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Tyler Coates @tylercoates.bsky.social · 44m

omg

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1h

If you leave one magazine job and go write a book, apparently for a major publisher, and you deliver your manuscript and take another magazine job less than a year later, when did the exile part happen, exactly?

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 2h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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Tyler Coates @tylercoates.bsky.social · 2h

i know so many unemployed journalists with real talent

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 2h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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Tyler Coates @tylercoates.bsky.social · 3h

it’s wild how 58 degrees in los angeles is the coldest temperature known to man

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 7h

we’ve gone so far past “sex workers are the canaries in the coal mine” re: internet freedom, to an internet that’s run off and robbed from all the sex workers in order to replace them with planet-destroying simulations of sex workers

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 10h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Tyler Coates @tylercoates.bsky.social · 1d

miss you every day

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Tyler Coates @tylercoates.bsky.social · 1d

sophomore year of college, during a blizzard that shut down the school, my friends and i rented this from ACME STOVE & VIDEO (a real store in town that sold wood and gas stoves and also rented movies) and then watched it twice in a row because it was so damn funny

bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 1d

we saw wet hot american summer at the cinema village iirc on 12th when it came out and we were the only two people in the theater and i think the only time ive laughed harder at the movies is during jackass when chris pontius drank horse semen and this guy in front of us hurled

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 1d

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy passed away today according to the House of GG. She was a veteran of the Stonewall rebellion and a lifelong organizer for the safety and dignity of trans people, sex workers, and the incarcerated. She came from the same generation and milieu as Marsha and Sylvia. She was 78.

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Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 1d

I need to get off here because between the BREAKING posts with no link/proof and the “no one is covering it” posts when they demonstrably are, I’m going nuts. Everyone is getting worse at the internet and the internet is getting worse

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Tyler Coates @tylercoates.bsky.social · 1d

for someone who cares very little about Tron as a franchise but enjoys lights and music and reclining in a Dolby theater.... i thought that movie kinda ruled

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Tyler Coates @tylercoates.bsky.social · 1d

should have had a scene where Will posts a picture of himself on instagram to celebrate Mindy’s birthday

Tyler Coates @tylercoates.bsky.social · 1d

Is This Thing On? fails to accurately depict the NYC comedy scene as Will Arnett’s character never gets his photo taken by @withreservation.bsky.social

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Tyler Coates @tylercoates.bsky.social · 1d

Is This Thing On? fails to accurately depict the NYC comedy scene as Will Arnett’s character never gets his photo taken by @withreservation.bsky.social

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Tyler Coates @tylercoates.bsky.social · 1d

this morning my partner attempted a miley cyrus impression that i mistook for a tom waits impression

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 1d

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

remember when

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Tyler Coates @tylercoates.bsky.social · 2d

once an editor, always an editor (should i be pitching more often? yeah probably)

Tyler Coates @tylercoates.bsky.social · 2d

here’s a free idea for style writers: little mustaches and goatees on this season’s oscar hopefuls

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Tyler Coates @tylercoates.bsky.social · 2d

here’s a free idea for style writers: little mustaches and goatees on this season’s oscar hopefuls

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Tyler Coates @tylercoates.bsky.social · 2d

you have to wonder if this is some sort of kink

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 2d

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Tyler Coates @tylercoates.bsky.social · 2d

i feel so old because i have no idea what the hell any of this is

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 2d

I didn’t want to believe it was true. Say his name: Saleh Al-Jafarawi. He had the most beautiful smile. He was not among the 270+ journalists killed prior to the latest ceasefire. He was ebullient that the bombing stopped. And now he’s been killed.

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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 2d

very funny to pull these numbers and then be like "wow everyone else in this place sure is uncool"

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 3d

can you imagine just sitting down to plan this and not feeling any shame or hesitation. seeing jane goodall on the tv as you’re doing it and how her thing was gorillas and yours is getting ready to deport a guy who’s been wrongly imprisoned since reagan’s first term

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 3d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 3d

it would probably be sorta hard for just anyone to do it *this well* because it requires you to actually be normal about trans people, but still it feels important to state for the record that WE ARE NOT HARD TO STAND UP FOR AND ANY OF THEM COULD DO IT.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 3d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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