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catherinebouris.bsky.social
journalist covering politics, entertainment, internet culture and travel currently: sydney, mentally: athens, next: who knows bio.site/cbouris
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I know that he doesn’t check his own Spotify artist page but I need someone to let Mike Faist know that someone is uploading terrible AI-generated music under his name

i'm genuinely not trying to be a fatalistic dickhead but with more people posting about cancelling spotify following the latest news re: its ceo, i'm sincerely asking: what is an ethical alternative? apple, youtube, amazon, tidal, deezer - all have ethical concerns. what are people using instead?

stumbled on a reddit thread of people discussing the book I just finished and several users were complaining about its use of ‘SAT words’… I don’t know who is telling people that trying to tell authors ‘sometimes simpler writing is better’ isn’t incredibly embarrassing but they should stop

Vance’s spokesperson told me that Vance referred to CA Sen. Alex Padilla as Jose because he “must have mixed up two people who have broken the law.” Jose is in prison having been found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder and fund terrorism, while Sen. Padilla has not been charged with any crime.

this is how people who talk to AI sound to me

NEW: Conspiracy theorists are creating AI chatbots to convince people of their beliefs, and to help them to convince others. This ranges from custom bots on major AI platforms like ChatGPT to training their own custom AI models on conspiracy content. www.crikey.com.au/20...

I flagged a fake account that had posted in the Summer Hill Facebook group so instead of impersonating a random woman whose photo they got off the internet, the person started impersonating me instead 😵‍💫

I’m not a superstitious person but I do believe that consuming perishables (burgers, chocolates) with Mr Beast branding allows the Devil to gain access to your digestive tract

Hi everyone I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

all of the films I saw at sydney film festival! feeling blessed that I didn’t see anything truly awful and that I saw several films I’ll definitely be thinking about for a while

I need to somehow read less news because Zohran Mamdani made it into my dreams last night and I do not live in New York (he was visiting the Criterion Closet)

has anyone else peeped ultra violette's counter-attack against CHOICE which includes a statement on their website, multiple tiktok videos and tiktok comments making vague allusions to 'exploring all avenues' wrt the reputational damage they've experienced? crikey

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

this post was definitely sponsored by the nsw government

The latest edition of Embedded was great - the way outlets have completely scaled back internet culture reporting when we live in an era shaped by CEOs in Silicon Valley, making it harder than ever to find good reporting on the cultures that exist on the platforms they create is alarming, frankly

this is so funny lmao this year's indexation of my hecs debt essentially cancels out last year's 'fix'

few people know this but the sydney film festival actually makes the bulk of its money from me exchanging tickets 100000 times and paying the $2 booking fee every time

Steve Carell tells us about his fears of AI ahead of his new film ‘MOUNTAINHEAD’ “I like the human touch when it comes to creativity, I like the warts, the imperfections and if something’s perfect, it’s not real to me.”

I truly believe that Nathan Fielder needs to PENGOT in his lifetime (Pulitzer, Emmy, Nobel, Grammy, Oscar, Tony)

does anyone here do dream interpretation i need to know what dreaming about rescuing a hamster for two nights in a row means

Trump adds Biden to the storied pantheon of public figures believed to have been replaced by clones.

This marks the fourth known case of the Trump administration deporting someone in violation of a court order.

I think it’s cool that it’s 2025 and you still can’t discuss John Mulaney’s work without strangers acting like scorned ex lovers showing up in the comments

first day off in forever so i’m driving 18km for a sandwich

I finally remembered the name of a local chocolate mousse producer who made the best chocolate mousse I’ve ever had only to discover they’re no longer in business. Do you think they’d give me their recipe if I contacted them asking for it