katie devin orenstein
@katiedorenstein.bsky.social
partly jane fonda, and partly jane austen, but alive.
likes&retweets do not equal endorsement
likes&retweets do not equal endorsement
it's getting Weird Out Here part 193,752: bookshop.org has a listing for a book of 40 photographs of the Edinburgh subway system. but Edinburgh doesn't HAVE a subway. its entirely AI generated
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November 28, 2025 at 7:30 AM
it's getting Weird Out Here part 193,752: bookshop.org has a listing for a book of 40 photographs of the Edinburgh subway system. but Edinburgh doesn't HAVE a subway. its entirely AI generated
Jonathan Bailey as Fiyero… I kept waiting for him to make a Mary’s Teacher-esque heel turn
November 25, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Jonathan Bailey as Fiyero… I kept waiting for him to make a Mary’s Teacher-esque heel turn
pointing at this photo and just incoherently ranting
November 25, 2025 at 10:29 PM
pointing at this photo and just incoherently ranting
Ed Markey
Wow — Senators Van Hollen, Smith, Murphy, Sanders, Warren, Markey, Merkley, Heinrich have created an official internal "Fight Club."
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
Chuck Schumer Faces Pushback From a ‘Fight Club’ of Senate Democrats
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Ed Markey
Boston saw New York enjoying its cool mayor and had to remind us who’s boss
An honor and dream come true to perform alongside Yo-Yo Ma, presented by Celebrity Series at Boston Symphony Hall. 💜
🎼Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)
🎼Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)
November 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Boston saw New York enjoying its cool mayor and had to remind us who’s boss
A lot of fascinating stuff inside PRACTICE by Nazareth Hassan, now at Playwrights Horizons, including barn burner performances by some really exciting debuts, the best contemporary costume design I’ve seen since GIRLS, and a reminder that Alex Wyse is an excellent physical comedian. (1/?
November 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
A lot of fascinating stuff inside PRACTICE by Nazareth Hassan, now at Playwrights Horizons, including barn burner performances by some really exciting debuts, the best contemporary costume design I’ve seen since GIRLS, and a reminder that Alex Wyse is an excellent physical comedian. (1/?
WHEN IS CHRIS PERFETTI COMING BACK TO NEW YORK THEATER and no, Jackson, the little island mountain lion thing doesn’t count,
November 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
WHEN IS CHRIS PERFETTI COMING BACK TO NEW YORK THEATER and no, Jackson, the little island mountain lion thing doesn’t count,
well, One Night in Bangkok is stuck in my head
November 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
well, One Night in Bangkok is stuck in my head
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Yep. Some go into journalism to have access to power, to be power's handmaiden & PR. Others go into journalism to question & illuminate the operation of power & how some norms/systems hurt the powerless. Wolff just 1 of many examples showing--again--the former is very common& usu far more lucrative.
Aside from every other repulsive thing about these Epstein emails, they offer direct confirmation of Michael Wolff as one of the sketchiest creeps in a teeming universe of gross behavior
November 13, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Yep. Some go into journalism to have access to power, to be power's handmaiden & PR. Others go into journalism to question & illuminate the operation of power & how some norms/systems hurt the powerless. Wolff just 1 of many examples showing--again--the former is very common& usu far more lucrative.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HELEN
Torrey Townsend's "Jewish Plot" has two more nights: tonight (Sunday) and tomorrow (Monday). It's the rare show where anything I say could undermine it; the tonal and structural switchbacks here are genuinely exhilarating & I don't want to ruin it for anyone who can get to Theatre 154 in time. (1/4)
November 9, 2025 at 6:14 PM
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HELEN
Finally, a sane person
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Finally, a sane person
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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OVER A MILLION USERS
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 10:59 PM
OVER A MILLION USERS
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
it's crazy how good things are possible when you aren't a weird mean freak !
