Joy Press
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Vanity Fair correspondent. Author of Stealing the Show. Here, there and everywhere
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Fell off social media for a while so let me reintroduce myself. I write about TV & culture & feminism for Vanity Fair. Wrote a book about women television creators called Stealing the Show. Former book editor/critic at Village Voice & LA Times. Forever trying to keep the doomscrolling at bay.
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The OpenAI ruling writers should know about đ (if your work was scraped for LLM training, this affects you).
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OpenAI Loses Key Discovery Battle as It Cedes Ground to Authors in AI Lawsuits
The issue has been a major battleground in discovery. OpenAI could be on the hook for hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars if it was aware it was infringing on copyrighted material.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/openai-loses-key-discovery-battle-why-deleted-library-of-pirated-books-1236436363/
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Simon Reynolds
18 days ago
Had a fun chat with Lawrence of Mozart Estate / Go-Kart Mozart / Denim / Felt legend for
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An Interview with Lawrence, Icon of the Pop Underground
Across several terrific bandsâFelt, Denim, Go-Kart Mozart, Mozart Estateâthe mononymous British singer-songwriter built an oeuvre of jangle-pop gems that flew unknown the radar. After a documentary an...
https://pitchfork.com/features/interview/an-interview-with-lawrence-icon-of-the-pop-underground/
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Erin Reed
about 1 month ago
1. The Trump administration has just quietly updated the State Department website to indicate that it may invalidate transgender people's passports. This comes a week after a SCOTUS ruling blocking lower rulings allowing trans people to update them. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Trump Admin Quietly Changes State Department Page To Indicate It May Invalidate Trans Passports
The change comes after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the administration and lifted a temporary injunction.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/trump-admin-quietly-changes-state
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Angus Johnston
about 1 month ago
Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the
#MeToo
movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.
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Sean Morrow
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Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.
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Tilly Bridges
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this has been a VERY hard year for trans people so let me just say to all of you out there who stood up for us and soundly rejected transphobia in this election thank you for protecting us PLEASE KEEP IT UP WE NEED YOU and thereâs still a long way to go but THANK. YOU. đđЎ
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Apparently I may be somewhat responsible for coining cringe comedy? Sorry and youâre welcome
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This incredible speech feels like the speech of a future president.
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Congratulations, NY! If anyoneâs fleeing the city, I know plenty of people whoâd love to take your place
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I spend my whole life ignoring sports yet live close enough to Dodger stadium that I can hear the endless fireworks all night. Happy for all the happy people!
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Sharon
5 months ago
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Emily Nussbaum
5 months ago
Having just spent a few months reading accounts of CBSâ grotesque cowardice during the 1950s McCarthy-era blacklist, itâs nice to see that The Tiffany Network respects its traditions
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Oliver Darcy
5 months ago
This is literally what we reported would happen.
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When your kid grows up to be a journalist, despite your dire warnings
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5 months ago
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Simon Reynolds
5 months ago
Quick! Read while the paywall is relaxed for 24 hours this conversation between
@kieranpressreyn.bsky.social
and Shawn Reynaldo of First Floor substack about being a Gen Z music+culture writer
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Kieran Press-Reynolds Is Mapping the Brainrot Continuum
A conversation with the NYC-based writer and proud zoomer, who shares his thoughts on Gen Z's relationship with music and details his own penchant for trawling the weirdest corners of the internet.
https://firstfloor.substack.com/p/kieran-press-reynolds-is-mapping
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Emily Flitter
5 months ago
Margaret Atwoodâs version of this, in The Handmaidâs Tale, is âNolita te bastardes carbarendurumâ carved into the bottom of a wardrobe. Life is imitating terrifying dystopian fiction
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Astra Taylor
6 months ago
The debt, deportation, and death bill has passed. Congress further decimates care work to fund violence work. Vital services eviscerated and ICE becomes the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency ever known. It hasnât been sold this way, but itâs a massive public jobs program for fascists.
