Increasingly, I don't think media is as much of a numbers game anymore. I think it's more about reaching people who genuinely care. AI-written articles are the opposite, generated by someone who doesn't care for an audience that isn't real. It will not last, and worse, it will not be meaningful

transmisogyny is just misogyny with extra steps. it was always about controlling how we define women so that they fit a profile consistent with cishetero men's desires and "gender critical" feminists played right into it. now any woman who doesn't look "feminine enough" is in the crosshairs.

JK Rowling is calling women athletes men even after they pass genetic testing. People in her replies are talking about these women having “ambiguous” genitalia. We are in an extremely frightening moment for ALL women thanks to transphobia.

Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-Ting was demonized and harassed because JK Rowling claimed she was male. Her boxing career was disrupted for over a year. Now, she's been cleared to compete as female after further "sex eligibility reviews." This is going to happen again. www.reuters.com/sports/olymp...

This is just an incredible visual model of what being on X is like

I’m so sick thinking about how Trump, Elon Musk, and especially JK Rowling’s vile harassment campaign of lies and slander against Imane Khelif resulted in even more restrictions on women athletes. Meanwhile, Khelif is an actual inspiration to women and girls wanting to pursue boxing!

This'll have virtually no effect on trans women, who already weren't competing in the Olympics (in the more than 20 years in which trans women could participate in the Olympics, a grand total of... 1 actually made a team. She came in dead last in her event). However.... apnews.com/article/ioc-...

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Those viral fruit slop videos are everywhere, but while they look cutesy, the themes are often extremely dark and misogynistic. I've seen two that imply a female fruit was being group sexually assaulted. @kattenbarge.bsky.social gets into it: www.wired.com/story/theres...

I wrote about the time-honored tradition of reality TV shows turning domestic violence into entertainment, usually through a misogynistic lens and sometimes by escalating abusive relationships. This culture has in turn informed how the internet exploits abuse cases spitfirenews.com/p/taylor-fra...

As a cis woman it is hard to find the words to articulate how I feel about my safety being used as a pretence for this egregious bullying of children

The radical leftist ideas they hate are that we treat people based on how they mistreat others instead of where they were born

It’s just funny to me that serious people talk about AI-generated media so seriously when the most popular AI-generated media right now is sexy AI fruit people parodying Love Island and AI spaghetti people getting boiled alive with their kids

Trans and queer folks have joined, and often actually led, American's efforts to safeguard our immigrant neighbors, but nobody is talking about it. @evanurquhart.bsky.social traveled to meet some of these heroes in the wake of the Maine ICE surge. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

🔥 NEW EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Jared Huffman spoke with me about Trump’s Rededicate 250 — a 12-hour Christian nationalist event set to take place at the National Mall on May 17. Part of Trump's Freedom 250, the event is "rededicating our country as One Nation under God." www.impactivize.org/impactivizer...

since everyone's sharing/dunking on the latest Helen Lewis Atlantic piece, I am contractually obligated to re-up the time Helen Lewis debated AI hallucinations of my work (I contacted @theatlantic.com about it but they never provided a correction): juliaserano.medium.com/why-do-helen...

Seeing ICE detaining people at airports is so sickening and so are the details about the LGA plane crash. Just a fraction of the money they’re using to brutalize families could be spent on rehiring air traffic controllers, who they fired so they could brutalize more people

TSA: working, not getting paid and expected to keep showing up ICE: notably overfunded, to the tune of ~$200k agent salaries. assignment is to stand around, menace, or kidnap. We've recreated the plantation at the airport. How very America. Happy 250!

Another thing about Trump putting ICE in airports is that he knows how unpopular he actually is. He knows the midterms will be ugly. That’s why this is all predicated on the SAVE Act—he’s planning to cheat to win, to rig the midterms as much as possible, because he knows he has to use force now.

I don't even say this purely as a criticism. A creature like Trump is *unusual* in politics. Unusual period! Look at how flummoxed people are by toxic narcissists in private life -- no reason it would be different in politics. It's just genuinely *difficult to believe* that he is what he is.

