Katie Notopoulos
@katienotopoulos.bsky.social
Blogger at Business Insider, covering tech, business, culture. knotopoulos@businessinsider.com
I try not to get too hung up on generational differences and accept that time is always moving etc, BUT imagine trying to explain public access television to Gen Z
Instagram is now cracking down and banning pickup artists who post videos of themselves approaching women using Meta glasses www.businessinsider.com/instagram-me...
Instagram will now ban creeps in Meta glasses
Content shot on Meta glasses from pickup artists and pranksters can now get you banned.
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One of the most curious things about the Kylie Jenner designed Meta glasess is that she has not been seen wearing them in public. She HAS worn regular sunglasses to the World Cup and used an old point and shoot camera at the Knicks game, however www.businessinsider.com/meta-glasses...
Kylie Jenner debuted her new Meta glasse. The backlash shows how controversial the tech is.
Meta sold at least 7 million of its glasses last year, and Kylie Jenner debuted a new pair she designed. The backlash shows they're controversial.
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I have this idea for a game show called Less Online, where the more online spouse/partner tries to explain something to their less online partner and they are racing against another couple to see who gets it first. (this morning I tried to explain the grink to my husband)
Just encountered my first “this book may not be used for AI training” warning in the end credits of an audibook. Has anyone encountered this? (From the Kim Thayil memoir that just came out. The last 1/3 of book is about his gripes with rights management and the internet so maybe it’s just him? )
There should be like a Storage Wars type thing where if someone stops paying their cloud storage bills you can bid on it. Like I want to bid on someone's old gmail or flickr roll
A hilarious and inevitable new phase of capitalism is that Facebook Marketplace sellers have discovered that adding in AI-generated hot babes into their listings will get more views. sales,https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-marketplace-ads-ai-women-sex-sells-2026-6
'Sex sells' isn't a new concept. AI-generated women attached to random Facebook Marketplace ads is.
Sellers are adding AI-generated babes to listings for cars, boats, and more to draw attention. It's a new spin on the old adage of "sex sells."
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There’s no way you can predict the next word in this sentence.
paris martineau@paris.nyc · 2mo agothe current director of national intelligence is a guy who two years ago received a trophy declaring he “Fucks Only The Young” at an (oddly dildo focused) event he organized dedicated to the conspiracy that Bed Bath and Beyond never actually went bankrupt
I wrote about the queasy feeling I got watching Google I/O about the new AI Search, which — aside from the obvious implications to traffic — feels very WRONG to me about how to interact with the open web. It’s like an HOA for the internet
Like @davelee.me, I'm on team HELL NO to constantly verbally commanding computers. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Don’t Throw Out the Keyboard in the AI Revolution
There seems to be a growing view that the computer keyboard is on the way out. Demoted, at least, as the primary method of input at work. Kate Clark, writing in the Wall Street Journal, looked at the ...
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It's almost like a really bad landlord... "In 2023, librarian Rebecca Harlow in Orange, Connecticut paid $65 to license the e-audiobook "Five-Star Weekend" by Elin Hilderbrand for two years. This year, that same license cost her $101.99, a 57% increase." www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/...
Connecticut libraries don’t actually own many of their e-books. It gets pricey.
Connecticut libraries are licensing e-books instead of owning them, driving up long-term costs and straining budgets.
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Parents is your teen texting things like "let's go hack" or "don't forget to bring your sack to school"? Be careful, they MAY be doing the latest dangerous teen trend: playing Hacky Sack www.businessinsider.com/hacky-sack-f...
This '90s Gen X stoner trend is now a Gen Z obsession: the hacky sack
Hacky sacks were a '90s stoner trend. Now, they're taking over high schools as the latest Gen Z fad. Stores are sold out, and parents are thrilled.
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"Why are all the journalists laid off now" this is why. Pretty simple.
Finally, the AI feature we all wanted and needed: Amazon now creates an AI “podcast” about products where two AI “hosts” discuss the product and take your questions as if it’s a call-in show. www.businessinsider.com/amazon-ai-ge...
Amazon has invented the world's least necessary podcast
Amazon's new AI shopping podcasts are like QVC without the humans. They turn product reviews into mini-shows — complete with a live Q&A.
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not marked safe from entering last week's Geese discourse www.businessinsider.com/clipping-soc...
'Clipping' is taking over social feeds — and that's changing our perception of what's actually popular
It's getting harder to tell what's organically popular and what's being fed to us by "clippers" on our social feeds. The band Geese, for instance.
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This headline really has it all www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Heirs to Bic Pen Fortune Seek Painting They Say Chauffeur Stole
Heirs to the fortune created by Bic pens are suing a prominent Chilean businessman, seeking the return of a coveted 15th-century painting that they say was stolen from the family by a former employee.
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We're in such a beautiful, perfect moment of celebrity gossip right now, I am so happy and feel alive but also can't help but worry that like, the world is going to explode
I think Loverboy could’ve been one of the most important bands of the 80s if they had only had at least 1 good looking guy in the band
"A ... federal judge has dismissed a writer's lawsuit accusing a bestselling fiction author of stealing her romance-fantasy book drafts to create the popular 'Crave' series, issuing a lengthy opinion finding tropes of the genre —such as 'hot, sexy, dangerous boys'— are not protected by copyright."
6,000 Pages Of Romantasy Later, Judge Sinks Author's IP Suit - Law360
A New York federal judge has dismissed a writer's lawsuit accusing a bestselling fiction author of stealing her romance-fantasy book drafts to create the popular "Crave" series, issuing a lengthy opin...
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based on my middle school sex ed class in the 90s, i really thought diaphrams would have a more important role in adult life
One of the most annoying byproducts of AI that is destroying the web is that because so many AI bots are constantly trying to scrape pages, CloudFlare is constantly having autoimmune flareups and giving you "bad gateway" to websites all the time
Garbage Day Live is coming back to Brooklyn next week. Baby's All Right in Williamsburg. Doors at 6:30pm. Special guest @katienotopoulos.bsky.social! It's going to be very very very fun. We only have a few tickets left, so grab 'em while you can!!! www.eventim.us/wafform.aspx...
Have you ever noticed that AI video like Sora always puts people in skinny jeans? I feel like ChatGPT is like that too -- it speaks in millenial cringe because it was trained on Reddit and 2010s internet posts www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-mill...
AI has a millennial cringe problem
From the people who brought you avocado toast: We millennials are bringing the "chaotic," "unhinged," and other generational-coded words to ChatGPT.
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I enjoyed @thomasgermain.bsky.social's prank about getting LLMs to believe he won a hot dog eating contest by simply writing it on his personal website that I attempted to recreate it. I failed, which is embarassing, but I refuse to be defined by failure www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-gemi...
My quest to get ChatGPT and Gemini to crown me winner of a hot dog-eating contest points to our AI future
A BBC reporter pranked AI by claiming to be a hot dog-eating champ. I decided to get in on the fun — with varying results.
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Last night I was pontificating to my husband on a topic I felt expertise in because I had read (but not finished) a book about it a while ago. I pulled the book off the shelf to show him and noticed where I had left a page corner turned down. Turns out I had only made it to page 20