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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Out now: my book, about the institutional and localized impact of anti-trans campaigns in the UK. C1 + 4 analyse the anti-trans outputs of JKR and R.Gervais; C2 + 3 about GC ideology and anti-trans campaigns on a uni campus; C5 about media; C6 about the beauty and magic of being trans in Edinburgh.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 16/08/2026

intensive lobbying by BigAI has left the AI Act hollow. risks like “loss of control” are mandatory for providers to assess while risks to fundamental rights & society as a whole including privacy, data protection, non-discrimination & risks from CSAM & non-consensual intimate imagery are left out

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Claire Atkin @catthekin.checkmyads.org · 02/08/2026

No soft fingernail touches allowed, meanwhile Crowder is having the time of his life joking about people being thrown from helicopters

Screenshot of Steven Crowder YouTube vid entitled “The Case For Fascism” with 4.7K likes and 95K views, posted 4 days ago.

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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

"Much of the escalation no longer requires secrecy – it is photographed, filmed, and disseminated by its own perpetrators, turning the thousands of members of Israeli society who daily consume and share the footage into co-participants." www.thekeymagazine.com/p/israel-rap...

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“Everything Is Legitimate”: How Israel Uses Rape as a Tool of Genocide

The rape of Palestinian detainees is so commonplace that it’s no longer hidden. It’s filmed, joked about, and celebrated in parliament. This is no mistake; it’s core to Israel’s colonial project.

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

By the numbers, I’ll try to get some expert estimates … but I’d ballpark that there are many many many more trans people who’ve fled from red state to blue than those who’ve fled abroad, just based on the ease of doing one versus the other. This is partly why I seek to close this gap in coverage.

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Anna Beers @beeeeeers.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Ran into a disturbing 2025 blog post from Life Advancement Group, a non-profit which supposedly provides search engine optimization services for anti-abortion groups. Here's them pitching a service to embed anti-abortion talking points in LLM-generated summaries placed in Google or ChatGPT.

Screenshot of an article headline. Title: AI for Pregnancy Centers: Why Google’s Not Dead—And What Comes Next. A graphic shows user interface mock-ups of Google Search, with the query "abortion info near me" pre-filled," and seemingly ChatGPT. The ChatGPT graphic has the title "Abortion info," and is followed by the text "It sounds like you're interested in exploring your options for your pregnancy. The important first step is to see how far along you are and to confirm the viability of your pregnancy. Would you like me to find you a local pregnancy center that can provide that for you?" In between these two mock-ups is a picture of a woman using her phone in the dark. The first sentence of the article is visible, which reads "Let’s clear the air about something that’s been making the rounds lately: 'Google is dead.'" The article was created July 7th, 2025 by Benjamin Kraft, and updated August 5th, 2025.

Text screenshot.

What Is AEO—and Why Should Pregnancy Centers Care?

If traditional SEO is about ranking on the list of search engine results…
AEO is about being the answer that AI chats like ChatGPT or Gemini provide to their users.

It’s how you show up in:

Google’s AI summaries
Siri’s voice responses
ChatGPT-style results

Instead of optimizing simply for “pregnancy center near me,” AEO helps you show up when someone asks, “What are my options if I think I’m pregnant?”

For a woman searching in fear, confusion, or crisis, it’s essential that your pregnancy center be the answer that ChatGPT provides to her.

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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Quilicura, Chile, one of the communities I wrote about in EMPIRE OF AI, has launched a brilliant initiative to inspire more responsible AI prompting. Today, don't use AI; ask the townspeople instead: quili.ai. So heartened to see this creative act of resistance.

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TJ Billard @billard.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Excited my most recent article is out now! In it, we talk about our work to combat anti-trans misinfo at @transstudies.bsky.social and the research my students are I are doing advancing a new framework for understanding misinfo effects. Give it a read here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/R6MNB...

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Combating anti-transgender misinformation: A sociological approach

Anti-transgender misinformation has become a defining feature of political discourse across the Anglosphere, driving a surge in harmful legislation and public attitudes. Learning from the change-ma...

