Matt Zoller Seitz

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social

Greetings, new friends! You may know me as an author, a prolific Bluesky poster and 4th place finisher on So You Call That Dancing? But you might not know that my partner Judith (@mzpress) and I have an online arts bookstore that's growing every day. Full inventory here: mzs.press/EVERYTHING-W...

In 1979, Mattel sold toy Battlestar Galactica fighter ships that fired a tiny spring-loaded "torpedo." One 4-year old choked on it, and the entire line of torpedo toys was recalled and never sold again.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com

He asked ChatGPT for advice on a mass killing. Minutes later, two were dead. OpenAI is wrestling with how to handle its most chilling conversations.

ChatGPT Wrestles With Its Most Chilling Conversation: How Do I Plan an Attack?

OpenAI’s chatbot dispenses advice on weapons and role-plays mass shootings. The carnage is raising scrutiny on when and how companies intervene.

Let’s normalize putting the name of the corporation that owns the private prison in the headline whenever something like this happens

"school shooting industry"

NPR @npr.org

The effort to keep schools safe from mass shooters has ballooned into a multibillion dollar industry. Companies are selling school districts assurance with high-tech products.

The school shooting industry is worth billions — and it keeps growing

The effort to keep schools safe from mass shooters has ballooned into a multibillion dollar industry. Companies are selling school districts assurance with high-tech products.

RIP, king

www.vulture.com/article/davi...

This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers

Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com

We are honored to receive the @rooseveltinstitute.org's 2025 Four Freedoms Award for Freedom of Speech and Expression, and to be among a stellar class of laureates including @wck.org, @cvt.org, and more. Details: tnvge.co/ZMIUg7v

this statement was made just yesterday

CAP Action @americanprogressaction.org

@governorwalz.mn.gov: "The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you're overreacting."

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I appreciate the optimism of this parking validation machine

The only truly ethical response that a self-described artist can make. Anything else is a betrayal of one's colleagues.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app

“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.

The worst part of all this is: WE’VE BEEN HERE BEFORE.

We know who this man is.

There are no surprises in his conduct.

He’s a habitual liar in most interactions, but when it comes to telling the public how evil his mind is, he’s been very straightforward.

This is a metaphor for the tech industry overall circa 2025

James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

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Probably my all-time favorite quote about editing is, some clueless individual asked Martin Scorsese's editor Thelma Schoonmaker how such a nice lady could edit such violent movies, and she replied "Marty's movies aren't violent until I edit them."

I realize I’m just shouting into the wind here, but: please, please, please stop posting screenshots without links, or summarizing breaking news events without links. There’s a serious problem with unsourced assertions all over the world right now, don’t be part of the problem.

I hope I don't sound naïve here, but I don't think this project to turn Charlie Kirk into a combination of Mr. Rogers and Gandhi is going to work

They want people to delete their personal photos so there's enough water to allow people to continue making AI slop images

The Journal @thejournal.ie

The UK government has urged people to delete old pictures and emails as 'data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems'. http://jrnl.ie/6788643

UK government advises people to delete old photos and emails as England faces water shortfall

The UK government has urged people to delete old pictures and emails as ‘data centres require cast amounts of water to cool their systems’.

New Yorkers: please vote!!!! Cuomo went all-in on racism in the final 2 weeks because he's got nothing else. And as we've seen, that's a very effective motivator.

This is a politician who understands that this is not an indulgence, it's an investment. Every public space where you can have fun and not spend any money is probably more of a crimebuster than 100 cops.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov

This summer, we kept the lights on all night, every night, at five soccer fields across New York City.

This was the scene at Calvert Vaux Park in Gravesend, Brooklyn Tuesday night.

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My son and daughter got social
Security payments because their mother died at 35. Jen earned that money and the family needed that little extra boost each month having lost a breadwinner. These people trying to shame recipients are monstrous.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social

Jeanine: We found out there are people who are between the ages of one and four who are getting social security Jessica: That's the benefit for kids whose parents are dead.

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"Agents stormed our restaurants in a show of force that went beyond anything reasonable or humane. They raided the heart of our business, tore through our spaces, and left behind a trail of fear, confusion, destruction. Our kitchens were flipped. Our walk-ins emptied. Food trashed. Doors broken."

LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social

Do they think they’re pirates? How long until they start the rape part of rape and pillage? Our military is charged with crimes if they do this to civilians abroad, so what about at home? www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/n...

ICE takes 16 people into custody at 2 Pittsburgh-area Emiliano's restaurants

ICE confirmed they took 16 people into custody from Emiliano's restaurants in Richland and Cranberry townships.

"Fascism is a temper tantrum disguised as an ideology" is a great line

Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

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Maybe pundits should spend more time in densely packed, left leaning urban areas where the "real Americans" live

ICE gassed members of the Chicago Police Department sent to protect them from protesters

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social

Continued video of feds gassing protestors and CPD alike. In the chaos one woman came to a CPD officer asking for help for a relative that she says feds just grabbed. Officer response: "We just clocked in. We don't know what's going on."

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I hate how streaming has changed most of TV into a thing where you find something you like and it either gets canceled after two seasons or it takes so long for them to do new episodes that you forget it was on in the first place

2025 Democratic politics is that scene in every 70s movie where somebody gets their car stolen and runs down the street shaking their fist in the air yelling, "Hey, that's my car!!!"

Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social

Well, he won't. Now what?