Kate Knibbs ππ»ββοΈ
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senior writer at Wired π¦ Story tips: [email protected] (or DM me for Signal/WhatsApp!) extremeknibbs on Insta/Threads and @knibbs.bsky.social
Joined October 2010
Going to pin my Signal user name here, and encourage anyone with a tip to reach out! (NO PR.) Right now, Iβm mainly covering how AI and other emergent tech is changing the internet, media, and entertainment industries.
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Hereβs a supply chain issueβ¦ I ran out of fucks to give!!!!!!!!.
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When your kid really really loves one specific song from Moana
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got rejected by the "george r.r. martin summer writing workshop" at northwestern, which is sad, but the rejection notice came way past deadline, fully over a month later than they originally claimed, which is objectively very funny.
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SCOOP: Some of the DOGE staffers are drawing salaries from the agencies they are cutting. We got some new details:
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I thought the whole βcats can have a little salamiβ meme was a quote from the Irishman and I just sat thu 3 1/2 hours of a movie waiting for them to say βcats can have a little salamiβ.
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a great socially distanced activity would be to get picked up by a forklift and gently lowered into a vast cranberry bog.
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the jeremy renner app is absolutely out of control
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if aoc isn't ready to run soon i think the dems should go all-on on the big boys. imagine a fetterman/pritzker ballot.
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If you look at Acronym's "About" page today it says "we invested in Shadow" but if you look at the Wayback Machine from last month it's "we launched Shadow"
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As someone who has lived in both NYC (7 yrs in Brooklyn) and Chicago (cumulative total of 21 years, all south side) I am sorry to say that if you find Chicago βmiserableβ itβs a skill issue.
Hi, Iβm a NYer who lived in Chicago for 2 yrs. It has its charms but I found it mostly miserable: the winters, the measurably worse violent crime, the exceptional scale of segregation, the vast transit gaps, the monotonous suburban sprawl into farmland. Itβs cheaper for a reason.
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crazy that Grimes and I were in the same Russian lit class in college and now she's pregnant w/ a billionaire weirdo's child and i'm in an LL Bean robe with the phrase "Cozy Time" stitched into the side. (yes. it cost extra).
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I heard a rumor that there was some sort of "cancelled women" retreat for high profile cancelled women and obviously i need to know more about this. if you know anything please DM me immediately. thank you.
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Once again marveling at how grimes and I were fresh faced college coeds together and now sheβs got a billionaire baby named e = mc Aerosmith or whatever and Iβm quarantined in a 700 sq ft apt trying to convince myself that eating a full box of white cheddar cheezeits is self care.
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ASK KLOBUCHAR ABOUT HER SALAD COMB U COWARDS.
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If they Oscars really wanna stay relevant they should do a "cancelled" montage in addition to the memorial one.
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Our old landlords wouldn't give a COVID break & raised the rent. It was too much, so we moved. The apt has sat empty since Oct & is listed for $800 less *per month* than we paid. Negative thinking works! I cursed those ba$tards!.
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today i got a revel and was scootin down the street and the people on the street had opened the fire hydrant so my only option was to scoot through the giant spray of water and i did it and everyone clapped and it was literally the happiest moment of my life.
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The expectation that a young freelancer has the resources to report out 40-60% of a story before even *pitching it* is the exact sort of thinking that keeps everyone except the wealthy out of this field.
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i just feel like i need to tell you guys that a girl i worked with in college is now a "somatic healer" who is going lightly viral on tiktok for telling people to pee on money
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i tried to interview people about the Area 51 meme but the teens keep calling me a Fed lmao.
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sometimes an tossed-off phrase in a PR email will simply take my breath away
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A few years ago, news broke about a drug-smuggling ring centered in Vice's Toronto office. This year, two former Vice Canada employees were arrested in connection with that ring. I wanted to know more about how it all happened. I went to Toronto to see:.
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Hill staffer sent me this pic of Ocasio-Cortez they took just now. Iβll tell you something: that jacket and coat donβt look like a girl who struggles.
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what have i done.
why the hell not (donβt care if this does nothing.)
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Truly insane story explaining why Kevin from the Office recorded himself calling for the overthrow of the president of Moldova.
