Kristin Toussaint
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Kristin Toussaint
@ktoussaint.bsky.social
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staff writer @ Fast Company / words in Teen Vogue, Vox, Vice, Metro, Boston.com
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anyway, can't wait for the economy to crash because of glorified predictive text that is continually wrong
Screenshot of Google AI overview that reads: The last time January 2nd was on a Friday was in 2021. This is because January 1st, 2021 was a Friday, making January 2nd the day after, a Saturday.
November 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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oop, but there it is (from the NYT opinion article)
screenshot that reads: "Whichever way you look at it, the potential payoffs of A.I. adoption are staggering—for the economy, for social sectors, and, of course, for investors. That could not be said for the majority of the big historical bubbles, such as the tulip mania of the early 17th century.
November 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Screenshot that reads: The benefits of economic growth. Increase in income and wages: As the economy grows, businesses tend to experience greater profits which allows for them to offer higher wages. This however is not always the case, as businesses may choose to keep higher profits as opposed to offering higher wages.
November 20, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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"But what if the bubble is an inevitable part of developing & adopting a revolutionary tool that will fundamentally improve productivity & growth?" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/o... OK, but who benefits? Productivity has already been growing. So has the "economy." & they left the working class behind
November 20, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Refinery29's Money Diaries used to dominate online discourse. Many twitter threads! The New Yorker wrote about them in 2017! They spurred a whole subreddit! Now the past 2 (after 2 weeks with no posts) are Klarna ads ..thatno one is even paying enough attention to to write a homepage headline for
October 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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very apt day to get this fact from my @usafacts.org calendar...
A picture of a fact-a-day calendar that reads: "Between 2018 and 2021, heat-related deaths in the US increased 59%"
July 29, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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can't believe I've been missing out on quality ads like this by using an ad blocker
A screenshot of an article on Curbed, in the middle of which is an ad block that shows a cartoon drawing of a cat peeing accompanied by the text "Your home smells like cat pee? Try This" with an arrow to a button that says "learn more"
July 22, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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cool cool cool cool cool www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...
Screenshot of an article that reads: These systems use mathematical probabilities to guess the best response, not a strict set of rules defined by human engineers. So they make a certain number of mistakes. "Despite our best efforts, they will always hallucinate," said Amr Awadallah, the chief executive of Vectara, a start-up that builds A.I. tools for businesses, and a former Google executive. "That will never go away." Screenshot of an article that reads: For more than two years, companies like OpenAI and Google steadily improved their A.I. systems and reduced the frequency of these errors. But with the use of new reasoning systems, errors are rising. The latest OpenAI systems hallucinate at a higher rate than the company's previous system, according to the company's own tests.
May 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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my Otter account is somehow so attuned to me that when someone said "Tuscon" it transcribed it as "Toussaint"
screenshot of text that reads "Our Elantra, our Toussaint"
April 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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since I updated to iOS 18, my phone counts all the time that it is turned completely off as screen time. how can I get this to stop??
January 13, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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went to an animal sanctuary with some friends last weekend and I cannot get over this pig. look at his shape!
December 18, 2024 at 8:31 PM
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revisiting a piece I did contesting this idea that there's no point in individual climate action because big companies are responsible—and this part is still so shocking to me. we have so much more power than we think (s/o to @yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social) www.fastcompany.com/90680284/her...
Those Americans could be a formidable force—if they actually follow through on those concerns by supporting environmentally friendly companies and politicians. In YPCCC surveys, Leiserowitz says he's consistently seen that over half of the country says they're willing to reward or punish companies based on their climate action or inaction. "And yet most people don't." Some people may say that but simply not mean it, so Leiserowitz cuts that number in half to be conservative, to 25%—and then in half again, to 12%, and again once more to 6%, and then to be "super conservative" settles on 3% of the country who might actually, really mean it when they say they're willing to reward or punish companies based on their climate actions. And still, if just this 3% of consumers actively did this, "it would send shockwaves through the market system," he says. "That's bigger than profit margins for some companies."
December 17, 2024 at 8:43 PM
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ugh google maps, come on
A screenshot of google maps that reads "Transit directions with multiple destinations are not supported"
December 13, 2024 at 10:26 PM