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Brian Hiatt

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Senior Writer, Rolling Stone. Host of the Rolling Stone Music Now podcast. 75+ cover stories on music, movies, and television

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Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 19m

We’re losing a giant but you should follow Tim’s work wherever he goes 🤍🤍

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 3h

1. Friends, I have a major career update. And it is bittersweet.

My time at Rolling Stone is coming to a close this week.

Brian Hiatt @hiattb.bsky.social · 2h

Some intriguing highlights from my new episode with the legendary Don Was www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Don Was' Studio Secrets: Unheard Rolling Stones Music, Ozzy Osbourne/Madonna Duet

Was, who has his first album out under his own name, looks back at his wild journey with the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Ozzy Osbourne, and more

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Brian Hiatt @hiattb.bsky.social · 1d

Must-listen new episode: A career-spanning interview with Don Was spotify.link/8IekMUp9tXb

Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Bonnie Raitt: Super-Producer Don Was on His Life in Music

Brian Hiatt @hiattb.bsky.social · 2d

Was just looking for audio from my interview…. and found Neil Peart interview audio instead since I talked to them in the same two-week period. Just brutal.

Brian Hiatt @hiattb.bsky.social · 2d

10 years ago, I stayed up all night with D’Angelo, two nights in a row. R.I.P. to a straight-up genius.
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The Second Coming of D'Angelo

How soul's lost superstar D'Angelo reclaimed his mojo and finally released the epic 'Black Messiah.'

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Brian Hiatt @hiattb.bsky.social · 4d

I’m sorry but I don’t believe you.

Brian Hiatt @hiattb.bsky.social · 4d

Fair enough, but that’s unusual. In published writing for instance, the style has always been to include spaces.

Brian Hiatt @hiattb.bsky.social · 4d

Another tip-off is the headers. Humans don’t use those kind of headers; LLMs do.

Brian Hiatt @hiattb.bsky.social · 4d

As a helpful tip for the future, people know AI generates those kind of sentences – “it’s not this – it’s that” – with comical regularity. AI also uses em-dashes without putting spaces on either side. I immediately caught those in the piece.

Brian Hiatt @hiattb.bsky.social · 4d

So to be clear, you categorically deny using AI to help you write that piece?

Brian Hiatt @hiattb.bsky.social · 4d

I don’t think it’s possible to form a coalition with people who think it’s a good use of their time to protest Kamala Harris’s book tour

Brian Hiatt @hiattb.bsky.social · 4d

This reads very much like Ai writing to me. “What’s happening online isn’t discourse—it’s diagnosis.”

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 6d

Searching for Jackie Merlos: What happened when the Trump administration disappeared an immigrant mother and her four U.S. citizen kids

Her Kids Are U.S. Citizens. Trump's Admin Disappeared Them Anyway

Donald Trump's Customs and Border Protection (CBP) disappeared an immigrant mom living in Portland and her four U.S. citizen children.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 5d

Terribly sad news about one of the greats. Diane Keaton has died at 79.
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Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)

Diane Keaton has died at age 79. Keaton was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' and 'The Godfather.'

Brian Hiatt @hiattb.bsky.social · 5d

Just a glimpse of the current delights on X

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 5d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

Brian Hiatt @hiattb.bsky.social · 5d

No to be clear I did too!

Brian Hiatt @hiattb.bsky.social · 5d

also check out the utterly bizarre guitar parts Bob is playing, mixed comically loud, in this version youtu.be/0CmQ-u0wPZs?...

Bob Dylan, Up Close ,Things Have Changed 2009

YouTube video by Woolhall Films of Bob Dylan & Van Morrison

Brian Hiatt @hiattb.bsky.social · 5d

Incredible Dylan cover that I somehow missed all these years youtu.be/AUK8ZQD5GYo?...

Bettye LaVette - Things Have Changed (Audio)

YouTube video by BettyeLaVetteVEVO

Brian Hiatt @hiattb.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks. We do have a rule about not honoring so-called “vanity capitalization” alas

Brian Hiatt @hiattb.bsky.social · 6d

A little moment in my newest James Gunn interview www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

Brian Hiatt @hiattb.bsky.social · 6d

James Gunn tells me that, yes, there will be songs in Supergirl and Lanterns - and more about the DCU’s future - in my new interview www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

James Gunn on 'Peacemaker' Season Two's Ending and the DCU's Future

Gunn talks about the musical cameos in 'Peacemaker' and looks ahead at 'Supergirl' and 'Lanterns'

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Brian Hiatt @hiattb.bsky.social · 6d

Talked to @jamesgunn.bsky.social and, uh, Nelson about a very unexpected moment of the Peacemaker finale
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Nelson(!) and James Gunn Explain That 'Peacemaker' Musical Moment

James Gunn and Matthew Nelson explain how they ended up on the season two finale of 'Peacemaker'

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