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"The right wing aesthetic project is to flood the zone with bullshit in order to erode the intellectual foundations for resisting political cruelty."

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The Blue Origin women..."positioning themselves as aspirational models of femininity – have presented a profoundly antifeminist vision of what womankind’s future is: dependent on men, confined to triviality, and deeply, deeply silly." @moiradonegan.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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'Professor Gina Neff of Queen Mary University London told the BBC ChatGPT is "burning through energy" and the data centres used to power it consume more electricity in a year than 117 countries.' Tech bros are sociopathic exintinction events aided by demented power-needy govs bbc.com/news/article...

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Regardless, I was entertained #thewhitelotus

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"Why and how were autistic women sidelined? On one level, a fixed belief in the maleness of autism was so strong that some researchers hunted for a ‘female protective effect’ or blamed autism on an ‘extreme male brain’."

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“I insist on being shocked. I am never going to become immune. I think that’s a kind of failure to see so much of it that you die inside. I want to be surprised and shocked every time.” ― Toni Morrison

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“I am wary about a narrative shift that moves the focus away from the safety of women and girls and towards 'boys are not okay'“ This week in the newsletter I share my thoughts on the Netflix hit #Adolescence eepurl.com/jatU5g

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we’re so grateful for the strong reaction people are having to Vivian Wilson’s convo w Ella Yurman ❤️‍🔥 @teenvogue.com it feels worth noting that Elon Musk spent a chunk of the day of his daughter’s first cover story tweeting anti-trans propaganda mixed with anti-journalist memes

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For Human Rights Day in South Africa, I wrote a piece for @bizcommunity.bsky.social

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Columbia Journalism Review tested eight generative AI search tools and found their answers were wrong 60% of the time, and the paid ones actually fared worse than the free ones. Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.

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My experience growing up #queer in the #Muslim community. Thanks for a great edit @tanyapampalone.bsky.social

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"In addition to finding major issues in 51 percent of responses, the BBC found that 19 percent of answers citing the BBC included incorrect statements, numbers, and dates. Meanwhile, 13 percent of quotes from the BBC were “either altered from the original source or not present in the article cited.”

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Well, when you see women as a commodity, it becomes much easier to justify automating shopping for them.

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“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

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"The horror of Anora lies in our ability to empathize with the gendered suffering of sex workers and the relentless humiliation of fighting for a man who doesn’t love you without the consolation of coping on your own terms or experiencing the support of people who know and care about you."

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Every mainstream attempt to grapple with the rise of Tate and other misogynist ideologues have posed them as a product of men’s despair. Few have posited them as an assault on women’s safety and dignity.

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I understand and appreciate the sentiment I do but thats not what it means either. The idea of being aware of systemic racism being made a byword by the right only to be sanitized as general good heartedness demonstrates how concepts are drained of vigor. variety.com/2025/film/ne...

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Updated data from the FT: A new global gender divide is emerging

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“[...] what if we stepped outside of what these kind of predominantly white male VC venture capitalists, tech Silicon Valley people are telling us are the standards for how we create these businesses & instead focus on value, focus on community, focus on the actual thing that we're good at, right?”

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I am devastated

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"The problem, as writer Yascha Mounk argues in his book The Identity Trap, is that the new activism was built on a rejection of the civil rights movement’s optimistic pursuit of equality and racial integration." How many red flags can you count in this sentence? cc @michaelhobbes.bsky.social

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When I listen to men on podcasts

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What a year this month has been 😪

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Last year I listened to this great episode with Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social and Emily Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social and since then I have been waiting for the AI bubble to burst

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I wrote about Neil Gaiman, and the women accusing him of sexual coercion, assault and abuse. www.vulture.com/article/neil...

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"Male flight describes a similar phenomenon when large numbers of females enter a profession, group, hobby or industry—the men leave. That industry is then devalued."

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Way more worried about the olds who can't seem to tell that just because they read it on Facebook doesn't mean it's true, than the youngs who, in my experience, treat social media as the toxic waste it's largely become.

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More thinking time. Yes. More rest. Also yes.

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Great episode @mattxiv.bsky.social and @taylorlorenz.bsky.social youtu.be/fR3yCpNgx9o?...

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The Eras Tour by Taylor Swift has officially ended after a 21-month run.

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This convo should focus less on individuals and more on systemic failure, but I will add that one person should not have that much wealth and power - it skews the power differential too much

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“For a brief moment in American history, basic income was guaranteed for most Americans, they got to choose when and where they worked, and they were protected from losing their healthcare and other necessities if they lost their jobs. And then it was gone.” open.substack.com/pub/eladneho...

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“X is a platform that no longer serves the public interest at all, but the special ideological and financial interests of its owner and his political allies” www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/e...

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Australia's social media ban for under 16s reminded me of this episode - which is a great deep dive into this topic - 100% worth a listen podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Big Pharma is the only reason anyone still dies from HIV: “We have the means to eradicate AIDS as a threat to human life. Greed is keeping this from happening.”

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