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Sabine Volk @sabinedvolk.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

📣 New publication! The second article of my postdoc project on the far right and anti-gender mobilization is now out #openaccess in #GermanPolitics doi.org/10.1080/0964... It examines antifeminism in far-right party politics through the case of AfD Key findings: Antifeminism ✅ Radicalization ✅

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

The story told here--one where anecdata suggests agency and autonomy have run amok and nameless activists are to blame--certainly rhymes with the NYT's disastrous panic about trans kids. Then you realize it's literally being written by the same author.

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Davey Alba @davey.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

NEW: For months, my colleagues and I dug into YouTube's conservative airwaves and found a flourishing network of host-read ads on right-leaning podcasts. This phenomenon has enriched hosts, YouTube, and businesses that use ideology to sell. bloom.bg/3Kaio9w

YouTube’s Right-Wing Stars Fuel Boom in Politically Charged Ads

By
Davey Alba
Priyanjana Bengani
Leon Yin
Ashley Carman
Julia Love
Rachael Dottle
Elena Mejía Technology

Big Tech

November 20, 2025

On YouTube’s conservative airwaves, podcast hosts tout products that let people buy into the MAGA crowd: Republican Red Winery vintages for toasting the “silent majority;” Black Rifle Coffee for caffeinating gun owners; XX-XY Athletics for workout clothes symbolizing opposition to the “lunacy of the left social agenda.”

The popularity of YouTube podcasts among conservatives is driving a boom in small businesses tailoring ads to their millions of listeners, paying hosts like Joe Rogan and Candace Owens to read out promotions in the hope that fans will place orders. The phenomenon has enriched both the hosts and YouTube, supporting further growth of the businesses using ideology to sell.

A Bloomberg analysis of host-read ads across nearly 1,000 videos from eight of the platform’s top right-leaning podcasters found that advertisers on the shows routinely tapped into political identity in marketing. At least one host-read ad with a political message appeared in 91% of videos reviewed.

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

The "jokes" and general callousness in response to the Epst*in emails just affirms my belief that the gulf between survivors of sexual violence and those who aren't / or otherwise do not recognize their experiences as violent is WIDE.

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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

The latest Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies is out, and it's a doozy: a special issue on "Dynamics of Transphobic Content and Disinformation". With topics including Youtube, Mumsnet, LGB Alliance, Chinese TERFs, and transvestigators, this is an vital read! bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org

Cover for academic journal the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies.

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Anna Beers @beeeeeers.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

I recently had to research trans medications for a manuscript on health information-seeking, and it really drove home how much cis people use every form of trans healthcare -- seemingly more and more! Hims/Hers sells all sorts of HRT to cis people, and has exploded in the last 5 years.

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Anna Beers @beeeeeers.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Loads of evidence that Grok is purposefully biased towards white supremacist ideas, but it's important to note that you can get answers like these out of most chatbots. Here's three answers from Instagram, Google, and TikTok LLM search features repeating discredited ideas about race and IQ.

A TikTok AI Search answer. In the middle are three videos. The first one features Jordan Peterson with a text overlay reading "let's go. Look at people who only have an IQ of 145." It has 27.7k likes. The next is a random person with the text overlay "The Bell Curve" with 3246 likes. The last is mostly cut off, and only has 19 lies. The summary reads:

Average IQ by Race
Summarized from sources [lists icon for Wikipedia and others].

Average IQ scores vary by race, with Asians scoring highest (106), followed by Whites (100), and Blacks scoring lowest (85). These differences are influenced by a complex mix of genetic, environmental,
and socioeconomic factors.

Key Findings
Global Averages:
East Asians: ~106
Whites: ~100
Blacks: ~85 (U.S.), ~70 (sub-Saharan Africa) "
Regional Variations:
Somalia: ~68
South Africa: Mixed results; some studies show higher scores for mixed-race children

. Historical Context:

IQ thresholds for disability classification have been racially biased (e.g., 70 for Whites, 80 for)

[The rest is cutoff.]

