Rebecca Long
@bexlong.bsky.social
Writer, Editor, 🎬 Critic | Journalism: Guardian, Slate, Teen Vogue, etc | Creative: Flash Frog, HAD, Maudlin, etc | 🥇 Flash Fiction Mag '24 | Reader at @fracturedlit.bsky.social
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NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst.
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
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It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
The Great AI Bubble
Yes, it's a bubble. And yes, it's going to burst.
open.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM
NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst.
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
Buy this book! I'm in it :)
Available here! bookshop.org/p/books/year...
November 8, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Buy this book! I'm in it :)
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Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
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Mere months ago, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social was polling at 1 percent—right next to “Someone Else.” Tonight, he was elected New York City’s newest mayor.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Mere months ago, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social was polling at 1 percent—right next to “Someone Else.” Tonight, he was elected New York City’s newest mayor.
www.wired.com/story/the-bi...
www.wired.com/story/the-bi...
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I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
The article I'm MOST proud of writing was published by Teen Vogue. I'll never understand how Conde could gut their scrappy, award-winning politics team. Such a huge loss.
November 3, 2025 at 10:16 PM
The article I'm MOST proud of writing was published by Teen Vogue. I'll never understand how Conde could gut their scrappy, award-winning politics team. Such a huge loss.
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I'm taking a big chance by moving from Substack to Ghost and I could use some help. Please share widely.
Welcome to It's the Pictures. New users can get a special rate if they sign up using this link:
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It's the Pictures
A weekly entertainment newsletter on movies, television, and anime. An extension of the It’s the Pictures podcast.
www.itsthepictures.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:34 PM
I'm taking a big chance by moving from Substack to Ghost and I could use some help. Please share widely.
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We were so happy to see everyone's enthusiasm for our project to reprint pieces from Bitch Media! We are all excited because we also loved Bitch just as much as you. It was a formative publication for many of us. So here's a thread of some of our fave Bitch articles.
November 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
We were so happy to see everyone's enthusiasm for our project to reprint pieces from Bitch Media! We are all excited because we also loved Bitch just as much as you. It was a formative publication for many of us. So here's a thread of some of our fave Bitch articles.
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There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All
I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.
www.wired.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:58 PM
There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
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Instead of trying to green cars so much why don't we just invest in trains. city trains. under ground trains. above ground trains. trains between cities. trains between countries. TRAINS
THE PEOPLE CRAVE TRAINS
THE PEOPLE CRAVE TRAINS
October 28, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Instead of trying to green cars so much why don't we just invest in trains. city trains. under ground trains. above ground trains. trains between cities. trains between countries. TRAINS
THE PEOPLE CRAVE TRAINS
THE PEOPLE CRAVE TRAINS
The way I gasped when he caught this one
October 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The way I gasped when he caught this one
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The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is out on 4K Blu-Ray for the first time! (Wooo physical media!) I covered the release for Inverse ⏳
www.inverse.com/entertainmen...
www.inverse.com/entertainmen...
19 Years Later, The Most Underrated Time-Loop Movie Of The Century Just Got A Huge Upgrade
'The Girl Who Leapt Through Time' was mostly overlooked upon release, but its new 4K UHD upgrade will hopefully give it the attention it deserves.
www.inverse.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is out on 4K Blu-Ray for the first time! (Wooo physical media!) I covered the release for Inverse ⏳
www.inverse.com/entertainmen...
www.inverse.com/entertainmen...
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Heard about the Louvre jewel heist and my first thought was “finally, some good old fashioned normal crime”
October 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Heard about the Louvre jewel heist and my first thought was “finally, some good old fashioned normal crime”
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“My mother developed a system for our bread that allotted 6 small pieces to each family member over 3 days—of course, Fatosha & Massoud were included, each cat receiving one piece.” While enduring starvation themselves, Lamar & her mother walked Gaza’s streets in search of stray cats to feed.
