Taylor Lorenz

@taylorlorenz

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Taylor Lorenz@taylorlorenz· 4d

I need to know what YouTube videos Dario was watching to calm down after fighting with Sam

Taylor Lorenz@taylorlorenz· 5d

Everyone on IG Reels has lost their god damn minds

Taylor Lorenz@taylorlorenz· 11d

33k people are cancelling me on Threads and I’ve been trending for 2 days straight bc I said that Minnesota’s AI nudification law is bad and has serious first amendment concerns, meaning xAI is actually right to try to get it overturned: www.bedrockprinciple.com/p/minnesotas...

Taylor Lorenz@taylorlorenz· 22d

Excited to be here in SF at TrustCon!! If you’re working in the online safety space please come say hi!!! 👋

Taylor Lorenz@taylorlorenz· 26d

Rolling up to a pickup game with this and getting the shit kicked out of me

Taylor Lorenz@taylorlorenz· 26d

Here's who online anonymity is for. expression.fire.org/p/in-defense...

So who, exactly, is anonymity for?

It’s for a teenage girl who lost her mother when she was young, just got her period for the first time, and is too embarrassed to meet with a school nurse.

It’s for a 45-year-old who hasn’t drunk in years but is realizing that he’s struggling with his sobriety again and needs to talk privately about it.

It’s for a woman coming to terms with the fact that her boyfriend is abusive, and figuring out how to get away from him without his knowledge.

It’s for a Chinese immigrant who wants to speak about the human rights abuses he witnessed at home without his family in Beijing paying the price for his words, or repression following him abroad.

It’s for a factory worker looking for resources about how to report unsafe conditions without losing his job.

It’s for a college freshman who needs to talk about being gay without fearing his family will learn of it before he’s ready to tell them.

It’s for a grandmother who just received a breast cancer diagnosis and wants to discreetly discuss her anxiety about mastectomy.

It’s for a priest dealing with depression who doesn’t know how to manage his feelings of emptiness amidst his duties to his parish.

It’s for anyone who has ever experienced a fear, thought, idea, or emotion that they need to express but aren’t ready to share with colleagues, family, friends, acquaintances, or authority figures.

Taylor Lorenz@taylorlorenz· 26d

Palantir has a head of vibes www.piratewires.com/p/meet-palan...

Taylor Lorenz@taylorlorenz· 28d

Meta used AI to target ⁠people with disabilities or who took ⁠medical leave for mass layoffs. www.usnews.com/news/top-new...

Taylor Lorenz@taylorlorenz· Jul 9

YouTube has more Emmy nominations than Fox, Bravo and AMC.

Taylor Lorenz@taylorlorenz· Jul 1

I love following the local news

Taylor Lorenz@taylorlorenz· Jun 30

The Democrats' Project 2029 is to force through the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 tech policy agenda

Taylor Lorenz@taylorlorenz· Jun 24

Promoting anti vaxx conspiracy theories, RTing anti maskers and covid deniers, traveling around the U.S. and the world without taking precautions are all things that harm people. Those actions do not save lives. If u cannot understand how disease is tool of a genocide idk what to tell u.

Taylor Lorenz@taylorlorenz· Jun 20

If lawmakers are serious about protecting children, they should roll back age-verification policies and start targeting the systems that incentivise mass surveillance. Read my latest print piece for The Guardian 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Taylor Lorenz@taylorlorenz· Jun 17

"You unlock your house every day with a key, so why is it suddenly a problem if the government and every corporation you've ever interacted with gets a copy of that key and access to your house!?"

Taylor Lorenz@taylorlorenz· Jun 10

Is it good that we’ve created a financialized system that incentives people to go pick up trash in their neighborhood? Maybe. But to get paid, that person has to film themselves shouting “Bounty trash” (the name of the memecoin) while doing it. www.usermag.co/p/the-bounty...

Taylor Lorenz@taylorlorenz· Jun 10

Pump Fun GO’s own launch video makes it clear that the company is interested in allowing these bounties to warp our political system. www.usermag.co/p/the-bounty...

Taylor Lorenz@taylorlorenz· Jun 10

On Pump Fun, you can make $32 by promoting election fraud conspiracies about the South Korean presidential election. A memecoin promoter on Pump Fun GO is paying users to post allegations of fraud. “Your callout must include the word ‘dictator’ or ‘election fraud’” www.usermag.co/p/the-bounty...

Taylor Lorenz@taylorlorenz· Jun 10

Pump Fun GO is just the latest in a new class of platforms that are defining the next phase of the attention economy. Prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi are part of this new era, as is the rise of so-called “UGC marketing.” www.usermag.co/p/the-bounty...

Taylor Lorenz@taylorlorenz· Jun 1

Granola is famously for breakfast...

Taylor Lorenz@taylorlorenz· May 26

Gonna get so much use out of this screenshot over the coming years

If you let AI do your writing, I will come to your house and kill you

Taylor Lorenz@taylorlorenz· May 22

People are intentionally adding typos to cover letters and dating app bios now to show they werent written by AI www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

Taylor Lorenz@taylorlorenz· May 1

SCOOP: Inside the Secret Big Tech Dark Money Influencer Scheme to Make You Love AI

Taylor Lorenz@taylorlorenz· Apr 29

Finally finished @adambecker.bsky.social’s FANTASTIC new book MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER. It’s so good! I could not put it down. It’s about tech billionaires, space, AI, and pretty much everything that’s so relevant right now. I truly truly loved it! www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/adam-...

Taylor Lorenz@taylorlorenz· Apr 27

Certain Substack Bestseller categories are much more likely to contain AI-generated content. The top categories for AI-generated content are: Technology: 28% Philosophy: 23% Health: 22% www.usermag.co/p/how-much-o...

Taylor Lorenz@taylorlorenz· Apr 27

Ultimately a lot of this boils down to how can we most effectively reign in the power of these big tech companies. jacobin.com/2026/04/ai-d...

Taylor Lorenz@taylorlorenz· Apr 26

Cropping out my full thread is actually what’s dishonest here

Taylor Lorenz@taylorlorenz· Apr 20

Instead of buying your kid a smartphone encourage them to build their own device! There are so many amazing creative examples rn

Taylor Lorenz@taylorlorenz· Apr 20

Starting a thread of the coolest cyberdecks I’ve seen online. First up this incredible one by bossratbimbo on X

Taylor Lorenz@taylorlorenz· Apr 20

I am cited in The American Journal of Medicine in a piece about a woman experiencing “skibidi chest pain.”

Taylor Lorenz@taylorlorenz· Apr 16

We desperately need brands to start advertising with left wing content creators because the ONLY advertising available to me on a consistent basis as a tech journalist is AI companies. I’ve been saying no to these ads, but with subscription revenue softening I don’t really know what the solution is