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Shiny Happy People: It's not just the Duggars, religious zealots want to control your future (w/ Eve Ettinger)
Season 4
On Amazon Prime's new docu series Shiny Happy People, we're given a look into the Duggars' harmful religious ideology. Eve Ettinger shares their stor…
2 years, 9 months ago
ChatGPT gets sued; Google's anti-choice cash in; GLAAD grades Twitter; Teslas go full self-rampaging; Women be Gaming — NEWS ROUNDUP
Season 4
A besmirched radio host sues OpenAI over ChatGPT hallucinations of impropriety. Google rakes in ad cash from anti-choice "pregnancy crisis centers" d…
2 years, 9 months ago
Real Life Beef: Bridget vs Essence Magazine - Listeners demand the truth about that weird 'Vila Davis' postazine
Season 4
A few weeks ago in our news roundup we talked about a weird social post from Essence magazine on Viola Davis's incredible outfit at the Cannes Film F…
2 years, 9 months ago
Park Mom Birthday Cake Drama, DeSantis Campaign Deep Fakes, Amazon’s Spy Ring, YouTube Disinfo Is Back, Facebook Still Awful, New Twitter CEO — NEWS ROUNDUP
Season 4
This week we learned Amazon employees spied on Ring customers, YouTube is rolling back its policy about election disinfo, and Instagram is even worse…
2 years, 10 months ago
Sex workers know the future of the internet w/ Dr. Olivia Snow
Season 4
When it comes to what’s next in technology and the internet, we’d all benefit from listening to sex workers. Dr. Olivia Snow, dominatrix and research…
2 years, 10 months ago
Elon Musk flirts with AOC impersonator, Surgeon General's Report on social media, AI-generated true crime on TikTok, and more! — NEWS ROUNDUP
Season 4
This week, Elon Musk interacted with a fake Twitter account impersonating AOC, which had been banned until he decided to unban it, presumably so he c…
2 years, 10 months ago
Tech Won’t Save Us in the future with Paris Marx
Season 4
Paris Marx, host of the hit podcast Tech Won’t Save Us says criticism about technology and the people and culture who build it, is imperative to secu…
2 years, 10 months ago
Police conspire with insurrectionists; Google breaks its promise; DeSantis goes on Twitter; Target pulls Pride merch — NEWS ROUNDUP
Season 4
This week we learned that police officers helped the insurrectionists, and that Google never stopped collecting data on visits to abortion centers li…
2 years, 10 months ago
Mikki Kendall built her career on Twitter. Here’s where she’s going next.
Season 4
When writer, cultural critic and OG Twitter icon Mikki Kendall created the viral hashtag #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen, she changed the face of online f…
2 years, 10 months ago
Elizabeth Holmes is going to prison, Elon Musk’s racist tweets, AI senate hearings, and Montana bans Tik Tok — NEWS ROUNDUP
Season 4
We’re doing a new thing where we summarize tech, media, and internet news you may have missed this week.
For more content like this, check out our Pa…
2 years, 10 months ago