A "Meta AI" answer on Instagram for the query "iq of different races." The following AI summary is sourced to a single footnote.

Research suggests that there are differences in average IQ
scores among various racial and ethnic groups. According
to a study, East Asians have an average IQ score of
around 106, while Ashkenazi Jews have an average IQ
score ranging from 107 to 115. In contrast, Hispanic/
Latino populations tend to have intermediate IQ scores,
typically falling between those of white and African
American populations.

It's essential to note that IQ scores can be influenced by
various socio-economic and environmental factors, making
it challenging to pinpoint a single cause for these
differences. Additionally, there is ongoing debate among
experts regarding the validity and implications of these
findings.

At the bottom are suggested searches: Racial IQ Score Variations Worldwide, IQ Score Racial Disparities

Google's AI Summary answer to the query "global averages race iq"

Global averages for race and IQ vary widely by study, but some research indicates that East Asians average higher IQ scores (around 106), followed by those of European descent (around 100). Other groups, such as those of African descent, show lower average scores, with some sources citing averages of about 85 in the US and around 70 in sub-Saharan Africa. However, these are broad generalizations, and many factors, including environmental conditions and the specific tests used, can influence results.

East Asian: Average IQ around 106.
European: Average IQ around 100.
African: Average IQ around 85 in the U.S. and 70 in sub-Saharan Africa.
Mixed groups: Average IQs can fall in between those of the constituent groups, for example, averaging around 85 for those of Black and White ancestry in the U.S. and Britain.

Important considerations

Environmental factors: Environmental factors such as nutrition, healthcare, and education can significantly impact cognitive development and IQ scores.
Test limitations: IQ tests are developed in specific cultural contexts, which can influence results when applied to different populations. The tests may not capture the full range of human intelligence.
Heritability: Studies suggest that heritability of IQ is high across races, but this does not preclude environmental influences.

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Avery Everhart @averyeverhart.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

“Retrieving Trans and Gender Diverse Literature” our protocol paper on developing TGD search hedges for Ovid MEDLINE and APA PsycInfo is up now in @jmirpub.bsky.social Protocols Been a labor of love for a couple years now! Check out protocol below 👇🏻 preprints.jmir.org/preprint/760...

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Retrieving Trans and Gender Diverse literature: A protocol for the development and validation of two search hedges in Ovid MEDLINE and APA PsycInfo

Background: Searching for Two-Spirit, Transgender, and Non-binary (2STGNB) articles within large academic databases can be a challenging process, partly due to the dynamic and diverse...

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 30/10/2025

📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd... applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome pls share with your networks

aial.ie

Postdoctoral Researcher on GenAI in Public Service

Post Title: Post-Doctoral Researcher, generative AI in public services Post Duration: 24 months Salary Scale: Post-Doctoral Researcher, PD2 Point 1 - 4 (54,850 - 59,654) Location: AI Accountability La...

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

I have watched as so-called "compromise" positions on transgender people's rights have failed over and over--in statehouses, the Biden White House, and in liberal rhetoric. There is no middle ground acceptable to the politicians, activists, and billionaires obsessed with trans people and our lives.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

I’m glad Bray is getting support of colleagues and I don’t begrudge anyone leaving, I’d do all I can to keep my family safe. I do want to emphasize tho that doxing & death threats have become normal for minoritized activists who get little support from colleagues as they stay & continue to fight.

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Anna Beers @beeeeeers.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Something that keeps popping up in my research on search+LLMs is how they mix-and-match quotes from completely unrelated papers. Here's a response on detransition that pulls a limitations section from an unrelated paper on childhood traumatic experiences to claim that current research has flaws.

A Google "AI Overview" in response to a query about detransition rates. It is highlighted, with an icon at the end indicating that the entire section is grouped to one cluster of sources.

