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Kate Irwin
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Writer & journalist | Bylines @ PCMag, Blockworks, Decrypt, other places
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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
Vox Media Union statement on today's devastating round of layoffs at Eater. We stand with all of our wonderful colleagues. #solidarityforever #unionstrong #1u
August 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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.

blockworks.co/news/neon-ma...
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.
blockworks.co
April 4, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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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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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.
www.404media.co
February 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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"Masculine Energy"
January 20, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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Hell is empty,
And all the devils are here.
January 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
If you haven’t seen the David Lynch cooking video yet you should
January 20, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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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 🙃
January 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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On my home white board, April 27, 2020, Dovercourt Park, Toronto.
January 10, 2025 at 8:53 AM
UPDATE: Great to see Airbnb stepping up and offering temporary free housing for evacuees and first responders through its nonprofit arm, airbnb.org
January 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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. 😢
January 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
All these devastating fires and people sharing their experiences just reminds me that Airbnb and insurance companies really need to overhaul their "ethics."
January 8, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Please be safe, LA friends.
January 8, 2025 at 3:23 AM
It's like people in the Tristate area suddenly forgot what the subway and train are

Hilarious
January 6, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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I don't think writers and artists were supposed to be constantly reachable online
January 2, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Hours after I got in touch with AT&T about this crazy bill, the customer said the issue was resolved.
www.pcmag.com/news/att-hit...
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.
www.pcmag.com
December 18, 2024 at 1:18 PM
Sometimes the “smart” home tech turns out to be pretty stupid

Like my dishwasher app which I will never use
Laundry app: “Would you like to turn on notifications to get additional alerts?”

Me: “You mean besides when the washer and dryer are done?”

Laundry app: “Yes!”

Me: “…what else could you possibly notify me about?”

Laundry app: “Did you know—“

Me, furiously pressing the “no”
button: “No! No! No!”
December 18, 2024 at 2:29 AM
Idk why this level of bribery is legal
This is exactly what not to do
December 13, 2024 at 1:47 AM
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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.
www.pcmag.com/news/google-...
December 10, 2024 at 5:16 PM
Honestly I’m just on here for a good laugh.

The dark place used to have those
December 10, 2024 at 2:07 AM
Peanut butter and pickles is actually not bad
If you were a world famous assassin whose name and social media just got revealed, what take of yours would people find to declare you ideologically incoherent?
December 10, 2024 at 1:59 AM
December 9, 2024 at 1:52 AM
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We pay for our current health care system with our lives.
December 5, 2024 at 2:45 PM
Over on Xitter, people (mostly men) are very mad because a woman got a PhD in English Literature while writing about a niche topic (as most academics do) while being attractive.

In case you're wondering how things are going over there.
December 3, 2024 at 3:14 PM