Katherine Argent
@effthealgorithm.com
Writer in Kansas City. OG blogger. Former attorney & radio journalist. I write about how big tech broke the internet and now it's breaking us.
EffTheAlgorithm.com
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Forty-six percent of young people say they’d prefer a world without the internet. That’s not nostalgia — that’s exhaustion.
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August 21, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Forty-six percent of young people say they’d prefer a world without the internet. That’s not nostalgia — that’s exhaustion.
Read the essay →
effthealgorithm.com/p/your-alien...
Read the essay →
effthealgorithm.com/p/your-alien...
Remember when The Sims loaded with nonsense updates like:
"Prelaminating Drywall Inventory…"
"Reticulating 3-Dimensional Splines…"
You didn’t know what it meant, but it showed the game was loading. That’s what AI’s chain-of-thought (CoT) is like — except it’s real and we need it. Here's why:
"Prelaminating Drywall Inventory…"
"Reticulating 3-Dimensional Splines…"
You didn’t know what it meant, but it showed the game was loading. That’s what AI’s chain-of-thought (CoT) is like — except it’s real and we need it. Here's why:
August 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Remember when The Sims loaded with nonsense updates like:
"Prelaminating Drywall Inventory…"
"Reticulating 3-Dimensional Splines…"
You didn’t know what it meant, but it showed the game was loading. That’s what AI’s chain-of-thought (CoT) is like — except it’s real and we need it. Here's why:
"Prelaminating Drywall Inventory…"
"Reticulating 3-Dimensional Splines…"
You didn’t know what it meant, but it showed the game was loading. That’s what AI’s chain-of-thought (CoT) is like — except it’s real and we need it. Here's why:
I’m so proud to be part of this group of women and nonbinary folks writing about AI. There is nothing artificial about the intelligence here!
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June 18, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I’m so proud to be part of this group of women and nonbinary folks writing about AI. There is nothing artificial about the intelligence here!
go.bsky.app/V6KAea1
go.bsky.app/V6KAea1
Google has announced its plan to write their own articles and answer search queries entirely.
With YOUR content.
Here’s how we got into this mess. And what creators need to do to fight back — while there’s still time.
effthealgorithm.com/p/google-use...
With YOUR content.
Here’s how we got into this mess. And what creators need to do to fight back — while there’s still time.
effthealgorithm.com/p/google-use...
Everything You Published Became Google’s Brain
You trained the machine and got nothing for it. Now what?
effthealgorithm.com
June 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Google has announced its plan to write their own articles and answer search queries entirely.
With YOUR content.
Here’s how we got into this mess. And what creators need to do to fight back — while there’s still time.
effthealgorithm.com/p/google-use...
With YOUR content.
Here’s how we got into this mess. And what creators need to do to fight back — while there’s still time.
effthealgorithm.com/p/google-use...
The goal is to make you a predictable, known quantity.
Why?
Because predictable people are easier to monetize.
open.substack.com/pub/efftheal...
Why?
Because predictable people are easier to monetize.
open.substack.com/pub/efftheal...
Your Alienation Is Engineered
The numbness, disconnection, and self-censoring you feel is all part of their business model.
open.substack.com
June 12, 2025 at 4:19 AM
The goal is to make you a predictable, known quantity.
Why?
Because predictable people are easier to monetize.
open.substack.com/pub/efftheal...
Why?
Because predictable people are easier to monetize.
open.substack.com/pub/efftheal...
Last week, I wrote about how platforms convert your leisure time into unpaid labor, turning your time into their profit on the Attention Farm. This week, we’re going deeper: into the emotional, relational, and civic costs of living inside their system.
Your Alienation Is Engineered
The numbness, disconnection, and self-censoring you feel is all part of their business model.
open.substack.com
June 10, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Last week, I wrote about how platforms convert your leisure time into unpaid labor, turning your time into their profit on the Attention Farm. This week, we’re going deeper: into the emotional, relational, and civic costs of living inside their system.
What were you doing right before you picked up your phone just now?
Do you remember why you grabbed it?
If not, you’re not alone. The algorithms are designed to pull you back to your phone, over and over.
Find out why, how, and how to make it stop in tomorrow’s Substack.
It’s a doozy.
Do you remember why you grabbed it?
If not, you’re not alone. The algorithms are designed to pull you back to your phone, over and over.
Find out why, how, and how to make it stop in tomorrow’s Substack.
It’s a doozy.
June 10, 2025 at 12:40 AM
What were you doing right before you picked up your phone just now?
Do you remember why you grabbed it?
If not, you’re not alone. The algorithms are designed to pull you back to your phone, over and over.
Find out why, how, and how to make it stop in tomorrow’s Substack.
It’s a doozy.