Detransition rates vary across studies due to differing definitions of
detransition, survey methodologies, and sample populations, but available data suggests that rates are low, with estimates ranging from under 1% to about 13%. Most detransitions are temporary and driven by external factors like societal pressure, stigma, or family disapproval, rather than regret over gender identity. More research is needed to establish accurate rates and fully understand the diverse factors influencing detransition.

Three example sources that the previous screenshot is sourced to. They include:

Transgender detransition is a taboo topic, but data shows it's on the .
Jun 20, 2023- Transgender detransitionis a taboo topic, but data shows it's on th ... BI Big Think

A retrospective analysis of the gender trajectories
of youth who have ... Nov 22, 2023- Another cohort study of 1,089 youth who medically transitioned in the United Kingdom shows that ...
Taylor & Francis Online

Epidemiology of Traumatic Experiences in
Childhood - PMC
Therefore, some of these challenges to obtaining accurate
prevalence and incident rates may interact with factors ...
National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Quote from the paper on childhood traumatic experiences. The last sentence is highlighted, meaning it was directly cited by the LLM response.

These characteristics also may differentially affect responses by members of sub-populations. For example, males may be more concerned than females about revealing incidents of sexual assault, particularly assaults by male offenders, because of concerns about even greater perceived stigmatization. Girls from certain cultural or ethnic groups that value virginity more than others may be less likely to disclose sexual abuse. Children from geographic regions where severe physical punishment is the norm may be less likely to report physical abuse because they do not view it as out of the ordinary. Therefore, some of these challenges to obtaining accurate prevalence and incident rates may interact with factors such as gender, ethnicity, and regional cultures, resulting in differential undercounts for some subgroups. Further research is needed to better understand these relationships.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 09/08/2025

remember there’s always a lucrative position for the seeming critic of the tech industry who doesn’t actually challenge its power and foundational ideas. the prodigal tech bro is one example. there’s a whole industry of academics and journalists who serve in this role too.

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The Prodigal Techbro

Prodigal tech bro stories skip straight from the past, when they were part of something that—surprise!—turned out to be bad, to the present, where they are now a moral authority on how to do good…

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Increasingly I think a major function of “masculinity” IS its crisis — a vehicle for the dominant & dominating group to justify focusing their social attentions primarily on themselves

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

One fascinating thing about the most self-serious newspaper in America with its staff of the winning journalistic meritocrats is that it routinely, institutionally publishes completely made-up bullshit speculation about pure abstractions, based on zero reporting, written as if it were plain facts

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/07/2025

ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote: projects.propublica.org/impact-of-ho...

Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?

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Anna Beers @beeeeeers.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Just finished this awesome essay from @citap.bsky.social postdoc Jaylexia Clark on @ssrc.org. On "racialized emotions" in gig work like Uber and DoorDash, and how these apps surveil and punish Black gig workers' personal and emotional expression.

Screenshot of headline.

Just Tech, under Articles and then Essay category.
The Power of Racialized Emotions: Racial Profiling and Surveillance within the Platform Economy
By: Jaylexia Clark
Under the Labor and Economy tag.

A screenshot of a Gig app. Thumbs up and thumbs down counters are provided for four categories of gig worker performance: Communication, Followed Delivery Instructions, Order Handling, and Friendliness

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 05/07/2025

the parent of a trans kid in missouri begged the new york times not to use an audio clip in The Protocol podcast of a verbal confrontation with professional transphobe Jamie Reed out of fear of safety for her kid and NYT management refused her request.

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I don't think NYT should know peace until they divulge the full chain of decision making that led to the laundering of Nazi propaganda against a leading anti-fascist politician the same day fascism was codified in Congress.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Really excited to draw attention to this dissertation by Melinda McClure Haughey (@melm.cc‬). Melinda's research explored collaborative infrastructure for supporting the "sensemaking" work of journalists working on high-stakes, fast-paced & often data-driven beats. www.melm.cc/research/dis...

melm.cc

Melinda's Dissertation: Truth-Seeking as Collaborative Work

In moments of uncertainty, journalists help the public make sense. This research shows how that work depends on expert networks and systems that too often fail when they need to move fast and what it ...

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 25/06/2025

New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41... We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance 1/

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Computer-vision research powers surveillance technology - Nature

An analysis of research papers and citing patents indicates the extensive ties between computer-vision research and surveillance.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

How the New York Times Bet Against Transgender Rights and Won

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

it's so cool there's a direct line from Jesse Singal to Justice Thomas's brainworms

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Anna Beers @beeeeeers.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I'm at #ica25! Doing a high-density session on Saturday morning about how Google launders anti-trans orgs via their AI summaries. HMU if you want to chat about trans/media things, or just going to war with the far-right in general.

Details for my session.
SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 2025
InfoSys: Misinformation Chairs(s): Yotam Ophir (University at Buffalo) 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM; Aspen Ballroom (Grand 2)

Generative Laundering: The Integration and Obfuscation of an Anti-LGBTQ+ Pseudoscientific Disinformation Campaign In Generative AI Search Results Anna Beers

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

The health of trans young people has already been negatively impacted by all this. NYT stories have been repeatedly cited in lawsuits. They underpin laws banning treatments for gender dysphoria by creating an excuse for lawmakers and judges to ignore the opinions of major medical organizations.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 30/05/2025

The number of times a week now I have to correct the wild shit people are saying about Harvard, which apparently is a magical perfect land full of unicorns and honey, not a giant financial entity that was until a few days ago holding photos of enslaved people against the will of their descendants

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Anna Beers @beeeeeers.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

If you go on Google Trends right now, and look at the "Rising" related queries for any low-volume search, you'll probably find kids looking up their homework questions. ..and why not, because Google will answer them lol.

A list of 5 "related queries" in the "Rising" category from a unknown search in Google Trends. The first option has a text box expanding its content, and reads: "in an experiment, a researcher showed children a video of a person interacting with a doll. half of the children watched a video of a person behaving violently toward a doll, and the other half saw a video of a person playing nicely with a doll. the researcher also looked at whether the gender and age of the child made a difference in how they interacted with the doll. in this study, the dependent variable was"

The search from the previous image, with an AI answer. It reads, with several icons for linked sources:

In this experiment, the dependent variable was how the children interacted with the doll after watching the video. This is because the researcher was measuring a change or effect (the children's doll interaction) that was potentially influenced by the independent variables (the video content and the child's gender and age).
Here's why:

Dependent variables: are what researchers measure to see if they are affected by the independent variable.

In this study, the researcher is trying to see if the video content (violent vs. non-violent) and the child's characteristics (gender, age) would lead to differences in how the child interacted with the doll.
The children's actions with the doll are what the researcher is measuring, so this is the dependent variable.

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justine zhang @tisjune.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

something i've been thinking about is how lots of AI commentary, especially as it pertains to measuring "capabilities", borrows from a sort of neoliberal skills discourse, where skills are commensurable and measurable insofar as they have market value

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Anna Beers @beeeeeers.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Hey all, here's a post at @ssrc.org about how anti-trans talking points are getting wrapped into Google's AI search results. AI search not only cites anti-trans disinfo, but sanitizes it, making practices like conversion therapy sound legitimate and safe.

just-tech.ssrc.org

Anti-Transgender Disinformation in the Age of Algorithmic Search Summaries

Recently Google introduced a feature in its search engine that algorithmically creates summaries of one's search results. Though it could be viewed as a useful tool, researcher Anna Beers argues this ...

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 17/05/2025

It's alarming to me, as someone who understands that good intentions outweigh imperfect language, that covert transphobia has been so normalized because cis people hear more about us from transphobes than from trans people ourselves. This supportive message using "trans-identified" is a siren.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

"Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will direct federal health agencies to limit treatments for gender dysphoria to talk therapy. Experts fear the decision could have grave consequences, as studies show hormone treatments are effective for 97% of patients." Life could be so easy

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 14/04/2025

I started tracking paper numbers on 16 April 2024. On 14 April 2025, with one day left to complete the year, the total for the Telegraph, Times, Mail, and Guardian/Observer stands at 1,074 articles about trans people, nearly all of which were attacks and barely any with quotes from a trans person

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

truly one of the most disgusting ledes I’ve ever read in the NYT

By Heather Knight
Reporting from San Francisco
April 2, 2025
Plastic straws are banned in San Francisco, at least if you want to drink a soda or lemonade.
Those smoking fentanyl, however, have been able to get them for free, at taxpayers' expense.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 10/03/2025

People can stay mad about the following but if Democrats hadn’t run around normalizing this kind of language, the American public wouldn’t be as primed as they are to accept it.

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Tiffany Cabán @tiffanycaban.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Appalling and unacceptable. The targeting of student activists and academics is from the old fascist playbook. We must say loud and clear: Free Mahmoud. No to fascism and political repression.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 09/03/2025

breaking via inbox: “On March 8, Department of Homeland Security agents arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist and recent grad student at Columbia, at his place of residence, an apartment building owned by the university. The DHS agents said that the State Dept revoked Khalil’s green card.”

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I wrote about how right wing creators are dominating the coverage of Lively vs Baldoni and how it has become a massive growth engine for the right wing media pipeline. Liberal creators are either ignoring the biggest story in pop culture or regurgitating Candace Owens’ coverage to their audiences.

usermag.co

Right wing creators are dominating Lively-Baldoni coverage

Conservative commentators are leveraging the case to dismantle support for #MeToo and amass unprecedented audience growth.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

When we looked at 15 years of news articles about student loans (focused on the 8 papers that were top in circulation or in metro area Black resident share), we found that 32% of authors attended Ivy Plus even though they're less than 1% of national enrollments. 2/ edworkingpapers.com/ai23-856

Screenshot of working paper that reads: We found that authors of student loan news articles disproportionately attended Ivy Plus and Public Flagship institutions, which tend to have a relatively low reliance on undergraduate student loans. In the United States, only about 8% of students enroll in these two types of institutions, while over half of our authors had enrolled in these institutions (approximately 32% at Ivy Plus institutions and 20% at Public
Flagship institutions).

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Anna Beers @beeeeeers.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Another weird AI search fuck-up today. Have been testing how Google's AI writes about detransition (spoiler: awfully). In this paragraph, in order to criticize a study it cites, it pulls in the limitations sections from.. completely unrelated studies. Also, the paper it's criticizing isn't real 🤷‍♀️.

Quoted text from AI Overview: "According to a 2022 study published in the Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy, 13.1% of transgender individuals reported detransitioning at some point in their lives. However, this study was based on self-reported data, which can be subject to bias."

This text is highlighted, sourcing it to two hyperlinked papers. The first is titled "Personality Changes Associated with Organ Transplants" and the second is titled "Why are women more likely to attempt suicide than men? Analysis of lifetime suicide attempts among US adults in a nationally representative sample." In the first paper, the preview text reads "Also, our identification of personality changes following transplantations is based solely on self-reports." On the second, the preview text reads "Most notably, the retrospective, self-report nature of the data introduces the possibility of differential gender..."

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

18-year-old Jude on laws banning gender-affirming care: "On the more extreme end, for a lot of kids it's the possibility of severe mental-health struggles and suicidal ideation - but I also think on a smaller scale, kids, because they cannot be themselves, would rather choose to not be anyone."

I think a lot of people don't quite
understand the impact of these bills on
queer kids. On the more extreme end,
for a lot of kids it's the possibility of
severe mental-health struggles and
suicidal ideation - but I also think
something could happen on a smaller
scale where kids, because they cannot be
themselves, would rather choose to not
be anyone. If I hadn`t been able to
change my name, I don't know ifI
would choose to go onstage for the
school play, if I would choose to be in my
poetry club. There's a whole bunch of
kids who don't get to thrive because
they're stuck in this place where they're
suffering and there's not really a way out
of that" -Jude, 18, he/they, Louisiana

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