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.

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

An Interview with Lawrence, Icon of the Pop Underground Across several terrific bands—Felt, Denim, Go-Kart Mozart, Mozart Estate—the mononymous British singer-songwriter built an oeuvre of jangle-pop gems that flew unknown the radar. After a documentary an...

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

pitchfork.com/features/int...

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.

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.

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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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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

I know, but one can dream

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!

oh

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

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.

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

Rumeysa Ozturk’s description of going to a library inside an ICE detention facility and finding handwritten notes from other detainees left in the margins of a novel

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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."

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.

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.”

Image of float in LA Pride parade

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