Do you remember why you grabbed it?
If not, you’re not alone. The algorithms are designed to pull you back to your phone, over and over.
Find out why, how, and how to make it stop in tomorrow’s Substack.
It’s a doozy.
You weren’t supposed to enjoy using the internet. You were supposed to submit to it.
And when you push back? It adapts.
“Your Alienation Was Engineered.” Tuesday on my Substack.
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And when you push back? It adapts.
“Your Alienation Was Engineered.” Tuesday on my Substack.
effthealgorithm.substack.com
June 7, 2025 at 11:02 PM
You weren’t supposed to enjoy using the internet. You were supposed to submit to it.
And when you push back? It adapts.
“Your Alienation Was Engineered.” Tuesday on my Substack.
effthealgorithm.substack.com
And when you push back? It adapts.
“Your Alienation Was Engineered.” Tuesday on my Substack.
effthealgorithm.substack.com
In this week’s Substack, I explain how the platforms put you to work for their profit, without your consent.
Spoiler: using private browsing or a VPN doesn’t offer the anonymity you think it does.
Spoiler: using private browsing or a VPN doesn’t offer the anonymity you think it does.
June 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
In this week’s Substack, I explain how the platforms put you to work for their profit, without your consent.
Spoiler: using private browsing or a VPN doesn’t offer the anonymity you think it does.
Spoiler: using private browsing or a VPN doesn’t offer the anonymity you think it does.
Friday, I closed on the sale of my home. I never thought I’d leave it, but I never thought I’d need to, either.
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April 2, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Friday, I closed on the sale of my home. I never thought I’d leave it, but I never thought I’d need to, either.
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Strange how the media has anesthetized this story by skipping his motive. But here’s a little piece for you:
In September 2019, Kantwill told one victim: “God bless the Great President Trump and his family. Fuck you and yours. Hire extra security ... you’re gonna need it.”
In September 2019, Kantwill told one victim: “God bless the Great President Trump and his family. Fuck you and yours. Hire extra security ... you’re gonna need it.”
Tampa dentist gets 2 years in prison after making more than 100 online threats
Richard Glenn Kantwill threatened rape and murder in messages to 40 victims, including politicians and election officials.
www.tampabay.com
March 8, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Strange how the media has anesthetized this story by skipping his motive. But here’s a little piece for you:
In September 2019, Kantwill told one victim: “God bless the Great President Trump and his family. Fuck you and yours. Hire extra security ... you’re gonna need it.”
In September 2019, Kantwill told one victim: “God bless the Great President Trump and his family. Fuck you and yours. Hire extra security ... you’re gonna need it.”
Any Democrat supporting censure better answer for all the times they remained silent on worse behavior.
Enough with the “when they go low, we go high” approach. That’s just self-righteous defeatism.
When they go low, we need to do roundhouse kicks.
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Enough with the “when they go low, we go high” approach. That’s just self-righteous defeatism.
When they go low, we need to do roundhouse kicks.
🦵
March 5, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Any Democrat supporting censure better answer for all the times they remained silent on worse behavior.
Enough with the “when they go low, we go high” approach. That’s just self-righteous defeatism.
When they go low, we need to do roundhouse kicks.
🦵
Enough with the “when they go low, we go high” approach. That’s just self-righteous defeatism.
When they go low, we need to do roundhouse kicks.
🦵
Almost settled into my new place. It’s been >20 years since I lived in the city and I forgot how much I love it!
Such a strange feeling, though. It’s like I spliced the soundtrack of my life, cut out two decades, and continued on with the song.
Such a strange feeling, though. It’s like I spliced the soundtrack of my life, cut out two decades, and continued on with the song.
March 5, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Almost settled into my new place. It’s been >20 years since I lived in the city and I forgot how much I love it!
Such a strange feeling, though. It’s like I spliced the soundtrack of my life, cut out two decades, and continued on with the song.
Such a strange feeling, though. It’s like I spliced the soundtrack of my life, cut out two decades, and continued on with the song.
What a stupid act. Even if you legally change your name outside of marriage, many states refuse to amend your original birth certificate. That means no voting for you!
Call your Senators (202) 224-3121. Adamantly oppose the Save Act HR.22. If you are among the 69 million women who took your husband’s last name, You are NO LONGER ELIGIBLE TO VOTE The bill passed the House. You must register in person with a Passport/ birth certificate.
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www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2Ahg4hg/
Going back to 1920 with this one, when women first gained the right to vote. The House Has Passed This! Call Your Senators. 5 Calls App Makes It Easy To Do So. #votingrights #womensrights #humanrights...
TikTok video by J O N I
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February 14, 2025 at 4:51 PM
What a stupid act. Even if you legally change your name outside of marriage, many states refuse to amend your original birth certificate. That means no voting for you!
