The OpenAI ruling writers should know about 👀 (if your work was scraped for LLM training, this affects you). www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Had a fun chat with Lawrence of Mozart Estate / Go-Kart Mozart / Denim / Felt legend for @pitchfork.com pitchfork.com/features/int...

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.

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.

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.

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 there’s still a long way to go but THANK. YOU. 😭🩷

Apparently I may be somewhat responsible for coining cringe comedy? Sorry and you’re welcome

This incredible speech feels like the speech of a future president.

Congratulations, NY! If anyone’s fleeing the city, I know plenty of people who’d love to take your place

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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Having just spent a few months reading accounts of CBS’ grotesque cowardice during the 1950s McCarthy-era blacklist, it’s nice to see that The Tiffany Network respects its traditions

This is literally what we reported would happen. www.status.news/p/skydance-c...

When your kid grows up to be a journalist, despite your dire warnings

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

Margaret Atwood’s version of this, in The Handmaid’s Tale, is “Nolita te bastardes carbarendurum” carved into the bottom of a wardrobe. Life is imitating terrifying dystopian fiction www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r...

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 hasn’t been sold this way, but it’s a massive public jobs program for fascists.

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 www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

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

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 www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

From 2020 but evergreen

This searchable map of No Kings marches to join on Saturday is impressively crowded: www.nokings.org#map

Can we just pull the plug on today's news? We've stockpiled enough horror to last us through the summer

“We’re slowly going underground, underground, underground,” the mother said. “You put one thing in place, and then you have to prepare for when that gets taken away."

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/

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 “horrible assault.”

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

I’ve said it before but it is embarrassing that so many intellectuals spent years in small factional battles over the propriety of calling this fascism.

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 www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

I... oh my god. amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

Welcome to Hollywood–that’s not smog, it’s depression. “It feels like the end of days,” an LA-based psychotherapist tells @joypress.bsky.social. “I've been doing this for 31 years now, and I've never seen this level of despair among creative people in the industry.”

Even AI knows how unreliable it is

Out now

According to the gospel of FX exec John Landgraf, making great work means “continuously losing your way. A television show is a living, breathing process that needs room for failure and also wild serendipity.” VF’s @joypress.bsky.social reports:

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.

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) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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.

just horrifying

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...

I wrote a little something about the life and legacy of Susan Brownmiller

Terrible. documentary.org/online-featu...

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.

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.

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

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 www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

All we need right now is…an earthquake

Help me raise 10k for LGBTQ kids in nyc. This is urgent. fundraise.newalternativesnyc.org/fundraiser/6...