Kirsten Anderson
@kanderson38.bsky.social
Drawing little pictures and dropping them into the void
What does it mean to say the administration has fallen short of my expectations if my expectations are negative? This is a terrible survey. www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
November 9, 2025 at 3:11 AM
What does it mean to say the administration has fallen short of my expectations if my expectations are negative? This is a terrible survey. www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
Happy Bizarre Ultimatum Day to all who celebrate
October 12, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Happy Bizarre Ultimatum Day to all who celebrate
Reposted by Kirsten Anderson
"Nobody wants to be around you if you’re just gonna dwell on this well stuff."
Things People Have Yelled Down to Me, a Person Trapped Alone at the Bottom of a Well
1. Are you sure you’re really trapped? You don’t look that trapped. 2. But you’re too smart to be trapped in a well. 3. Yeah, I was trapped in a we...
buff.ly
September 20, 2025 at 8:14 PM
"Nobody wants to be around you if you’re just gonna dwell on this well stuff."
Reposted by Kirsten Anderson
Why are people still saying "how are you" to each other
September 5, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Why are people still saying "how are you" to each other
Reposted by Kirsten Anderson
A pitch as rollicking as the time Don Draper cried about his whore mother with that chocolate client. These are AI's advocates, its messengers. "this horrible shitty broken ugly thing, you're not going to resist it. Submit or be found wanting" is not a marketing strategy
It is the evolution of search. The expected next thing is this. Accept it or Hate it, your choice, but AI isn't going anywhere. So deal with that.
September 2, 2025 at 10:10 PM
A pitch as rollicking as the time Don Draper cried about his whore mother with that chocolate client. These are AI's advocates, its messengers. "this horrible shitty broken ugly thing, you're not going to resist it. Submit or be found wanting" is not a marketing strategy
Reposted by Kirsten Anderson
I wrote about the humility of expertise and the arrogance of ignorance, the profound laziness that attends believing that you can find knowledge by ignoring the accumulation of inherited human knowledge, and the ways lazy arrogance fuels narratives of fascism. www.the-reframe.com/your-ignoran...
Your Ignorance Doesn't Make You An Expert
Let's go chasing waterfalls.
www.the-reframe.com
August 31, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I wrote about the humility of expertise and the arrogance of ignorance, the profound laziness that attends believing that you can find knowledge by ignoring the accumulation of inherited human knowledge, and the ways lazy arrogance fuels narratives of fascism. www.the-reframe.com/your-ignoran...
Yes please
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
August 27, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Yes please
Reposted by Kirsten Anderson
Stay salty DC 🔥
August 11, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Stay salty DC 🔥
Fiery-throated hummingbird
July 13, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Fiery-throated hummingbird
Reposted by Kirsten Anderson
All I see here is top notch ball security, elite contact balance, a willingness to grind out tough yards btwn the tackles, and surprising burst after he finds daylight
A member of Taiwan's parliament stole a bill and ran off with it to prevent it from being passed
June 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
All I see here is top notch ball security, elite contact balance, a willingness to grind out tough yards btwn the tackles, and surprising burst after he finds daylight
Reposted by Kirsten Anderson
I had a REALLY lovely time talking to @milesklee.bsky.social at Rolling Stone about why The Onion is thriving.
It's because we're one of the only legacy outlets unafraid to accurately reflect the mood of this country.
That mood? Everyone fucking hates this.
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
It's because we're one of the only legacy outlets unafraid to accurately reflect the mood of this country.
That mood? Everyone fucking hates this.
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
![We want to be able to say stuff that other people, for institutional reasons, can’t say, or they’re too afraid to say.
You may be the only CEO in America making that promise.
We’re in a unique position, certainly. And other places have to learn from this — being afraid all the time and just constantly making transactional moves. How long can you survive like this? What is even the point of being alive if you’re just gonna continue managing rot? And it seems like that’s what 98 percent of people are doing in these media companies right now. I don’t know, take a chance. Nobody likes what’s happening. Especially if you’re a journalism company or a media company, you’re [meant to be] actually reflecting what people want or what people believe. So get some guts and do something interesting. It’s not that hard.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x4qyokjtdzgl7gmqhsw4ajqj/bafkreihhqahdsympkilcsdqyztdudygmevh2ioksi2kzbtdo7kbilcnalu@jpeg)
June 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I had a REALLY lovely time talking to @milesklee.bsky.social at Rolling Stone about why The Onion is thriving.
It's because we're one of the only legacy outlets unafraid to accurately reflect the mood of this country.
That mood? Everyone fucking hates this.
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
It's because we're one of the only legacy outlets unafraid to accurately reflect the mood of this country.
That mood? Everyone fucking hates this.
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Ptolemy says No Kings
June 14, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Ptolemy says No Kings
Ptolemy the bronze-winged pionus being a cute bird
June 1, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Ptolemy the bronze-winged pionus being a cute bird
Boss gets a dollar, I get a dime
That’s why I get ChatGPT to draw The Cool S on company time
That’s why I get ChatGPT to draw The Cool S on company time
May 28, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Boss gets a dollar, I get a dime
That’s why I get ChatGPT to draw The Cool S on company time
That’s why I get ChatGPT to draw The Cool S on company time
Black-billed hummingbird. Prismacolor colored pencils on toned paper
May 26, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Black-billed hummingbird. Prismacolor colored pencils on toned paper
Reposted by Kirsten Anderson
The scientific method served humanity well for hundreds of years but it was rendered obsolete in 2013 with the discovery of Vibes
January 12, 2025 at 3:29 AM
The scientific method served humanity well for hundreds of years but it was rendered obsolete in 2013 with the discovery of Vibes
Meditations on Hell www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/med...
Meditations on Hell
“I’m coming to Boston, I’m bringing hell with me.” —Tom Homan, “border czar” and former acting director of ICE
- - -
Hell is not a lake of fire, no...
www.mcsweeneys.net
April 8, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Meditations on Hell www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/med...
Portrait of Lala Lezli, from my ArtCenter days.
March 30, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Portrait of Lala Lezli, from my ArtCenter days.
Reposted by Kirsten Anderson
Democrats: we take trump seriously and he is a clear threat to democracy
Also Democrats: we are communicating this through coordinated fashion
Also Democrats: we are communicating this through coordinated fashion
Democratic lawmakers are expected to communicate their opposition to Donald Trump during the president’s joint address to Congress on Tuesday night by color-coordinating.
Democrats Plan to Protest Trump’s Speech by Wearing Pink
Democratic lawmakers are expected to communicate their opposition to Donald Trump during the president’s joint address to Congress on Tuesday night by color-coordinating.
www.thecut.com
March 4, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Democrats: we take trump seriously and he is a clear threat to democracy
Also Democrats: we are communicating this through coordinated fashion
Also Democrats: we are communicating this through coordinated fashion
The most gloriously ugly thing I produced in art school (in partnership with my printmaking teacher, who used the plate for a gradient background demo).
February 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
The most gloriously ugly thing I produced in art school (in partnership with my printmaking teacher, who used the plate for a gradient background demo).