Steph De Luca
@stephanideluca.bsky.social
writer for film & TV // researcher, native New Englander, she/her
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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Tell Condé bosses to reinstate the Fired Four, reverse the suspensions, and end the union-busting: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
Tell Condé bosses to reinstate the Fired Four, reverse the suspensions and end the union-busting
On Nov. 5, 2025 in an egregious attempt at union-busting, Condé Nast management illegally terminated four union members – Alma Avalle, Jake Lahut, Jasper Lo and Ben Dewey – for participating in federa...
actionnetwork.org
November 12, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Tell Condé bosses to reinstate the Fired Four, reverse the suspensions, and end the union-busting: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
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ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections
November 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections
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among other things, mamdani is mostly running on stuff that is pretty specific to nyc, idk what national democrats would take from him besides "use government to benefit your constituents in ways that make sense to them" and "have the [regionally specific] juice"
October 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
among other things, mamdani is mostly running on stuff that is pretty specific to nyc, idk what national democrats would take from him besides "use government to benefit your constituents in ways that make sense to them" and "have the [regionally specific] juice"
Social Network 3, The Bulldozing or: How Zuck Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Winklevi
This is who is paying for the destruction of the White House East Wing, per @wsj.com
Altria Group Inc.
Amazon
Apple Inc.
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.
Caterpillar Inc.
Coinbase Global
Comcast Corp.
Hard Rock International
Google
HP Inc.
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Meta Platforms Inc.
1/3
Altria Group Inc.
Amazon
Apple Inc.
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.
Caterpillar Inc.
Coinbase Global
Comcast Corp.
Hard Rock International
HP Inc.
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Meta Platforms Inc.
1/3
October 21, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Social Network 3, The Bulldozing or: How Zuck Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Winklevi
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The woman hosting this shit is CMO at a VC firm that funds AI projects. But the great @nytimes.com does not disclose that
“Prompt parties,” gatherings of women over cheese and wine to chat about how ChatGPT can help them, are emerging as the next-generation of Tupperware party in San Francisco.
Wine, Cheese and ChatGPT: Ladies’ Night in San Francisco
www.nytimes.com
October 21, 2025 at 1:34 AM
The woman hosting this shit is CMO at a VC firm that funds AI projects. But the great @nytimes.com does not disclose that
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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
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Here's Diane Keaton at Warren Beatty's AFI tribute, talking about a perfect (no exaggeration) scene in Reds--taking the mystique out of filmmaking and then putting it right back in, in just two minutes. She was exquisite. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_RS...
Diane Keaton on making REDS with Warren Beatty
YouTube video by American Film Institute
www.youtube.com
October 13, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Here's Diane Keaton at Warren Beatty's AFI tribute, talking about a perfect (no exaggeration) scene in Reds--taking the mystique out of filmmaking and then putting it right back in, in just two minutes. She was exquisite. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_RS...
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THE LOWDOWN is a real fuckin pleasure, shot in dusty tans and grays and rich, jewel-bright greens. It's a little bit FARGO, a little bit THE BIG LEBOWSKI. Hawke is great at the head of a frankly unbelievable cast.
October 2, 2025 at 1:23 AM
THE LOWDOWN is a real fuckin pleasure, shot in dusty tans and grays and rich, jewel-bright greens. It's a little bit FARGO, a little bit THE BIG LEBOWSKI. Hawke is great at the head of a frankly unbelievable cast.
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If you've done in-person research at any of the following presidential libraries in the last 8 months, can you please follow me/contact me—soon—for a story I'm working on (can be off the record)?
Hoover
FDR
Truman
Eisenhower
JFK
LBJ
Ford
Carter
And either way, can you please share this request? 🙏
Hoover
FDR
Truman
Eisenhower
JFK
LBJ
Ford
Carter
And either way, can you please share this request? 🙏
September 30, 2025 at 10:52 PM
If you've done in-person research at any of the following presidential libraries in the last 8 months, can you please follow me/contact me—soon—for a story I'm working on (can be off the record)?
Hoover
FDR
Truman
Eisenhower
JFK
LBJ
Ford
Carter
And either way, can you please share this request? 🙏
Hoover
FDR
Truman
Eisenhower
JFK
LBJ
Ford
Carter
And either way, can you please share this request? 🙏
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I'm sure this has been mentioned but, back in 2003, ABC's first choice for the late-night job was Jon Stewart.
But ABC felt Stewart was too "topical"/political, especially for the network of Roseanne and Home Improvement. So they went with Kimmel. And here we are. www.nytimes.com/2002/11/03/m...
But ABC felt Stewart was too "topical"/political, especially for the network of Roseanne and Home Improvement. So they went with Kimmel. And here we are. www.nytimes.com/2002/11/03/m...
September 24, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I'm sure this has been mentioned but, back in 2003, ABC's first choice for the late-night job was Jon Stewart.
But ABC felt Stewart was too "topical"/political, especially for the network of Roseanne and Home Improvement. So they went with Kimmel. And here we are. www.nytimes.com/2002/11/03/m...
But ABC felt Stewart was too "topical"/political, especially for the network of Roseanne and Home Improvement. So they went with Kimmel. And here we are. www.nytimes.com/2002/11/03/m...
