A history lesson behind the now-infamous keychain.
Taylor Swift Files to Trademark Her Voice and Likeness, Apparently to Protect Against AI Misuse
Taylor Swift evidently has taken a new legal step to protect her identity in the age of AI.
Will the Taylor Swift AI deepfakes finally make governments take action? | CBC Arts
Reporters Sam Cole and Melissa Heikkilä join Elamin to explain why this story has hit a nerve with those in Hollywood and Washington.
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial.Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, 'essential' notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, Butler starts by questioning the category 'woman' and continues in this vein with examinations of 'the masculine' and 'the feminine'. Best known however, but also most often misinterpreted, is Butler's concept of gender as a reiterated social performance rather than the expression of a prior reality.Thrilling and provocative, few other academic works have roused passions to the same extent.
AI-Generated Taylor Swift Porn Went Viral on Twitter. Here's How It Got There
404 Media traced back the viral and abusive images of Taylor Swift to a specific Telegram community. That group sometimes uses Microsoft's AI tools.
Glitch feminism: a manifesto
"A new manifesto for cyberfeminism. The divide between the digital and the real world no longer exists: we are connected all the time. How do we find out who we are within this digital era? Where do we create the space to explore our identity? How can we come together and create solidarity? The glitch is often dismissed as an error, a faulty overlaying, but, as Legacy Russell shows, liberation can be found within the fissures between gender, technology and the body that it creates. The glitch offers the opportunity for us to perform and transform ourselves in an infinite variety of identities. In Glitch Feminism, Russell makes a series of radical demands through memoir, art and critical theory, and the work of contemporary artists who have travelled through the glitch in their work. Timely and provocative, Glitch Feminism shows how the error can be a revolution"--Publisher's website
Feminine Panic: Who Gets to Own Masculine Narratives? - Unwinnable
The panic serves control, not preservation.
X is blocking Taylor Swift searches... barely
X’s Taylor Swift search block is very easy to get around.
Trolls have flooded X with graphic Taylor Swift AI fakes
While some accounts have been suspended, many posts remain live.
Who's Afraid of Gender? (A Guide to Judith Butler)
The Drafts of ‘Brownsville Girl,’ Found and Lost
“The Drafts of ‘Brownsville Girl,’ Found and Lost” By Bill Lattanzi Bob Dylan has been surprisingly generous describing his writing method over the years. When he was young, he’s said, the s…
The End of Textuality - Real Housewives of San Francisco
Authenticity in the age of GenAI
The End of Textuality - Real Housewives of San Francisco
Authenticity in the age of GenAI
During the mass influx of users to Bluesky during the '24 election, I saw the need to carve out a space for real [femme] adult creators. The biggest related hashtags at the time like #NSFW were mostly art, furries, gay Twitter, and stolen porn. OF girls couldn't get seen.
remember when there was the woman who tried to make herself the queen of bluesky sex workers and absolutely lost her mind when people wouldn't swear fealty, declaring that she'd go to nostr where they were actually sw-postive? sometimes i think about the bed she made for herself and laugh.
Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief
nostr is certainly a haven alright
Interestingly, as the digital sublime emerged, feminists like Joanna Russ were early on in recognizing this sublime as (male) addiction and fetishization.
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"SF and Technology as Mystification" by Joanna Russ (1978) depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/16/russ16.htm
