Kate Knibbs 🏄🏻‍♀️ @Knibbs Twitter profile

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Kate Knibbs 🏄🏻‍♀️

6 months

Going to pin my Signal user name here, and encourage anyone with a tip to reach out! (NO PR.) Right now, I’m mainly covering how AI and other emergent tech is changing the internet, media, and entertainment industries.

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2 years

no. nothing matters

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3 years

Here’s a supply chain issue… I ran out of fucks to give!!!!!!!!

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9 months

When your kid really really loves one specific song from Moana

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6 months

got rejected by the "george r.r. martin summer writing workshop" at northwestern, which is sad, but the rejection notice came way past deadline, fully over a month later than they originally claimed, which is objectively very funny

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I thought the whole “cats can have a little salami” meme was a quote from the Irishman and I just sat thu 3 1/2 hours of a movie waiting for them to say “cats can have a little salami”

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4 years

the only big short i acknowledge

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@Knibbs

4 years

a great socially distanced activity would be to get picked up by a forklift and gently lowered into a vast cranberry bog

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5 years

the jeremy renner app is absolutely out of control

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2 years

if aoc isn't ready to run soon i think the dems should go all-on on the big boys. imagine a fetterman/pritzker ballot

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@Knibbs

4 years

MY potato head has a DICK and BALLS

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5 years

If you look at Acronym's "About" page today it says "we invested in Shadow" but if you look at the Wayback Machine from last month it's "we launched Shadow"

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5 years

crazy that Grimes and I were in the same Russian lit class in college and now she's pregnant w/ a billionaire weirdo's child and i'm in an LL Bean robe with the phrase "Cozy Time" stitched into the side. (yes...it cost extra)

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3 years

I heard a rumor that there was some sort of "cancelled women" retreat for high profile cancelled women and obviously i need to know more about this. if you know anything please DM me immediately. thank you.

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Once again marveling at how grimes and I were fresh faced college coeds together and now she’s got a billionaire baby named e = mc Aerosmith or whatever and I’m quarantined in a 700 sq ft apt trying to convince myself that eating a full box of white cheddar cheezeits is self care

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5 years

ASK KLOBUCHAR ABOUT HER SALAD COMB U COWARDS

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@Knibbs

6 years

If they Oscars really wanna stay relevant they should do a "cancelled" montage in addition to the memorial one

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4 years

Our old landlords wouldn't give a COVID break & raised the rent. It was too much, so we moved. The apt has sat empty since Oct & is listed for $800 less *per month* than we paid. Negative thinking works! I cursed those ba$tards!

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5 years

today i got a revel and was scootin down the street and the people on the street had opened the fire hydrant so my only option was to scoot through the giant spray of water and i did it and everyone clapped and it was literally the happiest moment of my life

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2 years

The expectation that a young freelancer has the resources to report out 40-60% of a story before even *pitching it* is the exact sort of thinking that keeps everyone except the wealthy out of this field.

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5 years

“Wine cave” is what I call my mouth

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5 months

i just feel like i need to tell you guys that a girl i worked with in college is now a "somatic healer" who is going lightly viral on tiktok for telling people to pee on money

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5 years

i tried to interview people about the Area 51 meme but the teens keep calling me a Fed lmao

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@Knibbs

6 months

sometimes an tossed-off phrase in a PR email will simply take my breath away

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5 years

A few years ago, news broke about a drug-smuggling ring centered in Vice's Toronto office. This year, two former Vice Canada employees were arrested in connection with that ring. I wanted to know more about how it all happened. I went to Toronto to see:

"Worked at Vice Then Went to Jail": How a Bunch of Canadian Hipsters Wound Up Smuggling Cocaine...

In December 2015, five young people were arrested in Australia during a botched drug trafficking attempt. In September 2019, their handler Yaroslav Pastukhov—a onetime Vice Canada editor known as...

www.theringer.com

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6 years

Hill staffer sent me this pic of Ocasio-Cortez they took just now. I’ll tell you something: that jacket and coat don’t look like a girl who struggles.

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@Knibbs

2 years

what have i done

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@MonicaLewinsky

2 years

why the hell not (don’t care if this does nothing.)

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6 years

Hear me out: breakfast chicken wings

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4 years

i think we as a nation should come together this weekend and rewatch the entire austin powers trilogy together

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3 years

i told my husband i'm gonna get bangs again and he said, why, so you can ask me every day if your bangs look greasy? ... anyways it was nice knowing all of you since i just got shivved

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@Knibbs

4 years

"washington big naturals" has a nice ring to it

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4 years

did you guys know that SSENSE is pronounced "essence" and not just "Ssense" like a snake saying "sense"

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4 years

me and my friends trying to have a dinner party after everyone gets vaxxed but no one remembers how to be normal

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@Knibbs

4 years

WE ARE STILL IN THE CRISIS YOU DUMB BITCH (CUOMO) THIS IS LIKE CHURCHILL WRITING "THE CRAZY BIG WAR" IN 1942

Nick Reisman

@NickReisman

4 years

New: Gov. Cuomo on Oct. 13 will publish a book on the pandemic, “American Crisis”

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i know this is an unpopular opinion but i feel like.... completely repelled by the barbie movie. branded content with a wink and movie stars is still branded content! bring back the concept of selling out!!!!!!

