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Queer history in the US - a thread 👇
Crip Dyke1/x Just FYI, for those who didn't know: The first head-on challenge to the US gov't's authority to ban queer marriage was in 1970. Less than 1 year after Stonewall, on May 8, 1970, James McConnell and Richard Baker got hitched and then, presumably, went home and boinked their brains out.
‘Consumer-facing AI is basically a sex worker’ is a great metaphor
Tressie McMillan CottomI realize these are all things that sex workers have told us and could tell us better. Consumer-facing AI is basically a sex worker so of course it’s personalizing various iterations of financial domination for men because that’s what they want.
I am outraged, and also despairing, that child sec abuse and trafficking continues. I wish grace and compassion to the survivors described here
Nick KristofKanisha Hamilton was trafficked at 12 and endured years of rapes, so when she hears about Jeffrey Epstein, "it triggers me," she told me. That's because there's so much outrage at Epstein but so little serious effort to help actual victims. A gift link to my column: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...
New fave phrase ‘algorithm frotting’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Who dares ridicule Gianni Infantino as the World Cup boss creates global peace? Not me: is it you? | Marina HydeIf you thought he was just a shady rule-dodging reprobate, the Fifa boss’s latest 15-page Instagram rant might make you think again, says Guardian columnist Marina Hydewww.theguardian.comStill calling for justice for survivors of sex abuse.
Yonette JosephRight-wing backers of the Tate brothers suddenly go quiet www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/u...
Shout out to UK’s AISI I guess openai.com/index/huggin...
OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluationOpenAI and Hugging Face share early findings from a security incident during AI model evaluation, highlighting advanced cyber capabilities and lessons for defenders.openai.comIt’s the future, it’s here now. Not evenly distributed
Dr Matt LodderAs someone who makes use of even these commercial databases for historical research, AI slop hiding unmarked amongst the real stuff is fucking TERRIFYING.
Sensible advice: “if you work in the fire service and need money to stop a puppy from catching fire, just lie. It’s fine. History will forgive you. Add a $10,000 AI chatbot to your project, exclusively discuss that part in meetings, whatever. Save that puppy.”
Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦Reading AI-news is quite upsetting if you try to square it with observed realities of what people are actually achieving (not much). This piece assures us that we are not wrong. The world of business is no longer able to to talk about AI coherently: ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mani...
Justice is served. May it arrive for all survivors of sex abuse
Katie Phang"President Trump has paid the writer E. Jean Carroll $5.6 million that was owed to her as a result of a jury’s finding that he was liable for sexually assaulting her in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s and then defaming her." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/n...
They are called proverbs for a reason
Ma$on"When the wicked perish, there are shouts of joy." -Proverbs 11:10
The most recent
Pacific Antifascist Research CollectiveScott Michael Inouye, 33, a Customs and Border Protection agent from San Bruno, CA, was sentenced in December 2019 to a year in jail for secretly recording a sexual encounter with a woman he met while conducting "screening activities" at San Francisco International Airport.