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I've been stunned by the maddeningly out-of-whack portrait of Los Angeles being presented to the world, so I wrote an on-the-ground report from some of the vibrant, riot-free local protests this weekend
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In Los Angeles, So Much of the Protest Narrative Has Felt Wrong. Saturday Was a Corrective
After a week of watching a fun-house-mirror version of their city in global media, thousands of Los Angeles residents took to the streets on Saturday.
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/los-angeles-protest-narrative-no-kings
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David Folkenflik
6 months ago
UPDATE: The Los Angeles Press Club has filed suit against the city of Los Angeles and LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell in the Central District of California's federal courts over its actions toward journalists covering anti-ICE protests in recent days. /more
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I've been stunned by the maddeningly out-of-whack portrait of Los Angeles being presented to the world, so I wrote an on-the-ground report from some of the vibrant, riot-free local protests this weekend
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In Los Angeles, So Much of the Protest Narrative Has Felt Wrong. Saturday Was a Corrective
After a week of watching a fun-house-mirror version of their city in global media, thousands of Los Angeles residents took to the streets on Saturday.
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/los-angeles-protest-narrative-no-kings
6 months ago
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Omar Wasow
6 months ago
From 2020 but evergreen
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Philip Gourevitch
6 months ago
This searchable map of No Kings marches to join on Saturday is impressively crowded:
www.nokings.org#map
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Can we just pull the plug on today's news? We've stockpiled enough horror to last us through the summer
6 months ago
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gwen howerton
6 months ago
âWeâre slowly going underground, underground, underground,â the mother said. âYou put one thing in place, and then you have to prepare for when that gets taken away."
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Carolina A. Miranda
6 months ago
LA wasn't founded by the Dutch or the British. It was founded by 44 Mexican pobladores, the vast majority of whom were mestizo, Indigenous or afro mestizo. What Stephen Miller is trying to do is erase LA history. I explored this many moons ago in Guernica:
www.guernicamag.com/remapping-la/
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Remapping LA
Before California was West, it was North and it was East: the uppermost periphery of the Mexican Empire, and the arrival point for Chinese immigrants making the perilous journey from Guangdong.
https://www.guernicamag.com/remapping-la/
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel
6 months ago
Dolores Huerta, a 95 year old labor organizer with deep roots going back even before the Delano Grape Strike in 1965, here in Boyle Heights speaking at a protest. She called the past several days of detainments throughout Los Angeles a âhorrible assault.â
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So odd to be watching the joyful, inclusive LA Pride parade broadcast live on local news while friends from elsewhere send worried texts because of reports telling them that LA is rioting
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Victor Ray
6 months ago
Iâve said it before but it is embarrassing that so many intellectuals spent years in small factional battles over the propriety of calling this fascism.
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Phil Stark
7 months ago
I had a nice chat with
@joypress.bsky.social
at
@vanityfair.com
about the state of the Entertainment Industry (not great, Bob!) and how it looks from the perspective of a therapist / former screenwriter
#mentalhealth
#talktherapy
#tacos
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Hollywood Therapists Meet the Moment: âIf Youâre Not Dispirited Right Now, Youâre Dissociativeâ
With the entertainment industry in rough shape, everybody in LA is seeking shrinks and life coachesâor becoming shrinks and life coaches.
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/hollywood-therapists-meet-the-moment-if-youre-not-dispirited-right-now-youre-dissociative
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Jeff Sharlet
7 months ago
I... oh my god.
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Diabolus Ex Machina
This Is Not An Essay
https://amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-ex-machina?r=i691&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
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Vanity Fair
7 months ago
Welcome to Hollywoodâthatâs not smog, itâs depression. âIt feels like the end of days,â an LA-based psychotherapist tells
@joypress.bsky.social
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Hollywood Therapists Meet the Moment: âIf Youâre Not Dispirited Right Now, Youâre Dissociativeâ
With the entertainment industry in rough shape, everybody in LA is seeking shrinks and life coachesâor becoming shrinks and life coaches.
