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Kat Tenbarge

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Tech and culture reporter at NBC News


Kat Tenbarge's avatar Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social
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If Biden were to use “absolute immunity” to do useful and cool things for the next four months, that would be awesome. Which is why I know he won’t

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To me, it’s the lack of photorealistic quality. Something about the guy just looks drawn.

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Toy building keeps him young!

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The Adobe stock photo library is now overrun with AI slop 🥴🥴

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Yep. Just found it on the Adobe community website. But the NYPost doesn’t label it as AI.

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Pretty sure this is the NYPost using an AI-generated image front and center in their article 🥴

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Megan has faced relentless abuse and harassment ever since she was shot by Tory Lanez. He’s in prison, but the abuse hasn’t stopped. This is another escalation of misogynoir via technology, punishing a victim who dares to succeed in using her voice.
www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...

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The weekend before Apple announced a slew of new genAI features, the technology was used to create yet another widely-viewed nonconsensual sexually-explicit deepfake of a woman. This time it was Megan Thee Stallion after she hit a touring record for a female rapper.
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

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My cat when I start to clip his nails

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One of the most absurdly evil individuals to penetrate modern discourse!!

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Exactly like… rarely has there been a more insincere apology

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It’s wild to me that people are constantly defending Alex Jones from facing the consequences of his own actions. “But he apologized!!!” Okay! I don’t give a fuck! APOLOGY NOT ACCEPTED!!! PAY UP!!!

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Hahaha I’m a cancer!!

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I think this could be it!

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My shoulder muscles have always been incredibly tight. When I was in ballet in eighth grade my dance instructor was like wtf do you have to pay taxes or something

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The Wish merchandise situation is dire. I popped into a Disney store recently and it was just a massive waste of space. No one browsing it. And a lot of their merch sucks to begin with. The Pixar storytelling issue… bleak AND idiotic

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Oh man, what a colossal flop. And they named a whole cruise ship in tandem with it too…

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Agreed!! I love the Frozen 2 soundtrack, very meh on the movie. From what I’ve seen online it seems Lin Manuel Miranda isn’t coming back for Moana 2 and that concerns me, but still hoping for some good songs.

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I do too!! I think that could be a big win for this year

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I’ve lost all sense of time but I think around a month ago there was a shareholder vote with multiple entities clamoring for a takeover, most notably billionaire Nelson Peltz! It was looking close but he was unsuccessful has since dumped his shares

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That is simply not true. I have seen dozens of people upset about a range of disabilities that no longer qualify and there is momentum building in the background involving at least hundreds of people, and I’m sure more as more people get kicked off it

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It’s so so so bad. Nearly every moment was a repeat of something from the first movie but just slightly worse

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I honestly think it makes sense for IBS, since repeated bathroom emergencies in line could really fuck up your day. But regardless, now they’re withholding it from people with all kinds of disabilities — which really sucks since historically that’s been one of Disney’s strong points

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LMFAO theme park jargon does have that ring to it. But it refers to the number of parks within a theme park resort — like Disney World has four “gates,” Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Animal Kingdom, and Hollywood Studios

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Their responses to MSM journalists including myself were like “look at these Reddit comments and tweets praising the starcruiser” and some of them had been downvoted into the negatives

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It is absolutely bonkers how much they drove the MCU momentum into the ground. And they keep building the physical environments in the parks around these drawn out failures!

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They’re like oh you don’t like it when we make a low effort, worse version of the thing you previously enjoyed? Too bad, you already paid us $20

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Seemingly all due to extremely bad, greedy corporate decisions. Oh also Disneyland cast members unionizing over heinous and unbelievably dangerous work conditions

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Disney’s no good, very bad year: - narrowly avoided hostile takeover - incoming PR nightmare from kicking tens of thousands of disabled people off FastPass - failed PR spin from viral 4-hour Galactic Starcruiser review - Universal opening third gate in Orlando - Moana 2 trailer looks abysmal

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We've all been laughing at the obvious fails from Google's AI Overviews feature, but there's a serious lesson in there too about how it disrupts the relational nature of information. More in the latest Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 newsletter: buttondown.email/maiht3k/arch...

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I feel a kinship with people who sit in front of slot machines all day at casinos

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After a long time of being too afraid to confront my own screen time I’ve started looking at it more and Jesus fucking Christ

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I will not let people in 10 years talk about how it was so difficult at the time to see through the noise. It was not difficult. It was the easiest fucking thing in the world

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All the people who made bank off disparaging Amber Heard are terrible fucking people? Wow who could have seen that coming? Oh wait people were literally saying it before, during, and after the US trial because it was painfully obvious the ENTIRE TIME

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This is a bizarrely worded argument for a philosopher to make to begin with, but since he brought up cope, may I also add that it reeks of cope

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Which is unfortunate because there are also legitimately great people and experts but I believe they’re outnumbered

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Kat Tenbarge's avatar Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social
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That’s true and also the case for most YouTube “legal experts” and perhaps even most YouTube “experts” in general

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Here’s a sentence that isn’t in the Bible: a YouTube legal expert who streamed himself making fun of the ASMR channel I made in college has been arrested for drug and firearm possession

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I waited in line for a cookie and cold brew and was like my god I’ve been conned

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I’m extremely invested in that as well

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Disney is also VERY mad this week… good week

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I imagine there is a LOT of chaos within the ranks right now

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Google is very VERY mad at everyone lol

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It used to be easy to get an angel food cake. But not anymore. Because of yolk

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Industry leaders everywhere: Generative AI produces incredibly low quality output, is impossible to identify 100% of the time, and has thus far mainly been used to abuse, manipulate, and scam people. Therefore we will be integrating it into every product and service we offer

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Those of us who are privileged to not be living with that ugly reality should be forced to look at it squarely in the face, but instead people choose to ignore, look away, and even create further barriers and stigma to not have to acknowledge their existence. I don’t have words for that cowardice

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