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4 years

Obsessed with the thought process that led to this CEO tweeting this thread in response to ppl from her company making explicitly racist remarks during her tenure. Just next-level bullshitting.

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@Knibbs

5 years

CollegeHumor launched over 20 years ago and helped shape modern comedy and the internet as we know it. This month, it laid almost everyone off. Here's my story on what happened:

CollegeHumor Helped Shape Online Comedy. What Went Wrong?

The company grew from a scrappy startup to a digital media player. Now it’s clinging to life after mass layoffs.

www.wired.com

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6 years

some of y'all didn't grow up annoying your friends by insisting that you play golden eye on N64 in slappers only mode and IT SHOWS

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4 years

Some personal news.... meet Furio Knibbs-McNulty

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5 years

I’m not telling any of you fuckheads what I accomplished this decade!

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my draft is due tomorrow so obviously i've reached the point in the night where it is absolutely necessary to browse the instagram of my ex-college fling's current wife (they joined a canadian doomsday cult homestead and she honestly has very good tips on canning food)

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@Knibbs

6 years

did not expect pinterest to be the most responsible and forward-thinking platform wrt content moderation but here we are

Julia Carrie Wong

@juliacarriew

6 years

And finally, Pinterest is also hashing anti-vaxx memes to keep them from being reuploaded. (For the non-technical, hashing is tech mostly used to ID and block child abuse imagery and terrorist content.)

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Please read this. My husband is still recovering from Covid-19 too and it has been so scary. He lost 25 pounds in 2 1/2 weeks. "Mild" is not mild.

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SHIT. they just found the ISIS murder dog's secret reddit account. he said some really messed up things about cats and commented under a picture of a pregnant ferret "i want to eat u." :(

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5 years

getting ready for my 1st day of work as a senior writer at @WIRED ... hope everyone likes me...

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6 years

i just got a promoted tweet from someone complaining about being called a dumbass by united airlines

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@Knibbs

4 years

Open container laws are classist, the way they are enforced is racist, and they infantilized us even when it wasn’t a pandemic that made socializing outside necessary. Get rid of them!!!

As COVID-19 Drives NYers To Drink Outside, The NYPD Is Still Overwhelmingly Ticketing People Of...

Since January, only 7 percent of city summonses for drinking in public went to white New Yorkers.

gothamist.com

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@Knibbs

4 years

I regret to inform you that using this emoji “😂” means you’re old, according to my teen sister. Here’s a list of the new acceptable emoji & what they mean:

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7 years

when i was in college in montreal my drug dealer, who was a white rapper named chuggo, was in a cranberries cover band

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@Knibbs

3 years

Slapped this bad boy on my work email because I had a baby this weekend and I'm logging off to hang out with him for a while :)

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@Knibbs

5 years

i've thought about it and the exact perfect level of successful/famous for creative people is "literally nobody ever recognizes you once on the street BUT you got to record a Drunk History segment"

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2 years

what's everyone's jeremy renner app handle?

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@Knibbs

6 years

Just found out that Eagle Eye Cherry is NOT a band he is a SOLO ARTIST and that is his BIRTH NAME

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@Knibbs

3 years

“Meta” stands for “Mark’s Extremely Thick Ass” 🍑 🍑 🍑

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6 years

RT if u would listen to a true crime podcast about the time dave matthews band dumped 800 pounds of poop on a boat full of ppl in chicago

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2 years

Wait Frodo is Sam’s BOSS? Why hasn’t he been canceled for dating his employee then…

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@Knibbs

5 years

As the only known (half) Canadian full time staffer of @ringer let me just say: eh??!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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4 years

some personal news...im gonna be one of those creepy digital faces in the stands at tonights Sixers Celtics game

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2 years

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@Knibbs

4 years

wish there was a delivery service for single cigarettes

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5 years

WIFi is short for William Internet the Fifth

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4 years

@jpm25 Hey Jamie! I’m a reporter at wired and I’m interested in learning more about this because it definitely sounds newsworthy. If you and your wife are open to speaking w me, my DMs are open and my email is kate_knibbs @wired .com - thank you

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My mom 6 months pregnant in a denim jumper, 1986 / Me 6 months pregnant in a denim jumper, 2021

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@Knibbs

4 years

The NBA should have made its fake fans animals instead of humans. A bunch of fake humans is weird and depressing. A bunch of computer generated gorillas and dogs and hippos drinking soda and watching some ball? Whimsical, hilarious!

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@Knibbs

4 years

you know when you think a guy is hot but it turns out he's just tall? that's the bill de blasio story except replace "hot" with "baseline competent at governing" .... that man is one LEGGY FAILURE

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@Knibbs

9 months

It's been 10 years since Her came out. Rewatching it now, the thing that stood out for me as fantastical wasn't the AI romance...

