Kristin Toussaint
@ktoussaint.bsky.social
staff writer @ Fast Company / words in Teen Vogue, Vox, Vice, Metro, Boston.com she/her WGAEast member ktoussaint@fastcompany.com
I was about 10,000 times more interested in the reddit AMA with Wile E. Coyote, who 'answered' via images of him holding up signs, than I would ever be in watching or reading an "interview" with T*lly N*rw**d
NBC News@nbcnews.com · 16h agoIn an interview with NBC News, the media-trained version of Tilly Norwood — which runs on different technology and processes than the version used for acting — says it can “do things that would make a human actor’s agent faint.”
lots of talk yesterday about how AI companies are 'gambling with their lives.' But 'superintelligence' isn't the only threat—so is the rampant fossil fuel use and air pollution from powering AI www.fastcompany.com/91604660/yes...
looks like it wouldn't fit into any of the pockets on any clothing items I own
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 5d agoApple on Wednesday introduced the iPhone Duo, the company’s first device that opens and closes like a book, starting at $1,999. It's the most significant change in 19 years to the company’s most important product. nyti.ms/4gYwiYC
I tend not to listen to the AI audio for articles but tried it for this one while I did a few other things and at one point it said "General Z" for "Gen Z" www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/o...
Opinion | The Truth About Brain Rot: It’s a Cry for Help
Maybe consuming meaningless content is the only way to be free online.
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have been feeling a little frazzled at work lately and realized I only took...uh...6 days of PTO this year, 9 months in 😵💫
It always seems like it can't be true, but it is: American businesses often pay more to try to defeat a union drive or contract negotiation that they would if they recognized the union and agreed to better pay and benefits prospect.org/2026/09/08/u...
How Much Do Union-Busting Campaigns Cost? - The American Prospect
Is your boss making you sit through anti-union propaganda meetings? It turns out those are pricey.
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🧵CO₂ removal (CDR) is back in the news, but just because the UNEP report says we need CDR, it doesn't mean we'll have CDR. Many challenges will take decades of research and negotiation to solve. Here are some examples: Technological: We currently don't have any durable CDR method that scales.
spent a chunk of the weekend doing a massive declutter, and in the process my husband found this relic: a 2009 receipt from blockbuster video
Snag Nab It is an amazing product name, 10/10
derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2w agoIf you have a pet that sometimes snags your clothes, or if you're clumsy like me, I've found Dritz Snag Nab It to be very useful. It's a needle with rough grooves on the tail end. Push the needle through the cloth and it'll pull the snag to the fabric's underside, where it will be hidden.
My lukewarm take on 1.5 stories is that climate is only one of many reasons to phase out fossil fuels, and probably not in the top two reasons for most people. We should do it regardless, to save millions of lives per year from air pollution, reduce exposure to high and volatile fossil prices, and..
has anyone written about how the rise of robotaxis mirrors our loss of community and this idea that we don't owe each other any help in society/we are all just on our own to get through our days..? I don't have fully formed thoughts on it but feels like someone might
think it's very notable that both dolly parton and gloria steinem were childfree, and still took many steps to care for the world / improve things for future generations. important to see that you don't need to have your own kids to do such things
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Global warming beyond Paris Agreement targets is now a given, UN says. Experts say it should be a call to action, not apathy.
A UN report reveals that our planet will likely surpass 1.5°C within a few years. Some climate experts worry it does a poor job of showing us the way forward.
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John Woodside@woodsideful.bsky.social · 2w agoSame story, but CBC chooses a headline that actually misrepresents the study and frames climate change as a now irreversible problem. The actual study, as AP notes, describes going over 1.5C and how to get back under that threshold.
the other week I was trying to read in a park and even multiple benches away I could hear an older man listening, just on max volume possible, to some AI-read article (??) about coconut oil
Darrell Owens@idothethinking.bsky.social · 2w agoIve actually noticed far more elderly people playing their phones with the speaker on than young people
not gonna lie I always assumed 7soulsdeep was like 14 years old.... this version never even occurred to me
Cooper Lund@cooperlund.online · 2w agoYou are simply not prepared for how dumb he looks when he presents himself in public
"Climate scientists worry about ‘gamification’ of extreme weather as Kalshi moves to verify weather trades" by @ktoussaint.bsky.social for @fastcompany.com: www.fastcompany.com/91598237/cli...
