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kelly pendergrast
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kelly pendergrast @kellypendergrast.bsky.social · Apr 27
New open invitation - DM me if you are (ever) in the Bay Area and want to meet up irl - it’s 2025 & we’re going offline, comrades!
kellypendergrast.bsky.social kelly pendergrast @kellypendergrast.bsky.social · Nov 16
Open invitation for anyone to DM me if you want to gossip
kellypendergrast.bsky.social
Bought tix to a screening of a 1989 American feature film that is not listed on Letterboxed!!! How?? God I’m pumped—can’t wait to log it
November 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
kellypendergrast.bsky.social
Really not enjoying the way various tech-adjacent thinkfluencers are deploying Ozempic as an imaginative tool // futuring technology // rhetorical cudgel.
Tweet from Bryan Johnson: "There’s an argument that GLP-1s are playing a critical role in society, not just for weight loss, but as a technology of imagination. Something humans are in desperate need of as we try to reconcile with AI becoming the new fabric of society. GLP-1s expand human imagination by breaking psychological ceilings. Important because AI expands human capability without necessarily expanding self belief. The future requires us to imagine new versions of ourselves and GLP-1s show humans how a simple injection remaps what they can aspire to become. Most people live with a fixed self-model. Something like “I’m addicted,” “I’m obese,” “I can’t change” or "I can't do that." Their mind struggles to simulate a different version of themselves, especially after countless failed attempts to change. When someone takes a GLP-1 and their cravings collapse overnight, or they overcome some other addiction, their imaginative horizon expands. They now see a future self that previously felt impossible." Quote tweet from @growing_daniel: "It's amazing the effect Ozempic is having on people's genetics", responding to a tweet from Ellie X saying "work in progress" and a selfie on the left of a small-fat woman (presumably herself), then a selfie on the right of a thin woman (presumably also herself) with a hand placed on her stomach to show that it is small. Daniel's implication being that people who had claimed that their weight was grounded in genetic factors are lying, because if they take Ozempic they can become skinny.
November 25, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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grenzfurthner.bsky.social
Good old Woz. Good for him.
November 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
kellypendergrast.bsky.social
I need my esteemed colleagues at the intersection of art and technology to start being more discerning about where they publish. Asterisk? Palladium?? Either you're a credulous rube or you're showing your true colors ... no thanks.
November 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
kellypendergrast.bsky.social
Goo goo Dolls Iris was corny as hell when it came out in 1998 and I never once imagined people would be moved to tears by it 27 years later!! Good for them I guess
November 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
kellypendergrast.bsky.social
the protein-bro-ification of greek yogurt is severely funny to me. why does this look like a barrel of whey protein... is regular yogurt too femme?
Black and white tub of plain oikos "triple zero" greek yogurt, with "18g protein" prominent on the tub.
November 18, 2025 at 11:01 PM
kellypendergrast.bsky.social
Realizing how accustomed I’ve become to modern machines that don’t want you to access their innards, bc I’m trying to troubleshoot this serger and it’s like …what, do they think I’m a mechanic or something???
Photograph of the inside mechanism of a serger, showing many metallic parts and threading loops and cutting mechanisms Black and white diagram showing the threading instructions for upper looper of a serger
November 17, 2025 at 12:19 AM
kellypendergrast.bsky.social
Many transhumanists and longevity guys are imo intent on overcoming their bodies' limitations/needs bc these needs (for clean water, air, food) represent a natural limit on forms of capital and technological development that erode our environment & are inimical to human life.
November 13, 2025 at 10:01 PM
kellypendergrast.bsky.social
Do you want some mail? It's that time of year again: @annapendergrast.bsky.social and I are prepping our 7th annual Antistatic Print Object. Sign up here and we'll send you a zine + extra object in the post (gratis). We love to send gifts to our friends!! Sign up>> docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Image of a spread of Antistatic Print Object zines and paper ephemera in different colors spread on top of a wooden table.
November 13, 2025 at 9:42 PM
kellypendergrast.bsky.social
Epstein telling Deepak Chopra "I've felt a kinship with Woody because he is tortured by existential dilemmas as am I" hahahaha ok

