Anna Iovine
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associate features editor at mashable
https://www.annaiovine.com/
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Ziff Davis Creators Guild
3 days ago
On Jan. 14, our parent company Ziff Davis laid off 5 of our members, days after our successful CES showing as the CNET Group. This is the third round of layoffs since Ziff acquired CNET in 2024. We’re sick of our members being on the chopping block. Read our full statement below:
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Sarah Lazare
10 days ago
Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager
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“We Are Facing a Tsunami of Hate”: Amid ICE Crackdown, Unions and Community Groups Call for Minnesota Shutdown in 10 Days
Following the ICE murder of Renee Good and an assault on the state by federal immigration forces, a labor-community coalition is calling for residents to refuse to work, shop or go to school on Januar...
https://inthesetimes.com/article/minneapolis-renee-good-ice-shooting-labor-unions
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Mike Stabile
11 days ago
That Grok still has payment processing, when everyone I know — artist or gamer or adult creator —lives in constant fear of deplatforming and debanking over the mere hint of impropriety, is utterly mind-blowing.
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Chris Hayes
14 days ago
No I said don’t tread on *me*. You can get treaded on.
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Kat Tenbarge
15 days ago
I reached out to more than three dozen X advertisers, xAI investors, politicians, and government agencies about the growing library of sexualized deepfakes generated with Grok—now including Renee Good. I only heard back from four, with three declining to comment.
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Why isn't there a bigger Grok boycott?
Advertisers, politicians, and investors are still all-in on X, despite a sexual abuse crisis.
https://spitfirenews.com/p/grok-deepfakes-x-advertisers-investors-take-it-down
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Micah
16 days ago
what this should make clear to everyone in this country is that it does not matter who you are, there's no "it could never happen to me" you can be a white woman who drives around with stuffed animals in her car, and they will still kill you in cold blood and call you a domestic terrorist
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Kat Tenbarge
16 days ago
Renee Nicole Good was 37. She was murdered by an ICE agent in the street in broad daylight. What really happened to her will not be forgotten, minimized, or ignored.
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Christopher Wiggins
16 days ago
NEWS: In a heartbreaking video, after ICE shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, a woman who was in the same SUV cries out: “They killed my wife. I don’t know what to do." “We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head,” the distraught woman sobs.
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Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting
“They killed my wife,” the distraught woman says, adding, “They shot her in the head.”
https://www.advocate.com/news/minnesota-ice-killed-wife
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With AI/robots apparently able to do our jobs, housework, take care of kids and aging parents, and also create art for us.....what exactly are humans supposed to do with our lives, exactly?
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đź—˝LOLGOPđź—˝
18 days ago
Republicans ban books for fear a fifteen-year-old might read The Bluest Eye. Meanwhile, the GOP's biggest donor has built an international salad shooter of child porn and Nazi propaganda, and Republicans are silent.
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Elon Musk's Grok AI floods X with sexualized photos of women and minors
When contacted by Reuters for comment by email, xAI replied with the message "Legacy Media Lies."
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/grok-says-safeguard-lapses-led-images-minors-minimal-clothing-x-2026-01-02/
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Mike Stabile
about 1 month ago
2025 was the year millions of Americans awoke to the danger of state surveillance, violent policing, rights erasure, online censorship, ideological funding cancellations and retaliatory doxxing. None of this was new to sex workers. If there's not rights for everyone, there's rights for no one.
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kelsey weekman
about 1 month ago
the last year has been transformative. my life looks radically different now, and so do i. spending a few hours as a rockette forced me to contemplate how i was going to talk about this, and to confront my greatest fear — being seen.
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I spent the last year transforming my life. Becoming a Rockette for a day made me confront a fear I couldn't shake.
The Rockettes, known for their athleticism and precision, let me join them for the day. No pressure, right?
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/article/i-spent-the-last-year-transforming-my-life-becoming-a-rockette-for-a-day-made-me-confront-a-fear-i-couldnt-shake-200025090.html
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Kat Tenbarge
about 1 month ago
I’m beyond humbled to share that
@spitfirenews.com
just hit 10,000 subscribers 🥳 I started this little feminist internet culture newsletter this year after getting laid off and had no idea what to expect. You all showed up for me and I’m forever grateful.