November 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
it's crazy how good things are possible when you aren't a weird mean freak !
a guy with zohran's policies would be the center-right candidate in northern europe but i'll shut up now
November 5, 2025 at 2:49 AM
a guy with zohran's policies would be the center-right candidate in northern europe but i'll shut up now
ok I’m gonna do an @isaacbutler.bsky.social Method book reaction thread ⬇️
November 3, 2025 at 10:15 PM
ok I’m gonna do an @isaacbutler.bsky.social Method book reaction thread ⬇️
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all the staffers at teen vogue who just got laid off I hope yall feel how appreciated your work has been by so many.
November 3, 2025 at 9:31 PM
all the staffers at teen vogue who just got laid off I hope yall feel how appreciated your work has been by so many.
what came up recently is “Jason Biggs, from The Heidi Chronicles”
I think everybody has a “Wallace Shawn from Young Sheldon” — my first one would probably be “Vincent Price, the guy who did the voice of Ratigan in The Great Mouse Detective”
November 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
what came up recently is “Jason Biggs, from The Heidi Chronicles”
forgive me, I was once a “Bob Odenkirk from Little Women“ person
I think everybody has a “Wallace Shawn from Young Sheldon” — my first one would probably be “Vincent Price, the guy who did the voice of Ratigan in The Great Mouse Detective”
November 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
forgive me, I was once a “Bob Odenkirk from Little Women“ person
Just a little pop psychology today, I feel like we’ve conflated the “cringe” of enthusiasm with what actually makes most of us cringe, which is bad taste or a lack of taste at all. It’s not cringey when people are enthusiastic! the problem is being boring!
October 31, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Just a little pop psychology today, I feel like we’ve conflated the “cringe” of enthusiasm with what actually makes most of us cringe, which is bad taste or a lack of taste at all. It’s not cringey when people are enthusiastic! the problem is being boring!
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As of this month, the screens in NYC's yellow taxis are now playing national news from Newsmax—the ultra-conservative media outlet known for pushing baseless election fraud claims.
Taxi TV Is MAGA Now
New York City taxi riders are now served conservative news segments during their trips.
hellgatenyc.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:36 PM
As of this month, the screens in NYC's yellow taxis are now playing national news from Newsmax—the ultra-conservative media outlet known for pushing baseless election fraud claims.
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The AWS outage today is a good reminder that there is no "cloud", there's just somebody else's computer.
October 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The AWS outage today is a good reminder that there is no "cloud", there's just somebody else's computer.
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the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist
October 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist
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surely this is going to go well in the medium and long terms, when new info is needed for LLMs and there's no new info to get because it has destroyed the market for humans discovering and writing things
October 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
surely this is going to go well in the medium and long terms, when new info is needed for LLMs and there's no new info to get because it has destroyed the market for humans discovering and writing things
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So for-profit AI companies have trained on the world's largest collaborative volunteer project and a precious free resource, to make money for their for-profit enterprises. They have crushed traffic to the volunteer project, starving it of donors and volunteers
www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
So for-profit AI companies have trained on the world's largest collaborative volunteer project and a precious free resource, to make money for their for-profit enterprises. They have crushed traffic to the volunteer project, starving it of donors and volunteers
www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
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To no one’s surprise, Tracy Letts’ @criterion.bsky.social Closet video is an all-timer. “Put on some pants and take your dissonance like a man.”
criterioncollection on Instagram: "✨Tracy Letts's Closet Picks!✨ The playwright and actor praises DO THE RIGHT THING as the best film of the eighties, talks about the…"
✨Tracy Letts's Closet Picks!✨ The playwright and actor praises DO THE RIGHT THING as the best film of the eighties, talks about the comfort of watching his favorite westerns, and selects Chicago cinema classics like HOOP DREAMS and LOVE JONES. ✨ You can see Tracy next in Kathryn Bigelow's HOUSE OF DYNAMITE on @netflix and FX's THE LOWDOWN. On the Criterion Channel, watch William Friedkin's BUG (2006), a searing psychological thriller adapted by Tracy from his own hit play!
www.instagram.com
October 18, 2025 at 8:40 PM
To no one’s surprise, Tracy Letts’ @criterion.bsky.social Closet video is an all-timer. “Put on some pants and take your dissonance like a man.”