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Katie Notopoulos

@katienotopoulos.bsky.social
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Blogger at Business Insider, covering tech, business, culture. knotopoulos@businessinsider.com

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I talked to the librarian at a tiny upstate NY library where the flyer for drop-in event where she'll help you remove the AI features of your phone has gone viral www.businessinsider.com/library-bye-...
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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My most important reporting: talking to the guy who wrote the horny pumpkin song (it's not AI!) www.businessinsider.com/jabberin-jac...
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The guy who wrote the surprisingly sexual toy pumpkin song is surprised at the controversy
Parents are upset about seductive lyrics in "Jabberin' Jack," a pumpkin toy. We talked to the song's writer, Peter McEvilley, about the controversy.
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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Ever see a headline and think "hmm I bet the CEO is on the cursed Forbes 30 Under 30 list" (you'd be correct) www.wired.com/story/napste...
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Napster Is Back, and It Wants to Digitally Clone Teachers
Once the music industry’s biggest headache, Napster’s next act is bringing AI to the classroom.
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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I’ve been accidentally DMing TikTok videos to @maura.bsky.social for months, and I can’t even totally figure what im mistakenly tapping to trigger it. I’m only grateful she’s been very kind about it, it could be so much worse! www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-accid...
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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
A month ago, Instagram said it was going to ban content of pickup artists in Meta glasses, harassing women on the street. Indeed, they took down some of the bigger accounts. But when I checked back, there were tons of them still around www.businessinsider.com/instagram-cr...
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Instagram promised to remove harassing Meta glasses videos. I keep finding them.
Instagram said it would remove harassing videos filmed with Meta AI glasses. Weeks later, dozens remain.
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Study Hall @studyhall.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New podcast episode with @katienotopoulos.bsky.social about clipping, social media bans, AI slop, and the future of tech journalism. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
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Social Media Bans, Stans, & Clips ft. Katie Notopoulos
Podcast Episode · The Study Hall Podcast · August 17 · 46m
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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I’m sorry, defense of the whatnow paddlingmag.com/skills/strok...
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In Defense Of The Goon Stroke
The surprisingly useful stroke canoeists love to hate
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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I try not to get too hung up on generational differences and accept that time is always moving etc, BUT imagine trying to explain public access television to Gen Z
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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Instagram is now cracking down and banning pickup artists who post videos of themselves approaching women using Meta glasses www.businessinsider.com/instagram-me...
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Instagram will now ban creeps in Meta glasses
Content shot on Meta glasses from pickup artists and pranksters can now get you banned.
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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
One of the most curious things about the Kylie Jenner designed Meta glasess is that she has not been seen wearing them in public. She HAS worn regular sunglasses to the World Cup and used an old point and shoot camera at the Knicks game, however www.businessinsider.com/meta-glasses...
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Kylie Jenner debuted her new Meta glasse. The backlash shows how controversial the tech is.
Meta sold at least 7 million of its glasses last year, and Kylie Jenner debuted a new pair she designed. The backlash shows they're controversial.
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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I have this idea for a game show called Less Online, where the more online spouse/partner tries to explain something to their less online partner and they are racing against another couple to see who gets it first. (this morning I tried to explain the grink to my husband)
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
when he’s right, he’s right
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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Just encountered my first “this book may not be used for AI training” warning in the end credits of an audibook. Has anyone encountered this? (From the Kim Thayil memoir that just came out. The last 1/3 of book is about his gripes with rights management and the internet so maybe it’s just him? )
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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
There should be like a Storage Wars type thing where if someone stops paying their cloud storage bills you can bid on it. Like I want to bid on someone's old gmail or flickr roll
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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
A hilarious and inevitable new phase of capitalism is that Facebook Marketplace sellers have discovered that adding in AI-generated hot babes into their listings will get more views. sales,https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-marketplace-ads-ai-women-sex-sells-2026-6
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'Sex sells' isn't a new concept. AI-generated women attached to random Facebook Marketplace ads is.
Sellers are adding AI-generated babes to listings for cars, boats, and more to draw attention. It's a new spin on the old adage of "sex sells."
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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
There’s no way you can predict the next word in this sentence.
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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I wrote about the queasy feeling I got watching Google I/O about the new AI Search, which — aside from the obvious implications to traffic — feels very WRONG to me about how to interact with the open web. It’s like an HOA for the internet
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Shira Ovide @shiraovide.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Like @davelee.me, I'm on team HELL NO to constantly verbally commanding computers. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Don’t Throw Out the Keyboard in the AI Revolution
There seems to be a growing view that the computer keyboard is on the way out. Demoted, at least, as the primary method of input at work. Kate Clark, writing in the Wall Street Journal, looked at the ...
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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Smarties….. underrated candy
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Library Futures @libraryfutures.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
It's almost like a really bad landlord... "In 2023, librarian Rebecca Harlow in Orange, Connecticut paid $65 to license the e-audiobook "Five-Star Weekend" by Elin Hilderbrand for two years. This year, that same license cost her $101.99, a 57% increase." www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/...
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Connecticut libraries don’t actually own many of their e-books. It gets pricey.
Connecticut libraries are licensing e-books instead of owning them, driving up long-term costs and straining budgets.
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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Parents is your teen texting things like "let's go hack" or "don't forget to bring your sack to school"? Be careful, they MAY be doing the latest dangerous teen trend: playing Hacky Sack www.businessinsider.com/hacky-sack-f...