I’ve cracked the Trump nomination criteria:
1. Do you have a vendetta or feel maligned?
2. If I give you the power to take revenge, will you swear your undying loyalty to me?
1. Do you have a vendetta or feel maligned?
2. If I give you the power to take revenge, will you swear your undying loyalty to me?
February 13, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I’ve cracked the Trump nomination criteria:
1. Do you have a vendetta or feel maligned?
2. If I give you the power to take revenge, will you swear your undying loyalty to me?
1. Do you have a vendetta or feel maligned?
2. If I give you the power to take revenge, will you swear your undying loyalty to me?
Reposted by Katherine Argent
“How on earth would he have the information about the net worths of government employees?” asked @normeisen.bsky.social, a top White House ethics lawyer under President Barack Obama. “Either he’s making it up … or he has gotten access to data that he has no business getting.”
Musk Claims To Know The Net Worths Of Federal Employees – But How?
His Oval Office remark suggests a remarkable invasion of privacy of potentially millions of federal employees.
www.huffpost.com
February 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
“How on earth would he have the information about the net worths of government employees?” asked @normeisen.bsky.social, a top White House ethics lawyer under President Barack Obama. “Either he’s making it up … or he has gotten access to data that he has no business getting.”
Reposted by Katherine Argent
My mystery thriller Darke Deeds is on Kindle Unlimited. mybook.to/darkedeeds
Book 1 of a new series.
True-crime podcasters and relatives, Angie and Violet Darke, want a huge case to solve.
It lands on their doorstep. A body is discovered in Angie's pub garden. The past is never dead and buried.
Book 1 of a new series.
True-crime podcasters and relatives, Angie and Violet Darke, want a huge case to solve.
It lands on their doorstep. A body is discovered in Angie's pub garden. The past is never dead and buried.
February 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
My mystery thriller Darke Deeds is on Kindle Unlimited. mybook.to/darkedeeds
Book 1 of a new series.
True-crime podcasters and relatives, Angie and Violet Darke, want a huge case to solve.
It lands on their doorstep. A body is discovered in Angie's pub garden. The past is never dead and buried.
Book 1 of a new series.
True-crime podcasters and relatives, Angie and Violet Darke, want a huge case to solve.
It lands on their doorstep. A body is discovered in Angie's pub garden. The past is never dead and buried.
All packed! The movers arrive first thing in the morning.
It’s hard to imagine living somewhere else — I’ve been here over 1/3 of my life — but adventures await and I’m ready.
It’s hard to imagine living somewhere else — I’ve been here over 1/3 of my life — but adventures await and I’m ready.
February 13, 2025 at 12:32 AM
All packed! The movers arrive first thing in the morning.
It’s hard to imagine living somewhere else — I’ve been here over 1/3 of my life — but adventures await and I’m ready.
It’s hard to imagine living somewhere else — I’ve been here over 1/3 of my life — but adventures await and I’m ready.
Reposted by Katherine Argent
Screw Google for capitulating to this childish nonsense.
February 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Screw Google for capitulating to this childish nonsense.
Reposted by Katherine Argent
Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important
Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone
Call it a Day Of Transparency
Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone
Call it a Day Of Transparency
February 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important
Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone
Call it a Day Of Transparency
Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone
Call it a Day Of Transparency
Reposted by Katherine Argent
Gosh, it’s almost like re-electing someone who committed treason invites them to once again commit treason.
February 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Gosh, it’s almost like re-electing someone who committed treason invites them to once again commit treason.
Reposted by Katherine Argent
We've come to a fork in the road...
February 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
We've come to a fork in the road...
48 hours until the movers arrive. Since deciding in mid-December to sell my house, every day has been about preparing to move.
I am so looking forward to spending my days reading and writing. To ambling walks and seeking out new favorite spots.
To the next chapter in life, once this page turns.
I am so looking forward to spending my days reading and writing. To ambling walks and seeking out new favorite spots.
To the next chapter in life, once this page turns.
February 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
48 hours until the movers arrive. Since deciding in mid-December to sell my house, every day has been about preparing to move.
I am so looking forward to spending my days reading and writing. To ambling walks and seeking out new favorite spots.
To the next chapter in life, once this page turns.
I am so looking forward to spending my days reading and writing. To ambling walks and seeking out new favorite spots.
To the next chapter in life, once this page turns.
He says “if you don’t count Black women.” He means he doesn’t think Black women count.
Ought to face a medical disciplinary board either way.
Ought to face a medical disciplinary board either way.
February 9, 2025 at 1:38 AM
He says “if you don’t count Black women.” He means he doesn’t think Black women count.
Ought to face a medical disciplinary board either way.
Ought to face a medical disciplinary board either way.