Albert Brooks was offered roles that went to Tom Hanks, Billy Crystal, Robin Williams, and Steve Martin. He turned them all down and reshaped American entertainment his own way. https://t.co/yp5TangR97
This is such a perceptive, lovely profile of Jodie Foster by Jordan Kisner. It includes: sneaker shopping, a great interview with Mel Gibson, and so much fascinating insight into Foster's very complicated relationship to fame https://t.co/6ZdFfMJDCq
So many unbelievable, damning details about Romney's GOP colleagues in this piece (adapted from @mckaycoppins' incredible book). But this one about the ketchup salmon keeps haunting me https://t.co/yZA18rpmS8
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In our new issue, I have a big story about AI and the human future drawn from conversations with Sam Altman and others at OpenAI’s San Francisco headquarters, and in East Asia during the closing stretch of Altman's recent world tour.
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After four University of Idaho students were murdered, TikTok and Reddit sleuths swarmed the campus. The community is still struggling with the wreckage they left behind.
My dispatch from Moscow, Idaho:
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This is definitely the first Tom Hanks profile I've read to involve local newspaper clippings from the 1930s. It’s also lovely and wise in typical Chris Heath fashion https://t.co/jKNt6zggyx
Hoo boy this essay by Honor Jones is phenomenal. It's also the largest quantity of words I've read since giving birth a few months ago and it made me cry a whole lot https://t.co/xC51J4bnBx
New Interview: I talked to Alan Dershowitz about getting shunned, the January 6th committee, and the end of his friendship with Larry David. https://t.co/NLpItaXKaG
Hello friends (and Elon). This is just to say: I've left Slate after what's felt like several meaningful lives. It's a privilege to depart at a time when Slate's future is bright, and I'm excited about the hobbies I'll pick up and lose interest in while figuring out what's next.
This Hannah Giorgis piece is a fascinating look at why there are so few interracial couples on reality TV--and also contains some eye-popping behind-the-scenes details about how Love Is Blind producers ginned up racial tensions https://t.co/UmMRPrBW5D
We're flooding the environment with light and sound, to disastrous effect. @edyong209's cover story on "sensory pollution" is full of beautiful sentences, sharp insights & great photos, especially one displeased turtle that is now burned into my brain https://t.co/gbPYZQ7dGt