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This '90s Gen X stoner trend is now a Gen Z obsession: the hacky sack
Hacky sacks were a '90s stoner trend. Now, they're taking over high schools as the latest Gen Z fad. Stores are sold out, and parents are thrilled.
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
"Why are all the journalists laid off now" this is why. Pretty simple.
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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Finally, the AI feature we all wanted and needed: Amazon now creates an AI “podcast” about products where two AI “hosts” discuss the product and take your questions as if it’s a call-in show. www.businessinsider.com/amazon-ai-ge...
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Amazon has invented the world's least necessary podcast
Amazon's new AI shopping podcasts are like QVC without the humans. They turn product reviews into mini-shows — complete with a live Q&A.
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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
not marked safe from entering last week's Geese discourse www.businessinsider.com/clipping-soc...
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'Clipping' is taking over social feeds — and that's changing our perception of what's actually popular
It's getting harder to tell what's organically popular and what's being fed to us by "clippers" on our social feeds. The band Geese, for instance.
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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This headline really has it all www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Heirs to Bic Pen Fortune Seek Painting They Say Chauffeur Stole
Heirs to the fortune created by Bic pens are suing a prominent Chilean businessman, seeking the return of a coveted 15th-century painting that they say was stolen from the family by a former employee.
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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
We're in such a beautiful, perfect moment of celebrity gossip right now, I am so happy and feel alive but also can't help but worry that like, the world is going to explode
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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
I think Loverboy could’ve been one of the most important bands of the 80s if they had only had at least 1 good looking guy in the band
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Liam Robertson @liamrobertson.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
What absolute fucking idiots lol. Good for them.
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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Texting my friends “can I be a bitch for a minute?” and then dropping this shady gossip
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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
based on my middle school sex ed class in the 90s, i really thought diaphrams would have a more important role in adult life
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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
One of the most annoying byproducts of AI that is destroying the web is that because so many AI bots are constantly trying to scrape pages, CloudFlare is constantly having autoimmune flareups and giving you "bad gateway" to websites all the time
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Garbage Day Live is coming back to Brooklyn next week. Baby's All Right in Williamsburg. Doors at 6:30pm. Special guest @katienotopoulos.bsky.social! It's going to be very very very fun. We only have a few tickets left, so grab 'em while you can!!! www.eventim.us/wafform.aspx...
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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Have you ever noticed that AI video like Sora always puts people in skinny jeans? I feel like ChatGPT is like that too -- it speaks in millenial cringe because it was trained on Reddit and 2010s internet posts www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-mill...
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AI has a millennial cringe problem
From the people who brought you avocado toast: We millennials are bringing the "chaotic," "unhinged," and other generational-coded words to ChatGPT.
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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I enjoyed @thomasgermain.bsky.social's prank about getting LLMs to believe he won a hot dog eating contest by simply writing it on his personal website that I attempted to recreate it. I failed, which is embarassing, but I refuse to be defined by failure www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-gemi...
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My quest to get ChatGPT and Gemini to crown me winner of a hot dog-eating contest points to our AI future
A BBC reporter pranked AI by claiming to be a hot dog-eating champ. I decided to get in on the fun — with varying results.
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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Last night I was pontificating to my husband on a topic I felt expertise in because I had read (but not finished) a book about it a while ago. I pulled the book off the shelf to show him and noticed where I had left a page corner turned down. Turns out I had only made it to page 20
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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
OpenAI just hired Charles Porch, who was in charge of making celebrities love Instagram. It's not hard to guess why they might need someone try to win over the hearts and minds of celebs www.businessinsider.com/openai-holly...
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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
“All of the people I love hate this stuff, and all the people I hate love it.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...
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Opinion | The A.I. Disruption We’ve Been Waiting for Has Arrived
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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Nothing more that I love than doing some googling and stumbling into someoen’s 20 year old college webpage www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs...
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Dark Days
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
And we’re got big news! Next year’s artist in residence is none other than @roxanegay.bsky.social!!!! Imagine getting to study writing with her AND me!!! At the same time!! APPLY!!!
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
The pivot to video is a tax on women's time and dignity, I will die on this hill.
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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Moltbook is Reddit for AI bots, and some people are freaking out about how amazing and sci-fi it is to see bots talk to each other. But..... it just sucks lol www.businessinsider.com/moltbook-ope...
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Moltbook is about as fun as watching two Roombas bump into each other
Sorry, techies — watching how AI agents secretly talk to each other is just boring. The Epstein files showed me secret human convos are more gripping.
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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
My RETVRN belife is that people should just call each other on the phone without scheduling it in advance www.businessinsider.com/iphone-scree...
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You should just call people on the phone
It's time to hit redial on phone etiquette and bring back randomly calling friends. It's time to raw dial.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war
Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...
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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
"there could be real risk for you. But the bigger risk is silence." www.businessinsider.com/business-lea...
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American business leaders need to speak up about Alex Pretti's killing
It's understandable that CEOs and other leaders are wary of wading into the latest shooting in Minneapolis. But that's not an excuse for silence.
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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
SEE you monsters? You're hurting its feelings
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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Keep calm and chive on
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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Helpful org chart www.ft.com/content/ad94...
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Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter
A look inside Elon Musk’s big tent
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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
I would never lead any of you astray with a link that is bad, so please just trust me when I say you should open this and listen to the entire thing seamonkey.bandcamp.com/track/poo-po...
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Poo-Poo Stains, by Seamonkey
from the album Comin' Out Tha Closet
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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
We’re so back (literally) www.garbageday.email/p/the-20-wor...
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The 20 Worst Things On The Internet In 2025
We're back, baby
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