Naomi Rohatyn

Thrilled to announce that my (award-winning!) little short is now available to view on Reveel: reveel.net/programs/13025… Thank you so much to every single person who worked on Happy You Near 🎬🍿🙌🥂🍾♥️

john waters at the no kings rally in provincetown

Even if Trump ever gets removed from office or after he’s gone, the US will never have Germany’s “Never Again” because half the country is full of dumb fucks that would still do it all over again

Depressing to come on here & see pro writers/journalists talk about using AI to "streamline" the process of writing. Really shows how many players have no love for the game. The process is the whole point! Trying to figure it out, & then figuring it out, is why you write!

It’s a cosmic tragedy and also somehow perfectly fitting that Zohran is like the only major politician in America who actually does anything and he can’t be president

genuinely fascinating that we’ve hit a point where the full monetization of the internet and ai bot takeover has led to a majority of people wanting tech minimalism

This needs to become illegal. It is data collection + intimidation of existing employees + stock market manipulation + HR pretending to be working. Literally nothing is good about it and it damages the social fabric a lot.

🚨BREAKING: Every book you have ever read. Every novel that has ever been published. It is sitting inside ChatGPT right now. Word for word. Up to 90% of it. And OpenAI told a judge that was impossible. Researchers at Stony Brook University and Columbia Law School just proved it. They fine tuned GPT-4o, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and DeepSeek V3.1 on a simple task: expand a plot summary into full text. A normal use case. The kind of thing a writing assistant is built for. No hacking. No jailbreaking. No tricks. The models started reciting copyrighted books from memory. Not paraphrasing. Not summarizing. Entire pages reproduced verbatim. Single unbroken spans exceeding 460 words. Up to 85 to 90% of entire copyrighted novels. Word for word. Then it got worse. The researchers fine tuned the models on the works of only one author. Haruki Murakami. Just his novels. Nothing else. It unlocked verbatim recall of books from over 30 completely unrelated authors. One author's books opened the vault to everyone else's. The memorization was already inside the model the whole time. The fine tuning just removed the lock. Your book might be in there right now. You would never know it unless someone looked. Every safety measure the companies rely on failed. RLHF failed. System prompts failed. Output filters failed. The exact protections these companies cite in courtroom defenses did not stop a single page from being extracted. Then the researchers compared the three models. GPT-4o. Gemini. DeepSeek. Three different companies. Three different countries. They all memorized the same books in the same regions. The correlation was 0.90 or higher. That means they all trained on the same stolen data. The paper names the sources directly: LibGen and Books3. Over 190,000 copyrighted books obtained from pirated websites. Right now, authors and publishers have dozens of active lawsuits against OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta. These companies have argued in court that their models learn patterns. Not copies. That no book is stored inside the weights. This paper says that is a lie. The books are still inside. And researchers just pulled them out.

The amazing thing about Trump is he’s both the emperor with no clothes and the little kid who blurts that the emperor has no clothes at the same time.

Myth: If we tax billionaires they won't create jobs. Fact: Last year, billionaires got the largest tax break in history. Now, they are literally planning to replace every worker in America with a robot or AI. Trickle down economics is a scam. Tax billionaires out of existence.

Another beautiful day ⁦@ FIT

I take him literally and seriously 👇🏽🤷🏽‍♂️

Airlines took away Congress’s perks and suddenly they found money to fund TSA. Let’s take away their healthcare and watch what happens next.

A very odd way to resign. But we should take it.

Lets do it.

It’s okay for hard things to be hard. On the subject of AI and writing, I like the way George Saunders puts it:

This is 7 minutes straight of a demented malignant narcissist desperately seeking to repair his self-image in the eyes of his sycophants & followers by demonstrating his dominance in the areas of building management and lawsuits. Try reading it. He is an Earth-wide emergency.

Nick’s shirt is funny bc his taxes went to the guy standing next to him

Afraid people might realize that what society tells them is an individual’s failure is actually a systemic breakdown.

This gets funnier every time I read it. There are so many layers to how stupid and obviously a lie it is. Every part, dumber than the last. It’s like a child describing a scary dream they had. Anyway, 40% of the country will immediately believe it.

I’m so used to US politicians pretending to be powerless that this feels like a headline from another universe