It is so insidious that AI chatbots like Grok will spit out something along the lines of “here’s a neutral summary of what happened,” even as we know that chatbots—and Grok specifically—are programmed to adhere to specific ideological biases

I can confirm that people who are already exhausted and scared of going through TSA and flying right now, people who have just been told to wait in a line for 4+ hours, are absolutely furious to see ICE agents—a stark reminder of who exactly is to blame for this situation

Given that they're not getting top talent in the bargain, I think the Ellisons are just standing up for the principle that shitty men shouldn't suffer these consequences of their actions.

I would argue that this was the endgame of SEO all along. Google has been telling every content creator on the internet to modify their work if they want to appear on Google, or else. Now they’re simply saying they’ll do it without consent anyway.

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personally I'd prefer an economic system where advertising complicity in and utility for sexual harassment didn't generate an increase in perceived value

"The controversy sparked by sexually explicit deepfakes generated by Grok (X's AI) may have been deliberately generated in order to artificially boost the value of companies X and X AI," the Paris prosecutor's office said, confirming a report in Le Monde...on Friday." www.rfi.fr/en/internati...

I can imagine few things more humiliating than having your father, the richest man in the world, writing posts about how “based” your cheeseburger and milk diet is

it's a real mindfuck to see the leadership of a publication creating some of the most important journalism of a generation trying to screw the people doing the work

the media is now telling people to work from home to save on gasoline, immediately after their years-long crusade to tell us why returning to office is best for everyone. this isn't a gotcha, it's an example of how contradicting demands allow the ruling class to blame us no matter what we do

I’ve been finishing Virginia Giuffre’s memoir little by little. Between that and the endless parade of stories about sexual violence and abuse on social media and in the news, where women seem to be the main people who get punished, I’m psychologically exhausted and could sleep for a year

Royer Perez-Jimenez was 19 years old. He died by suicide at 3am on March 16 at Glades County Detention Center in Florida. He is the 2nd person to die in ICE custody this week, the 13th this year, and the 42nd under Trump. 🧵

There are at least three major news stories about sexual assault and abuse of power by men in prominent positions this week. Government, labor, academia; the culture is everywhere, and women disproportionally bear the weight of the consequences. If this week feels extra heavy, be kind to yourself.

So much love and solidarity to Ana Murguia, Debra Rojas, Dolores Huerta, and every other survivor. Chavez was just a man; women like them, then and now, are the true heroes of the farmworkers’ movement.

I spent a year under investigation by a professional society in part for tweets about my rapist (that another man was certain were about him) You all have no idea how dangerous things are for survivors of gender discrimination and sexual misconduct, even when we have not named our abuser

Last night, a group of 50+ New Yorkers gathered to talk about how to hold "Big AI" accountable. What they may not have known is that the organization behind the event, Humans First, has deep ties to MAGA, Steve Bannon, and even Jan. 6. My latest for @spitfirenews.com spitfirenews.com/p/humans-fir...

This platform has definitely been better around issues of power and gender and violence than others, but it’s been depressing to see how much anti-victim bias still flourishes here. There’s no truly safe or pro-survivor social media platform, which is exactly how it is offline, too.

Pretty much everyone is aware and has personal experience with men in positions of power being predatory, abusive, and violent—and getting away with it. What is rarer and invokes rage and backlash is when someone tries to hold those men to account. That is what people have a problem with.

So @bencollins.bsky.social inspired me. In the middle of @katmabu.bsky.social‘s campaign, I had a major life crisis where I was living in an unsafe position and very, very scared. Law enforcement was involved. It was awful. Kat is the busiest person I know. I am her boyfriend’s business partner.

I can’t make anyone be not mad that victims don’t come forward on perfect little timescales. All I can say is that the very imperfection in the timescale is what makes me believe them, and wish that they find power and strength.

This is what ICE has done to journalist Estefany Rodriguez.

Elon Musk is acting like “talking about your feelings” is weak and unnecessary while he simultaneously uses his account with 230 million followers on the platform he owns to post about his feelings like a 14 year old emo kid on MySpace in 2009