Michelle Jaworski
@michejaw.bsky.social
reporter/editor/critic for hire | words: go mag, daily beast, reactor mag, daily dot | member OAFFC | she/her
I just think that movie sweaters are really neat: https://knitflicks.beehiiv.com
I just think that movie sweaters are really neat: https://knitflicks.beehiiv.com
Pinned
Two weeks, 63 regular polls (plus one more for that tie), hundreds of votes, several close calls, and more time than I can tell you. It all comes down to this: knitflicks.beehiiv.com/p/knit-madne...
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Another revelation from all of these emails is that many of the richest and most powerful people in the country absolutely cannot write. Helps explain their sweaty embrace of LLMs.
November 13, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Another revelation from all of these emails is that many of the richest and most powerful people in the country absolutely cannot write. Helps explain their sweaty embrace of LLMs.
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For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
Epstein Document Search
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
November 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
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evergreen
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 AM
evergreen
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Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.
HEAD'S UP FELLOW #CREATIVES!
If you haven't heard, #Grammarly is changing...and one change that doesn't pass the smell test is the incorporation of the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine that is #AI. 😒
I'm ditching Grammarly TONIGHT. #Writing #Writers #NoAI
www.grammarly.com/blog/company...
If you haven't heard, #Grammarly is changing...and one change that doesn't pass the smell test is the incorporation of the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine that is #AI. 😒
I'm ditching Grammarly TONIGHT. #Writing #Writers #NoAI
www.grammarly.com/blog/company...
Grammarly Rebrands Company as Superhuman, Introduces Superhuman Suite and Superhuman Go
Superhuman Platform delivers proactive, context-aware AI agents that work in the flow of work, wherever people work Grammarly today announced it is changing its company…
www.grammarly.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.
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...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site
dissatisfied by the New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani?
great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People
“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”
www.teenvogue.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site
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November 2, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Laying off 1000 people (with likely 1000 more to come) while paying $7.7 billion for UFC, and signing big deals with the Duffer Brothers, South Park, Call of Duty, and (barf) Bari Weiss is monstrous. These people are monsters.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
Paramount Layoffs Begin: David Ellison Tells Staff Restructuring Required to Address “Evolving Priorities”
About 1,000 roles are expected to be impacted this week, ahead of the new owner's first earnings call as Paramount CEO in November.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Laying off 1000 people (with likely 1000 more to come) while paying $7.7 billion for UFC, and signing big deals with the Duffer Brothers, South Park, Call of Duty, and (barf) Bari Weiss is monstrous. These people are monsters.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
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oh my god, The Tweet is exactly ten years old tonight
![screenshot of a Justin Klugh tweet from October 28, 2015:
JOE BUCK: Welcome to the top of the 47th
[Sun rises]
[Sun keeps getting bigger]
BUCK: yes
[World engulfed by flames]
BUCK: oh god yes](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t2bjwvguncd35fna7ruckjtw/bafkreiczbp37nmuosnvgyrbv3nfdxupczam3ezjeri5cpio36htjuyiisy@jpeg)
October 28, 2025 at 5:25 AM
oh my god, The Tweet is exactly ten years old tonight
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You can tell its a good World Series because nobody looks happy to be there.
October 28, 2025 at 4:09 AM
You can tell its a good World Series because nobody looks happy to be there.
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friend shared this, immediately updated my settings
October 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
friend shared this, immediately updated my settings
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“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡
Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI
Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.
www.npr.org
October 23, 2025 at 10:08 PM
“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡
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SNAP benefits expire in one week.
Leavitt: At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the president's main priority.
October 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM
SNAP benefits expire in one week.
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October 22, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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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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deserve its own post
October 19, 2025 at 6:04 AM
deserve its own post
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repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself
An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.
October 8, 2025 at 10:44 PM
repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself
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please read my memo www.theverge.com/business/793...
Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed
Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?
www.theverge.com
October 7, 2025 at 2:05 PM
please read my memo www.theverge.com/business/793...
