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Caitlin Dewey
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I don’t want you to think I’m looking for sympathy. Sympathy embarrasses me a bit. If anything, I’m writing to underscore the absurdity, the heartlessness, of this mutual charade wherein we all play down our grief, wherein we keep its depths secret. linksiwouldgchatyou.substack.com/p/phone-addi...

Phone addiction, Stanley stans and the out-of-office message I struggled to send
Phone addiction, Stanley stans and the out-of-office message I struggled to send

About that "unresolved" "family situation" ...

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I had planned to make fun of this AI gift-choosing bot, but then to my surprise and VAGUE UNEASE I actually ... liked it a lot linksiwouldgchatyou.substack.com/p/ai-gift-gi...

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Who's your best guess??

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Wrote about a rare, good internet mystery linksiwouldgchatyou.substack.com/p/helicopter...

Leaving aside the triviality of this search for one moment — and yes, I’m aware just how trivial it is — the stubbornness of this particular “mystery” does defy immediate explanation. Celebrity Six sleuths claim to have contacted the suppliers of the fabric, tracing it back to a bankrupt Finnish company. They’ve used Stable Diffusion, ControlNet and a host of other AI tools to reconstruct a photo of Six’s face.

And of course they have tried PimEyes, the terrifying facial recognition search-engine beloved by TikTok sleuths and would-be doxxers, which trawls the bowels of the social web to surface obscure pictures of anyone with even an incidental internet presence. PimEyes, you may recall, has previously been used to identify everyone from overdose victims to Capitol rioters to Eras Tour cameramen.

And yet, despite the alarming accuracy of these tools in other contexts and the growing ubiquity of facial recognition writ large, thousands of people have found themselves stumped for over
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It feels absolutely terrifying to bare your soul on the internet in the year of our lord 2023, but I'll keep doing it if it draws even a smidge of attention to this issue that's intensely important to me substack.com/home/post/p-...

The last refuge of the informationally underserved
The last refuge of the informationally underserved

Why did I have to turn to Reddit for help with my miscarriage?

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Better late than never, right???? (Thank u @papatabby.bsky.social)

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Caitlin Dewey
@caitlindewey.bsky.social
I write a newsletter about the internet
49 followers9 following7 posts