Kat Lo
@lolkat
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internet researcher and producer for @hbomberguy. Research: online moderation/abuse, misinfo, T&S, mental health. Prev: @Instagram @Intel @MSFTResearch
Los Angeles, CA
Joined November 2009
It’s crazy how it will literally be impossible to build a PC in about 12-18 months, and might never be possible again.
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this is a catastrophe. StackOverflow provided data to LLMs, LLMs replaced StackOverflow, and now no new Q&A hub exists to provide fresh data. it’s a self-undermining causal loop, like mold growing on food, consuming it, and dying once the food is gone.
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programmers getting knowledge checked by the concept of "if you want the layman to use your thing you need to make it immediately apparent how to do it"
"teaching yourself how to do things you're unfamiliar with will help you in every aspect of your life" and "github's ui is unintuitive to none programmers" can both be true simultaneously. i will never understand why programmers are so fucking thick about this.
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If I was a journal editor, the rule would be: Submissions with fake citations get a desk reject, and all authors are banned from submitting to the journal for at least one year.
Unregulated generative AI is messing up the trustworthiness of scientific research, but what could go wrong
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The internet has been inconvenient to powerful people, so now they're taking control of it. The concept of the internet itself is what Senator Graham is reining in. And none of the legislation he's pushing for actually protects kids.
My New Year's wish is for Congress to bring social media companies to heel. We're calling on Senate leadership - Republican and Democrat alike - to allow a week in February 2026 be dedicated to advancing legislation that protects children from online threats and tackling the
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The Section 230 repeal bills sneakily introduced during holiday season threaten to make social media sites self censor under threat of litigation. To combat this, we need to create a backlash. Backlash works. You too can create a deluge of calls that stops Section 230 repeal.
Here's how to quickly find the right members of congress to contact. On the site below, enter your street address and it will provide office phone numbers. After you call (instructions below), contact them by email or web form via the "Contact" button. https://t.co/fSxT05cFgD
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Tapping the sign
We’ve read your posts and heard your feedback. 1. We’re postponing the announced billing change for self-hosted GitHub Actions to take time to re-evaluate our approach. 2. We are continuing to reduce hosted-runners prices by up to 39% on January 1, 2026. We have real costs
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WE FIGHT ON, because we DO care. Kids deserve *real* safety, & that includes access to information & MORE privacy, not LESS! —no SCREEN act —no KOSA —no Section 230 changes —no age verification/restrictions —no online digital ID CALL 202-224-3121
THEY DO NOT CARE that Discord was breached. THEY DO NOT CARE that the Tea app was breached. THEY DO NOT CARE that AU10TIX was breached. They want us to be forced to give up our IDs anyway to access parts of the Internet. They are pushing the SCREEN Act anyways.
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2022, KOSA almost got attached to the NDAA and passed 2024, it was one vote away from passing after the Senate 3 years later, this bill STILL hasn't passed because of YOU ALL. WE pushed back and won. We can do it again, but only if you commit Stop despairing and start calling
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>Be Australia >Tell users you need them to ID verify to avoid stalking and cyber grooming >All the data gets leaked >The children are saved!
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UPDATE KOSA and all age verification bills passed the subcommittee. They are now heading to the full committee. If you were not loud before, it's time to get loud now. There is still a week left in the House. There's a chance they rush these bills through it Call 202-224-3121!
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RED ALERT! The House Energy and Commerce committee is moving full steam ahead for several age verification bills including KOSA this Thursday. We need to spread mass opposition now. We cannot allow this to pass. We have to drive mass calls into congress now Call 202-224-3121
Here we go! Subcommittee markup scheduled for Thursday morning on most (though not all) of the kids package bills
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This is a fucking shame and another example of how open source community infrastructure can be way too dependent on products maintained and sold by monopolistic corporations. (Lookin’ at you Chromium)
Qualcomm acquired Arduino, and according to their new TOS & Privacy Policy, they can now potentially assert patents against your projects if you built them using Arduino tools or Arduino-compatible hardware. This is a HUGE loss to the maker community! https://t.co/ehAzdFQ7qa
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Come on gamers, you have to have it in you to hate AI just as much as crypto for driving up the costs of our most treasured hardware components
and the reason for the insane price hike (outside panic buying) is because of the increase in demand from AI data centers and servers. the ones that scrape your data without permission or consent are now making it harder to upgrade your hardware
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Every chatgpt user I know is like this. "It's amazing! It turned me into an incompetent baby who can no longer survive without its help!"
Today a coworker said he "challenged himself” to "old school google" something instead of using chat gpt. And that he "used to be really good at googling" and it was "hard" for him cause he "only uses chat gpt now.” He said this out loud in a meeting
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