Katie Notopoulos

@katienotopoulos.bsky.social

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Dad, husband, dog lover, java fiend, Inventor of Facebook. (Correspondent at Business Insider.)

Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 19:56 UTC

SBF's mom emailed him asking for $92K. As a parent who recently raided her own son's piggy bank for the tooth fairy..... hey, i get it www.businessinsider.com/sam-bankman-...

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 19:20 UTC

I feel like one day it will come out that like 35% of people at the highest levels of gov't security clearance are furries www.404media.co/r-securitycl...

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:01 UTC

I wrote about Hawk Tuah Girl, the history of Viral Humans, and her plans to avoid the exploitation that other meme humans have encountered.

"We're here to protect the hawk from the vultures," her manager told me. Which... lol www.businessinsider.com/hawk-tuah-gi...

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 19:26 UTC

I can't stop wondering why Facebook just doesn't ban the AI slop www.businessinsider.com/meta-faceboo...

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 14:07 UTC

How I introduce myself in an icebreaker session

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 15:03 UTC

yeah no one's actually mad, that's just a fake idea meant to pretend there's a culture war

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 17:49 UTC

This is, by far, the most cohesive thing you can read to understand the Hawk Tuah phenomenon within the fratbro internet culture maxread.substack.com/p/hawk-tuah-...

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Jaya Saxena @jayasax.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 14:19 UTC

I often think about this piece in The Nib (RIP) about how sleeping in public became criminalized thenib.com/sleeping-isn...

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 18:51 UTC

I ran into your ex, he looks awful

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 18:15 UTC

Gizmodo is also hiring a social media editor

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 12:38 UTC

some cereal bags have a "clean" opening rip, while some are harder to open and tear down the middle. much to think about

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 17:23 UTC

I love the r/tiktokgossip subreddit because I even though I watch A LOT of tiktok, i have never heard of any of the creators they're talking about, and the posts are all incomprehensible like this (this is an explanation for why someone was posting an apology video)

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 14:14 UTC

"Veterinary prices have soared more than 60% over the past decade, according to federal stats. Private equity firms and large corps have bought 100s of facilities around the country, an acquisition spree reminiscent of the corporate roll-ups of doctors’ offices."

www.nytimes.com/2024/06/23/h...

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 16:24 UTC

Gizmodo is hiring a senior tech reporter. We just got new ownership, so I can honestly endorse working here again.

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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 16:28 UTC

The shuttle to take New Yorkers to the beach was so crowded that hundreds of people were left on the platform. This is what the city will look like more and more without congestion pricing funding the MTA.

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 15:41 UTC

Oh my god THANK YOU for this story, “my husband’s monster truck smushed my car while filming Nash Bridges” is the kind of story I have always dreamed of

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 12:59 UTC

I'm sorry, the monster truck in Maine that was shaped like a lobster was called the... Crushstation ("crustacean")????www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/public-safety/several-injured-at-monster-truck-show-in-topsham-maine/97-77531c6e-b679-4c95-a5b6-5a7e11e32a95

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 15, 2024 at 00:33 UTC

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 23:16 UTC

listen please this is important, we made it free to read at @flaminghydra.com

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 12, 2024 at 17:19 UTC

Couldn’t be me

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Colin McMillen @mcmillen.dev
[ View ] Jun 11, 2024 at 17:48 UTC

lmao Google's AI is eating itself already -- telling you how much glue to put on pizza, citing a @katienotopoulos.bsky.social Business Insider article about Google's AI telling people to put glue on pizza

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Director, Basque Space Program @scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz
[ View ] Jun 07, 2024 at 03:15 UTC

Okay @bencollins.bsky.social has the chance to do the funniest thing possible

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 08, 2024 at 14:38 UTC

AI thrives on hype (including the hype of those that say it’s going to kill us all), which means AI is full of personality hires www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-p...

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 07, 2024 at 19:07 UTC

No, it wouldve still had the FAA violations

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 07, 2024 at 18:53 UTC

Ty!!

