Just arrived in Paradise (aka Fiji). Going to check out of the world for 5 days.

Now making seasonal glazes for my mugs.

The videos surfacing online from Sudan are horrifying, and I say this as a journalist who has sadly become an expert on violent videos and images uploaded to the internet over the last decade. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/w...

Allan Brooks, the corporate recruiter from Canada I wrote about in August who went into a 3-week-long delusional spiral with ChatGPT, sued OpenAI Thursday, alongside six other plaintiffs. They blame ChatGPT for their mental breakdowns and for four suicides. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/t...

“The worst test in medicine” is pushing women across the US to have c-section. (As someone who was forced to have a c-section, I appreciate this reporting so much). www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/h...

Disney: Be a beautiful princess and a prince will marry you and live happy ever after. Kpop Demon Hunters: Start a girl band with your best friends and slay all the boy demons to save the world.

Was talking to my youngest about Kpop demon hunters, and said something about how the male lead really helped save the day by giving the female lead a piece of his soul. Her response: “Mama, what do you mean, she would have killed him and saved herself either way.” We have come so far from Disney.

Today, a member of my family sent me an AI-generated video (from Sora) with the watermark blurred over. They had no idea it was AI. Amazing, how that took no time at all.

“Mama, we made your office more fun.”

Elon Musk’s Father Accused of Child Sexual Abuse www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/w...

Happy New Year to all those marking 5786 rotations!

Having a real “you reap what you sow” moment. During peak pandemic years I got my then-toddler involved in regrowing scallions, garlic, and other alliums. She’s now 8, and won’t let me throw away ANYTHING that we can potentially regrow. Our kitchen has many versions of this:

Remarkable judicial order in Trump NYT lawsuit - tl;dr, this is a lot of PR garbage, not a complaint, please re-file something serious. t.co/Ca48rtRLjp

Read the second half of your first sentence. They’re literally anti-vaxxers.

Great reporting; astounding corruption. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

On the Utah shooter's meme bullet casings, and how the extremely-online shooter is now commonplace. From @sheeraf.bsky.social, Richard Fausset, and me. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/u...

Social media companies haven’t figured out how to stop violence from going viral. (And I have written this exact story after the shootings in Christchurch, Pittsburg, Texas, and countless other moments where deadly violence was caught on camera). www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/t...

PSA: It’s always ok not to post the violent video, or take yourself off social media if violent videos are a trigger.

I can’t for the Zodiac truthers to come out of the woodwork for this NYT reporting: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

New story is up, looking at the excitement around new defense tech companies vying for a part in Golden Dome: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/t...

Four journalists were killed by an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital today, including Mariam Dagga, a freelancer with the @apnews.com. She has a 12-year-old son, who was evacuated from Gaza earlier in the war. She was a true hero, like all of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza. tinyurl.com/3cn5c9vb

"Mariam Dagga, a visual freelance journalist for The Associated Press, chronicled the stream of wounded and dead that every day flowed into southern Gaza’s main hospital, where she was often based. [...] Dagga was killed Monday by Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital, according to health officials."

At least half a million people in Gaza City and the surrounding territory are officially suffering from famine, a global group of experts announced, nearly two years into an unrelenting war in which Israel has blocked most food and other aid from entering the Gaza Strip. nyti.ms/4fOZPmP

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

A Border Agent Wore Meta Smart Glasses to an Immigration Raid in Los Angeles 🔗 www.404media.co/a-cbp-agent-...

Silicon Valley today is dramatically changed from a year or two ago. We wrote a series of stories looking at how AI is transforming labor, landscape, innovation, and even religion. Here's my story on the 'shut up and grind' crackdown sweeping through big tech: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/t...

There was a time when techies didn't want their work used for violence. Now, Silicon Valley is in the business of war, @sheeraf.bsky.social reports www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/t...

"Once they build autonomous drones and A.I. weapons for the military, they will have little control over how the technology is deployed. That has led to debates over whether more people will be killed by these advanced weapons than traditional ones, three engineers at Google and Meta said."

It used to be “Do no Evil,” and, “Connecting the World.” Now, Silicon Valley has gone all-in on the business of war: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/t...

After years of telling my kids not to leave food in the car, (and getting some pretty epic eye rolls), we spotted a bear today on the banks of the Truckee river. “Oh my god, you were right! There ARE bears here…” has never sounded so good.

I met Palestinian activist, Awdah Hathaleen, years ago when he gave me a tour of an olive grove destroyed by Jewish settlers for a story I was reporting. Today, Hathaleen was shot and killed by a Jewish settler who was sanctioned by the Biden admin, according to Hebrew news outlets.

Someone hit our cat last night and drove off. She’s badly injured, and we are still waiting to hear if she will make it. Sometimes people truly suck.

Laughed and cried my way through @amberfares.bsky.social ‘s documentary about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, “Coexistence, My Ass.” I’m constantly asked what people should read, watch, and listen to in an attempt to understand the Middle East. My new answer is going to be: watch this film.

A partner at a big VC once told me they like to back founders who were bullied in their youth, and never got therapy.

Whooo boy. Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/u...

This is a picklerita, a pickle-juice and lime slushi with pickle-flavored Boba. It exists, in the real world, as a human invention. AI could never.

New: I teamed up with @elenashao.bsky.social and nytgraphics to map more than 100 public TV and radio stations that are at risk of closing as a result of tonight's vote: www.nytimes.com/interactive/... This is a time bomb that will go off in the fall, when the last federal grants run out.

I am about to visit Detroit (for the first time). Does it have the same/similar magical middle eastern food scene as Dearborn? (Realizing, as I ask this, that they didn’t get the same influx of immigrants, but a girl can dream). Taking any and all recs!

The mysterious cities of gold.

Eight years ago, in the aftermath of another river flood elsewhere, county officials debated if more needed to be done to build a warning system along the Guadalupe. In the end, little was done. Friday, there were no sirens or early flooding monitors. Text alerts went unseen by many. Gift link!

A few years ago, Zuckerberg’s PR team obsessively pointed to his charitable initiatives with his wife, Priscilla Chan. Funding a private school was a key example of the billionaire fixing problems in his backyard, (per PR team). Now, that school is shuttering: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

I’ve been consistent in my view that goats make everything better.

I was on vacation with my family in Corfu a few weeks ago, and we spotted Mark Zuckerberg’s mega-yacht. Now it’s in Venice for the Bezos wedding. Wonder how many yachts/private plans have descended for this event?

Yes, please!!

I’ve been covering the anti-vaccine movement for years. It was painful to read this piece. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...

Almost 20 years ago, I was a reporter for the Times of London in Jerusalem. Ahead of every international summit/UN meeting, Israel would leak satellite images of Iran building up its nuclear capabilities. (A reminder of how long they have been laying the groundwork for public support on this war).

Kind of incredible to be an adviser to the president and be at your tequila launch party as he bombs another country and enters a war.

I’ve been traveling in Europe for a few weeks now, and I can’t count the number of people who told me they’ve cancelled vacations, business trips, or conference meetings in the U.S. this summer. It’s both unsurprising and startling?

If I had to name my favorite place in the world, this would be it. (Kerasia, Corfu)