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Emogene Cataldo

@emogene.bsky.social
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Writer and occasional poet. Mother person. Non-medical doctor person. She/her www.emogenecataldo.com

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
*looking around casually, trying to appear calm, sweating just a tiny bit* Huh, okay. Cool. When do you think you might do that video, then? Like, is it soon, or...
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Emogene Cataldo @emogene.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Saw a thing about how our climate grief is for us to manage and not for our children to hold; it is too much to expect them to grieve what they’ve never known, and they already carry the burden of the material conditions they will inherit, they already live it.
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Emogene Cataldo @emogene.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Is it perimenopause, or is it the combination of lettuce diarrhea anxiety and deteriorating air quality and legionnaires disease and politicians who do nothing but want to destroy elections
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Miranda Marie @itsmirdaaa.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Can’t get diarrhea lettuce from a cinnamon bun. Follow me for more health tips!
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was a father of three who built houses in Houston, started his own business, and raised his family here for 35 years. His son became a teacher. ICE agents killed him in cold blood. 🧵
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Emogene Cataldo @emogene.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The thing that got my child to sit on the potty today was an ornate silver box full of rather unremarkable rocks, a thing I put together when I did The Artist’s Way in 2018. He was enthralled by it. You never know how or when Julia Cameron will come to your aid.
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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Fellas, is it papist to log off?
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Emogene Cataldo @emogene.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Taking my iron pills with a Celsius, the way the good lord intended.
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Emogene Cataldo @emogene.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Potty training, day 6. Sent up the white flag on my smallest neighborhood parent chat. “Send hope and encouragement pls.” Every emotion (inclusive of parents and child) is at an 11.
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Lauren Bajek @laurenbajek.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Novels are an immersive, durational experience, and a well-constructed novel is satisfying in large part because of how it handles CONTINUITY-- the slow building of small pieces into a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
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Emogene Cataldo @emogene.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
“Motherhood is a practice, not an imagination.” New essay by Xinyi Song kneaded my heart like play dough: therumpus.net/2026/07/07/h... From @therumpus.net
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Her Bitterness: A Woman’s Choice - The Rumpus
For years, she only talked about how lucky we were to pull through as a family. It was luck for my father and me, I think, to be the survivors of 0.01 percent. But what was it for her, when she was sl...
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Emogene Cataldo @emogene.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Experiencing potty training for the first time and I think we do not say enough about how deep you have to go to help an intense, sensitive, high-will-power 2-year-old learn how to put their pee in the potty. The emotional ups and downs! You gotta be a rock. (We’ve had a week of a day.)
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Brandon O’Brien @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
new flavour of catholic guilt just dropped: procrastinating on your novel
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Emogene Cataldo @emogene.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
One of the richnesses of getting older is friends you’ve known for decades who have known many versions of you, who have weaved in and out of your life, maybe with years of silence in between, and finding them again and again.
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Emogene Cataldo @emogene.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Kate McKinnon (of snl fame) wrote a middle grade series??? The coolest ever to cool.
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Emogene Cataldo @emogene.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Toddler parent reality: spend a long weekend pushing past your limits amidst viruses and birthday parties and holidays, so tired you’re near tears, then on Monday do daycare drop-off and miss them so much that all you want to do is look at cute pictures from said exhausting weekend
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
A study shows PFAS rules cut pollution in eastern Canada, long-term evidence that chemical regulation works. Researchers tracking contamination over 55 years found concentrations of PFAS dropped by 74% after phase-outs and international restrictions took effect. buff.ly/mRePALa #ShareGoodNewsToo
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Sharp drop in ‘forever chemicals’ in seabird eggs hailed as win for regulation
Levels of Pfas in northern gannet eggs in Canada fell up to 74% over 55-year period of study
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Angry Algonquin @angryalgonquin.com · 22/06/2026
Do you use #Firefox? Here's how to opt out of all #AI and #DataSharing in "Settings". Second post has the data screenshot.
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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
The Scandinavian nations are always many common-sense levels ahead of the rest of the world.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win.
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
It gets better. His company’s name: Greenwater Services. Did he once pay a bribe to Jim Traficant: yes, of course
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Emogene Cataldo @emogene.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I turn to my list of divas of undeniable excellence for inspiration. Jinkx Monsoon made this list, as did Martha Stewart. In the past week, I’ve added Jalen Brunson.
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Emogene Cataldo @emogene.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Grateful New York has let me stay long enough to see this crazy shit, I love
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Emogene Cataldo @emogene.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Benefits of writing an academic article while working on a non-academic job: your coworkers are genuinely enthusiastic, cheer you on, and treat your research like a big deal. 😭 Sometimes they also lovingly remind you that you’re doing a very weird thing and that is wonderful.
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Emogene Cataldo @emogene.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Not only did I not use AI to write this academic article, I wrote it while caring for a baby-turned-toddler and working a full-time, non-academic job. In between drafts of my non-AI-generated novel project. It took years of research and analysis. I’m delighted to have spent my time this way.
First page of the article “Pattern, Resistance, and Change in Gothic Space: The Foliate Frieze at Notre-Dame of Amiens.”Three variations of the foliate frieze at Notre-Dame of AmiensUnfinished sections of the foliate frieze at Notre-Dame of Amiens, published for the first time
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Emogene Cataldo @emogene.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
I talked with a seasoned academic last night that told me the university presses want general interest titles because the libraries are no longer buying academic books, by and large. There’s no market for them anymore, other than professors buying other professors’ books (which can’t fund a press).
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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
this was HR 2616 which also bans books by or about trans and nonbinary people from schools START CALLING YOUR SENATORS NOW CIS FRIENDS TRANS KIDS NEED YOU
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Sarah Archer @sarcher.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Much as the likes of Stephen Miller point to a repeat of 1930s-style European fascism, I think the best analogy remains the aftermath of the collapse of the USSR. What they most want is to break the United Stated like a piggy bank and gobble up its resources for themselves and their stupid families.
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Emogene Cataldo @emogene.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Me, battling the flames of techno fascist despair and conjuring post-AI hope beyond hope: “This draft is with beta readers.”
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Emogene Cataldo @emogene.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Yes! Kagi is a great option. My software developer spouse put me on to it and I’m not going back.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 19/05/2026
One important point from this piece: Anthropic and OpenAI need to make or raise $1.25 trillion in the next four years to meet their compute obligations. It is unclear how this happens, because both lose billions of dollars with no path to profitability. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-too-ex...
Anthropic and OpenAI Need To Make Or Raise More Than $1.25 Trillion In The Next Four Years
So let’s lay this out.

