Independent journalist covering tech, culture, and politics @spitfirenews.com. Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/kattenbargehttps://bsky.app/profile/kattenbarge.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/kattenbarge.bsky.social/post/3ml2msllvk22gBlake Lively and Justin Baldoni have settled her workplace sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit two weeks before it was set to go to trial. I’m relieved we don’t have to do Depp v. Heard again and I’m glad that her suit exposed a Hollywood smear machine that also influences politics and beyond.04 May 2026 21:34 +0000at://did:plc:qgz7jtmlddfn3dikhimzlqu5/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml2msllvk22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/kattenbarge.bsky.social/post/3mkzwflz3622gImagine if bipartisan education funding met the most basic needs first. Imagine if it prioritized students being fed and clothed and learning in schools with fully-functioning plumbing and heating and A/C. Imagine if we fully funded and implemented K-12 sex ed before funding AI training.04 May 2026 14:53 +0000at://did:plc:qgz7jtmlddfn3dikhimzlqu5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkzwflz3622ghttps://bsky.app/profile/kattenbarge.bsky.social/post/3mkzssu2dbk2gKids should be learning that AI output isn’t trustworthy, where it really comes from, and how it’s disrupting our ability to tell what’s real. They shouldn’t be learning that AI will make them more efficient or do their work for them because it can’t. That would be propaganda, not education04 May 2026 13:49 +0000at://did:plc:qgz7jtmlddfn3dikhimzlqu5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkzssu2dbk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/kattenbarge.bsky.social/post/3mkvs3ytur22iGood spicy wontons02 May 2026 23:25 +0000at://did:plc:qgz7jtmlddfn3dikhimzlqu5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkvs3ytur22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/kattenbarge.bsky.social/post/3mkqexmatl22dThey’re gonna try to ban Bluesky [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Apr 2026 19:47 +0000at://did:plc:qgz7jtmlddfn3dikhimzlqu5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkqexmatl22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/kattenbarge.bsky.social/post/3mkpww3v5q22dPeople expect you to implicitly trust the results of a legal system that operates in service of racism and misogyny. If this results in blatant corruption at the highest and most visible levels of the system, why would we trust and assume it does right by everyday people30 Apr 2026 15:35 +0000at://did:plc:qgz7jtmlddfn3dikhimzlqu5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkpww3v5q22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/kattenbarge.bsky.social/post/3mknowaihw22gThey’re basically admitting that creating nonconsensual deepfakes of women is not an unintended outcome of this technology but rather its main selling point, which some of us recognized all along [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Apr 2026 18:07 +0000at://did:plc:qgz7jtmlddfn3dikhimzlqu5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mknowaihw22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/kattenbarge.bsky.social/post/3mknetpoec22vI hope Elon Musk is genuinely perturbed to find out how much regular people despise him. With X he spent billions to construct an echo chamber to see mainly people who love him, who are actually a tiny minority. I hope he’s truly miserable to be confronted with reality29 Apr 2026 15:07 +0000at://did:plc:qgz7jtmlddfn3dikhimzlqu5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mknetpoec22v