kelly pendergrast
@kellypendergrast.bsky.social
technology // aesthetics // labor // shapes
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working: antistaticpartners.com
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Open invitation for anyone to DM me if you want to gossip
New open invitation - DM me if you are (ever) in the Bay Area and want to meet up irl - it’s 2025 & we’re going offline, comrades!
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
if the new Dave Eggers art school space thing wants to be taken seriously it is imperative they get a new logo because
www.artpluswater.org
www.artpluswater.org
November 5, 2025 at 11:35 PM
if the new Dave Eggers art school space thing wants to be taken seriously it is imperative they get a new logo because
www.artpluswater.org
www.artpluswater.org
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New art video just dropped! The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance 🔮 This is meant to be performed live, recited in front of the video at conferences, museums, public events. It got a standing ovation at Tech Together in NYC. Your phone works but best on your largest screen.
vimeo.com/1116289621
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vimeo.com/1116289621
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The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance
Şerife Wong The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance 2025 Original score by Jeromey Cooks (rikuwru) This video is part of Icarus Salon. It is intended to be viewed in…
vimeo.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
New art video just dropped! The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance 🔮 This is meant to be performed live, recited in front of the video at conferences, museums, public events. It got a standing ovation at Tech Together in NYC. Your phone works but best on your largest screen.
vimeo.com/1116289621
🧵
vimeo.com/1116289621
🧵
Anyone know a zeitgeist bouncer who can be enlisted to scare away the tpot meetup dorks?
November 5, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Anyone know a zeitgeist bouncer who can be enlisted to scare away the tpot meetup dorks?
Who decorated Tucker Carlson's gothic americana mancave and were they purposely channeling the Texas Chainsaw dining room?
October 31, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Who decorated Tucker Carlson's gothic americana mancave and were they purposely channeling the Texas Chainsaw dining room?
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📣 Our method for conducting community-based algorithmic impact assessments is now available! We’ve just launched a new section on our website where you can find an extensive toolkit, documentation of our pilots, and a series of reflections on lessons learned. datasociety.net/research/alg...
October 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
📣 Our method for conducting community-based algorithmic impact assessments is now available! We’ve just launched a new section on our website where you can find an extensive toolkit, documentation of our pilots, and a series of reflections on lessons learned. datasociety.net/research/alg...
New Guadanino movie has a plot point where a phd philosophy student is suspected by her professors of plagiarizing entire paragraphs of Agamben in her dissertation (in 2020! lol) but no one can prove it for some reason?
Bad movie but some dummy catnip details for academics to enjoy/hate
Bad movie but some dummy catnip details for academics to enjoy/hate
October 29, 2025 at 6:48 AM
New Guadanino movie has a plot point where a phd philosophy student is suspected by her professors of plagiarizing entire paragraphs of Agamben in her dissertation (in 2020! lol) but no one can prove it for some reason?
Bad movie but some dummy catnip details for academics to enjoy/hate
Bad movie but some dummy catnip details for academics to enjoy/hate
Read my new essay about the shriveled imagination of the life-extension guys!! On Bryan Johnson, communist cybernetics, and the Human Centipede.
And if you're in NY, head to the launch party in Brooklyn tonight for Empty Set mag (Dear Friends Books, 7pm🩸)
www.emptysetmag.com/articles/blo...
And if you're in NY, head to the launch party in Brooklyn tonight for Empty Set mag (Dear Friends Books, 7pm🩸)
www.emptysetmag.com/articles/blo...
October 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Read my new essay about the shriveled imagination of the life-extension guys!! On Bryan Johnson, communist cybernetics, and the Human Centipede.
And if you're in NY, head to the launch party in Brooklyn tonight for Empty Set mag (Dear Friends Books, 7pm🩸)
www.emptysetmag.com/articles/blo...
And if you're in NY, head to the launch party in Brooklyn tonight for Empty Set mag (Dear Friends Books, 7pm🩸)
www.emptysetmag.com/articles/blo...
