Kat Ferreira
@katferreira.bsky.social
Consultant | Former Communications Director @maynardinstitute | Social media marketing survivor with love/hate for tech | @OaklandVoices alum | I suffer from topophilia and watch too much TV
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Kat Ferreira
@katferreira.bsky.social
· Nov 16
After 15 years on Twitter it can feel like work finding people again so here's a few folks to help you re-establish your Oakland roots 🔍🌳🦋 go.bsky.app/9zBSuLs
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It's really hard to defend government, vital services, or city councils using Facebook as their primary *or only* channel of communication with the people those institutions purport to serve.
It’s really hard to defend industry academic collaborations with meta as earnest, if they’re internally burying evidence of harm.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
November 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM
It's really hard to defend government, vital services, or city councils using Facebook as their primary *or only* channel of communication with the people those institutions purport to serve.
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I've been saying this. it's why so many big companies' execs are pushing AI tools. the only thing it's half-decent at is writing emails that aren't important, and that's all these people do, so they assume it's revolutionary.
November 23, 2025 at 5:28 AM
I've been saying this. it's why so many big companies' execs are pushing AI tools. the only thing it's half-decent at is writing emails that aren't important, and that's all these people do, so they assume it's revolutionary.
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Having worked at a similar place: the thing they are devoting all of their time to is not preventing this from ever happening again, but preventing this from becoming KNOWN ever again.
A major healthcare policy paper commissioned by @govnl.bsky.social government from Deloitte at a cost of $1.6 million, cites research papers that don’t exist, making it the second major government policy paper called into question in as many months. #nlpoli #AI
theindependent.ca/news/lji/maj...
theindependent.ca/news/lji/maj...
Major N.L. healthcare report contains errors likely generated by A.I. – The Independent
$1.6 million Health Human Resources Plan from Deloitte cites research papers that don’t exist, making it the second major government policy paper called into question in as many months
theindependent.ca
November 23, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Having worked at a similar place: the thing they are devoting all of their time to is not preventing this from ever happening again, but preventing this from becoming KNOWN ever again.
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Heck of a thread on a grift that's equal parts ridiculous and dangerous.
About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in.
Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
November 22, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Heck of a thread on a grift that's equal parts ridiculous and dangerous.
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If you think Peter Thiel, Brock Turner, Elizabeth Holmes, Josh Hawley, & Tiger Woods are good people: root for Stanford.
If you think Robert Reich, Marshawn Lynch, Alex Morgan, & Gregory Peck are good people: root for Cal.
Your rooting guide for today's Big Game. #GoBears 💙💛
If you think Robert Reich, Marshawn Lynch, Alex Morgan, & Gregory Peck are good people: root for Cal.
Your rooting guide for today's Big Game. #GoBears 💙💛
November 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
If you think Peter Thiel, Brock Turner, Elizabeth Holmes, Josh Hawley, & Tiger Woods are good people: root for Stanford.
If you think Robert Reich, Marshawn Lynch, Alex Morgan, & Gregory Peck are good people: root for Cal.
Your rooting guide for today's Big Game. #GoBears 💙💛
If you think Robert Reich, Marshawn Lynch, Alex Morgan, & Gregory Peck are good people: root for Cal.
Your rooting guide for today's Big Game. #GoBears 💙💛
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Oh no😰 RIP #JellybeanJohnson ☔️
Jellybean Johnson — one of the pioneers of the Minneapolis Sound, the Time drummer, and multi-instrumentalist/producer — has died at age 69. More:
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Jellybean Johnson, the Time Musician and a Pioneer of the Minneapolis Sound, Dead at 69
Jellybean Johnson — one of the pioneers of the Minneapolis Sound, the Time drummer, and multi-instrumentalist/producer — died on Nov. 21 at age 69.
www.rollingstone.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Oh no😰 RIP #JellybeanJohnson ☔️
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This is... so surreal.
Reporter: “Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?”
Mamdani: “I’ve spoken about–“
Trump: “That’s okay, you can just say yes.”
Mamdani: “I’ve spoken about–“
Trump: “That’s okay, you can just say yes.”
November 22, 2025 at 12:27 AM
This is... so surreal.
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And people still look me square in the face and deadass ask me why women don't report.
"A Regina police officer has pleaded guilty to using police databases to pursue intimate and personal relationships with women. [...] It's not clear how many people Semenchuk may have contacted."
Regina officer pleads guilty to using police databases to pursue women | CBC News
Sergeant Robert Eric Semenchuck remains suspended with pay, as required under the province's Police Act. He has pleaded guilty to breach of trust and unauthorized use of a computer
www.cbc.ca
November 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
And people still look me square in the face and deadass ask me why women don't report.
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Again, I don’t want to get too personal but the most tepidly political, structurally vulnerable people in my life were protesting ICE all week. The juxtaposition here is just wild.
The degree to which the Democratic Party is failing to meet this moment is staggering. And INFURIATING, when contrasted with the courage on display from ordinary people with far, far less power & protection.
November 21, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Again, I don’t want to get too personal but the most tepidly political, structurally vulnerable people in my life were protesting ICE all week. The juxtaposition here is just wild.
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re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"
November 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"
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New: cops used Flock AI-enabled cameras to monitor No Kings protests around the country. Also monitored No Hands protests and protests against DOGE.
"Should serve as a warning of how it may be used in the future to suppress dissent."
www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...
"Should serve as a warning of how it may be used in the future to suppress dissent."
www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...
Cops Used Flock to Monitor No Kings Protests Around the Country
A massive cache of Flock lookups collated by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) shows as many as 50 federal, state, and local agencies used Flock during protests over the last year.
www.404media.co
November 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
New: cops used Flock AI-enabled cameras to monitor No Kings protests around the country. Also monitored No Hands protests and protests against DOGE.
