Elon doubles down on antisemitism; Grindr forces LGBTQ staff back to the office; Your car knows your sex life; Something is rotten at Rotten Tomatoes – NEWS ROUNDUP

There Are No Girls on the Internet

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Society & Culture, Technology

4.4 • 820 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Are you still on Twitter? Over on the Patreon we’re having a conversation about the decision to stay on the platform or leave: https://www.Patreon.com/tangoti

US law firm alters diversity fellowship criteria after lawsuit: https://news.yahoo.com/us-law-firm-alters-diversity-231155108.html

Good company! Indeed Will Give Trans Employees $10,000 to Relocate for Gender-Affirming Care: https://www.them.us/story/indeed-trans-employees-relocation

If You’ve Got a New Car, It’s a Data Privacy Nightmare: https://gizmodo.com/mozilla-new-cars-data-privacy-report-1850805416

Elon is being antisemitic on main, while Linda is tweeting about how much she likes sports! https://www.mediamatters.org/twitter/elon-musk-again-undermines-x-ceo-linda-yaccarino-reinforcing-why-advertisers-cant-trust-her

Airbnb is over in NYC: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/06/new-york-city-airbnb-short-stay-booking-rental-rules-laws-impact

Grindr’s Return-to-Office Ultimatum Has Gutted a Uniquely Queer Space in Tech: https://www.wired.com/story/grindrs-return-to-office-ultimatum-gutted-a-uniquely-queer-space-in-tech/

The Decomposition of Rotten Tomatoes: The most overrated metric in movies is erratic, reductive, and easily hacked — and yet has Hollywood in its grip: https://www.vulture.com/article/rotten-tomatoes-movie-rating.html

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0:00.0	There are No Girls on the Internet as a production of IHeart Radio and Unbossed Creative.
0:12.2	I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet.
0:17.7	I am here with my fantastic producer, Joey. Joey, how are you? How was your holiday?
0:22.9	Hi, Bridget. I'm doing good. My holiday was nice. It's nice to have, you know, a couple days on.
0:28.0	Yeah, did you do anything fun? Um, what did I do this weekend? Um, yeah, actually, I did a drag performance for the first time. Oh my God! Yeah, I, I did a drag performance for the first.
0:37.6	Oh, my God!
0:39.5	Yeah, I, it's like I'd been wanting to do for a bit.
0:42.9	And then my friend, I had like a birthday party over the weekend.
0:45.4	It was like, I want my friends to do drag performances.
0:49.1	So I was like, all right, sure.
0:50.5	Why not?
0:52.2	Yeah, it was super fun.
0:53.6	I totally want to do that again so made my my drag debut
0:57.6	oh my god i hope to many more also happy birthday oh no it was my friend's birthday oh friend's
1:04.8	good okay well happy birthday to your friend well let's get into some of these news stories that folks might have missed on the
1:11.9	internet this week. So first of all, we have to start with a little bit of an update, which is
1:16.5	an update on our enemy of the pod professional litigate. That's right, Edward Blum,
1:22.9	the one man wrecking ball against diversity. This week on the podcast, I did a deep dive on the show
1:28.9	Stuff Mom Never Told You into Edward Blum's legal challenge that he is bringing against the black
1:33.6	venture capital firm Fearless Fund for giving out grants and money and support for black women
1:39.3	entrepreneurs. After Blum successfully brought a legal challenge that gutted the Voting Rights Act and affirmative action.
1:46.2	Well, Blum is also challenging diversity fellowship programs for people of color, LGBTQ folks, and people with disabilities at law firms.
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