Tommy Craggs said "this level of millennial quirk chungus cannot go unpunished"
October 27, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Tommy Craggs said "this level of millennial quirk chungus cannot go unpunished"
Considering Venkatesh Rao the height of intellectual insight, believing Fredric Jameson secretly admired globalized commodity production, and claiming that postmodernism has a "business model": just another day at the Andreessen Horowitz dipshit factory!!
a16z.com/prediction-t...
a16z.com/prediction-t...
October 27, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Considering Venkatesh Rao the height of intellectual insight, believing Fredric Jameson secretly admired globalized commodity production, and claiming that postmodernism has a "business model": just another day at the Andreessen Horowitz dipshit factory!!
a16z.com/prediction-t...
a16z.com/prediction-t...
I have been wanting to write about Bryan Johnson (Don’t Die guy and prolific poster) for years now. And I finally did! Also about communist blood transfusion, fluid potential, and the horror of the segment.
Read now in advance of the official release of Empty Set mag Issue 1 next week:
Read now in advance of the official release of Empty Set mag Issue 1 next week:
October 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I have been wanting to write about Bryan Johnson (Don’t Die guy and prolific poster) for years now. And I finally did! Also about communist blood transfusion, fluid potential, and the horror of the segment.
Read now in advance of the official release of Empty Set mag Issue 1 next week:
Read now in advance of the official release of Empty Set mag Issue 1 next week:
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October 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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A problem for me is that Radu Jude and Rudy Jude are almost the same name and it's confusing
October 23, 2025 at 11:02 PM
A problem for me is that Radu Jude and Rudy Jude are almost the same name and it's confusing
i finally listened to GEESE in order to catch up with what the kids are into and idk you guys...
it was a very triggering listen as someone who lived through the mid-00s sloppy experimental sincere chamber pop era. unfortunately i'm giving it a score of SLIGHTLY CRINGE and NO THANKS.
it was a very triggering listen as someone who lived through the mid-00s sloppy experimental sincere chamber pop era. unfortunately i'm giving it a score of SLIGHTLY CRINGE and NO THANKS.
October 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
i finally listened to GEESE in order to catch up with what the kids are into and idk you guys...
it was a very triggering listen as someone who lived through the mid-00s sloppy experimental sincere chamber pop era. unfortunately i'm giving it a score of SLIGHTLY CRINGE and NO THANKS.
it was a very triggering listen as someone who lived through the mid-00s sloppy experimental sincere chamber pop era. unfortunately i'm giving it a score of SLIGHTLY CRINGE and NO THANKS.
Unbelievable cruelty!!
October 21, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Unbelievable cruelty!!
Mini afternoon field trip to Martinez on Amtrak - $8 and they’ve got free snacks and bay views. Two 20somethings just got on with a box of Popeyes and one said to the other “girl if you like BART you’re gonna love the train” SHE’S RIGHT
October 17, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Mini afternoon field trip to Martinez on Amtrak - $8 and they’ve got free snacks and bay views. Two 20somethings just got on with a box of Popeyes and one said to the other “girl if you like BART you’re gonna love the train” SHE’S RIGHT
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This @kellypendergrast.bsky.social essay, on Stanley tumblers, TikTok, smartphone aspect ratios, montage + transitional objects is so smart:! "In its mirroring of the video frame, the Stanley became an ideal subject for the age of vertical video... Montage is dead, and the cup stays in the picture."
Screening Stanley
Each clip-on addition is a talisman of got-my-shit-together-ness —these fragments I have shored against my ruins—with the fully dressed cup acting as a stand-in for an aesthetically organized life.…
mid-theory.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:29 AM
This @kellypendergrast.bsky.social essay, on Stanley tumblers, TikTok, smartphone aspect ratios, montage + transitional objects is so smart:! "In its mirroring of the video frame, the Stanley became an ideal subject for the age of vertical video... Montage is dead, and the cup stays in the picture."
Cassandra at the Wedding (CatW) is my Stoner (if you know what I mean), and this piece about being a bookseller & recommending it to readers and then wondering if it's wrong to sell everyone a text on the call of the void (CotV) (it's not!), is great: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/cassandra-at...
