Katie Notopoulos

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Viral videos of dangerous ski stunts spur ‘unprecedented number of lost skiers,’ Vermont rescue squad says - The Boston Globe Stowe's town rescue squad described an “unprecedented number of lost skiers” who had accessed the backcountry this snowy early season — only to contact first responders when they became stranded.

I feel much ire for those who waste the resources and risk the lives of rescue teams www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/03/m...

I like this conspriacy theory

Spotify Wrapped says his 'listening age' is 86, but he's only 36 Spotify Wrapped is calling out 23-year-old Gen Z'ers for having the listening habits of a boomer. What's "listening age" tell us about ourselves?

My Spotify listener age was 59, which I accept with grace. But some people are finally experiencing the humiliation at the hands of Spotify Wrapped for being "unc" www.businessinsider.com/spotify-wrap...

Californians load on the Patagonia when it hits 61 degrees, meanwhile ~10% of 8-24yo males in New Hampshire wear shorts every single day of winter

In the article, he is engaged to the woman. Unclear if they ever married, but they're no longer together now and from another recent article, it seems he has primary physical custody

‘Brazil is not her home.’ Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, brought to US as child, detained by ICE. - The Boston Globe Bruna Ferreira, 33, was brought to the United States as a child in 1998. She is now in removal proceedings in Louisiana.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...

Fantasy football produces an instant millionaire - The Cullman Times Mike Leavitt knew going into the Monday Night Football game between the Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins that a poor outing from Cowboys superstar wide receiver Dez Bryant would mean a $1 millio...

Just learned that Karoline Leavitt's brother was in the local Massachusetts news in 2014 for winning $1 million from Draft Kings by betting on the Patriots. The baby in the photo is his (in recent news, the baby's mother, born in Brazil, has now been detained by ICE) cullmantimes.com/2014/10/29/f...

no no see it just so happens that the music i liked when i was 21 is the best music, actually

Pop Culture Got Stale. Counterculture Went Right-Wing.

As an elder millenial, I will happily accept the thesis that the last gasp of interesting culture happened in the early 00s (oddly coinciding with when I was in my early 20s?) and has all gone downhill from there (as I have lost touch). Will happily buy this book www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/b...

Larry Summers' True Record on Women Many people note that our nation has few economists with Larry Summers' intelligence. They should also know that we have few leaders, if any, in the financial world who have done more for women.

good byline www.huffpost.com/entry/what-l...

Why we’re going to keep talking about the Trump phone It’s not because we’re fans.

"Trump Mobile, for the third week in a row, did not respond to a request for comment." www.theverge.com/news/820887/...

Yes exactly! My point is that Faceebook should be using AI to customize these. Everyone hates the default! (they are using AI for follow up qs, but not hte opener))

DAMMIT

Mark Zuckerberg: You missed one big thing in Facebook Marketplace's new updates! Facebook Marketplace is getting new features, but not the one change I recommended to Mark Zuckerberg: ending the "Hi, is this available" message.

Facebook Marketplace is adding a comments section. But it still isn't solving the biggest problem: people asking "is it available" over and over and over www.businessinsider.com/facebook-mar...

internet is crazy

Again: @katienotopoulos.bsky.social covered this in 2017.

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

Sam Altman's eye-scanning Orb startup wants to hit a billion users. It's less than 2% of the way there. Sam Altman's startup, Tools for Humanity, wants its Orb to scan a billion irises to create a "World ID." Regulators worldwide are sounding the alarm.

One of my favorite thing to tell normal people is "Sam Altman also runs a failing business were he scans the eyeballs of people in poorer countries with a device called "the Orb" and puts the data on the blockchain" and watch their heads spin www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-o...

I think you're very right that meme food (KFC Double Down, cronuts, etc) are extremely millennial. But it's also just very true and well-documented that Taco Bell is indeed targeting Gen Z as an overall marketing strategy

My review of the pie? Kind of like a Key lime, surprisingly good. It's a marketing stunt aimed at "Friendsgiving" which makes sense with Taco Bell targeting Gen Z -- and also their push into competing with Starbucks on beverages (they're opening blended drink cafes)

Taco Bell's new Mountain Dew Baja Blast pie is part of a strategy to reach Gen Z. I tried it. Taco Bell's bright green Mountain Dew Baja Blast pie looks disgusting. But it's part of a strategy to reach Gen Z. And it's surprisingly good.

I went out and bought the new Taco Bell mountain dew Baja Blast pie because I love neon food (it was good!) and also I need to test out my Mr Beast thumbnail face www.businessinsider.com/taco-bell-mo...

don't worry -- the OLD Farmer's Almanac (founded in 1792 with the old timey-cover you see at the grocery store) is still going

How 'boomerslop' is taking over Meta AI's video feed Meta's stand-alone AI app has a video feed called Vibes. It's being taken over by Donald Trump memes and political stuff. I'm calling it "boomerslop."

I went to go check back in on Meta AI's Vibes feed, and found that it's full of boomerbait, memey videos of Trump now www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-vibe...

You gotta hang out on X more (jk)

No way! He’s so full of rizz to his base. People LOVE him

I think he does have some amount of rizz among hte people who agree with his policies, but he'd never make it as a VP/elected official. JD Vance however clearly has tons of appeal/rizz to his fanbase

One thing about Dick Cheney is that he had zero rizz. No one, not even Republicans, liked him. Now you can do all sorts of evil stuff as a politician, but you have to have memetic charm. Really the last of his kind.

The Nonprofit Doing the AI Industry’s Dirty Work The web archive Common Crawl has been quietly funneling paywalled articles to AI companies—and lying to publishers about it.

This article is really great bc it's about an org everyone knows but seems so boring we forget about it (Common Crawl) and turns out they're doing something extremely shady, AND the guy in charge keeps saying the most damning things to a reporter www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

My thought is that like, the best outcome here for Wikipedia is that it gets to view what a test looks like of "what if we plugged in tons of AI tools?" -- and they can see what works well and what was a total shitshow for Grokipedia.