Laura Marsh

Just got an email announcing that Princeton is offering ChatGPT accounts to all undergrads next semester. Looking forward to other helpful innovations lIke giving them unlimited heroin or free handguns

I know that Big Publishers are owned by corporations but there probably needs to be an understanding that in the future some products will be more valuable because they are not made by AI, the way that organic food is more expensive because it is not produced with that very useful tool, pesticides.

There are not many things that 97% of Americans have in common. High school English is one of them.

"To the oft-asked question, “Why is there no socialism in America?” Gude’s book offers us an easy rejoinder: There’s been plenty of it" @davidmarcus.bsky.social on Eugene Debs in the NYT: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/b...

Reviewed the new Debs biography for @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/b...

If you convince yourself it's ok to have an AI assistant tuck your kids into bed at night, what else are you going to be ok with? pjmaciak.substack.com/p/just-read-...

It's so romantic during a wedding ceremony when the woman promises to love, honor, obey, "answer questions, perform tasks and make suggestions" and serve as an "emotional labor bot" 🥹

never mind having a personal AI assistant, whatever that might be, or outsourcing loving your children to it.... i need to know why you would name your personal AI assistant 'Dazzle'

AOC: "As AI begins to encroach in our society, their goal is to take your cognition away from you. AI's goal is to take your thoughts away from you, your ability to think away from you, so that you become dependent on a machine ... reading books is active resistance"

seems like some people went to you can see everything wanting to see alex gibney's musk documentary. you bought the wrong ticket big dog

This is very interesting because when I hear from parents in my neighborhood they don't seem to feel this way at all www.nytimes.com/2026/10/19/o...

This is also a bit of a straw man. Look for instance at the reporting of Justine Van Der Leun: newrepublic.com/article/1605... newrepublic.com/article/2119...

"It’s a portrait of a woman who broke the law and isn’t even close to sorry about it, but it’s also a film about a mother leaving her newborn baby while she is still breastfeeding and entering the largest prison system in the world."

“What started out as a straight documentary turns into an almost absurd, almost distasteful experiment, and an argument that the only real way to know something is not through hours of faithful recording but through an elaborate artifice.” @lauramarsh.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2167...

I couldn't fit this into the piece but you really appreciate how distant Fielder is later when Amanda Seyfried immediately tells Elizabeth Holmes "you're wonderful!" out of sheer politeness

Wrote about You Can See Everything, a film that is much sadder than I expected newrepublic.com/article/2167...

I wrote about Sharon Horgan's latest dazzling masterpiece, YOUTH. A show about being a woman, alive, and fifty all at once. newrepublic.com/article/2163...

a double review of DIGGER and THE SOCIAL RECKONING, two flawed films about whether it's ever too late to tell the story that needs telling thanks as always to @newrepublic.com and @lauramarsh.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2163...

My latest for @newrepublic.com, grateful as always for the work of @lauramarsh.bsky.social! Francis Fukuyama’s Failures of Imagination newrepublic.com/article/2135... via @newrepublic.com

Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.

Technology being everywhere doesn’t mean it belongs everywhere. The tech industry wants us to believe that AI in early education is not only inevitable, but necessary. We don't see it that way. This week, we announced a moratorium on generative AI for public school students in 2-K to 8th grade.

I think one reason Mamdani is using non-traditional media is because traditional media isn't covering substantive government stories The two reporters on this topic cover the Mamdani administration but mostly from the perspective of conflicts. Too much theater, not enough substance.

Kudos to nyc schools for listening to parents (and the tireless AIM coalition) and changing tack on AI and other tech in the classroom! gothamist.com/news/nyc-pub...

My health insurance just mailed me a notice that "rewards are waiting" when you "shop" for a procedure

your denials-of-care at work

The best music writing helps us hear the songs differently, learn about the artist in a way we didn't expect, and know ourselves and our culture a little better. Dangit if this piece by @natalieweiner.bsky.social doesn't crush it on all three: newrepublic.com/article/2147...

my debut for the @newrepublic.com! on Dolly, and how she was always entirely herself even in a world that wasn't ready for it newrepublic.com/article/2147...