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anthropic AI class action lawsuit if you're an author who's work was stolen: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...
Anthropic Authors’ Rights Class Action – Author Contact Page – Lieff Cabraser
www.lieffcabraser.com
August 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM
anthropic AI class action lawsuit if you're an author who's work was stolen: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...
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also consider The Flytrap, to which I subscribe and whose founder inspired this thread. Also they are worker-owned and just partnered with National Writers Union on freelancer policies and subs are currently 15% off:
theflytrap.beehiiv.com/p/we-ve-gone...
theflytrap.beehiiv.com/p/we-ve-gone...
We've Gone UNION, Baby!
The Flytrap is partnering with the National Writers Union on freelancer policies
theflytrap.beehiiv.com
August 6, 2025 at 4:44 AM
also consider The Flytrap, to which I subscribe and whose founder inspired this thread. Also they are worker-owned and just partnered with National Writers Union on freelancer policies and subs are currently 15% off:
theflytrap.beehiiv.com/p/we-ve-gone...
theflytrap.beehiiv.com/p/we-ve-gone...
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Even assuming an LLM stumbled into a revolutionary scientific discovery, it would only be an untested hypothesis. A lack of hypotheses is not science's problem - it's $$ for the research to test those hypotheses that's sorely needed. And, that's being cut to fund LLMs.
I just now realized that some guys think that fancy predictive text can make new scientific discoveries but that doesn’t even make sense.
July 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Even assuming an LLM stumbled into a revolutionary scientific discovery, it would only be an untested hypothesis. A lack of hypotheses is not science's problem - it's $$ for the research to test those hypotheses that's sorely needed. And, that's being cut to fund LLMs.
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You can read all the retrospectives about Epstein running now. But to really understand the case, go right to the @jkbjournalist.bsky.social series in the @miamiherald.com that ran 7 years ago (and for completely inexplicable reasons, never won a Pulitzer).
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a...
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a...
How a future Trump Cabinet member gave a serial sex abuser the deal of a lifetime
Palm Beach multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein was accused of sexually abusing dozens of underage girls. Prosecutors, including future Trump labor secretary Alexander Acosta, cut Epstein an extraordinary...
www.miamiherald.com
July 19, 2025 at 10:44 PM
You can read all the retrospectives about Epstein running now. But to really understand the case, go right to the @jkbjournalist.bsky.social series in the @miamiherald.com that ran 7 years ago (and for completely inexplicable reasons, never won a Pulitzer).
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a...
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a...
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the only thing donald trump can’t draw is a clock
July 18, 2025 at 2:33 AM
the only thing donald trump can’t draw is a clock
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Other countries have social safety nets. The US has women.
If that wasn't already true, it certainly will be if these Medicaid cuts go through.
If that wasn't already true, it certainly will be if these Medicaid cuts go through.
June 28, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Other countries have social safety nets. The US has women.
If that wasn't already true, it certainly will be if these Medicaid cuts go through.
If that wasn't already true, it certainly will be if these Medicaid cuts go through.
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Highly recommend watching the @hellgatenyc.com livestream starting at 8:30 hellgatenyc.com/primary-live...
Hell Gate Will Go Live on Primary Night
Want to watch live coverage of Tuesday's primary results? Hell Gate is here for you!
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June 25, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Highly recommend watching the @hellgatenyc.com livestream starting at 8:30 hellgatenyc.com/primary-live...
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Nothing is a fucking distraction from anything it’s all the one thing
June 22, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Nothing is a fucking distraction from anything it’s all the one thing
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God my absolute heart is with the people of Iran, who’ve fought so steadfastly for their own liberation, and are getting fucked half a dozen ways by a whole pantheon of geriatric war criminals while being told they should be grateful for it
June 22, 2025 at 1:14 AM
God my absolute heart is with the people of Iran, who’ve fought so steadfastly for their own liberation, and are getting fucked half a dozen ways by a whole pantheon of geriatric war criminals while being told they should be grateful for it
Cuomo doesn't actually want to be mayor. He's bullying his way to a presidential nom. We'll all suffer if he's allowed this charade.
Just learned from @katiehonan.bsky.social that Andrew Cuomo didn’t show up for his scheduled interview with the New York Editorial Board this morning. (That’s the independent org of veteran journalists trying to fill the gap left by NYT edit board.)
June 16, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Cuomo doesn't actually want to be mayor. He's bullying his way to a presidential nom. We'll all suffer if he's allowed this charade.
The 3.5% principle comes from political scientists Erica Chenoweth's research on successful non-violent resistance movements. It's not just some nonsense someone with a Canva acct cooked up.
June 16, 2025 at 11:34 PM
The 3.5% principle comes from political scientists Erica Chenoweth's research on successful non-violent resistance movements. It's not just some nonsense someone with a Canva acct cooked up.
This club has everything...
Ex Cambridge Analytica exec Brittany Kaiser - a self-titled whistleblower who wrote a memoir on how big data, Trump & Facebook broke democracy - is Director and 1.4% owner of Gryphon Digital Mining which is merging with American Bitcoin part owned by Don Jr and Eric Trump
www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...
www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...
www.sec.gov
June 10, 2025 at 1:07 AM
This club has everything...