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Taylor Lorenz retweeted
So many of the disability-aware activists & commentators weighing in on the lesbian bar are COMPLETELY missing key information. Like how the original dogpile on Last Ditch was because of their snarky post announcing the change as an accessibility improvement, not a financial one
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Holy shit not another Massachusetts story, what is going on 😂😂😂
ALT WBUR The scope of long COVID is bigger than we think, Mass. researchers say
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Meta's products are a censorship nightmare and I do worry that it will affect the utility of their agent. The company heavily restricts content/speech across their social media apps, how will it affect Muse users if they do the same?
.@alexandr_wang Muse is rejecting my image generation requests bc it thinks I'm asking for an NSFW pic. I'm not. I uploaded a pic of @emrata wearing a vintage gown for a *color* reference, and now i can't generate photos. The censorship regime makes Muse completely unusable :/
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Taylor Lorenz retweeted
Hahahahaha leftists you really know how to align yourselves well
Anything to punch down right?
ALT Instagram post from the Boston Globe opinion: progressives have been obnoxious for a long time. Just ask the lesbian bar.
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Major new survey shows – again – how anti-social-media crusaders like Jonathan Haidt distract attention from real threats to young people mikemales.substack.com/p/maj…
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Taylor Lorenz retweeted
i personally think it’s bad that social media platforms are encouraging ai influencers that sell pump and dump meme coins!
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Trying to upload the NYT's glowing review of my book Extremely Online to @cosign and it's like.... what are you doing on here (the preview image is of grumpy cat, whose multi million dollar business empire I reported on in my book) lol
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I'm laughing so hard
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It was SO SO fun to join @greatchatpod this week and get to talk to @ashleymayer and @helen_min about all the AI doom narratives and more!
We're baaaack with a new season of @greatchatpod!
@TaylorLorenz joins the chat to break down the players and incentives behind the various AI narratives with me and @helen_min. Is humanity doomed? Do young people actually hate AI?
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We're baaaack with a new season of @greatchatpod!
@TaylorLorenz joins the chat to break down the players and incentives behind the various AI narratives with me and @helen_min. Is humanity doomed? Do young people actually hate AI?
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As a tech journalist, my inbox is a MESS.
I receive thousands of emails every day, and more and more of them are written by AI.
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RT @Bonecondor: This article is good, but it contains within it one of the most stunning quadrant graphs I've ever seen. Truly a pristine w…
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Taylor Lorenz retweeted
Our story has been updated with all the latest details.
- DEY. was not just handling inbound interest; it was actively seeking media interviews for Jacob.
- We saw an email of said OUTBOUND on September 9, the day *after* his viral post/WSJ story.
- Still, 9/9 was quite early in that media cycle.
Exclusive in @PirateWires: Jacob has been working with DEY., the PR firm that represents Eliezer Yudkowsky and other famous AI doomers.
We also heard that DEY. was preemptively looking to book Nate Soares (MIRI founder) for interviews timed with Jacob's debut.
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Taylor Lorenz retweeted
Good to see Clinton get community noted. Sick of her taking her uninformed doomerism as her second act
We're used to thinking of open-source models as an unadulterated good. But in the case of AI, they can actually pose additional dangers, as @ReidHoffman and I got into at #CGI2026. I appreciated this nuanced discussion.
Community note
All recent large-scale cyberattacks have been performed by proprietary AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic.
No evidence that open-weight models present any additional cybersecurity risks.
nytimes.com/2026/09/23/tec…
anthropic.com/news/investiga…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI%E2…
opensource.org/blog/openness-…
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