kelly pendergrast
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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!
Last time I flew to New Zealand I skipped New Year’s Eve entirely thx to crossing the date line. Straight from the 30th to New Year’s Day. This time I get to skip Valentine’s Day! Bye suckers!!! ✈️🚫❤️
February 13, 2026 at 11:33 PM
Last time I flew to New Zealand I skipped New Year’s Eve entirely thx to crossing the date line. Straight from the 30th to New Year’s Day. This time I get to skip Valentine’s Day! Bye suckers!!! ✈️🚫❤️
The posters who act like it's their job to evangelize AI and get everyone else on board come hell or high water are similar to (but worse than) the people who do ayahuasca and come back convinced it's their job to evangelize mother aya to the nonbelievers. Please! mind your own business.
February 12, 2026 at 9:49 PM
The posters who act like it's their job to evangelize AI and get everyone else on board come hell or high water are similar to (but worse than) the people who do ayahuasca and come back convinced it's their job to evangelize mother aya to the nonbelievers. Please! mind your own business.
Caught wind that my manifesto about stew and the social necessity of affordable public dining has influenced the founding of at least one local dinner series ... that's impact baby
February 12, 2026 at 12:41 AM
Caught wind that my manifesto about stew and the social necessity of affordable public dining has influenced the founding of at least one local dinner series ... that's impact baby
Whenever anyone under 40 acts in a way that indicates they think smoking a cigarette makes you look cool, I think less of them - oh wow you had a bowl of cigs at your party????? sorry what is this, dimes square 2022
February 12, 2026 at 12:33 AM
Whenever anyone under 40 acts in a way that indicates they think smoking a cigarette makes you look cool, I think less of them - oh wow you had a bowl of cigs at your party????? sorry what is this, dimes square 2022
kind of can't believe rick rubin isn't in the epstein files
February 12, 2026 at 12:06 AM
kind of can't believe rick rubin isn't in the epstein files
Fight Club / Office Space white collar nihilism has RETURNED and it's coming for the tech guys this time. thank you Claude
February 10, 2026 at 11:29 PM
Fight Club / Office Space white collar nihilism has RETURNED and it's coming for the tech guys this time. thank you Claude
Ugh Vic Chesnutt is truly the final boss of boyfriend music.
After years of aural waterboarding i've come to like Songs: Ohia and love Red House Painters and tolerate Silver Jews but i STILL HATE vic chestnutt - irritating little creep with horrible lyrics
After years of aural waterboarding i've come to like Songs: Ohia and love Red House Painters and tolerate Silver Jews but i STILL HATE vic chestnutt - irritating little creep with horrible lyrics
February 10, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Ugh Vic Chesnutt is truly the final boss of boyfriend music.
After years of aural waterboarding i've come to like Songs: Ohia and love Red House Painters and tolerate Silver Jews but i STILL HATE vic chestnutt - irritating little creep with horrible lyrics
After years of aural waterboarding i've come to like Songs: Ohia and love Red House Painters and tolerate Silver Jews but i STILL HATE vic chestnutt - irritating little creep with horrible lyrics
All these TPUSA dorks yelling "you'd never hear these lyrics at the superbowl!!!" (as kid rock sings about the bible) are acting as if the Superbowl isn't an innately propagandist pro-military pro-christian pro-america spectacle. 30 mins of Bad Bunny doesn't change this!!
February 9, 2026 at 10:22 PM
All these TPUSA dorks yelling "you'd never hear these lyrics at the superbowl!!!" (as kid rock sings about the bible) are acting as if the Superbowl isn't an innately propagandist pro-military pro-christian pro-america spectacle. 30 mins of Bad Bunny doesn't change this!!
Official header font of the Trump White House, I guess...
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
February 9, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Official header font of the Trump White House, I guess...
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
Really funny how Instrument Serif and related fonts have made a comeback in a way that is vaguely reactionary-coded (healthmaxxxing, retvrn purity stuff) ... well and openly fascistic stuff too I guess!!