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We hit 10,000 subscribers!
And we're celebrating with my first-ever discount!
https://spitfirenews.com/p/spitfire-news-discount-sale-subscribers-how-many
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Mike Stabile
about 1 month ago
The moral panic around "gooning" is just the latest manifestation of our anxiety around sex and technology. And older, more potent anxiety about masturbation. Somehow, people investing in pleasure has become one of the great symbols of societal decline.
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Clips4Sale names 'gooning' as fetish of the year
Chastity has been dethroned.
https://mashable.com/article/gooning-fetish-of-the-year-clips4sale
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Ziff Davis Creators Guild
about 2 months ago
FIGHTING BACK AGAINST AI with worker action AND solid contract protections. Last year, ZDCG took action online and in-person to gain AI guardrails. We swarmed Slack, spoke out at the bargaining table, and took to the streets to picket.
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Olivia Messer
2 months ago
can’t stop thinking about “quiet piggy” and what an uproar that would’ve caused in any other news environment
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More Perfect Union
2 months ago
BREAKING: Starbucks workers have launched a massive, nationwide strike. Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year. Upwards of 12,000
@sbworkersunited.org
members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.
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Jiz Lee
2 months ago
Thank you
@annaroseiovine.bsky.social
@mashable.com
for including my thoughts about the adult studio alliance and industry code of conduct. Got to give performer-led safety initiatives credit where it’s due!
mashable.com/article/adul...
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Adult industry leaders like Pornhub release code of conduct
Pornhub and other studios formed the Adult Studio Alliance and released a safety standard for the adult industry.
https://mashable.com/article/adult-studio-alliance-code-of-conduct
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It's infuriating when someone posts their grocery bill online and someone else says "you're just shopping wrong." You are flatly in denial if you don't think prices are outrageous across products and stores
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What is Mamdani's plan to restore $10/month MoviePass?
3 months ago
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Soraya Nadia McDonald
3 months ago
Amazing. The man isn't even mayor yet but he's already solving our trash problems.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them)
3 months ago
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
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Kat Tenbarge
3 months ago
For a quick and easy costume may I recommend Peter Thiel’s vision of the Antichrist
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Kat Tenbarge
3 months ago
A bright spot of news I’m excited to share is that I was honored this past weekend by SPJ as a Fellow of the Society. I’m so grateful to everyone who has supported me and
@spitfirenews.com
and I got to talk to student journalists about the future of our profession!
spitfirenews.com/p/we-yes-we-...
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We (yes, we) won a big award!
And I talked to student journalists about all of our futures.
https://spitfirenews.com/p/we-yes-we-won-a-big-award
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Taylor Lorenz
3 months ago
The Hasan Piker dog collar incident shows that proponents of the surveillance state, like Larry Ellison, who claimed that mass video surveillance would lead to more accountability, are catastrophically wrong.
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Hasan Piker and the Future No One Is Ready For
The backlash that Piker is facing shows the consequences of a world where everyone is constantly being recorded and our internet is built to reward outrage and controversy.
https://www.usermag.co/p/hasan-piker-and-the-future-no-one
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Ash Parrish
3 months ago
If you think ai porn "Avoids exploitation of sex workers" you REALLY don't give a single solitary shit about sex workers.....or people in general for that matter.
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Kim Kardashian’s company SKIMS can advertise its “faux hair panty” to its nearly 7 million followers on Instagram, but a sex worker can sneeze and get banned from the platform
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Maris Kreizman
4 months ago
This is so damn scary. The book claimed that Jeffrey Epstein was the one who introduced Donald and Melania. Now the CEO of Harper UK is out.
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Is Taylor Swift co-opting the term “showgirl” from sex workers? Thank you
@gwenadora.bsky.social
and
@mssexysaigon.bsky.social
for chatting with me for this piece
mashable.com/article/shou...
