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The Baffler, The Drift, The New Inquiry, etc www.saschacohen.com
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Siri Dahl
8 months ago
You should read this article by Sascha Cohen for
@gqmagazine.bsky.social
not just because Iâm quoted in it, but because itâs a great piece about the anti-porn backlash weâre currently in, and the perilous road ahead for the concept of free speech in America
www.gq.com/story/suprem...
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The Supreme Court Case That Could End Porn as We Know It
An anti-porn backlash is in full swing. The Supreme Court might supercharge it.
https://www.gq.com/story/supreme-court-porn-free-speech
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Mike Stabile
8 months ago
"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."
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The Supreme Court Case That Could End Porn as We Know It
An anti-porn backlash is in full swing. The Supreme Court might supercharge it.
https://www.gq.com/story/supreme-court-porn-free-speech
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Ilana Masad
8 months ago
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.
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Adi Robertson
8 months ago
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
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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
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Philip Bump
8 months ago
Well, without an ankle monitor, what is to stop her from co-authoring another op-ed? ïżŒ
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Lux âïž Alptraum
8 months ago
Okay itâs 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.
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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?
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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition)
9 months ago
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...
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Jewish Organizations Are Fighting Back Against Khalil Deportation
As the Trump administration weaponizes accusations of antisemitism to justify repression, the Jewish left is rising up.
https://truthout.org/articles/jewish-organizations-are-fighting-back-against-khalil-deportation/
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Feel like the roaring twenties are ending a little bit early this time around
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This author thinks porn never involves âwomenâs power or womenâs pleasure.â She is leaving out a lot of popular genres.
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JoĂŁo FlorĂȘncio
9 months ago
As
@reproutopia.bsky.social
noted recently during her keynote at Dukeâs Feminist Theory Workshop, there were many great feminists writing and thinking at the same time as Dworkin. Why not give them a âreturnâ instead?
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JoĂŁo FlorĂȘncio
9 months ago
And hereâs Sophie offering the only reading of Dworkinâs 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...
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Battlefield Ecstasies | The Point Magazine
Is it twisted that her first name means âmanhoodâ? Andrea Dworkin, the legendary feminist, said she believed in menâs âhumanity, against all the evidence.â And I believe her.
https://thepointmag.com/politics/battlefield-ecstasies/
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Lux âïž Alptraum
10 months ago
You can really tell who came of age watching Gen X queer film* and who did not** * Me ** You poor saps
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Soraya Nadia McDonald
10 months ago
âMiyazaki 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.'"
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OpenAI CEO Responds to ChatGPT Users Creating Studio Ghibli-Style AI Images
The latest version of OpenAI's image generation technology has resulted in a flood of users sharing images transformed in the style of Studio Ghibli.
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/openai-ceo-chatgpt-studio-ghibli-ai-images-1236349141/
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Boston Sex Workers and Allies Collective (BSWAC)
10 months ago
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...
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BSWACâs Statement On Cambridge/Watertown Brothel Case
Local Sex Workers and Allies Respond to Cambridge/Watertown Brothel Case For Immediate Release: March 27, 2025 Contact:
[email protected]
 We the Boston Sex Workers and AâŠ
https://bswac.org/2025/03/27/bswacs-statement-on-cambridge-watertown-brothel-case/
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Insulting to "psychologically study" waitresses like zoo animals and assume that sexual objectification makes all women feel "worthless." Skill issue.
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UAW
10 months ago
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.
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Ryan Grim
10 months ago
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.
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Tim Onion
10 months ago
Weird, shitty, disorganized response. How are they still this bad at this? It's been four months since Election Day.
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An opposition party incapable of doing anything about the strip mining of earned benefits for workers besides silently watching
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sarah jae
10 months ago
need to queen out with sylvester stallone's muppet girlie fan club from his episode of the muppet show
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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?
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Travis Woods
11 months ago
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.
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Movies Silently
11 months ago
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.
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Katherine Locke
11 months ago
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.
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Cllr. Burhan Azeem
11 months ago
I canât believe it - after years of advocacy, exclusionary zoning has ended in Cambridge. We just passed the single most comprehensive rezoning in the USâlegalizing multifamily housing up to 6 stories citywide in a Paris style Hereâs the details đ§”
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I got my MA from one of the CSUs. Had amazing professors. This is despicable.
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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
11 months ago
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If OSHA gets dismantled, get ready to enjoy human fingers in your hamburger meat
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Katie MacBride
11 months ago
WHAT A GREAT STORY FOR FIVE MONTHS AGO
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Mom Rock Aficionado đ”đžđłïžâđ
11 months ago
What we are witnessing is probably best described as a Private Equity leveraged buyout of a nuclear armed state
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Actors' Equity Association
12 months ago
Our statement from
@alvincentjr.bsky.social
on the Trump administration's attempts to dismantle the NLRB. Read more:
actorsequity.org/news/PR/NLRB...
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Mel Andrews
12 months ago
The market incentivizes mysterianism surrounding AI/ML.
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the time of year when I delude myself by saying "it will warm up in March"
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I love to see it
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Jessica Van Meir đ©”
about 1 year ago
Iâm 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 MedellĂn with migrant sex work in Guatemala - and how neither fits neat narratives.
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A Job Like Any Other | Jessica Van Meir
The Latin American sex workersâ rights movement argues for legalization based on rightsânot control of sex workersâ bodies.
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/a-job-like-any-other-van-meir
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Jessica Van Meir đ©”
about 1 year ago
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.
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Carolyn Fuller
about 1 year ago
#CambMA
#housing
Thank you
@votejivan.bsky.social
for sponsoring the end of tenant-paid broker fees in Cambridge, MA
bsky.app/profile/vote...
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Delighted to have two poems in this issue!
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about 1 year ago
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I have two new poems out in
@bruisermag.com
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about 1 year ago
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@propublica.org
has truly been firing on all cylinders lately
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about 1 year ago
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did the art "age poorly" or were you just in a very different part of your life when you encountered it?
about 1 year ago
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Love that Luigi's manifesto is putting Michael Moore's Sicko (2007) back in the conversation. My early aughts midwestern agitprop king.
about 1 year ago
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Hello all, Iâm a historian, researcher, essayist, and poet. This is me with my pride and joy, Sylvester the Japanese Chin
about 1 year ago
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Wherever you go, there you are (this platform)
about 1 year ago
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