Accounts linked to Russia have reached new levels of aggression in Moldova, the head of a new center meant to combat disinformation tells WIRED. @MORGANMEAKER reports:. Story:
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i think we as a nation should come together this weekend and rewatch the entire austin powers trilogy together.
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i told my husband i'm gonna get bangs again and he said, why, so you can ask me every day if your bangs look greasy? . anyways it was nice knowing all of you since i just got shivved.
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"washington big naturals" has a nice ring to it.
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did you guys know that SSENSE is pronounced "essence" and not just "Ssense" like a snake saying "sense".
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me and my friends trying to have a dinner party after everyone gets vaxxed but no one remembers how to be normal
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WE ARE STILL IN THE CRISIS YOU DUMB BITCH (CUOMO) THIS IS LIKE CHURCHILL WRITING "THE CRAZY BIG WAR" IN 1942.
New: Gov. Cuomo on Oct. 13 will publish a book on the pandemic, βAmerican Crisisβ
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This site will never die not as long as the world is stuffed with weird freaks.
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i know this is an unpopular opinion but i feel like. completely repelled by the barbie movie. branded content with a wink and movie stars is still branded content! bring back the concept of selling out!!!!!!.
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Obsessed with the thought process that led to this CEO tweeting this thread in response to ppl from her company making explicitly racist remarks during her tenure. Just next-level bullshitting.
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CollegeHumor launched over 20 years ago and helped shape modern comedy and the internet as we know it. This month, it laid almost everyone off. Here's my story on what happened:
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some of y'all didn't grow up annoying your friends by insisting that you play golden eye on N64 in slappers only mode and IT SHOWS.
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Some personal news. meet Furio Knibbs-McNulty
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Iβm not telling any of you fuckheads what I accomplished this decade!.
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my draft is due tomorrow so obviously i've reached the point in the night where it is absolutely necessary to browse the instagram of my ex-college fling's current wife (they joined a canadian doomsday cult homestead and she honestly has very good tips on canning food).
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did not expect pinterest to be the most responsible and forward-thinking platform wrt content moderation but here we are.
And finally, Pinterest is also hashing anti-vaxx memes to keep them from being reuploaded. (For the non-technical, hashing is tech mostly used to ID and block child abuse imagery and terrorist content.)
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Please read this. My husband is still recovering from Covid-19 too and it has been so scary. He lost 25 pounds in 2 1/2 weeks. "Mild" is not mild.
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SHIT. they just found the ISIS murder dog's secret reddit account. he said some really messed up things about cats and commented under a picture of a pregnant ferret "i want to eat u." :(.
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Open container laws are classist, the way they are enforced is racist, and they infantilized us even when it wasnβt a pandemic that made socializing outside necessary. Get rid of them!!!
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i just got a promoted tweet from someone complaining about being called a dumbass by united airlines
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I regret to inform you that using this emoji βπβ means youβre old, according to my teen sister. Hereβs a list of the new acceptable emoji & what they mean:
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when i was in college in montreal my drug dealer, who was a white rapper named chuggo, was in a cranberries cover band.
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Slapped this bad boy on my work email because I had a baby this weekend and I'm logging off to hang out with him for a while :)
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i've thought about it and the exact perfect level of successful/famous for creative people is "literally nobody ever recognizes you once on the street BUT you got to record a Drunk History segment".
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Just found out that Eagle Eye Cherry is NOT a band he is a SOLO ARTIST and that is his BIRTH NAME.
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βMetaβ stands for βMarkβs Extremely Thick Assβ π π π.
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Wait Frodo is Samβs BOSS? Why hasnβt he been canceled for dating his employee thenβ¦.
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RT if u would listen to a true crime podcast about the time dave matthews band dumped 800 pounds of poop on a boat full of ppl in chicago.
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some personal news. im gonna be one of those creepy digital faces in the stands at tonights Sixers Celtics game.
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wish there was a delivery service for single cigarettes.
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WIFi is short for William Internet the Fifth.
