Rudy Giuliani ordered to pay $150 million; Verizon gives woman’s phone records to stalker; Discord bans misgendering; Twitter ads get gross; Women in AI are sick of sexist questions; Is ChatGPT on winter break? – NEWS ROUNDUP

There Are No Girls on the Internet

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Society & Culture, Technology

4.4 • 820 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

It’s a Friday news roundup! If you’re new here and looking for a deeper dive into a single topic, check out the episode on Alex Jones from Dec 12, or the (forthcoming) episode on Tuesday Dec 19 about the wild story of an author who created fake Goodreads accounts to review-bomb a bunch of other authors. It’s part scam, part Greek tragedy, and you’ll definitely want to hear it.

Want to skip the banter and get right to the news? Head to around the 6 minute mark

GLAAD’s report on transphobia online: All Social Media Platform Policies Should Recognize Targeted Misgendering and Deadnaming as Hate Speech: https://glaad.org/social-media-platform-policies-targeted-misgendering-deadnaming-hate-speech/

Part one of Bridget discussing Georgia election workers Shaye and Ruby Freeman on Internet Hate Machine: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/part-one-why-trump-targeted-two-black-election-workers/id1648497305?i=1000590820764

Part two of Bridget discussing Shaye and Ruby Freeman: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/part-two-why-trump-targeted-two-black-election-workers/id1648497305?i=1000592261007

Congress Pulls Bill That Would Massively Expand Surveillance After 'Dramatic Showdown': https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3wkdg/fisa-surveillance-bill-congress-pulled

Speaker Johnson adds short term FISA extension to National Defense Bill: https://prospect.org/civil-rights/2023-12-12-mike-johnson-ndaa-surveillance-reform/

Twitter Is Just Running Ads for Stealing Semen Now: https://www.404media.co/twitter-x-ads-stealing-semen-make-a-mom/

Hugging Face’s Rules of [Press] Engagement for writing about women in tech: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/rules-press-engagement-emily-witko--ohlzf/

Discord bands misgendering: https://www.them.us/story/discord-explicitly-bans-misgendering-and-deadnaming-on-its-platform

Chat GPT might be on winter break (and so are we). As ChatGPT gets “lazy,” people test “winter break hypothesis” as the cause: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/12/is-chatgpt-becoming-lazier-because-its-december-people-run-tests-to-find-out/

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0:00.0	There are No Girls on the Internet as a production of IHeart Radio and Unbossed Creative.
0:12.0	I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet.
0:17.5	Okay, Mike, I want to start out our banter by asking you what I hope will become kind of a new episode series, low-level internet complaints.
0:26.9	So what is something that has been grinding your gears? Nothing big. It's not trying to have this be a fleshed-out thing because I have these little complaints and I'm like, well, actually, did you know it's connected to this larger problem
0:38.2	that we should actually really talk about?
0:40.0	So something kind of petty, can you give me a low-level petty internet gripe
0:45.0	that's been grinding your gears online or in tech or in culture lately?
0:49.5	Yeah, you know I can give you a petty little grape.
0:53.2	The thing that's been just grinding my gears lately is how every time you open an app or a website or an application on your desktop computer, there's a hundred little pop-ups that are pointing out new features or directing my attention to some tool to use or
1:12.4	give me a helpful little tip.
1:14.2	And often the tips are like useful, I guess, but I don't want to hear about new features.
1:19.8	I just want to do the thing that I came here to do.
1:23.4	Adobe Acrobat is a pretty bad offender in this category.
1:27.2	Every time I open it, there's some little pop-up telling me about something that I don't care about.
1:32.6	I just want to look at my BDF.
1:34.5	So it's gotten out of hand, and somebody's got to do something about this.
1:39.0	It's like 2023's version of Clippy.
1:41.1	Remember Clippy?
1:42.0	I remember Clippy.
1:43.2	Yeah.
1:46.1	You know, I kind of miss that little guy. Yeah, I think that in 2023, the internet experience has gotten so janky. Like, there are
1:54.0	websites where you basically can't use them because of the amount of pop-ups and things that load
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