinsider.com/taco-bell-mo...