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My mom 6 months pregnant in a denim jumper, 1986 / Me 6 months pregnant in a denim jumper, 2021
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The NBA should have made its fake fans animals instead of humans. A bunch of fake humans is weird and depressing. A bunch of computer generated gorillas and dogs and hippos drinking soda and watching some ball? Whimsical, hilarious!.
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you know when you think a guy is hot but it turns out he's just tall? that's the bill de blasio story except replace "hot" with "baseline competent at governing" . that man is one LEGGY FAILURE.
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It's been 10 years since Her came out. Rewatching it now, the thing that stood out for me as fantastical wasn't the AI romance.
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watch out for one of the most pernicious side effects. terminal corniness
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Good reporting and absolutely not "doxxing." People need to get a grip.
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Exclusive: A new analysis found that more than 50% of LinkedIn blogs are written with AI. For anyone who spends time on LinkedIn. that's probably not shocking. But it's a clear example of how normalized this stuff is in certain parts of the internet:
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"i know the suburbs. in fact, i know the suburbs, neon bible, funeral. ".
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This is as divorced from reality as any Newsmax trash.
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg says the Capitol Hill riots wereΒ notΒ organized on its platform. βI think these events were largely organized on platforms that donβt have our abilities to stop hate, and donβt have our standards, and donβt have our transparency.β
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I had a baby 4 days ago, I love my son desperately, and Iβve also never been more adamantly pro-choice than I am right now recovering from birth. Abortions are a medical procedure and give people bodily autonomy. Abortion rights are human rights!.
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wow and now the judge in the NYT v. OpenAI/Microsoft case just denied OpenAI's motion to compel the NYT to share a bunch of info about how it uses generative AI. she uses pretty scathing language!
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im having a generally hellish week but i did get to chat with @desusnice and @THEKIDMERO about doing a talk show during rona and they were delightful as always
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the best part about working at home is when ya get to change from your "day sweatpants" into your "evening sweatpants" after a nice 4 pm shower . and they're the same sweatpants!.
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Me: Iβm in my 30s, I should work on classing up my wardrobe. Some everlane basics, some investment pieces. Cashmere. Neutrals. Also me: (orders this shirt and nearly cries a joy upon opening)
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prince phillip taught me it was okay to be dead.
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2022 predictions. - whiskey is OUT.- appletinis are IN .- crypto will get even more annoying :( .- BLUE is the new GRAY and GRAY can go FUCK ITSELF.- banana YELLOW will be "trendy" .- florals? disgusting. plaids? YES .- cigarettes will STILL BE COOL.
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it's the 2nd anniversary of the ringer & also my second anniversary of working here, and i cannot think of another media company that would let me write long reported stories on whales, gossip columnists, content moderation, and snails, and i feel very lucky to work here π.
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For all those wondering, this is my son Nester. We share no blood but he is my life.
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(people realized they could spoof user names and now there are a bunch of fake renners).
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The Hairpin has taken an extremely weird turn and now churns out AI slime. Here's what happened:
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Looked into how much AI slop is on Medium. I'm not sure what surprised me moreοΏ½οΏ½οΏ½the sheer volume (between 40-48% of recent posts, according to two different analyses) or Medium's response (that it doesn't really matter as long as most of it goes unread)
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Wrote about & its founder Andy Hunter, who might be the only genuinely humble CEO I've ever met. its a story about bookselling, but also: zines, the Beastie Boys, the future of small businesses, and a pet rat named Agent Jellybean.
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not a particularly happy rennsday for the moderators, i suspect. .
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Imagine living in a world where someone with cancer's HEALTH CARE wasn't tied to the capricious bullshit decisions of a Netflix exec!!!!!!!!! The most moronic, demonic system.
Netflix laid me off earlier this week, which means my BF is losing his health insurance, which means weβll no longer be able to afford his cancer treatment. Please consider donating and/or RTing so we can get things back on track π€πΎ
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starting a magazine aimed exclusively at dipshits.
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Grim stuff from the alt-weekly world: the Village Voice, LA Weekly, and the Riverfront Times are publishing AI slop promoting OnlyFans creators, disguised as editorial:
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serial season 4 should be what the HELL happened to that guy who got fired from the verge for secretly working for apple and then got fired from apple.
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