Christopher Hawthorne

ChatGPT boss predicts when AI could cure cancer

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right. Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases. In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing). In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults. 12:02 PM · Oct 14, 2025 · 1.2M Views

Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month

Please nobody tell professional writer praising professional journalists Caitlin Flanagan what "out of whole cloth" means

It happened at Yale Or did it? The manipulations, architectural and otherwise, of Luca Guadagnino’s “After the Hunt”

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New: Bari Weiss booked Hillary Clinton, Mike Pompeo, and Antony Blinken for a roundtable on Gaza, her first major move at CBS.

Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).

Finding Ella Briggs The first biography of an extraordinary woman and architect who left her mark on world capitals and reshaped modern design

co-sign Kate’s picks and also this looks good:

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Being a podcaster costs $40 for a decent mic and $18 per month for hosting. The hard part is having something interesting to say. Get a degree in that!

it gets tiresome to keep repeating this but can you IMAGINE the indignant states-rights hue and cry had biden or obama sent federal troops to idaho or mississippi??

Breaking: Jimmy Kimmel to return Tuesday.

The architectural-imperial complex A conversation with Aaron Cayer about how AECOM rose from humble SoCal roots to become a powerful, secretive player in global politics

Xltn conversation btw @hawthorne.bsky.social + Aaron Cayer abt Cayer's 📘 on AECOM, a huge, faceless, ethically ?-able conglomerate that designs electrical grids, military bases, highways, airports; they discuss why it's imptnt to study such work + methods for doing so amidst gov't + corp secrecy

thanks henry!

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"

A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.

Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

Thanks Shannon!

AI stunt journalism continues to be dumb + lazy

In Bosnia, a Women's Supportive Housing Complex Foster Community and Healing The House for Five Women, designed by Zurich- and Belgrade-based firm TEN, gives its residents a safe harbour and a sense of hope.

We praise “culturally responsive” design, even when we know almost nothing about the cultures it’s responding to. Lately, I’ve started to think of architectural criticism as its own type of diaspora. In @azuremagazine.bsky.social, one of my more intimate pieces: www.azuremagazine.com/article/hous...

There can’t be any gun restrictions because we have to protect against federal government tyranny, and if kids get shot we just have to live with it. Also the President can send troops to cities because the federal government can do whatever it wants. These two ideas are consistent and reasonable.

Took my friend to visit Sverre Fehn’s Storhamarlåven (1969-74) with the luxury of having the whole place to ourselves. This is the holy grail. Norway pilgrimage, let’s go 🧣🧵 #sverrefehn

Should L.A. pull the plug on the 2028 Olympics ? A roundtable discussion with Gustavo Arellano, Joe Mathews, and Alissa Walker

“I think the more likely scenario is a forced-to-carry-this-to-term situation, where we actually decide we don’t want it, and we are not allowed to get rid of it.”

Loved talking with @gustavoarellano.bsky.social, Joe Mathews, and @hawthorne.bsky.social about the viability of the 2028 games

@gustavoarellano.bsky.social:

“Trump not only wants the Olympics, he wants the Olympics to happen in Los Angeles. [H]e wants to show the world a subdued Los Angeles. He wants to show the rest of the country that this is what happens when you cross me.”

@awalkerinla.bsky.social:

“As Joe said, they’ll hold it at gunpoint, literally. Or we could have the Games with no spectators, which is what happened [in Tokyo] during the pandemic. They could just say, ‘We need to hold the events to broadcast them, so the sponsors are happy.’”

Joe Mathews:

“Imagine Trump sitting there at the Coliseum or at SoFi with Viktor Orbán and Jair Bolsonaro, if he gets out of his Brazilian jail, or Rodrigo Duterte... Do we really want to be the host of this fascist festival? Why would we do it?”

“The idea that the I.O.C. or Trump can basically force, by the barrel of a gun, L.A. into going forward with these Olympics should send a chill down the spine of every Angeleno.”

In Punch List this week, a roundtable on the viability of the 2028 Summer Games:

www.punchlistmag.com/p/should-l-a...

honing that echo? ai’s gonna win, isn’t it?

if anything, the slightly cheesy and celebrity-heavy top floor of NMAAHC made me think of the whole thing as a bit too easily redemptive

Legendary Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau once said "Let Toronto become Milan. Montreal will always be Rome."

“I have instructed my attorneys to go through the Museums”

between newspapers/magazines/broadsheets/ catalogues/book chapters + my newsletter, I think I’ve written more than 20k words for publication over the last month. i need a vacation from summertime

the message from the white house is that you live in a city run by people the president doesn't like, you will be occupied like you are an enemy of the state.

Thanks for posting. I think Storehouse is brilliant in many ways as architecture, but there’s a lot in this essay I find convincing

seriously. the press coverage on this has been so credulous and inane

Punch List Architecture Newsletter A weekly dispatch on architecture, design, and cities, from Christopher Hawthorne

You should subscribe to the Punch List Architecture Newsletter from @hawthorne.bsky.social if you haven’t yet. Today brought a brilliant review of Julian Rose’s new museum book; other weeks have been about Trump’s architect, the architecture of Hungarian authoritarianism, etc.

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