Substack has a Nazi problem; Dating apps are flopping; Ebay execs harass critics; Elon does race science, AI George Carlin – NEWS ROUNDUP
There Are No Girls on the Internet
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🗓️ 13 January 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Happy 2024 - the internet is all scams, lies, baits, Nazis and spiders!
Substack has a Nazi problem: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/01/11/substack-platformer-nazis/
Dating apps are in their flop era: https://www.bustle.com/wellness/dating-apps-have-gotten-worse-hinge-tinder-bumble-gen-z-millennials
On Threads, users say they're flooded with pro-life and transphobic posts: https://mashable.com/article/threads-transphobia-anti-abortion-posts-hate-speech
EBay to pay $3 million after employees sent live spiders, funeral wreath and fetal pig to critics: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ebay-pay-3-million-employees-234151533.html
The SEC’s Official X Account Was ‘Compromised’ and Used to Post Fake Bitcoin News: https://www.wired.com/story/sec-x-account-compromise/
What!? Did Elon Musk Just Endorse Tweet Saying Students at HBCUs Have Low IQs? https://www.theroot.com/wtf-elon-musk-seems-to-endorse-tweet-saying-students-a-1851159488?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=dlvrit&utm_content=theroot
Video Game Voice Actors Criticize SAG-AFTRA Over Agreement With AI Company: https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2024/01/10/video-game-voice-actors-criticize-sag-aftra-over-agreement-with-ai-company/?sh=267ac9e0374e
The George Carlin AI Standup Is Worse Than You Can Imagine: https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d94xx/the-george-carlin-ai-standup-is-worse-than-you-can-imagine
Bridget’s favorite Carlin bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvgN5gCuLac
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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. |
| 0:17.5 | Joey, thank you for being here. Happy New Year, first newscast of 2024. |
| 0:23.0 | Hey, Bridgett, happy New Year. |
| 0:25.4 | So it being the New Year, I have to start with a question. |
| 0:28.2 | Do you have any kind of online New Year's resolutions, or maybe not even resolutions, things that you are like, I am leaving this in 20203. |
| 0:36.5 | This is not, I'm not bringing this with me to 2024. |
| 0:39.9 | Ooh. |
| 0:40.6 | Um, one thing I definitely at the end of the year when it comes to like internet stuff, um, |
| 0:47.2 | I'm, you know, I was on all the social medias and everything and I was like sort of trying |
| 0:51.8 | to like downsize a little bit. |
| 0:53.7 | I was like, I wanted to get ridize a little bit. I was like I wanted to get |
| 0:54.4 | rid of so like I don't know. I had a Snapchat account that I made in like high school that I was |
| 0:58.0 | like I don't use this anymore. I'm deleting it. I deleted be real. I know that that's been making |
| 1:02.9 | a comeback like the last month but I was like I don't use this. I'm so yeah I think I'm one of my things that I was like, I'm going to be online, but it's |
| 1:11.8 | going to be with like intention. |
| 1:13.3 | Like I'm not just going to have my like miscellaneous accounts that I don't use. |
| 1:17.8 | We'll see how long that actually lasts. |
| 1:19.5 | I will probably end up making some new account to something and forgetting about it. |
| 1:24.8 | But yeah, that's the goal. |
| 1:26.9 | What a good thing, a good way to start the new year. |
| 1:30.5 | Like, you know how we have like spring cleaning or I'm going to, there's like a tradition where you |
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