Request: I just finished watching watching all of TWIN PEAKS (the original show, FIRE WALK WITH ME, and THE RETURN) for the first time last night and want to read about it as much as I possibly can. Please send any and all recommendations my way
October 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Request: I just finished watching watching all of TWIN PEAKS (the original show, FIRE WALK WITH ME, and THE RETURN) for the first time last night and want to read about it as much as I possibly can. Please send any and all recommendations my way
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You work hard as a journalist. You lead with empathy, and you sweat details. You operate in good faith. You believe in honesty and truth. You get yelled at by the president of the United States. You worry that you'll get laid off. Again and again.
And then you see this. www.wsj.com/business/med...
And then you see this. www.wsj.com/business/med...
Paramount Buys Bari Weiss’s the Free Press for $150 Million
Weiss, who once said she was done with legacy media, is to take control of CBS News’s editorial vision, aiming for “news that reflects reality.”
www.wsj.com
October 6, 2025 at 12:37 PM
You work hard as a journalist. You lead with empathy, and you sweat details. You operate in good faith. You believe in honesty and truth. You get yelled at by the president of the United States. You worry that you'll get laid off. Again and again.
And then you see this. www.wsj.com/business/med...
And then you see this. www.wsj.com/business/med...
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Hey New Yorkers!
October 20: Last day to change or update your address for the election
October 25: Last day your application to register to vote can be received meaning it needs to be sent in earlier
Also October 25: Early voting begins!
Check your registration now: voterlookup.elections.ny.gov
October 20: Last day to change or update your address for the election
October 25: Last day your application to register to vote can be received meaning it needs to be sent in earlier
Also October 25: Early voting begins!
Check your registration now: voterlookup.elections.ny.gov
Voter Search Screen for VoterLookUp
voterlookup.elections.ny.gov
September 29, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Hey New Yorkers!
October 20: Last day to change or update your address for the election
October 25: Last day your application to register to vote can be received meaning it needs to be sent in earlier
Also October 25: Early voting begins!
Check your registration now: voterlookup.elections.ny.gov
October 20: Last day to change or update your address for the election
October 25: Last day your application to register to vote can be received meaning it needs to be sent in earlier
Also October 25: Early voting begins!
Check your registration now: voterlookup.elections.ny.gov
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Wrote for @thenation.com about the complicity of some liberal politicians and pundits in the conservative campaign to exterminate trans people www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The Right Wants to Exterminate Trans People. Liberals Are Helping.
After the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the conservative movement has accelerated its war against trans people. And too many centrist Democrats have kept up their trans bashing.
www.thenation.com
September 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Wrote for @thenation.com about the complicity of some liberal politicians and pundits in the conservative campaign to exterminate trans people www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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free your mind from Shareholder Disease! I cannot think of a less joyful use of brainpower than sitting in a theater wondering "How could this possibly be profitable for WB?"
People are whining that One Battle After Another cost too much money and will have a soft opening but whatever because a) it’s not your money they spent b) movies have a life beyond the opening weekend c) I expect strong legs for this one because everyone loves it
September 25, 2025 at 2:55 PM
free your mind from Shareholder Disease! I cannot think of a less joyful use of brainpower than sitting in a theater wondering "How could this possibly be profitable for WB?"
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OK, not even getting into the ethics or the existential issues around AI: Have some goddamn self-respect. If you're a writer and you do this I don't know how you look at yourself, but I know exactly how I look at you.
Scoop: Business Insider informed its staff this week that they are allowed to use ChatGPT to generate first drafts of their stories, while also indicating the newsroom will not disclose such A.I. use to readers.
Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/business-i...
Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/business-i...
Business Insider and the Bots
The Axel Springer-owned newsroom is buzzing over new ChatGPT writing guidelines—part of an aggressive A.I. strategy pushed by its German parentco and detailed in a memo obtained by Status.
www.status.news
September 17, 2025 at 1:31 AM
OK, not even getting into the ethics or the existential issues around AI: Have some goddamn self-respect. If you're a writer and you do this I don't know how you look at yourself, but I know exactly how I look at you.