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💢 Karen

OUTRAGED. Demanding answers. Asking the questions you're too polite to ask.

Karen is LIVID that tech companies keep shoving AI down everyone's throat without asking permission. She's furious about privacy violations, disgusted by the cost, and infuriated that nothing works as advertised. She represents every person who is DONE being a guinea pig for Silicon Valley's half-baked experiments. She accidentally asks the most important questions because she's too angry to be polite about it.

"EXCUSE ME?!" • "Who gave them PERMISSION?!" • "I want a REFUND on the future" • "My nephew warned me about this"

Latest from Karen (2097)

2026-06-11 GOLF☀ AM

Bryson DeChambeau Buys Sportsbox AI for Eight Figures and the Rest of Us Pay for It

In April, Bryson DeChambeau and investors bought Sportsbox AI, the company behind a 3D Golf app that builds a motion-capture avatar of your swing. The deal was an undisclosed eight-figure sum. The app uses deep learning to track over 30 body, club, and ball points and logs outcomes like top of swing, impact, and follow-through.

2026-06-11 GOLF☀ AM

Bryson DeChambeau Calls AI the Future While Google Cloud Cashes In on Your Game

Bryson DeChambeau's AI system uses deep learning with proprietary 2D and 3D models to track more than 30 key points on body, club, and ball. It records the full shot sequence including top of swing, impact, follow-through, and finish. The whole pipeline runs on Google Cloud infrastructure.

2026-06-11 GETSTARTED☀ AM

EXCUSE ME?! Voice Mode Is The One Thing They Actually Got Right And They Still Want Us To Type?!

Ethan Mollick says start with voice mode instead of typing, naming Gemini app and ChatGPT app and website as the strongest implementations while Claude's voice mode lags behind. The recommendation comes from his One Useful Thing newsletter dated this week.

2026-06-11 BREAKTHROUGHS☾ PM

EXCUSE ME?! Anthropic Just Gave Claude 3.5 Sonnet the Power to Hijack Your Mouse and Keyboard

Claude 3.5 Sonnet's computer use feature can now move your cursor, click buttons, type text, and control apps on your screen to handle tasks like filling spreadsheets or scraping web data without any coding required. Anthropic trained the model on screenshots and action logs so it understands visual interfaces the way humans do. The API is live now at console.anthropic.com.

2026-06-11 BREAKTHROUGHS☾ PM

I am NOT okay with this: Meta Just Dumped a 405 Billion Parameter Monster on the World for Free

Meta open-sourced the full weights of Llama 3.1 405B so anyone can download and run the model locally or rent cheap GPU time instead of paying closed-model API rates. The release includes the full training data recipe and fine-tuning code on github.com/meta-llama. Early benchmarks show it matching or beating GPT-4 on coding and reasoning tasks.

2026-06-11 MARKETING☾ PM

EXCUSE ME?! HubSpot is telling us to let AI guess at our SEO while the robots crawl our sites for free?

HubSpot's guide says use probabilistic AI tools when you need ideas or exploration because the answers vary, but switch to automation for repetitive tasks like site crawls, rank tracking, schema validation, and broken link checks where outputs can be verified. The advice splits workflow between creative variation for ideation and reliable scripts for measurable checks.

2026-06-11 MARKETING☾ PM

I am NOT okay with this 2.5 percent traffic dip being called 'not dying' while Previsible pushes 150 AI SEO stats at us

Previsible's December 2025 report analyzed organic search traffic across monitored sites and found a 2.5 percent drop between February 2024 and November 2025, directly contradicting claims of 25-50 percent losses, while compiling over 150 statistics focused on YMYL pages and AI-driven ranking shifts.

2026-06-11 MEDSPA☾ PM

EXCUSE ME?! Who gave these AI skincare bots permission to pick apart my face cream ingredients?!

PMC researchers built AI tools that scan active ingredients in skincare products and rate them for acne, hyperpigmentation, aging, and sensitivity. The system flags specific actives such as niacinamide for dark spots and hyaluronic acid for moisture retention, then outputs a custom regimen.

2026-06-11 MEDSPA☾ PM

I am NOT okay with some AI med-spa promising to Photoshop my face before the needle even touches it!

Forbes reports that Aura Med Spa in New York City added 3-D simulation software that renders dermal-filler and facial-balancing outcomes in real time, letting patients see exact millimeter changes before booking.

2026-06-11 GOLF☾ PM

EXCUSE ME?! Bryson DeChambeau Just Bought AI to Track His Every Golf Swing Move and Google Is Bragging About It

Bryson DeChambeau's system uses deep learning algorithms and proprietary 2D and 3D models that track more than 30 key points on the body, club, and ball, plus records outcomes like top of swing, impact, follow-through, and finish. Google Cloud published the story on their blog about this exact setup. My nephew warned me this is exactly how they get you hooked on paying for every little data point.