So many banal-yet-sicko details to dig through
From: Sent: To: Subject: Attachments: Deepak Chopra 8/8/2016 9:52:40 AM jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com] Re: America's Shadow: The Real Secret of Donald J. Trump - SFGate by Deepak Chopra supergenes[2].png Importance: High Yes Thanks for forwarding it! It was a fascinating evening! I've felt a kinship with Woody because he is tortured by existential dilemmas as am I. The Russian was just being Russian- a socialist with right wing tastes . I actually liked him. The wife was being a mother to Woody. I think he's needed that all his life . I will meet you at the Bowery at 230 PM Send me the address Deepak Chopra 2013 Costa Del Mar Road Carlsbad, CA 92009 'ffaste• Super Genes: Unlock the Astonishing Power of Your DNA for Optimum Health and Wellbeing On Aug 8, 2016, at 5:43 AM, jeffrey E. wrote: i will forward it. he asked if you would come back again, without the russian. to me it was a woody allen movie. you talking conciousness , his wife more concerned with the salad dressing, and the russian deciding the future of syria. . As you know I find ideas no matter how extreme , the root of possible insight, so the other day I had viisitn the psychedelic crowd. one of them has opened a store on 1 st and the bowery called the alchemist kitchen. . How about we meet there , I want to see the store and you ride with me back uptown. lets say 230? I have left my schedule open after.
November 13, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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datasociety.bsky.social
AI is not a climate solution. With #COP30 underway, we stand in solidarity with indigenous peoples and frontline communities in rejecting centralized tech power and the extractive practices of AI — and affirming that technology must serve people. #TheAnswerIsUs greenscreen.network/en/blog/cop30/
The Answer is Not AI! Statement of Solidarity with The Answer Is Us campaign
Sign the solidarity statement The Answer is Not AI – The Answer Is Us! Support The Answer is Us! campaign Leia a versão em português da declaração de solidariedade. In support of The Answer Is Us camp...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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rachelg.bsky.social
Funding alert: @grist.org is offering grants of up to $5,000 for reporting on rural climate issues and environmental justice in the United States. Newsrooms and freelancers are welcome to apply. Please share! grist.org/updates/gris...
Grist opens applications for new rural reporting grants on climate and environmental justice
Applicants can request up to $5,000 per project.
grist.org
November 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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newyorker.com
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
kellypendergrast.bsky.social
if the new Dave Eggers art school space thing wants to be taken seriously it is imperative they get a new logo because

www.artpluswater.org
logo for a new art initiative called "Art + Water". The logo is a kind of wordmark with the word Art aboove the word Water, both in extremely over the top white cursive. Between the words is a teal plus sign, and on the left and right of the teal plus sign are random teal curlicues.
November 5, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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serife.bsky.social
New art video just dropped! The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance 🔮 This is meant to be performed live, recited in front of the video at conferences, museums, public events. It got a standing ovation at Tech Together in NYC. Your phone works but best on your largest screen.
vimeo.com/1116289621
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The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance
Şerife Wong The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance 2025 Original score by Jeromey Cooks (rikuwru) This video is part of Icarus Salon. It is intended to be viewed in…
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November 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
kellypendergrast.bsky.social
Anyone know a zeitgeist bouncer who can be enlisted to scare away the tpot meetup dorks?
Twitter user deepfates writes: every Tuesday we go to the punk bar patio and enthusiastically talk about Al, peptides, Twitter drama and other freak stuff Join Us zeitgeist, San Francisco, 6pm. meet your mutuals it's OFFICE HOURS
November 5, 2025 at 1:46 AM
kellypendergrast.bsky.social
Who decorated Tucker Carlson's gothic americana mancave and were they purposely channeling the Texas Chainsaw dining room?
Nick Fuentes talking to Tucker Carlson on his show, facing each other across a wooden table. A chandelier made of antlers hangs above them. In the background, a bunch of creepy woody props line the walls, like oars, tools, an American flag, a hutch with mugs in it, a portrait of a dog, etc. Dinner scene from Texas Chainsaw Massacre, shot from behind Sally's head and looking out at a wooden table, where the family sits leering at her. On the wall in the background, a bunch of antlers and a skeleton hang.
October 31, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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datasociety.bsky.social
📣 Our method for conducting community-based algorithmic impact assessments is now available! We’ve just launched a new section on our website where you can find an extensive toolkit, documentation of our pilots, and a series of reflections on lessons learned. datasociety.net/research/alg...
October 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
kellypendergrast.bsky.social
New Guadanino movie has a plot point where a phd philosophy student is suspected by her professors of plagiarizing entire paragraphs of Agamben in her dissertation (in 2020! lol) but no one can prove it for some reason?