February 6, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Really funny how Instrument Serif and related fonts have made a comeback in a way that is vaguely reactionary-coded (healthmaxxxing, retvrn purity stuff) ... well and openly fascistic stuff too I guess!!
i still haven't forgotten Spike Lee's terrible crypto ad and now he's shilling for Meta stupid glasses ick WHAT A SELLOUT you're already rich bro
February 6, 2026 at 7:51 PM
i still haven't forgotten Spike Lee's terrible crypto ad and now he's shilling for Meta stupid glasses ick WHAT A SELLOUT you're already rich bro
Reposted by kelly pendergrast
the Barbara Kruger mural the chase is happening in front of reads:
"WHO IS BEYOND THE LAW? WHO IS BOUGHT AND SOLD? WHO IS FREE TO CHOOSE? WHO DOES THE TIME? WHO FOLLOWS ORDERS? WHO SALUTES LONGEST? WHO PRAYS LOUDEST? WHO DIES FIRST? WHO LAUGHS LAST?"
"WHO IS BEYOND THE LAW? WHO IS BOUGHT AND SOLD? WHO IS FREE TO CHOOSE? WHO DOES THE TIME? WHO FOLLOWS ORDERS? WHO SALUTES LONGEST? WHO PRAYS LOUDEST? WHO DIES FIRST? WHO LAUGHS LAST?"
February 5, 2026 at 4:51 PM
the Barbara Kruger mural the chase is happening in front of reads:
"WHO IS BEYOND THE LAW? WHO IS BOUGHT AND SOLD? WHO IS FREE TO CHOOSE? WHO DOES THE TIME? WHO FOLLOWS ORDERS? WHO SALUTES LONGEST? WHO PRAYS LOUDEST? WHO DIES FIRST? WHO LAUGHS LAST?"
"WHO IS BEYOND THE LAW? WHO IS BOUGHT AND SOLD? WHO IS FREE TO CHOOSE? WHO DOES THE TIME? WHO FOLLOWS ORDERS? WHO SALUTES LONGEST? WHO PRAYS LOUDEST? WHO DIES FIRST? WHO LAUGHS LAST?"
They brought Nick Land to San Francisco to be interviewed by Wolf Tivy and Curtis Yarvin at a shoes-off tech house event. oh lordy lordy.
Be cautious if you run into any AI founders this week - they are likely to be very overexcited from the gnostic wisdom that was dropped
Be cautious if you run into any AI founders this week - they are likely to be very overexcited from the gnostic wisdom that was dropped
February 5, 2026 at 7:30 PM
They brought Nick Land to San Francisco to be interviewed by Wolf Tivy and Curtis Yarvin at a shoes-off tech house event. oh lordy lordy.
Be cautious if you run into any AI founders this week - they are likely to be very overexcited from the gnostic wisdom that was dropped
Be cautious if you run into any AI founders this week - they are likely to be very overexcited from the gnostic wisdom that was dropped
I need an update on whether they found a new aesthetic yet
<$250k grants from Tyler Cowan and the Stripe founder guy if you can come up with a “new aesthetic” for the 21st C. Hmmmmm ok! Hope one of my friends gets this weird money. newaesthetics.art
A Call for New Aesthetics
A Call for New Aesthetics
newaesthetics.art
February 4, 2026 at 10:08 PM
I need an update on whether they found a new aesthetic yet
They think we’re fucking stupid
Also when will the tech companies move on from this identical warm scandi mcm setting for their ads? As the “tasteful” chatbot company I’d expect a bit more visual innovation from Anthropic
Also when will the tech companies move on from this identical warm scandi mcm setting for their ads? As the “tasteful” chatbot company I’d expect a bit more visual innovation from Anthropic
Anthropic just took a big swipe at OpenAI's decision to put ads in ChatGPT. Anthropic is airing ads mocking ChatGPT ads during the Super Bowl, and they're hilarious 😅 Anthropic is also committing to no ads in Claude www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
February 4, 2026 at 8:47 PM
They think we’re fucking stupid
Also when will the tech companies move on from this identical warm scandi mcm setting for their ads? As the “tasteful” chatbot company I’d expect a bit more visual innovation from Anthropic
Also when will the tech companies move on from this identical warm scandi mcm setting for their ads? As the “tasteful” chatbot company I’d expect a bit more visual innovation from Anthropic
Epstein file EFTA00004012
February 3, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Epstein file EFTA00004012
Before it started the theater did a land acknowledgement for La Grand Jatte (I’m in Berkeley obviously)
oh god I'm going to see a Sondheim musical tonight all because I got obsessed with the insane border on Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte when i saw it IRL in Chicago... almost 3 hours of musical. the only Sondheim thing I know about are the lyrics to West Side Story. I'm scared!!!
