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writing about the internet @techcrunch. ratsoverflowers on tiktok/morgansung on bluesky. also fostering neonatal kittens 🍊 morgan.sung@techcrunch.com
Apr 21, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
missouri's trans snitch line is down after people spammed it with smut fics, rambling anecdotes, and the bee movie script

the attorney general's press secretary said "far left activists" are "resorting to trying to hack our system"
techcrunch.com/2023/04/21/mis… the press secretary did not clarify what the "hack" entailed
techcrunch.com/2023/04/21/mis… Madeline Sieren, press secr...
Dec 6, 2022 4 tweets 3 min read
i wrote about lensa ai and the very murky ethics of AI art

nbcnews.com/tech/internet/… lensa uses a model that was trained on images scraped from the internet, including copyrighted art, and the portraits that lensa generates emulate actual artists' work. art is subjective, but the crux of the AI art controversy is the right to privacy
nbcnews.com/tech/internet/…
Oct 22, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
explaining the emu drama over the last week like no babe there are two tiktok emu girls. the cool one has the mean emu. the racist one is the one who kept kissing her emu after the rest of her farm birds got bird flu. here's the twist he didn't even have bird flu, it was stress. no babe even though he doesn't have bird flu a lot of people are still mad at the racist emu girl for being racist and for kissing a possibly sick bird. no yeah a bunch of bird experts told her not to get close like that but she refused to wear a mask because it scared the emu
Oct 21, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
wild that "i can't stop you putting roots in my dreamland, my house of stone, your ivy grows and now i'm covered in you" and "sometimes i feel like everybody is a sexy baby" came from the same mind i'm blaming j*ck a*tonoff
Jun 17, 2022 6 tweets 2 min read
oop i wrote about this trend years ago haha

"The modern bimbo is inherently anti-capitalist because no matter how intelligent, accomplished, and ambitious they may be, contributing to the market is not a priority."

mashable.com/article/bimbo-… this years old trend wasn't born out of the backlash against women competing with men. it's part of a larger rejection of girlboss hustle culture - people are finding worth beyond productivity
Sep 14, 2021 4 tweets 1 min read
aoc’s dress was corny but some of you need to understand the difference between a $174,000 annual salary and jeff bezos “well aoc’s rich now” yes and? did she say she’s exempt from being taxed?
Aug 26, 2021 9 tweets 4 min read
a tiktok conspiracy theory has people convinced that a human trafficking ring is operating near van nuys airport, after randonautica led a user to a store nearby called matrix. now employees of the surrounding businesses around getting harassed by viewers
mashable.com/article/randon… randonautica is an adventure app that gives users nearby coordinates based on their "intent," using a quantum random number generator. some randonauts just like exploring, and others are convinced the location provided will be related to their intention
mashable.com/article/randon…