Anthropic — based on its own affidavit from March — appears to have spent $3 to make $1 of revenue on a compute basis, and that’s before you include any and all other costs like staff or electricity or the vocal coach that Dario Amodei uses to add that bass to his voice. 

Additionally, it needs $330 billion to pay its cloud obligations to Amazon, Google, and Microsoft over the next four years. I’d estimate it needs $5 billion a year for its compute deal xAI (so $20 billion over the total period) and an estimated $30 billion to cover its deal with CoreWeave. That brings us to a total of $380 billion.

It’s hard to estimate the actual costs associated with running Anthropic because so much of the reporting no longer makes sense as a result of that affidavit. Nevertheless, I think it’s fair to assume it will need at least $20 billion of operating expenses across that four year period.

We don’t even need to play in the realm of “what might Anthropic or OpenAI’s revenues be?” to understand the problem here. Both companies aggressively burn money, and neither of them have any answer as to how they might stop. Numerous reports about how Anthropic will turn “cash flow positive” in either 2027 or 2028 are fantastical, illogical, entirely driven by ridiculous projections, and should never have been reported as anything other than an attempt by companies to mislead their investors. In both cases, reporters should’ve had more asterisks on those numbers than Q*Bert reading Frank’s lines from Blue Velvet.

And we have plenty of evidence that they’re losing more money over time. In January 2026, The Information reported that Anthropic’s gross margins were 40% in 2025 — 10% lower than its “optimistic” projections, specifically attributed to “...the costs of running Anthropic models from paying customers, in a process known as inference, on servers from Google and Ama…In February, The Information ran another story saying that OpenAI’s gross margins fell from 40% in 2024 to 33% in 2025, a full 13% lower than its projected margins of 46%, all because (and I quote) “...the company having to buy more expensive compute at the last minute in response to higher than expected demand for its chatbots and models.”

