Megan Lynch
@lynchmegan.bsky.social
Publisher of Flatiron Books. Sure, why not?
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I just finished reading “Careless People” and for as much as we wonder why folks are still on the former Twitter, why the ever loving fuck is ANYONE on Facebook
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:08 AM
I just finished reading “Careless People” and for as much as we wonder why folks are still on the former Twitter, why the ever loving fuck is ANYONE on Facebook
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In honor of Larry Summers, I asked the female members of my college class (1987) to say if they had any experiences with sexual harassment by teachers/professors, back when this was tolerated as, I dunno, the cost of attending college, and OH MY GOD.
November 21, 2025 at 12:13 AM
In honor of Larry Summers, I asked the female members of my college class (1987) to say if they had any experiences with sexual harassment by teachers/professors, back when this was tolerated as, I dunno, the cost of attending college, and OH MY GOD.
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so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining
September 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining
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I don't have a good answer for what the alternative looks like, but asking 18 years to bet their future on highly specified training for jobs based on which they think will be in high demand 5-10 years from now turned out to be a very bad way to structure higher education
I wrote last week about how the tech dream is ending for mid-career workers. This is a really good companion piece about how entry level tech jobs are vanishing, too, and the Silicon Valley gold rush is coming to a close: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...
August 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I don't have a good answer for what the alternative looks like, but asking 18 years to bet their future on highly specified training for jobs based on which they think will be in high demand 5-10 years from now turned out to be a very bad way to structure higher education
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For the @latimes.com, I wrote about @emmasloley.bsky.social's wonderful new book, "The Island of Last Things," which was beautiful, bittersweet, bleak, and hopeful, somehow all at the same time:
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Review: Alcatraz is home to the last remaining zoo in Emma Sloley’s resilient ‘The Island of Last Things’
Alcatraz zookeepers refuse to give up even as species are dying in Emma Sloley's 'The Island of Last Things,' a resilient novel set in the future.
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August 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
For the @latimes.com, I wrote about @emmasloley.bsky.social's wonderful new book, "The Island of Last Things," which was beautiful, bittersweet, bleak, and hopeful, somehow all at the same time:
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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Two actors find themselves way over their heads in Alexis Soloski’s and Dan Fesperman’s excellent thrillers.
@flatironbooks.bsky.social
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@flatironbooks.bsky.social
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August 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Two actors find themselves way over their heads in Alexis Soloski’s and Dan Fesperman’s excellent thrillers.
@flatironbooks.bsky.social
www.bookpage.com/?p=217857
@flatironbooks.bsky.social
www.bookpage.com/?p=217857
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SO thrilled with this rave review of Alexis Soloski’s marvelous new thriller FLASHOUT:
A Drama Teacher on the Run From a Lurid Past and a Risky Present
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August 3, 2025 at 10:55 AM
SO thrilled with this rave review of Alexis Soloski’s marvelous new thriller FLASHOUT:
Not to brag, but tonight when we sat down to dinner, my child sighed and said, “Mom, you order the best pizza.”
July 13, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Not to brag, but tonight when we sat down to dinner, my child sighed and said, “Mom, you order the best pizza.”
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people should read “Careless People"
Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan once pledged to fix American education, transform U.S. public policy and “cure all disease.” But now their aims have downsized, jarring some allies of their philanthropy.
Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan Narrow CZI’s Focus to Science Efforts
The tech titan and his wife once had sprawling ambitions for their Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Now their efforts in politics, education and housing have been cut back to focus on science.
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June 29, 2025 at 3:38 PM
people should read “Careless People"
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I once had a fight with my publisher's lawyer over what constitutes "fair use." He said reprinting 4 lines of a poem without the poet's explicit permission was too much. But AI gobbling up whole books now counts as "fair use." Something is definitely wrong with US copyright law.
Federal court says copyrighted books are fair use for AI training
Anthropic didn’t break the law when it trained its chatbot with copyrighted books, a judge said, but it must go to trial for allegedly using pirated books.
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June 26, 2025 at 12:09 PM
I once had a fight with my publisher's lawyer over what constitutes "fair use." He said reprinting 4 lines of a poem without the poet's explicit permission was too much. But AI gobbling up whole books now counts as "fair use." Something is definitely wrong with US copyright law.
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Everyone, please stop what you're doing and read CARELESS PEOPLE. Facebook messing around with global diplomacy and human rights should be a warning about Big AI wearing a mask of geniality and happy progress.
Exactly. It’s absolute bullshit and people keep falling for it.
the problem with this isn't the blithe disregard for ethical concerns, because *none of it will happen*, the problem is that it's blatant bullshit and these people are not only in charge of their massive industry but being taken seriously by governments.
fortune.com/2025/06/06/g...
fortune.com/2025/06/06/g...
June 10, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Everyone, please stop what you're doing and read CARELESS PEOPLE. Facebook messing around with global diplomacy and human rights should be a warning about Big AI wearing a mask of geniality and happy progress.
🎶 I’m gonna live forever 🎶 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/w...
That Cup of Coffee May Have a Longer-Term Perk
www.nytimes.com
June 4, 2025 at 12:09 PM
🎶 I’m gonna live forever 🎶 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/w...
Didn’t think grown men in fleece vests were such a thing outside of Billions until I became a Metro North commuter.
May 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Didn’t think grown men in fleece vests were such a thing outside of Billions until I became a Metro North commuter.
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But “mars isn’t even mid” just cracked me up
May 10, 2025 at 6:58 PM
But “mars isn’t even mid” just cracked me up
Careless People is one of the best books of the year so far. Have you read it yet?: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/b...
The Best Books of the Year (So Far)
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May 10, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Careless People is one of the best books of the year so far. Have you read it yet?: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/b...
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This is WAY funnier if you’ve read Careless People
May 1, 2025 at 9:25 PM
This is WAY funnier if you’ve read Careless People
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The way I just shrieked opening my mail.
April 12, 2025 at 3:42 AM
The way I just shrieked opening my mail.
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This piece is worth reading. It discusses the meaninglessness of the term "middle class" and how the "comfort class," which can be read as the "elites" MAGA folks are railing against fundamentally misunderstands its own classism. Made me reconsider my own position www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
What the Comfort Class Doesn’t Get
People with generational wealth control a society that they don’t understand.
www.theatlantic.com
April 6, 2025 at 2:56 PM
This piece is worth reading. It discusses the meaninglessness of the term "middle class" and how the "comfort class," which can be read as the "elites" MAGA folks are railing against fundamentally misunderstands its own classism. Made me reconsider my own position www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Xochitl Gonzalez’s theory of the Comfort Class: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
What the Comfort Class Doesn’t Get
People with generational wealth control a society that they don’t understand.
www.theatlantic.com
April 6, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Xochitl Gonzalez’s theory of the Comfort Class: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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'Careless People' author Sarah Wynn-Williams will testify at a Senate hearing next week
#engadget
#engadget
'Careless People' author Sarah Wynn-Williams will testify at a Senate hearing next week
Sarah Wynn-Williams, the former Facebook policy director behind a best-selling memoir about her time at the company, will testify at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing next week.
www.engadget.com
April 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
'Careless People' author Sarah Wynn-Williams will testify at a Senate hearing next week
#engadget
#engadget
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this is a jump out of reality for me
April 1, 2025 at 12:15 AM
this is a jump out of reality for me
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My review of WILD DARK SHORE by Charlotte McConaghy is in today’s New York Times Book Review! A fantastic novel.
March 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
My review of WILD DARK SHORE by Charlotte McConaghy is in today’s New York Times Book Review! A fantastic novel.