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/hollywood-therapists-meet-the-moment-if-youre-not-dispirited-right-now-youre-dissociative
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Even AI knows how unreliable it is
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J Hoberman
7 months ago
Out now
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Vanity Fair
7 months ago
According to the gospel of FX exec John Landgraf, making great work means âcontinuously losing your way. A television show is a living, breathing process that needs room for failure and also wild serendipity.â VFâs
@joypress.bsky.social
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John Landgraf Has Notes: How One Philosophical TV Exec Brought You âThe Bear,â âFargo,â âShĹgun,â and More
Under his leadership, FX has become a factory of prestige hits by not acting like a factory.
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/john-landgraf-has-notes
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Incredibly sad to hear about Tom Robbins. I was lucky enough to work with him at the Village Voice, and not only was he a fearless journalist, he was a kind (and funny) man. One of a kind.
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Adam Serwer
7 months ago
The Trump administration is engaging on an all-out assault on the institutions, workers and standards that make learning and knowledge production possible, in the hopes of securing political dominance forever. (Gift link)
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Simon Reynolds
7 months ago
A tribute to Susan Brownmiller, pioneering activist and writer in the women's liberation movement, by
@joypress.bsky.social
. Fascinating and funny tales of how the feminist firebrand took down Hugh Hefner on TV and helped organize the occupation of Ladies Home Journal.
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The Still Vitalâand Still ComplicatedâLegacy of Susan Brownmiller
The activist and author of the landmark rape study, Against Our Will, lived long see the struggle is still just beginning.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/susan-brownmiller-obituary
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Imani Gandy Cane đ đž
7 months ago
just horrifying
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BK. Titanji
7 months ago
Since the CDC guidelines for COVID vaccines are now just misinformation here is what the NHS (UK) says about COVID in pregnancy and the recommendation for vaccination.
www.nhs.uk/pregnancy/ke...
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I wrote a little something about the life and legacy of Susan Brownmiller
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The Still Vitalâand Still ComplicatedâLegacy of Susan Brownmiller
The activist and author of the landmark rape study, Against Our Will, lived long see the struggle is still just beginning.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/susan-brownmiller-obituary
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Greg Pak
7 months ago
Terrible.
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Malinda Lo
7 months ago
Menomonee Falls, WI, has a history of banning books. (They banned one of mine back in 2023.) This is just the next step. They won't need to ban books if there is no public library. Pay attention, people. The book bans have been the canary in the coal mine for years.
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Carlos NoreĂąa
7 months ago
According to a 2021 report, the University of California system: ⢠generated $82B in economic activity in California ⢠supported 529K jobs in the state ⢠generated $21 in economic output for every $1 received Public divestment from higher ed makes no sense, even in the narrowest economic terms.
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Lisa Takeuchi Cullen
7 months ago
Roughly *67% of entertainment workers in NY have worked on L&O: SVU and I don't think any of us knew?? Such a fine, sensitive profile of superhero Mariska and her lifelong secret... *not a real number but feels like it
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This was an intense interview: Mariska Hargitay talked to me about her new doc, coming to terms with her mom's bombshell legacy, and letting go of her painful family secret
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Mariska Hargitay Was âLiving a Lieâ for 30 Years. Now Sheâs Embracing Her Mother, Jayne Mansfieldâand Her Biological Father
In an exclusive interview, Hargitay opens up about âMy Mom Jayne,â a documentary that paints an unvarnished portrait of her Hollywood bombshell motherâand reveals that Hargitayâs biological father is ...
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/mariska-hargitay-was-living-a-lie-for-30-years
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All we need right now isâŚan earthquake
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Johanna Fateman
10 months ago
Help me raise 10k for LGBTQ kids in nyc. This is urgent.
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