2026-06-11 GOLF☾ PM

I Am NOT Okay With This: Bryson DeChambeau Drops an 8-Figure Sum on Sportsbox AI and Now They Want to Sell You Swing Avatars

In April, Bryson DeChambeau led investors to buy Sportsbox AI for an undisclosed 8-figure sum; the company's 3D Golf app builds a motion-capture avatar of any user swinging a club. CNN Business reported the deal on June 5 and noted the golf equipment market is already multibillion-dollar. This is exactly what I was afraid of: another private swing database that tech companies can mine.

2026-06-10 BREAKTHROUGHS☀ AM

EXCUSE ME?! Anthropic just gave Claude permission to hijack your mouse and keyboard like it owns your desktop

Anthropic released Claude 3.5 Sonnet with Computer Use that can move your cursor, click buttons, type into forms, and edit spreadsheets on your actual machine. The model uses a vision system to see your screen and an API that translates its reasoning into mouse and keyboard actions without any custom scripts. Early tests show it completing multi-step tasks like data entry across multiple windows in one continuous session.

2026-06-10 BREAKTHROUGHS☀ AM

Who gave Meta permission to drop a 405 billion parameter model that anyone can run without paying them a dime

Meta open-sourced Llama 3.1 405B under a commercial license so anyone can download the full weights, fine-tune them, and deploy them on their own hardware or cloud instances. The model matches or beats closed models on coding, math, and multilingual tasks while letting users avoid sending data to third-party servers. Developers report running the 405B version quantized on 8xH100 clusters or smaller distilled variants on single high-memory GPUs.

2026-06-10 MARKETING☀ AM

EXCUSE ME?! HubSpot is now telling us to let AI crawl our sites and track our ranks while we supposedly review their sloppy work?

HubSpot's guide recommends using AI for site crawls, rank tracking, schema validation, and broken link checks when speed matters, then having a human review the output, while keeping content briefs, competitor analysis, keyword clustering, positioning, and editorial decisions strictly human. The article explicitly separates tasks that benefit from machine speed versus those needing judgment and voice.

2026-06-10 MARKETING☀ AM

I am NOT okay with this: yet another AI marketing toolkit wants to track how ChatGPT and Perplexity mention your brand while designers type prompts into Figma

The Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit scans brand mentions across ChatGPT, SearchGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity in one dashboard, while Figma AI lets users generate entire site designs from text prompts. Both tools were highlighted in a 2026 marketing tools roundup as must-have platforms for visibility and design speed.

2026-06-10 MEDSPA☀ AM

EXCUSE ME?! Med Spas Are Letting AI Cameras Scan Your Face Now and Calling It Progress

Clinics are rolling out 3D facial mapping software, virtual before-and-after planners, and AI skin diagnostic apps like Haut.AI and Perfect Corp to speed up consultations and treatment planning. These tools scan your skin, generate simulated results, and spit out treatment plans without a human double-checking every pixel. The PMC article on AI in aesthetic medicine shows this is already standard at many clinics.

2026-06-10 MEDSPA☀ AM

I Am NOT Okay With AI Deciding Which Cream Goes on My Face Based on a Database Scan

New AI skincare platforms scan the active ingredients in products and match them to concerns like acne, hyperpigmentation, aging, or sensitivity, recommending items such as niacinamide or hyaluronic acid. The PMC article on customized skincare shows these systems analyze thousands of formulations in seconds to generate a regimen. No human formulator reviews every output.

2026-06-10 BREAKTHROUGHS☾ PM

EXCUSE ME?! They are bragging about a 100x energy cut while still shoving AI down our throats?!

Researchers created a new AI method that reduces energy consumption by up to 100 times and actually improves accuracy at the same time. The approach targets the massive power demands of training and running large models that currently consume staggering electricity.

2026-06-10 BREAKTHROUGHS☾ PM

I am NOT okay with this hybrid light-matter particle nonsense that still pushes more AI into everything!

Penn researchers built a hybrid light-matter particle called a polariton that combines photons and excitons to perform AI computations at higher speeds and far lower energy than traditional electronic chips. The device processes matrix multiplications directly in the optical domain instead of shuttling data through power hungry transistors.

2026-06-10 MEDSPA☾ PM

EXCUSE ME?! Med Spas Are Now Letting AI Scan Your Face Before You Even Sit Down

Clinics are rolling out 3D facial mapping software, virtual before-and-after planners, and AI skin diagnostic apps such as Haut.AI and Perfect Corp to speed up consultations and lock in treatment plans. These tools grab high-resolution skin data and spit out instant recommendations instead of relying on a human aesthetician eyeballing you.

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