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Chibdm
4 months ago
Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop
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The Verge
4 months ago
Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia
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Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia
With Biden, AI Mode will provide a summarized answer.
https://buff.ly/x1BIdPA
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Roxane Gay
4 months ago
If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.
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Brendan Nyhan
4 months ago
What's happening could not be more open and explicit. If you displease the regime, they will bring criminal charges against you. Ask your immigrant friends what it's like to live in a country where the rule of law is a fiction and your freedom depends on the whims of a dictator.
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Sean Howe
4 months ago
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Kat Tenbarge
4 months ago
Mainstream institutions, including some of the biggest news outlets, have rushed to sacrifice their journalists and the meaning of words like "debate" to placate the people behind clickbait YouTube videos with titles about woke libs and Karens
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Mainstream media surrenders to conservative influencers
Charlie Kirk didn't fight for unity. He fought to silence the truth.
https://spitfirenews.com/p/mainstream-media-surrenders-to-conservative-influencers
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Don Moynihan
4 months ago
We are at the point in the honoring-Charlie-Kirk's-memory cycle when faculty are being fired for posting, without comment, Charlie Kirk's words. At the behest of politicians sworn to uphold the first amendment, and in public institutions covered by first amendment protections.
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Prisonculture
4 months ago
You probably failed at "building bridges" if millions of people think that your life's work was destructive and terrible and if your supporters have to threaten people to keep them quiet about said legacy.
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Micah
4 months ago
going from "transgender ideology" to "look at the poor misguided white kid" without even taking a breath, unconscionable
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Kat Tenbarge
4 months ago
Since Charlie Kirk was fatally shot, people on the left have been censored, punished, and targeted with more violence for telling the truth about Kirk's legacy. The cycle continues: mainstream whitewashing of violence begets more violence and the victims are blamed.
spitfirenews.com/p/the-nation...
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The national gaslighting about Charlie Kirk
Another pattern of censorship that only hurts the left—and emboldens political violence.
https://spitfirenews.com/p/the-national-gaslighting-about-charlie-kirk
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southpaw
4 months ago
I had no wish for him to be murdered, but I’ll harshly judge anyone who flies their flag at half staff for that hateful extremist or talks about honoring his memory. There was no honor in his life.
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Karen K. Ho
4 months ago
I think it is always worth mentioning that Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were killed with their beloved dog Gilbert:
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...
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A Minnesota Lawmaker and Her Husband Are Lying in State. Next to Them: Their Golden Retriever.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/us/politics/minnesota-melissa-hortman-dog-lying-in-state.html
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Marisa Kabas
5 months ago
better things are possible!!!!
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Kat Tenbarge
5 months ago
For
@spitfirenews.com
, I wrote about how the social media trend of hoping that Trump is dead or dying is linked to both his administration's deadly unraveling of rights and institutions and how hard it is for actual news about it to reach people over memes and vibes.
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The push alert everyone is dying to get
This administration wants Americans to die. The feeling is mutual.
https://spitfirenews.com/p/is-trump-dying-dead-rumors-speculation
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Ziff Davis Creators Guild
5 months ago
ZDCG demands accountability for continued attacks on media workers in Gaza:
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Marisa Kabas
5 months ago
children in minneapolis shot while praying, children in DC passing armed military when they take the metro to school, this country is so sick
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Rebecca Fishbein
5 months ago
2025 confirmed best year to get engaged
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Tina Vasquez
5 months ago
I would urge against referring to what is happening to Kilmar as a deportation. When people are deported, they are sent to their home country or "country of origin." What is happening to Kilmar and many others under the Trump administration is... something else entirely.
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Kat Tenbarge
5 months ago
I wrote about how Harry Potter slop is inescapable and fueling JK Rowling’s anti-trans bigotry—but pushback seems to be growing, too. Case in point: I just opened Reddit and saw another reboot cast announcement, but most of the comments were about boycotting it
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Harry Potter and the Oversaturated Offensive Franchise
There's a growing fight against J.K. Rowling's anti-trans power source.
https://spitfirenews.com/p/harry-potter-romance-con-dramione-jk-rowling-transphobia-reboot
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