Kate Irwin

The thing is generative AI is never gonna be able to physically go to the restaurant eat the food and then write about it

So much short-sighted thinking in media right now

Neon Machine’s Shrapnel is in the red: Sources Documents and sources suggest Neon Machine is running out of cash and has laid off nearly all its employees — and struck a deal with the Chinese government to stay afloat.

SCOOP: Neon Machine is in the red. Neon Machine, the company behind Shrapnel, has a slew of unpaid debts, owing millions to external vendors, multiple sources tell Blockworks.

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Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared” Researchers find that the more people use AI at their job, the less critical thinking they use.

Microsoft found in its own AI research that it encourages less critical thinking. Unfortunately, this isn't poised to stop the mass AI integration into all levels of schooling, including early childhood education, where critical thinking skills should be formed.
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Blockworks hires Irwin for The Drop newsletter - Talking Biz News Cryptocurrency news site Blockworks has hired Kate Irwin to be the lead writer for its The Drop newsletter. She has been at PCMag as a reporter. She previously worked as a reporter and producer for De...

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"Masculine Energy"

Hell is empty,
And all the devils are here.

If you haven’t seen the David Lynch cooking video yet you should

As a reporter who covered the Facebook apology tour circa 2016, and spent HOURS on the phone with FB flak and executives earnestly telling me Zuckerberg was torn up over Russian election interference and was making it a top priority to fix misinfo on FB, this week’s developments are 🙃

On my home white board, April 27, 2020, Dovercourt Park, Toronto.

UPDATE: Great to see Airbnb stepping up and offering temporary free housing for evacuees and first responders through its nonprofit arm, airbnb.org

That's horrible. I heard reports that some people's insurance had also canceled their fire insurance abruptly before this hit too.

My heart goes out to everyone in the Los Angeles area who has lost their homes or is watching from nearby as the region burns right now. 😢

All these devastating fires and people sharing their experiences just reminds me that Airbnb and insurance companies really need to overhaul their "ethics."

Saaaame

Haha … wait

Please be safe, LA friends.

It's like people in the Tristate area suddenly forgot what the subway and train are

Hilarious

I don't think writers and artists were supposed to be constantly reachable online

AT&T Hits Texas Man With $6,000 Bill for Using 3GB of Data AT&T charged the customer $2 per MB of data used, but ultimately reversed the charges after the customer spent days trying to resolve the issue.

Hours after I got in touch with AT&T about this crazy bill, the customer said the issue was resolved.
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Sometimes the “smart” home tech turns out to be pretty stupid

Like my dishwasher app which I will never use

Idk why this level of bribery is legal

Google's quantum computing division unveiled a new chip, dubbed Willow, that the tech giant says makes it infinitely faster and better than existing supercomputers.
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Very disappointing but not surprising for a private Ivy League-esque school

The dude was not a leftist lol

And it’s like $35 dollars a person for lunch

Honestly I’m just on here for a good laugh.

The dark place used to have those

It’s shocking I know :(
Sometimes I have to reread sentences many times

I can read one book a month MAX

Peanut butter and pickles is actually not bad