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design + social + editorial at @scientistsorg.bsky.social | views my own | once and future jeopardy champion

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kate k @kathrwn.bsky.social · 6h
new from me: among the convicted at salem were two people who were definitely actually doing witchcraft (by the legal standards of the time) you should also watch + share on my instagram (katek0hn) and tiktok (57001a) so i can become the world's #1 fun fact influencer. invest at the ground floor.
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kate k @kathrwn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
creative commons pics that go hard
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Mackenzie Knight-Boyle @mknight.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Google Earth has recently begun blurring out military sites in South Korea. Read more in the debut blog by our team's newest @scovillepf.bsky.social fellow, Sachi Barnaby, on @scientistsorg.bsky.social:
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Now You Don't: Excessive Military Secrecy On Google Earth
This is not the first time Google has agreed to censor imagery at the behest of governments, but be warned: obfuscation at this broad level poses a direct threat to the public’s ability to monitor and...
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kate k @kathrwn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
kinda weird that earlier this year NYT published an interview where peter thiel straight up calls us the antichrist then a few months later the uses the same "one world or none" campaign as the basis for AI policy recommendations but forgets to name us. reheat our nachos ig.
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kate k @kathrwn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
shoutout to the new york times editorial board for conveniently failing to mention that "public campaign by scientists" was lead by an organization that still exists today and is actually working on policy solutions to AI as an existential risk 🤪 anyway 👇
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kate k @kathrwn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
u can now watch this www.instagram.com/p/DdEiIMAxfvG/
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kate k @kathrwn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
working on a video about how i won america's most beloved trivia game show at the tender age of 24 and u know i had to include some ronald reagan assassination attempt trivia
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kate k @kathrwn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
it would be extremely funny if your last words were "i would slap the jackson 5 out of you" before getting friendly fired in a giant black van outside of a popeyes in washington DC
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kate k @kathrwn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
trying my hand at this scipolcomm stuff over on FAS-tagram. follow along if you are interested in... * the state of federal data * climate & energy policy * nuclear weapons transparency * learning new things :) * science and democracy 🔗 instagram.com/p/Dc1xZyphron/
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kate k @kathrwn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
DEATH TO AI SLOP. LONG LIVE THE CREATIVE COMMONS. Here is a handy guide I put together on understanding CC licensing frameworks and how to access millions of free images on the world wide web with one weird trick (crediting the creator)
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kate k @kathrwn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
my favorite trump admin sideplot is the OPM director trying to become a social media star. he just posted a 12 minute video of him answering questions no one has ever googled before.
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kate k @kathrwn.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
hi @molly.wiki on trash future you and the hosts say you are unable to find a use case for the pervert glasses that are not for pervert videos. i would like to submit the only non-demented case for the meta glasses: golden retriever POV
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kate k @kathrwn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
are you a mamdani-pilled state capacity nerd with a propensity towards riffing in slack? then you'll want to pounce on this rare opening to join DC's hottest government capacity team⤵️
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kate k @kathrwn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
and what if i said this doesn't go far enough we should make meta pay for a tobacco master settlement-style public health/education campaign to get people off social media
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Federation of American Scientists @scientistsorg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
And what if we said Meta's next $17B settlement should be used to stop further harms *before* they happen? What if we didn't let big tech paper over wrongdoing with giant checks? Meta should have to pay the public to break from its addictive products, like big tobacco did. fas.org/publication/...
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Settlement Wins Against Big Tech Should Underwrite Digital Resilience Funds
Protecting the public from the tech industry's predatory business models and the next wave of AI harms is an enormous challenge, but we have the evidence that trying to build a healthier digital cultu...
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kate k @kathrwn.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
ok if my stalker is going to wittingly abuse his authority as a cop to follow and harass me could he at least come up with a better line than "Why aren’t you following me on Instagram?"
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Federation of American Scientists @scientistsorg.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
With the introduction of Flock and other surveillance constellations, everyone should know how face recognition technology works. That is, how poorly even the best FRT algorithms perform inside and outside of laboratory settings.
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Great framing of one the major challenges confronting the Left's broader reconstruction effort. The way I've been thinking about bridging the gap is by focusing on the problem of power disparities. I applied this framework to the issue of regulatory public participation. fas.org/publication/...
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Towards a People-centered Regulatory Democracy
If properly implemented, a comprehensive reform program to accomplish regulatory democracy that is people-centered and power-conscious could be essential for addressing complex policy changes such as ...
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Adam Mount @ajmount.com · 17/08/2026
Three times this month, US officials said they need new nuclear weapons that a normal person would use—"that are cost-benefit rational to a normal person", "that common sense indicates you could actually use." Not sure which president they're referring to, but they doth protest a bit much.
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kate k @kathrwn.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
nyt today vs kate exactly a year ago lol. invest in kate!