Cassandra at the Abyss
After I had sent a few customers home with Cassandra, I started to feel a bit uneasy. Should I be warning them? Am I obligated to tell adults to brace themselves? Isn’t everyone a little bit mentally ...
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
October 15, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Cassandra at the Wedding (CatW) is my Stoner (if you know what I mean), and this piece about being a bookseller & recommending it to readers and then wondering if it's wrong to sell everyone a text on the call of the void (CotV) (it's not!), is great: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/cassandra-at...
Palantir “ontology” merch…??🤪🤪
now I’ve seen everything and can die miserable. Gootbye
now I’ve seen everything and can die miserable. Gootbye
October 15, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Palantir “ontology” merch…??🤪🤪
now I’ve seen everything and can die miserable. Gootbye
now I’ve seen everything and can die miserable. Gootbye
News flash I just made the perfect lunch and I am now completely satisfied and ready to proceed with my afternoon with balance poise and concentration … once in a lifetime feeling
October 13, 2025 at 7:59 PM
News flash I just made the perfect lunch and I am now completely satisfied and ready to proceed with my afternoon with balance poise and concentration … once in a lifetime feeling
Where is the enterprising beauty journalist who will get to the bottom of Peter Thiel's skincare routine? Kinda feels like he is going for glass skin but accidentally hitting salamander
October 10, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Where is the enterprising beauty journalist who will get to the bottom of Peter Thiel's skincare routine? Kinda feels like he is going for glass skin but accidentally hitting salamander
Kind of incredible selection of reading groups about to start up at Oakland's Bathers Library — highly recommend all bay area folks signing up for something. it is time 2 learn + connect!
non-bay area folks... sorry!!
batherslibrary.cargo.site/current-read...
non-bay area folks... sorry!!
batherslibrary.cargo.site/current-read...
October 9, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Kind of incredible selection of reading groups about to start up at Oakland's Bathers Library — highly recommend all bay area folks signing up for something. it is time 2 learn + connect!
non-bay area folks... sorry!!
batherslibrary.cargo.site/current-read...
non-bay area folks... sorry!!
batherslibrary.cargo.site/current-read...
Nothing new here, really, but Knausgaard really does write about it technology, computing, and the world in such a sweet way.
Also now i'm sickeningly jealous of James Brindle's apparently blissful life on a greek island. harpers.org/archive/2025...
Also now i'm sickeningly jealous of James Brindle's apparently blissful life on a greek island. harpers.org/archive/2025...
The Reenchanted World, by Karl Ove Knausgaard, Translated by Olivia Lasky, Damion Searls
On finding mystery in the digital age
harpers.org
October 8, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Nothing new here, really, but Knausgaard really does write about it technology, computing, and the world in such a sweet way.
Also now i'm sickeningly jealous of James Brindle's apparently blissful life on a greek island. harpers.org/archive/2025...
Also now i'm sickeningly jealous of James Brindle's apparently blissful life on a greek island. harpers.org/archive/2025...
Great piece about the "YOU CAN JUST DO THINGS" meme.
However, this further cements my theory that current tech culture exists downstream of 20teens millennial marketing culture. Outdoor Voices' "DOING THINGS" walked so "YOU CAN JUST DO THINGS" could run thebaffler.com/latest/high-...
However, this further cements my theory that current tech culture exists downstream of 20teens millennial marketing culture. Outdoor Voices' "DOING THINGS" walked so "YOU CAN JUST DO THINGS" could run thebaffler.com/latest/high-...
High-Agency Individuals | James Vincent
The exhortation to “just do things” is in part a response to the specter of automation.
thebaffler.com
October 8, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Great piece about the "YOU CAN JUST DO THINGS" meme.
However, this further cements my theory that current tech culture exists downstream of 20teens millennial marketing culture. Outdoor Voices' "DOING THINGS" walked so "YOU CAN JUST DO THINGS" could run thebaffler.com/latest/high-...
However, this further cements my theory that current tech culture exists downstream of 20teens millennial marketing culture. Outdoor Voices' "DOING THINGS" walked so "YOU CAN JUST DO THINGS" could run thebaffler.com/latest/high-...