Bad movie but some dummy catnip details for academics to enjoy/hate
October 29, 2025 at 6:48 AM
kellypendergrast.bsky.social
Read my new essay about the shriveled imagination of the life-extension guys!! On Bryan Johnson, communist cybernetics, and the Human Centipede.

And if you're in NY, head to the launch party in Brooklyn tonight for Empty Set mag (Dear Friends Books, 7pm🩸)

www.emptysetmag.com/articles/blo...
Promo image showing the article title “Blood Red” with a subtitle “the fluids grow septic, the blood flows weak”, with info “Kelly Pendergrast, Oct 24 2024” and a feature image from Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delight Poster with information about the Empty Set magazine launch. Top half of the poster is a b+w inverted picture from Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights. Bottom half is text, which reads "Empty Set. Tuesday Oct 28th, 7:30pm. Dear Friend Books, 343A Tompkins Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11216. Magazine Launch. Readings and performances by Terry Nguyen, Emma Heath, Steffi Cao, basalt, Yuki + Lele.
October 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM
kellypendergrast.bsky.social
Tommy Craggs said "this level of millennial quirk chungus cannot go unpunished"
"And that really is one of the things with guys like Sam Altman and Dario Amodei from Anthropic,” Zitron was saying over burgers on a fine Manhattan afternoon in September. “I work with founders all the time. I’m a founder myself, I guess—I don’t like the title. But when you are a person that has to make more money than you lose, otherwise you lose your business, and you see these chunderfucks burning 5, 10 billion dollars in a year—and everyone's celebrating them? It's offensive.”
October 27, 2025 at 6:59 PM
kellypendergrast.bsky.social
Considering Venkatesh Rao the height of intellectual insight, believing Fredric Jameson secretly admired globalized commodity production, and claiming that postmodernism has a "business model": just another day at the Andreessen Horowitz dipshit factory!!

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Screenshot of text. The text reads: "Postmodernism quickly figured out its business model: the “front of house / back of house” abstraction of cost-effective, personalized service at scale. My favourite essay on this is Venkatesh Rao’s The American Cloud, on the Great Back End (the enormous logistical enterprise, hidden from view, that grows our food and heats our homes) becoming abstracted out of view, while coastal consumers interact with pleasantly recreated “situations”, like Starbucks or Whole Foods. This idea was so powerful that its best biographers were its Marxist critics. In Postmodernism: or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Fredric Jameson wrote in a tone that’s so frustrated it betrays a hint of admiration: “Aesthetic production today has become integrated into commodity production generally: the frantic economic urgency of producing fresh waves of even more novel-seeming goods (from clothing to airplanes), at ever greater rates of turnover, now assigns an increasingly essential structural function and position to aesthetic innovation and experimentation.” This is almost a sentence you could find in Atul Gawande’s completely sincere article about why hospitals should operate more like The Cheesecake Factory. It could also describe mobile app development. There’s one coherent idea through it all: the meaning of things is how they’re rendered-for-purpose."
October 27, 2025 at 5:21 PM
kellypendergrast.bsky.social
I have been wanting to write about Bryan Johnson (Don’t Die guy and prolific poster) for years now. And I finally did! Also about communist blood transfusion, fluid potential, and the horror of the segment.

Read now in advance of the official release of Empty Set mag Issue 1 next week:
Promo image showing the article title “Blood Red” with a subtitle “the fluids grow septic, the blood flows weak”, with info “Kelly Pendergrast, Oct 24 2024” and a feature image from Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delight
October 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
kellypendergrast.bsky.social
hahahahahahahahaha
Tweet from notorious tech douchebag and civic tyrant Garry Tan, who writes "Met the legend @RickRubin today. In society there are a few people who are there to help birth things that touch billions of people, that leave them changed. It's all we hope to do. Rick's way of bringing about coherence from creators he works with is special in all the world." The text is accompanied by a photo of Garry Tan and Rick Rubin sitting on a couch. Rubin is crosslegged and barefooted. Garry holds a copy of the stupid AI rick rubin book ("the way of code").
October 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM
kellypendergrast.bsky.social
A problem for me is that Radu Jude and Rudy Jude are almost the same name and it's confusing
October 23, 2025 at 11:02 PM