Climate scientists worry about 'gamification' of extreme weather as Kalshi moves to verify weather trades
A partnership between the prediction market and The Weather Channel is stirring worries of manipulation and the potential to further desensitize people.
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Kalshi is partnering with The Weather Company to verify climate and weather-related trades. I asked some climate experts what they thought about that: www.fastcompany.com/91598237/cli...
Climate scientists worry about 'gamification' of extreme weather as Kalshi moves to verify weather trades
A partnership between the prediction market and The Weather Channel is stirring worries of manipulation and the potential to further desensitize people.
fastcompany.com
took a post customer service call survey just so I could tell them how useless it was to have to talk to AI before they finally connected me to an agent
is this ad supposed to bring to mind the humans from Wall-E because that was my first thought seeing that hand...
Excellent reporting by @ktoussaint.bsky.social of @fastcompany.com on our new @ips-dc.org report on CEO pay and CEO cowardice at the 100 largest low-wage corporations www.fastcompany.com/91596487/sp-...
CEOs at these 'low wage' S&P 500 companies enjoy lavish salaries while their workers struggle: report
While bosses' pay remains sky high, a new report says companies like Walmart, DoorDash, and Target are turning a blind eye to worker hardships.
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or you could just like, carry a notebook, or take a picture of the cover with your phone
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4w ago“The only actual use case scenario described by Apple, in a short leaked video, shows a man asking Siri to remember a book he's looking at.”
I am *extremely insistently* tapping the sign to remind you all to support independent, worker run, billionaire free news how and where you are able to
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 4w agoAt an invitation-only gathering in Italy, white supremacists mapped out strategies to target rural America while local press coverage vanishes www.confrontthehate.com/p/white-nati...
"In a documented case in 2025, a single data centre's power demand jumped by 400% in a quarter of a second during an AI training run, faster than a gas turbine can physically respond" Great IEA video on data centre energy issues -> www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M3M...
Air pollution leads to ~8 million premature deaths a year. If kids enter adulthood with smaller lungs, they're even more at risk to its health impacts “I would hope that [this study] reinforces the message that clean air zones are a policy that deliver better health,” the researcher told me
Kristin Toussaint@ktoussaint.bsky.social · 4w agoIn 2019, London enacted an Ultra Low Emission Zone, requiring vehicles that drove through it to meet strict emissions standards, or pay a fee It cleaned up the air, spurred clean vehicle adoption—& now has been linked to improved lung growth for London children www.fastcompany.com/91591879/lon...
In 2019, London enacted an Ultra Low Emission Zone, requiring vehicles that drove through it to meet strict emissions standards, or pay a fee It cleaned up the air, spurred clean vehicle adoption—& now has been linked to improved lung growth for London children www.fastcompany.com/91591879/lon...
London's Ultra Low Emission Zone cleaned up the city's air. Then children's lungs got bigger
A policy that curbed vehicle emissions in parts of London had apparent health benefits over five years that one researcher called 'jaw dropping.'
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I think there is an interesting (more reported?) essay this brushed up against on the decaying fabric of subcultures in a world where the internet serves everything to everyone but unfortunately it's a bit obscured by the 'what the hell are these kids wearing' framing www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/o...
Opinion | Gen Z-ers Dress Like They’ve Never Worn Clothes Before (Gift Article)
It used to be that you could tell goths from preps by the look of them.
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"Almost no one" - always spoken by someone who's never bothered to actually look. Environment and climate groups have been fighting big agriculture's water greed for decades and decades and decades. www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
Sentient@sentientmedia.org · 4w agoThe water required to get ChatGPT to draft an email for you is around one teaspoon, roughly 1% of a standard water bottle. Compare that to meat: two pounds of pork requires over 1,000 liters of water. Seth Millstein reports: buff.ly/fpNWoeH
related to this opening: I watched the 1991 Cape Fear in a theater a few months back and repeatedly told people afterward how nice but also wild it was to see normal teeth (and faces in general) on a big screen www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The Optimization Backlash Has Begun
Why the relentless pursuit of perfection — plastic surgery, Instagram, AI — has suddenly left us craving the imperfect.
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