You should read this article by Sascha Cohen for @gqmagazine.bsky.social not just because I’m quoted in it, but because it’s a great piece about the anti-porn backlash we’re currently in, and the perilous road ahead for the concept of free speech in America www.gq.com/story/suprem...

"The migration away from legitimate sites is already impacting performers. Some who saw their income plummet after age-verification laws took effect have turned to in-person sex work, which poses greater risks than porn because it remains criminalized almost everywhere in the US."

When people like me say chatGPT is coming for our jobs, this is what we mean. I used to write almost exclusively book lists for a living. And guess what? I always wrote about actual, real books.

a legitimately good thing Apple could do with AI right now would be to focus on encrypted and on-device features and pitch itself as the company that keeps your private bot conversations private

Boston's "nightlife czar" should stop with the desperate little concerts and just bring back the mob, the only counterbalance to this city's sleepy puritanism

Well, without an ankle monitor, what is to stop her from co-authoring another op-ed? 

Okay it’s true that any attack on porn is an attack on LGBTQ+ people and sex ed but also porn is good and should not be attacked.

Oh, you want to bring America back to the 1950s? The decade with 45 percent income tax for top earners and 1/3 labor union density?

New from me: I talk with the Jewish coalition that is forming to fight back against Trump's authoritarian attack on democratic rights, deportations, and repression of anti-war activists. @jfrejnyc.bsky.social @jvp.bsky.social @ifnotnowmovement.org and others. truthout.org/articles/jew...

Feel like the roaring twenties are ending a little bit early this time around

This author thinks porn never involves “women’s power or women’s pleasure.” She is leaving out a lot of popular genres.

As @reproutopia.bsky.social noted recently during her keynote at Duke’s Feminist Theory Workshop, there were many great feminists writing and thinking at the same time as Dworkin. Why not give them a “return” instead?

And here’s Sophie offering the only reading of Dworkin’s return that you should read if you care about liberation and real left politics, not just (g)lib girlboss ideological nonsense: thepointmag.com/politics/bat...

You can really tell who came of age watching Gen X queer film* and who did not** * Me ** You poor saps

”Miyazaki said, 'I am utterly disgusted. If you really want to make creepy stuff you can go ahead and do it. I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all.' He also said, 'I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.'"

We are concerned about the assumptions being made in recent coverage of the Cambridge/Watertown brothel case. Please see below our statement in response to the naming of alleged clients of the brothel network, including Cambridge City Councilor Paul Toner. bswac.org/2025/03/27/b...

Insulting to "psychologically study" waitresses like zoo animals and assume that sexual objectification makes all women feel "worthless." Skill issue.

If they can come for graduate workers, if they can arrest, deport, expel, or imprison union leaders and activists for their protected political speech, then they can come for you. For your contract. For your paycheck. For your family. And for your rights.

With 51 votes (and counting), Senate Republicans have passed their measure to effectively legalize debanking, after pretending to care about the issue to gin up their base. It's up to a handful of House members now to stop it.

Weird, shitty, disorganized response. How are they still this bad at this? It's been four months since Election Day.

An opposition party incapable of doing anything about the strip mining of earned benefits for workers besides silently watching

need to queen out with sylvester stallone's muppet girlie fan club from his episode of the muppet show

Dems showing their public humiliation kink once again. Oh, you color-coordinated and held cardboard signs on popsicle sticks? Should we throw a party and invite some pre schoolers?

I am thinking once again about how in October 1984 CRIMES OF PASSION and BODY DOUBLE were released within a week of one another. This is what we had. We were once a nation of perverts.

Prior to Blockbuster eating the market before becoming Netflix chum itself, video stores were seen as THE small business opportunity and they flourished. My small town had at least 8 at any given time. They always smelled like those thick plastic cases and were usually festooned in posters.

It's annoying how clearly this is going to play out. They gut the FAA. Therefore, the FAA can't do its job well because it was gutted. Therefore, they say "The FAA sucks, we have to privatize it." which is what Project 2025 wants to do. They're manufacturing the crises for their end goal.

I can’t believe it - after years of advocacy, exclusionary zoning has ended in Cambridge. We just passed the single most comprehensive rezoning in the US—legalizing multifamily housing up to 6 stories citywide in a Paris style Here’s the details 🧵

I got my MA from one of the CSUs. Had amazing professors. This is despicable.

Looking at the toothless protests that just happened in various cities and it seems progressives would rather do pussyhat 2.0 than the escalation required to fight fascism

If OSHA gets dismantled, get ready to enjoy human fingers in your hamburger meat

WHAT A GREAT STORY FOR FIVE MONTHS AGO

What we are witnessing is probably best described as a Private Equity leveraged buyout of a nuclear armed state

Our statement from @alvincentjr.bsky.social on the Trump administration's attempts to dismantle the NLRB. Read more: actorsequity.org/news/PR/NLRB...

The market incentivizes mysterianism surrounding AI/ML.

the time of year when I delude myself by saying "it will warm up in March"

I love to see it

I’m beyond thrilled to have published my first ever journalistic piece with @thebaffler.com, based on my research with sex workers in Colombia & Guatemala. I compare sex tourism in Medellín with migrant sex work in Guatemala - and how neither fits neat narratives. thebaffler.com/salvos/a-job...

The Baffler editorial team, particularly J.W. McCormack, were fantastic throughout. Thanks also to @jonatanlemus.bsky.social and @saschaec.bsky.social for your helpful feedback. I also cite @nakedanthropolo.bsky.social, Megan Rivers-Moore, @pastachips.bsky.social and Juno Mac.

#CambMA #housing Thank you @votejivan.bsky.social for sponsoring the end of tenant-paid broker fees in Cambridge, MA bsky.app/profile/vote...

Delighted to have two poems in this issue!

I have two new poems out in @bruisermag.com

@propublica.org has truly been firing on all cylinders lately

did the art "age poorly" or were you just in a very different part of your life when you encountered it?

Love that Luigi's manifesto is putting Michael Moore's Sicko (2007) back in the conversation. My early aughts midwestern agitprop king.

Hello all, I’m a historian, researcher, essayist, and poet. This is me with my pride and joy, Sylvester the Japanese Chin

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