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kate k @kathrwn.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
while local govts across the country are hiding data center deal details behind NDAs, LANCASTER, PA has a public, transparency-reinforcing community benefit agreement that forces the developer to minimize noise/air/water pollution, plant more trees, and mandate continual public input and updates
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kate k @kathrwn.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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kate k @kathrwn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
someone on instagram asked me if i made this with claude code. no bitch!!! in fact now i'm playing flexbox froggy just to spite you
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Federation of American Scientists @scientistsorg.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
An outsized amount of trackable space debris (over 1.2M bits of which clutter our night sky) is the result of a relatively small number of low-frequency, yet extremely high-consequence events: states shooting down their own satellites. We think they should stop doing that. fas.org/publication/...
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Destructive Anti-Satellite Tests Score Low on Strategic and Military Benefits
In the current environment of declining trust and magnifying strategic competition, banning debris-creating tests is a concrete step towards stability that favors interests of all states seeking to co...
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kate k @kathrwn.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
🚨artificial intelligence (policy) fellowship alert🚨 AI safety policy heads we want YOU 🫵 to turn your ideas into action-ready policy memos. we're looking for ideas on technical safety, risk assessment, accountability, and more 💡learn more and apply --> fas.org/career/ai-sa...
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kate k @kathrwn.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
so naturally congressional republicans are trying to make it illegal to implement OSHA standards for heat safe workplaces
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kate k @kathrwn.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
my pet literacy crisis peeve is people using > to mean < we all learned about the alligator eating the bigger number why are you getting this wrong as an adult!!!
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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
i am a tech company in the year 2026. i am called nazgul after the evil soulless ghouls from the lord of the rings that go around killing people. my ceo is a crazy drug addict who keeps talking about war and jesus christ on tv. give me a trillion of your tax dollars
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kate k @kathrwn.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
surveillance state got you down? i spoke with a veteran computer vision researcher and an AI policy expert to help you understand why no amount of technical progress can make face recognition tech meaningfully reliable in the field www.instagram.com/p/Db3NuB5lu-D/
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kate k @kathrwn.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
here's what i made for html day! go hover around to see what i wrote k4thryn.neocities.org/html-day
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kate k @kathrwn.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
working on something EPIC at html day!
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kate k @kathrwn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
how do i explain to people that china keeps their truth nukes (真理) at base 67
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kate k @kathrwn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
blows my mind that it's been only like 30 years since the cold war ended. we have video footage of US cruisers/destroyers taunting soviet frigates and the soviets ramming into them in response. thank god someone posted these to youtube they rock
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kate k @kathrwn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
working on something fun
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kate k @kathrwn.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
if you are a cow we are going to invest another $500,000 in genetically modifying you to be heat-proof. if you work outside go fuck yourself and DIE!!!!!!
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kate k @kathrwn.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
if you want to know how american politics is going, a bill that would ban OSHA from making workplace heat standards just passed a committee vote. the year this bill was introduced was the hottest year on record.
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Matt Korda @mattkorda.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Google’s motto famously used to be “don’t be evil.” However, its latest feature––generating deepfake satellite imagery––*briefly* made being evil a whole lot easier. I wrote about this new tool, which was paused after less than 48 hours due to entirely predictable backlash. fas.org/publication/...
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Google Introduces Deepfake Satellite Imagery: “It’s Fun!” - Federation of American Scientists
Google’s motto famously used to be “don’t be evil.” However, its latest feature has just made being evil a whole lot easier.
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kate k @kathrwn.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
the department of energy staffing crisis (that as bad as it is for the clean energy transition, also is bad for fossil fuel projects so lol) in seven charts 🧵
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kate k @kathrwn.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
i use @wikimediafoundation.org every day. i've contributed to the creative commons through your platforms. i'm also a proud union member. i believe strongly you made a mistake in not voluntarily recognizing @wikiworkersunited.org it's not too late to do the right thing.
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kate k @kathrwn.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
if you told me this time last year i could get the chief data scientist of the US to publicly post about explosive diarrhea as a data issue with her name attached in a funny and accessible way i would've said you were pulling my leg!!!
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kate k @kathrwn.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
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kate k @kathrwn.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
my "dismantle the ICC to prevent it from taking action against american servicemen" shirt is raising a lot of questions answered by my shirt
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kate k @kathrwn.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Broke: germ theory of disease Woke: worm theory of disease
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kate k @kathrwn.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
y'all hear about this🗣️📢⚡️ www.goiam.org/news/territo...
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IAM District 4 Members Win First Contract at Federation of American Scientists - IAM Union
Nearly a year after becoming the first union in the nearly 80-year history of the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), 25 IAM District 4 members have ratified their first collective bargaining agr...
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kate k @kathrwn.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
TL;DR: i'm opening up an influencer program for science policy communicators and want you if you are a scicommer who is science policy-curious, get in touch: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... tag a friend whose jam this is. share with your fav groupchat. help me in my quest for world domination.
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kate k @kathrwn.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
it's just me and photoshop against the world
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kate k @kathrwn.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
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kate k @kathrwn.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
my parents watch all of the videos i make for work and they do have a power ranking of my most attractive/videogenic coworkers in case you were wondering
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kate k @kathrwn.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
do we think i am the first social media manager cited in the lancet
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