You know, exactly what Anthropic has had to do.

This is what I’ve referred to as the knife-catching problem for compute demand — you either don’t order enough compute and have to rush to buy some last-minute as demand intensifies, or you order too much, and, well, to quote Dario Amodei:

Basically I’m saying, “In 2027, how much compute do I get?” I could assume that the revenue will continue growing 10x a year, so it’ll be $100 billion at the end of 2026 and $1 trillion at the end of 2027. Actually it would be $5 trillion dollars of compute because it would be $1 trillion a year for five years. I could buy $1 trillion of compute that starts at the end of 2027. If my revenue is not $1 trillion dollars, if it’s even $800 billion, there’s no force on earth, there’s no hedge on earth that could stop me from going bankrupt if I buy that much compute.
And right now, as I’ve covered, there’s not enough compute being built to keep up with Anthropic or OpenAI’s voracious demands, meaning that they will both be bartering to buy whatever’s available at whatever price it’s available at. This naturally will savage their already-negative margins…

…and then what?
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Emogene Cataldo @emogene.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Shout out to my fellow millennials graduating from physical therapy this spring 🙌
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SD Marschhausen @sdmwrites.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
just gave blood here in france and you get a two course meal (main course and dessert) with coffee at the end if you want.
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squarely rooted @squarelyrooted.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
one thing that went wrong in our political media culture is that journalists so deeply internalized a backwards version of 'the cover-up is the crime' they assume that anything that's being done out in the open is just 'a thing that happened' that needs to be subjected to the 'objectivity' standard
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Emogene Cataldo @emogene.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Toddler bedtime rituals mean that I can’t stay up to watch the Mets, so I wake up to hilarious news like them scoring 9 runs in the 12th inning 🤣 God bless the ridiculousness of baseball, in which Any Thing™ is possible
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Emogene Cataldo @emogene.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Being a Mets fan is sooo funny
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Emogene Cataldo @emogene.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Mets can’t win a game in 2026 but still beat the Yankees, like THAT
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Kim Lyons @kimly.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
A detail I didn’t know: “The Herald entered the Epstein series for a Pulitzer Prize that year, but it was not a finalist. Alan Dershowitz … who helped broker Epstein’s original deal, wrote a letter to the Pulitzer committee that year, urging them not to honor Brown’s work.” share.inquirer.com/THMiUZ
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Julie K. Brown receives Pulitzer Prize special citation for her work on Jeffrey Epstein case
Brown's 2017 and 2018 reporting was cited at the awards ceremony. “Her work, and the government’s release of the Epstein files, continue to reverberate around the world.”
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Emogene Cataldo @emogene.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
It is 2006. I am Emily Blunt’s character in The Devil Wears Prada. I am perfect and right about everything. I and I alone will survive the 2020s.
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Emogene Cataldo @emogene.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I’m Adrian Grenier’s character in The Devil Wears Prada, and I’m moping around because my girlfriend is wearing nice clothes and doing well at her job. I refuse to get a haircut.
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skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
certainly this is the first time an imperious madman has tried to fight the Roman Church
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
One of the ways news media often fail us is by giving us the microscopic rather than the telescopic view. Everything I mention in this essay is well-documented, but the dots are mostly not connected to make visible this death by a thousand cuts our country is undergoing.
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Emogene Cataldo @emogene.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Helen DeWitt, boundary queen.
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Emogene Cataldo @emogene.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Loving reminder from a medievalist to use a non-Google search engine to look up the Avignon papacy ☺️
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Tara Skurtu @taraskurtu.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Poem by Andrea Cohen.
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Emogene Cataldo @emogene.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Me and my writer friends achieving our goals in 2026
“This is fine” meme with a dog in a house fire, edited to say “This draft is done”
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George @hannahtempler.com · 06/03/2026
move slow and repair things
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Emogene Cataldo @emogene.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Sometimes you start reading a book so gorgeous you just have to stop. Brains weren’t meant to process this much ache and beauty all at once. Must go lie down.
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Emogene Cataldo @emogene.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Is this a new floater or just another toddler fingerprint on my glasses: A Me Story
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