Katherine Argent

Woman of a certain rage. I want you to read more, think more, and use AI less. I read submissions for @MastersReview and pet every dog I can.

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

@andrewcareaga @juscarts Cold War.

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Lot of people don’t realize that some MFA programs and lit journals cozied up to the government in the past. Keep your eyes open so they don’t do it again.

https://t.co/rRurty6D0u

[Justin Carter @juscarts]

lot of literary journals probably intrigued by Rubio saying “who wants to discretely partner with the CIA”

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Me, checking my inbox every morning in the hope of finally—finally!—seeing a lit journal acceptance.

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

@tallulahhulabel @factpostnews Well thank you, but unless you enjoy reading about reading and writing, I’m a drag.

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

@ItsMarcoBellini This is my first, Marco, but it won’t be my last.

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

The greatest opening line I’ve read in years: “Summer here comes on like a zaftig hippie chick, jazzed up on chlorophyll and flinging fistfuls of butterflies to the sun.”

At no point could I predict the next word in that line, and the image it created was simultaneously new and familiar. That’s the kind of prose that makes me this zaftig hippie chick happy to stay up late reading, .@SneezingCow.

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

@lilyraynyc Because no one would remember what was said?

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

So many of us who gave the internet our content, our knowledge, and our time have lost everything to these greedy companies and the spineless government that plunders its citizens but does nothing to protect them.

[Chrisy | Homemade Hooplah @homemadehooplah]

As I get closer to losing my home, I reached out to my mortgage company about options.

They can't do anything for me financially.

And attempting to be proactive does nothing to stop lack of payment from severly damaging my credit.

Houses aren't selling & I can't afford any of these rent prices, anyway.

I will have no where to go.

Credit cards are filling up.

I've done everything right my entire life. I've always played it safe. I didn't do anything wrong.

Yet thanks to AI - career ruined, I can't find new work - I will lose everything. I will fall into the type of debt that will be impossible to crawl out of.

I needed help. I needed this to stop. I needed a lifetime of playing by the rules to mean something and it turns out it means nothing at all.

Really just wishing for death at this point.

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

@MerriamWebster Are we meant to use them all in one sentence?

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

@neilturkewitz As long as people clean up after themselves and put the toilet seat down, I’m fine with that. 🤣

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Did I miss the memo telling everyone to be an absolute jerk today? Feels like I did.

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

@SmokeLong @X_Global_tv He’s speaking in the would-be royal “we.”

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

@neilturkewitz I am starting to regret not renting an off-grid cabin to get through the midterms.

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

@inspiredtaste The rich won’t be happy until they’ve stripped and spoiled every inch of this earth then flitted off to some other planet to do it again.

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Scenes from today’s walk.

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

@glezak I remember! My office number was one digit different from KCPL’s and the line wouldn’t stop ringing all day, and people were awful! WDAF even came out and did a little clip on it for the PM news. 🤣

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

@LeProjetSerret What doesn’t?

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

There’s stubborn, and then there’s spending 28 years walking from the southern tip of Chile to England to win an argument. Wow.

https://t.co/puTBwi5oDz

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

@rick_talbot Mine, yours, Kansas City’s… This is Loose Park, which is a gorgeous place to walk and spend the day. We’re so lucky to have green spaces like this still!

https://t.co/GfquYRsoGa