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 07, 2024 at 18:52 UTC

Freedom isn’t free www.businessinsider.com/alex-choi-yo...

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 06, 2024 at 18:51 UTC

So lots going on in the story, but the implication that Byers traded for access does not go unnoticed:

www.npr.org/2024/06/06/n...

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 06, 2024 at 17:27 UTC

oops

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 06, 2024 at 14:04 UTC

Jack Dorsey gave $10M to fund Nostr, and about $245k personally to its anonymous founder, not knowing who he is IRL. Turns out the guy has made fanpages dedicated to a Brazilian right-wing conspiracy theorist www.businessinsider.com/jack-dorsey-...

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 05, 2024 at 13:42 UTC

Between her and the woman who flashed the NYC-Dublin portal, OnlyFans creators are true agents of chaos

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 04, 2024 at 13:32 UTC

Facebook's plan is to lean into utility features like Marketplace to lure back "young adults" and not even try things like "see what your friends are up to". Tbh... based just on how useful FB Marketplace is, I think this might actually work www.businessinsider.com/facebook-gen...

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 03, 2024 at 11:35 UTC

Jumpscare

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cakemittens @cakemittens.bsky.social
[ View ] May 30, 2024 at 20:55 UTC

oh is there a courtball happening

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social
[ View ] May 29, 2024 at 11:53 UTC

Great Washington Post nostalgia study. Adults think U.S. society was historically nicest and comfiest—most moral and close-knit, families happiest—whenever they happened to be little kids, and culture (music, movies, TV, fashion, sports, food) best whenever they were adolescents. wapo.st/3WXd9xS

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social
[ View ] May 29, 2024 at 15:28 UTC

Imagine the sound of trump saying “skibidi toilet”

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Cezary Jan Strusiewicz @ostrichson.bsky.social
[ View ] May 24, 2024 at 04:42 UTC

You KNOW you're Gen X if you: - drank from the hose - called your friend's house on a landline to talk about drinking from the hose - consumed liquids from a flexible tube in the yard - had a big-ass book of CDs with sounds of ppl drinking from the hose - played Hose Drinkin' on NES - are depressed

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social
[ View ] May 24, 2024 at 18:06 UTC

I made the Google AI glue pizza and ate it www.businessinsider.com/google-ai-gl...

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social
[ View ] May 24, 2024 at 03:19 UTC

Ok side bar but there’s a new podcast about the gas attack at Midwest furfest and it’s really good so far, highly recommend brazen.fm/fur-and-loat...

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social
[ View ] May 24, 2024 at 03:17 UTC

1/8 cup is what Google AI recommends, although it doesn’t say into what size sauce. I did 1/2 cup sauce

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social
[ View ] May 24, 2024 at 02:53 UTC

NO SLIDING OF THE CHEESE

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social
[ View ] May 24, 2024 at 02:44 UTC

Uh oh

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social
[ View ] May 24, 2024 at 02:35 UTC

I got hit in the face with steam and fumes when I opened the oven. A little worried about cooking the glue

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social
[ View ] May 24, 2024 at 02:16 UTC

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social
[ View ] May 24, 2024 at 02:14 UTC

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social
[ View ] May 24, 2024 at 02:14 UTC

Seems about normal. The chunks are what throws me

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social
[ View ] May 24, 2024 at 02:08 UTC

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social
[ View ] May 24, 2024 at 02:01 UTC

Lgf

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social
[ View ] May 24, 2024 at 01:07 UTC

Assignment: accepted

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer
[ View ] May 23, 2024 at 23:58 UTC

Even more dangerous misinformation

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social
[ View ] May 23, 2024 at 16:25 UTC

The NYC-Dublin Portal made me so excited, I was convinced this would be the greatest thing I could experience. So after it reopened this week, I finally went. It was, I'm sad to say, mid. www.businessinsider.com/nyc-new-york...

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