In the Age of AI, 'Her' Is a Fairy Tale

Spike Jonze’s "Her" turns 10 today. The futuristic film is now an optimistic time capsule.

www.wired.com

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@Knibbs

2 years

Good reporting and absolutely not "doxxing." People need to get a grip.

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@Knibbs

3 years

watch out for one of the most pernicious side effects...terminal corniness

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@Knibbs

2 years

RT if u agree @hbomax should RELEASE THE NOAH BAUMBACH CORRECTIONS PILOT before going out of business!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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@Knibbs

6 years

I saw this tattoo today, happy Friday!

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@Knibbs

4 years

"i know the suburbs. in fact, i know the suburbs, neon bible, funeral..."

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@Knibbs

4 years

This is as divorced from reality as any Newsmax trash

The Recount

@therecount

4 years

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg says the Capitol Hill riots were not organized on its platform. “I think these events were largely organized on platforms that don’t have our abilities to stop hate, and don’t have our standards, and don’t have our transparency.”

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@Knibbs

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I had a baby 4 days ago, I love my son desperately, and I’ve also never been more adamantly pro-choice than I am right now recovering from birth. Abortions are a medical procedure and give people bodily autonomy. Abortion rights are human rights!

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@Knibbs

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im having a generally hellish week but i did get to chat with @desusnice and @THEKIDMERO about doing a talk show during rona and they were delightful as always

'Desus & Mero' Adapt to Life in Quarantine

The show is built around the joy of hanging out with its hosts—even more so than on other late-night TV programs. Here’s how it's surviving a moment when hanging out is impossible.

www.wired.com

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the best part about working at home is when ya get to change from your "day sweatpants" into your "evening sweatpants" after a nice 4 pm shower ... and they're the same sweatpants!

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Me: I’m in my 30s, I should work on classing up my wardrobe. Some everlane basics, some investment pieces. Cashmere. Neutrals. Also me: (orders this shirt and nearly cries a joy upon opening)

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4 years

i cant wait to get VAXXED and PARTY

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@Knibbs

3 years

prince phillip taught me it was okay to be dead

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@Knibbs

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2022 predictions... - whiskey is OUT - appletinis are IN - crypto will get even more annoying :( - BLUE is the new GRAY and GRAY can go FUCK ITSELF - banana YELLOW will be "trendy" - florals? disgusting. plaids? YES - cigarettes will STILL BE COOL

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@Knibbs

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this.

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@Knibbs

4 years

Red hook hears the news

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@Knibbs

6 years

it's the 2nd anniversary of the ringer & also my second anniversary of working here, and i cannot think of another media company that would let me write long reported stories on whales, gossip columnists, content moderation, and snails, and i feel very lucky to work here 🙏

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For all those wondering, this is my son Nester. We share no blood but he is my life.

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@Knibbs

5 years

(people realized they could spoof user names and now there are a bunch of fake renners)

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@Knibbs

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Wrote about & its founder Andy Hunter, who might be the only genuinely humble CEO I've ever met...its a story about bookselling, but also: zines, the Beastie Boys, the future of small businesses, and a pet rat named Agent Jellybean

How Bookshop.org Survives—and Thrives—in Amazon’s World

Andy Hunter’s ecommerce platform was a pandemic hit. Now he’s on a mission to prove that small businesses can scale up without selling out.

www.wired.com

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i also have some ~professional news~ which is, I must admit, less exciting than Gibson. I'll be leaving The Ringer at the end of the year to try something new! I feel excited but also sad, because the @ringer team is beyond great

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@Knibbs

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The Hairpin has taken an extremely weird turn and now churns out AI slime. Here's what happened:

How Beloved Indie Blog ‘The Hairpin’ Turned Into an AI Clickbait Farm

Beloved women’s website The Hairpin shut down in 2018. This month it returned from the dead to churn out AI clickbait. Its fate is a warning to all digital publications.

www.wired.com

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@Knibbs

5 years

not a particularly happy rennsday for the moderators, i suspect...

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@Knibbs

2 years

Imagine living in a world where someone with cancer's HEALTH CARE wasn't tied to the capricious bullshit decisions of a Netflix exec!!!!!!!!! The most moronic, demonic system.

Ashley Reese

@offbeatorbit

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Netflix laid me off earlier this week, which means my BF is losing his health insurance, which means we’ll no longer be able to afford his cancer treatment. Please consider donating and/or RTing so we can get things back on track 🤘🏾

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starting a magazine aimed exclusively at dipshits

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This is extremely rude

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6 years

serial season 4 should be what the HELL happened to that guy who got fired from the verge for secretly working for apple and then got fired from apple

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Grim stuff from the alt-weekly world: the Village Voice, LA Weekly, and the Riverfront Times are publishing AI slop promoting OnlyFans creators, disguised as editorial: