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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/09/2026

This article is for men. Women already know this. This week a woman filed a civil suit against 7 men at Cornell U for drugging, trafficking, and raping her. Zero have faced criminal charges. Women are not safe around men. And the data is devastating. www.qasimrashid.com/p/cornell-un...

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Cornell University, Systemic Sexual Abuse, and the Men Responsible

Content Warning: This is a post about men, rape, and women

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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The year is 2026 and research has just now started on what the ovary do after menopause. It is not a dead organ. Removing ovaries even after menopause may not be advisable except for women at an increased risk of ovarian cancer. www.wired.com/story/ovary-...

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The Ovary Is Surprisingly Active After Menopause. Scientists Are Trying to Figure Out Why

A growing body of research is putting the ovary in a new light, not as an egg factory with an expiration date, but as an organ that shapes women’s health long after the fertile years have passed.

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Holly Dunsworth @dunsworth.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

No need to imagineer evolved female preferences for men's height in order to think evolutionarily about sex differences in height: www.prosocial.world/posts/whats-...

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What’s True About the Evolution of Men’s Greater Average Height?

Why men are taller than women may have nothing to do with testosterone—or sexual selection.

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

"And yes, I have been banned from YouTube for calling for Janet Yellen to be imprisoned for earning a degree in economics while female." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/at-...

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At Long Last, I Have Maxximized My Looks

“At long last, I am a stone-cold seven, the kind of guy who could win a Jacob Elordi lookalike contest in a farm town with a population of 200.”

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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 15/05/2026

"A couple months ago I ran an interview on here with the new executive director of the Marsha P. Johnson Institute about Black trans lives and it remains to this day the least read thing on this newsletter. I don't know how to make people interested in this."

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

New — I wrote about how journalists proudly using AI to help them write their stories obscures the deeply human process that makes journalism a societal necessity, and one that feeds the soul of those who create it. Hope you’ll give it a read. I promise I wrote the whole thing.

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Refusing to accept big tech's AI-poisoned 'future of journalism'

Humans, however flawed, are

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/04/2026

I made a little Instagram reel about this image because it’s just so frickin’ cool

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/04/2026

In honor of (hopefully) today's launch of NASA's Artemis II mission, the first crewed mission to orbit the Moon in more than 50 years, here is a to-scale graphic of exactly how far away the Moon actually is. (Click image to expand.) You could fit about 30 Earths between the Earth and the Moon!

A scale illustration of the Earth and the Moon, with the Earth on the far left, lots of black, and then the Moon on the far right, about 30 Earth diameters away.

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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

hi I wrote about Chappell Roan, public orgies of misogyny, and the trap of ignoring ‘celebrity news’ when misogynist harassment campaigns affect all women. None of the outrage slop we’ve seen is about Chappell's behavior—it's just a bunch of misogynists are justifying what they already wanted to do

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Chappell Roan, misogynist orgies, and the trap of ignoring 'celebrity news'

Famous women are treated as avatars for all women. Misogynist harassment campaigns affect all women.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

This came out last weekend and feels only too timely as equipment to contemplate yesterday's revelations about Cesar Chavez, notably about why so few victims came forward in the past and why so many old crimes have been exhumed and addressed because something changed (and feminism changed it).

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The one thing everyone gets wrong about feminism

People love to declare the death of the women’s movement, pointing to the ‘failure’ of #MeToo or the Epstein files, but don’t give up the fight just yet, writes Rebecca Solnit

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alex krokus @alexkrokus.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

happy international women's day to one of the best genders to ever do it. man, i love you guys <33

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 23/10/2025

"Just because a model correlates with neural and behavioral data, it is not sufficient for us to infer that the model is performing cognition: correlation does not imply cognition." On Logical Inference over Brains, Behaviour, and Artificial Neural Networks. doi.org/10.1007/s421... 3/n

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On Logical Inference over Brains, Behaviour, and Artificial Neural Networks - Computational Brain & Behavior

In the cognitive, computational, and neuro-sciences, practitioners often reason about what computational models represent or learn, as well as what algorithm is instantiated. The putative goal of such...

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⚡⚡MAD DOCTOR IMPOSSIBLE⚡⚡ @impossiblephd.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

BONUS ROUND My talk yesterday was really designed to be heard, especially the last quarter--so I recorded it! Have a listen, if it strikes your fancy! stainedglasswoman.substack.com/p/plausible-...

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Plausible Deniability: Audio Presentation

Comics, Embodiment Fantasies and the Rhetorical Fetishization of Transness

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marlo @marlo.ooo · 07/03/2026

this is so fun because i know an LLM wouldn’t give me a response this creative. like this took the funniest shortcut possible. come have fun at youraislopbores.me

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your ai slop bores me

Be an AI, answer prompts, trigger a RAM crisis

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Herb Brody @hbrody.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Most health and medical data are drawn from research on male bodies. That leaves a big research gap that impedes progress on improving treatments for women, writes @smjyoti.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Uncharted: Understanding women’s health across the body

Disaggregating data by sex is a powerful way to help develop better diagnostics and treatments for women — but researchers say it’s not used enough.

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Zoognosis with Joy! @zoognosisjoy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

"Conclusion: While transgender women exhibited higher lean mass than cisgender women, their physical fitness was comparable. Current evidence is mostly low certainty and has heterogenous quality but does not support theories of inherent athletic advantages for transgender women over cisgender." 🧪

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Body composition and physical fitness in transgender versus cisgender individuals: a systematic review with meta-analysis

Objective To compare body composition and physical fitness between transgender and cisgender individuals. Design Systematic review with meta-analysis. Data sources PubMed, Web of Science, Embase and...

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I sat in a fucking court room and heard Apple imply that a naked cartoon banana was somehow inappropriate but somehow Grok non consensually undressing women and children is ok?? www.theverge.com/policy/85990...

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Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards

Once you’ve traded your principles for proximity to power, do you even run your own company?

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Allison Parshall @parshallison.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Happy Halloween 🦇🦇🦇 Horror movie music can be deeply unsettling. Here's how composers achieve that effect www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-... 🧪

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Why Horror Movie Music Sends a Chill Up Your Spine

Horror movie composers use musical tricks to hijack your nervous system and put you on edge

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/

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Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @epiellie.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

I took a whole week to read and write about this paper because I wanted to make sure that I wasn’t just rubber-stamping some results I liked. And now I can confidently say, this paper is very well-done and very well-written. And I believe their results. open.substack.com/pub/epiellie...

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Finally, a well-done study about autism and Tylenol!

We have read a LOT of bad research over the past few weeks, as we explore what RFK Jr thinks about the causes of autism. Finally, we get to read some good research!

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Vignesh @vigneshb.com · 24/09/2025

A well written and nuanced article by @helenpearson.bsky.social & @heidiledford.bsky.social arguing that there is insufficient data to link autism and acetaminophen and that focusing on such a link is no more than a distraction. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Trump links autism and Tylenol: is there any truth to it?

The US president repeatedly advised people, “Don't take Tylenol,” but scientists say that strong evidence between the medication and autism is lacking.

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Bailey Townsend 🦀 @pds.dad · 14/09/2025

If you are curious about what atproto is, what a PDS is, or what moving to a new PDS looks like. This may be a good starting place for you. This is my attempt at explaining some of the basics of Bluesky(atproto) in a less technical way.

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What the hell is the atmosphere anyway

A slightly less technical intro to the technical side of Bluesky

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Milagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

I am thrilled to be recognized by TIME as one of the 100 most influential people worldwide in the field of artificial intelligence for my work with @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social. >> #TIME100AI time.com/time100ai I want to take this opportunity to share a few reflections on this work 👇🧵

Portrait of Milagros Miceli in a frame that reads TIME100/AI 2025.

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Security Cryptography Whatever @scwpod.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

NEW EPISODE! An OpenPGP.js bug gave us an excuse to tear encrypted email via PGP to shreds. William Woodruff joined us to explain the vuln & indulge our gnashing of teeth on why email was never meant to be encrypted: securitycryptographywhatever.com/2025/08/22/s... www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoL3...

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Stop Using Encrypted Email with William Woodruff

YouTube video by Security Cryptography Whatever

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tante @tante.cc · 19/08/2025

I think the Vibecoding reddit has accidentally stumbled on the best description of vibecoding: It's "roleplay for guys [it is always guys] who want to feel like hackers without doing the hard part". #ai #vibecoding

What’s the point of vibe coding if I still have to pay a dev to fix it?

what’s the point of vibe coding if at the end of the day i still gotta pay a dev to look at the code anyway. sure it feels kinda cool while i’m typing, like i’m in some flow state or whatever, but when stuff breaks it’s just dead weight. i cant vibe my way through debugging, i cant ship anything that actually matters, and then i’m back to square one pulling out my wallet for someone who actually knows what they’re doing. makes me think vibe coding is just roleplay for guys who want to feel like hackers without doing the hard part. am i missing something here or is it really just useless once you step outside the fantasy

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Vignesh @vigneshb.com · 18/08/2025

A brilliantly written and researched piece which might get you riled up and eager to defend the Open Web against the incessant attacks by Big Tech: wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/g...

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Google is killing the open web

The juggernaut is taking advantage of its dominant position to enclose and destroy the commons.

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2025

THIS ESSAY IS SO GOOD. I don't know that I've ever read an essay so thoroughly saturated with sarcasm and yet devastatingly accurately shredding someone's stupid ideas. This is the kind of essay our world needs right now […]

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Original post on mastodon.social

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

“Scientists don’t have the Hippocratic oath that doctors do, but we should. If you see that harm to the stability of climate and to present and future generations is being caused, then, in my opinion, you have a moral and ethical responsibility as a climate scientist to speak out against that.”

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This renowned climate scientist says this is the most difficult time for climate science he’s ever seen

Benjamin Santer has faced pushback on climate research in the past. But this environment feels different ‘because it's so targeted.’

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Vignesh @vigneshb.com · 21/07/2025

Predicting mass layoffs with the confidence of a tech messiah because in the race to automate, inconvenient questions about ethics and livelihoods apparently don't compute. Bold disregard, too, for the nuances of human work and the fallout of mass displacement. gizmodo.com/ai-will-repl...

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AI Will Replace Recruiters and Assistants in Six Months, Says CEO Behind ChatGPT Rival

Perplexity's CEO lays out a near-future where entire white-collar roles are automated by a new generation of AI browsers, transforming a week's worth of work into a single prompt.

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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Study finds A.I. LLMs advise women to ask for lower salaries than men. When prompted w/ a user profile of same education, experience & job role, differing only by gender, ChatGPT advised the female applicant to request $280K salary; Male applicant=$400K. thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...

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ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds

A new study has found that large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT consistently advise women to ask for lower salaries than men.

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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 16/07/2025

apropos of ~ everything ~ please allow me to share a free gift link to a Flytrap piece I wrote earlier this year about the decimation of reality, AI, and how fucked we all are

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Reality Bytes

So-called ‘AI,’ performative ignorance, and old-fashioned human assholery are degrading reality as we know it.

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Disabled folk don’t have to do “exceptional” things, or be the next Hawking, to have value to society. They have value because everyone has value, and everyone deserves to live & be supported.

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 09/07/2025

"[The Flytrap] aims to be 'unf*ck your algorithm' with a lot of intersectional analysis for and by femme and queer people. This great piece on the “first LGBTQ co-housing community” in the country is a great proof of concept." So true, besties! Read here: theflytrap.beehiiv.com/p/take-care-...

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‘Take Care of Your Own, As Long As You Can’

For Pride month, The Flytrap visited Durham, North Carolina’s Village Hearth, the first LGBTQ cohousing community in the nation for people 55 and over.

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socraticme.bsky.social @socraticme.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Hey wait, this isn’t okay. We need more subscribers, people. This group has already had more hits in its brief existence than the legacy local paper you are (and should continue to be) supporting because the world needs news reporting and analysis. Go. Now. theflytrap.beehiiv.com

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Bringing Back the Feminist Blog

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Vignesh @vigneshb.com · 13/07/2025

"An AI may never be able to write a great poem—a truly original poem—because a poem is made not of language but of experience, and the defining aspect of human experience is the constant collision between our wishes and reality, the sharp violation of our expectations, the demolition of our plans."

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METR @metr.org · 10/07/2025

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

why call it white dwarf spectroscopy when you could call it ~necroplanetology~ 👻🪐

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 17/12/2024

btw i’m happy to be a resource for anyone considering making the switch from substack, as someone who’s been through it and has ~a year of experience since switching citationneeded.news to ghost. always happy to share my experience, including as someone for whom this is their primary income.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 10/11/2024

For anyone looking to adjust their media diet, now’s a great time to consider escaping The Algorithms with RSS. Here are some of the blogs, newsletters, and independent news sites I follow: www.mollywhite.net/blogroll/ For feed readers, I use Inoreader, but there are many other good options.

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