January 30, 2026 at 4:42 AM
Before it started the theater did a land acknowledgement for La Grand Jatte (I’m in Berkeley obviously)
People on the more carceral of the two Oakland subreddits are complaining about the trailer for the new Boots Riley movie because "this is a movie glamorizing retail theft - the last thing Oakland needs right now" lol what a bunch of shriveled losers
January 29, 2026 at 7:04 PM
People on the more carceral of the two Oakland subreddits are complaining about the trailer for the new Boots Riley movie because "this is a movie glamorizing retail theft - the last thing Oakland needs right now" lol what a bunch of shriveled losers
oh god I'm going to see a Sondheim musical tonight all because I got obsessed with the insane border on Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte when i saw it IRL in Chicago... almost 3 hours of musical. the only Sondheim thing I know about are the lyrics to West Side Story. I'm scared!!!
January 29, 2026 at 6:15 PM
oh god I'm going to see a Sondheim musical tonight all because I got obsessed with the insane border on Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte when i saw it IRL in Chicago... almost 3 hours of musical. the only Sondheim thing I know about are the lyrics to West Side Story. I'm scared!!!
Oh to be an in-house philosopher for an AI company!!
Unfortunately the only kind of tech company where you can still be an in-house theorist in the post-ZIRP era is a dickhead AI company bc those guys are all obsessed with (the idea of) ~~philosophy~~
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
Unfortunately the only kind of tech company where you can still be an in-house theorist in the post-ZIRP era is a dickhead AI company bc those guys are all obsessed with (the idea of) ~~philosophy~~
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
Claude has an 80-page “soul document.” Is that enough to make it good?
Anthropic philosopher Amanda Askell reveals what went into the chatbot’s moral education.
www.vox.com
January 28, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Oh to be an in-house philosopher for an AI company!!
Unfortunately the only kind of tech company where you can still be an in-house theorist in the post-ZIRP era is a dickhead AI company bc those guys are all obsessed with (the idea of) ~~philosophy~~
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
Unfortunately the only kind of tech company where you can still be an in-house theorist in the post-ZIRP era is a dickhead AI company bc those guys are all obsessed with (the idea of) ~~philosophy~~
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
Reposted by kelly pendergrast
Even when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.
Deaths, detentions and deportations of American citizens in the second Trump administration - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 25, 2026 at 3:09 AM
Even when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.
Another angle clearly showing the victim’s firearm being removed from his person by an agent before he was shot www.reddit.com/r/law/s/TerM...
January 24, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Another angle clearly showing the victim’s firearm being removed from his person by an agent before he was shot www.reddit.com/r/law/s/TerM...
Footage from the woman in pink (now available) shows the man who was murdered attempting to help someone who was being pepper sprayed by ice agents. He was pulled off the pepper spray victim and beaten, executed
January 24, 2026 at 6:57 PM
Footage from the woman in pink (now available) shows the man who was murdered attempting to help someone who was being pepper sprayed by ice agents. He was pulled off the pepper spray victim and beaten, executed
Everyone wants to go to the galley but no one knows how to look at the art
January 23, 2026 at 11:43 PM
Everyone wants to go to the galley but no one knows how to look at the art
Reposted by kelly pendergrast
Awful.
Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA ’24, will be rearrested and deported to Algeria, DHS says
Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA ’24, will be rearrested and deported to Algeria, Tricia McLaughlin, Department of Homeland Security assistant secretary for public affairs, announced Thursday, as the federal gove...
www.columbiaspectator.com
January 22, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Awful.