Our love for Gaza's cats is a light that refuses to go out
During the genocide, my mother and I walked the city's streets in search of stray cats to feed, these small souls giving us a reason to keep going
prismreports.org
October 18, 2025 at 8:05 PM
“My mother developed a system for our bread that allotted 6 small pieces to each family member over 3 days—of course, Fatosha & Massoud were included, each cat receiving one piece.” While enduring starvation themselves, Lamar & her mother walked Gaza’s streets in search of stray cats to feed.
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is out on 4K Blu-Ray for the first time! (Wooo physical media!) I covered the release for Inverse ⏳
www.inverse.com/entertainmen...
www.inverse.com/entertainmen...
19 Years Later, The Most Underrated Time-Loop Movie Of The Century Just Got A Huge Upgrade
'The Girl Who Leapt Through Time' was mostly overlooked upon release, but its new 4K UHD upgrade will hopefully give it the attention it deserves.
www.inverse.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is out on 4K Blu-Ray for the first time! (Wooo physical media!) I covered the release for Inverse ⏳
www.inverse.com/entertainmen...
www.inverse.com/entertainmen...
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RIP Drew Struzan, prolific illustrator of iconic movie posters for franchises such as Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Back to the Future and many more. #DrewStruzan #movieposters #RIP www.pastemagazine.com/movies/drew-...
RIP Drew Struzan, Prolific Illustrator of Iconic Movie Posters
Drew Struzan's more than 150 film posters include some of the most iconic and heavily reproduced promotional images ever created.
www.pastemagazine.com
October 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
RIP Drew Struzan, prolific illustrator of iconic movie posters for franchises such as Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Back to the Future and many more. #DrewStruzan #movieposters #RIP www.pastemagazine.com/movies/drew-...
Had zero experience with mysteries but picked up Liz Moore's God of the Woods this year because of the cover, and I've been inhaling mysteries since. It was *that* good.
October 14, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Had zero experience with mysteries but picked up Liz Moore's God of the Woods this year because of the cover, and I've been inhaling mysteries since. It was *that* good.
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gene kelly is antifa
October 14, 2025 at 12:07 AM
gene kelly is antifa
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During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.
It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’
During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...
chicago.suntimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.
It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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Six former surgeons general appointed by every President since George HW Bush warn that RFK Jr. is endangering the health of the nation, calling his policies/positions a “profound, immediate + unprecedented threat”
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.
We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Six former surgeons general appointed by every President since George HW Bush warn that RFK Jr. is endangering the health of the nation, calling his policies/positions a “profound, immediate + unprecedented threat”
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Donald Trump’s deployments of the National Guard to American cities “are best understood as an effort to erode the nation’s sense that such use of the military is unacceptable,” Quinta Jurecic argues.
Trump Is Destroying One of America’s Oldest Traditions
America has always had a strong aversion to seeing the military on the country’s streets. That is not stopping the current president.
bit.ly
October 7, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Donald Trump’s deployments of the National Guard to American cities “are best understood as an effort to erode the nation’s sense that such use of the military is unacceptable,” Quinta Jurecic argues.
There is something so dystopian about TS's nonstop self-promotion (of an album that's not all that good) in a moment when she could be using her platform (which is larger than p much anyone else's in the world) to speak up for literally any of the pressing issues we face.
October 7, 2025 at 10:12 PM
There is something so dystopian about TS's nonstop self-promotion (of an album that's not all that good) in a moment when she could be using her platform (which is larger than p much anyone else's in the world) to speak up for literally any of the pressing issues we face.
Serves me right for trying to Google something about Yom Kippur
October 2, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Serves me right for trying to Google something about Yom Kippur
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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wrote about how the saudi govt is buying its way into games, sports, and everything else you like so that holding them to account becomes that much more costly
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/j...
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/j...
Why Did Jared Kushner and Saudi Investors Take Over EA Games?
The short answer: Entertainment is the new oil.
www.vanityfair.com
September 30, 2025 at 8:35 PM
wrote about how the saudi govt is buying its way into games, sports, and everything else you like so that holding them to account becomes that much more costly
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/j...
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/j...