"Should serve as a warning of how it may be used in the future to suppress dissent."
www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...
"Should serve as a warning of how it may be used in the future to suppress dissent."
www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
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Pretty grim to go back and read this. The media liked Trump and helped him win the election.
Can’t think why it turned out how it did with the media reporting honestly.
www.npr.org/2024/08/25/g...
www.npr.org/2024/08/25/g...
12 misleading or lacking-in-context claims from Harris’ DNC speech
They range from characterizations of former President Trump’s stances on abortion rights and Social Security to her plans to address housing and grocery prices.
www.npr.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Pretty grim to go back and read this. The media liked Trump and helped him win the election.
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one of the underrated factors for the rise in scamming across U.S. society is the death of local media.
It gets lost in the shuffle, but the Speaker of the House is someone who, by all rights, should’ve had his career ended a decade ago by a Shreveport TV news investigative team.
Fond memories of that time Mike Johnson was president of a local law school that never opened its doors, in part because it was attached to a Baptist college that was losing its accreditation, and in part because it was always a scam from the start
November 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
one of the underrated factors for the rise in scamming across U.S. society is the death of local media.
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NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.
November 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.
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If someone knits or crochets you a blanket or sweater, they want to keep you warm AND they dedicated many hours of their lives to making it for you.
There's no profit in fiber arts, not when you can get a machine made at Target for 30 bucks. So know fiber artists making for you? Is an act of love.
There's no profit in fiber arts, not when you can get a machine made at Target for 30 bucks. So know fiber artists making for you? Is an act of love.
November 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
If someone knits or crochets you a blanket or sweater, they want to keep you warm AND they dedicated many hours of their lives to making it for you.
There's no profit in fiber arts, not when you can get a machine made at Target for 30 bucks. So know fiber artists making for you? Is an act of love.
There's no profit in fiber arts, not when you can get a machine made at Target for 30 bucks. So know fiber artists making for you? Is an act of love.
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Over the past week, I’ve spoken to over two dozen people who were mentored and inspired by Coach Beam. My colleague Jose Fermoso spoke to his colleagues. What an emotional rollercoaster to put this tribute together 😢❤️
The legacy of John Beam through the lives he touched
A former Pittsburgh Steelers player, Skyline alumni, Laney football players, the Oakland Fire Department Chief, and others tell us what Coach Beam meant to them.
oaklandside.org
November 21, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Over the past week, I’ve spoken to over two dozen people who were mentored and inspired by Coach Beam. My colleague Jose Fermoso spoke to his colleagues. What an emotional rollercoaster to put this tribute together 😢❤️
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I don't blame people for assuming there's no good, healthy version of online community. Anyone younger than me has probably never seen it. But it used to exist, I swear.
I've interacted with plenty of EU lawmakers recently, and it's not universally true (of course) but it is striking how many seem to take the fact that some companies are bad to mean the entire internet concept was bad. It doesn't need to be! We can build a better internet!
Takeaways from #eurosky: big tech social media displaced journalism, a core pillar of democracy, and has been bad for society. EU lawmakers want European, privacy-centered tech. There are still questions of whether the internet is worth building on and what to build. But they are talking about it
November 21, 2025 at 5:23 AM
I don't blame people for assuming there's no good, healthy version of online community. Anyone younger than me has probably never seen it. But it used to exist, I swear.
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That the nursing home industry remains so systemically troubled and exploitative with minimal oversight or interest says a lot about the role of elders and disabled people in society. 'Put grandma in a home' to get her out of mind is actually not a very funny joke!
He built a nursing home empire despite state investigations. Now, lawsuits are piling up
California nursing homes affiliated with Shlomo Rechnitz are facing lawsuits alleging that patients were raped, ignored and unnecessarily exposed to COVID-19. His companies deny the allegations.
calmatters.org
November 21, 2025 at 12:07 AM
That the nursing home industry remains so systemically troubled and exploitative with minimal oversight or interest says a lot about the role of elders and disabled people in society. 'Put grandma in a home' to get her out of mind is actually not a very funny joke!
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
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This is my Manchurian candidate activation sequence
Nothing on television, when I was a kid, got me more excited than this.
And it was shown multiple times during the holiday season.
youtu.be/pD4LQAKB-YA?...
And it was shown multiple times during the holiday season.
youtu.be/pD4LQAKB-YA?...
CBS 1970s (Special Presentation) Remastered
YouTube video by ApotheounSAK
youtu.be
November 20, 2025 at 6:06 PM
This is my Manchurian candidate activation sequence
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NEW: Body-worn camera video captured an immigration agent in Chicago using ChatGPT to “compile a narrative for a report based off of a brief sentence about an encounter and several images,” Judge Ellis reveals in a scathing written ruling.
Story here:
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/20/i...
Story here:
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/20/i...
Injunction ruling provides new look at ‘Blitz,’ from tear gas to agent using ChatGPT to help write report
A federal judge on Thursday issued a scathing opinion that takes a deep dive into the use of force by immigration agents during “Operation Midway Blitz,” revealing new information glean…
www.chicagotribune.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:16 PM
NEW: Body-worn camera video captured an immigration agent in Chicago using ChatGPT to “compile a narrative for a report based off of a brief sentence about an encounter and several images,” Judge Ellis reveals in a scathing written ruling.
Story here:
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/20/i...
Story here:
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/20/i...
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Adds something to my bookmarks knowing full well that I will never see it again
November 18, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Adds something to my bookmarks knowing full well that I will never see it again