Katy Pearce

Livestream shopping stars face off against trolls, hagglers, and AI rivals Livestream sellers have built booming careers. Now, bots are threatening to steal their spotlight and their customers.

Another great read. I don't think everyone understands that a lot of the Internet is this QVC like selling. restofworld.org/2025/indones...

AI is reshaping childhood in China Government support and tech companies’ drive for profit fuel a rush to integrate AI tools, from robot tutors to chatbots, in education and caretaking.

Super interesting read. restofworld.org/2025/ai-chin...

Lol. It is more like, we have access to the lottery, but the prices are OUTRAGEOUS. Is it ethical to engage with this evil org? Ugh.

Getting fifa tickets is extremely unpleasant.

I heard one song off the trainspotting soundtrack and went on a bender thinking... Did everyone else love this album as much as I did?

Basically every high school kid in Seattle walked out to protest down at the central district school office, protesting 2 lunches instead of 1. The district listened and stopped 2 lunches. These kids are so proud and so am I. (Also SPS has a civic engagement excused absence!)

Omg. BlueSky is methodone for millennial Twitter addicts, said @taylorlorenz.bsky.social on her podcast today.

I was just saying how glad I was that we didn't have smoke problems this August... Now...

Gross.

Advancing our understanding of the associations between social media use and well-being

Any suggestions for a more recent update that is VERY accessible, that is an umbrella review of studies related to social media and well-being? Basically a 2025 version of this: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Again, VERY VERY VERY accessible.

Yum yum.

YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz Your Phone Isn't Listening, Here's What's Actually Happening

Great video essay from @taylorlorenz.bsky.social on surveillance capitalism - posted in late July 2025, so up-to-date. Students will like this because the framing is "is your phone 'listening' to you?" Looks like this will be a series, which is great! www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VL1...

Apparently Claude likes you too. ;) (when I asked about assigning the podcast episode versus the Atlantic article and how they'd fit into the existing material)

This must be related to formerly living in Santa Barbara, right?

We had a crappy crowd. Boo.

Just a sticker. I ordered a plush derpy in June and it is still back ordered.

We were. People were not as in to it as I had hoped.

Will we be the only people with kpop lightsticks at the 1:15pm Kpop demon hunters singalong? It is possible!

Welp, @foxcahn.bsky.social 's interview with @taylorlorenz.bsky.social today is going STRAIGHT into my fall syllabus. This is excellent! (Power User in your favorite podcast app).

Don't hate AI.

Another vibe coded site bites the dust.

Perplexity ftw!

105.5 - it was an amazing station! I wish we had had this locally!

John Garabedian is 83 years old? He was older than my parents when I was listening to him? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ga...

But, even better, in Seattle we have a public dance radio station C89.5, which is based out of a high school, but has adult DJs. It is amazing. www.c895.org

I loved and still love dance music. Basically since Trump 1.0, I've been really going deep into dance music to escape. That love started with open house party.

Open House Party - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Ho...

Did other people listen to open house party on the radio on weekend nights in the 90s? It wasn't on my local stations, but if I pointed the antenna in the right direction, I could get it on Flint Michigan stations.
Then after I started going to Armenia, I realized John Garabedian was Armenian.

How AI-Driven Search May Reshape Democracy, Economics, and Human Agency | TechPolicy.Press Cameron Pattison, Vance Ricks, and John P. Wihbey see differences in kind, as well as in degree, from the pre-generative model-based online search environment.

I came across this while looking for articles on age verification... Interesting perspective. I still need to chew on this a bit more though. www.techpolicy.press/how-ai-drive...