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There Are No Girls on the Internet

Elon Musk declares 'cis' a slur; Poll workers targeted by Trump+Giuliani exonerated; RFK Jr. and Joe Rogan say stupid things; Illinois bans book bans; Grammys are for humans; Zuckerburg vs. Musk cage match - NEWS ROUNDUP

There Are No Girls on the Internet

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, Technology

4.1907 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

There’s a heavy musk of Elon in this episode. He tries to redefine the word ‘cis’ to be a slur and says it will be considered harassment on his janky platform that encourages deadnaming; he inspires the CEO of Reddit to follow his lead and alienate his own users by charging for API access; and he challenges Mark Zuckerburg to an ill-advised cage match that seems like it might actually happen. RFK Jr. went on Joe Rogan’s podcast to rehash some tired old medical misinformation from 2020, then Rogan’s listeners got big mad when an actual scientist wasn’t interested in debating their nonsense. But it’s not all gloom and doom! In happier news, the two Georgia poll workers whose lives were upended by Trump and Giuliani’s baseless lies about them were finally officially exonerated. Illinois gets behind the librarians to ban book bans, and the Recording Academy takes a stand by insisting that only humans can win Grammys - not AI. 

Did you follow the Oceangate tragedy? Listen to an ad free bonus episode breaking down online discourse,  conspiracy theories and right wing grievance mongering around Oceangate: https://www.patreon.com/posts/oceangate-85029090

Listen to Bridget’s episode about Ruby and Shay Freeman on Internet Hate Machine: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/part-one-why-trump-targeted-two-black-election-workers/id1648497305?i=1000590820764 

Erin Reed’s piece on the history of the word cis https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/cisgender-is-no-more-a-slur-than

Anna Merlan’s Vice piece on RFK on Rogan: https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7zz9z/spotify-rogan-rfk-vaccine-misinformation-policy

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0:00.0

There are No Girls on the Internet as a production of IHeart Radio and Unbossed Creative.

0:13.4

I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet.

0:19.0

I'm here with my producer, Mike. Thanks for being here, Mike.

0:21.7

Hey, Bridget.

0:22.3

Thanks for having me.

0:23.7

And here's what you may have missed this week on the internet.

0:26.2

But first, I have to do a little bit of a, I don't know, PSA announcement.

0:32.2

This is a situation I'm calling Cameo Cinderella.

0:34.7

So five years ago, somebody from the platform Cameo, which is a platform

0:40.0

that you can have public figures or famous people give you like birthday shoutouts, about five

0:45.4

years ago, somebody from Cameo got in touch with me and they said, hey, you should be on Cameo.

0:50.1

This was like a real ego boost for me. I was like, oh my god, do you think that people would

0:54.2

really want to like pay me to give them like a video greeting? I signed up. I became a member

1:00.0

of the platform. Literally five years go by, no one requests a goddamn thing. Whatever, I was

1:06.1

humbled. But last week, I got my first ever cameo request. But because I had never used the platform,

1:12.7

it had just been dormant for five years,

1:14.6

I didn't really know how it worked.

1:17.8

I didn't know that the requests expired.

1:20.7

So I was not able to fill my first ever cameo request.

1:24.0

I feel terrible about it.

1:25.2

So it was from somebody named Jason,

1:27.4

and they were requesting a cameo pep talk from me about it. So it was from somebody named Jason, and they were requesting

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