Taylor Swift’s “Nazi” necklace controversy; ChatGPT is doing porn; Amazon is exploiting pregnant workers; Pinterest addresses AI slop – News Roundup

There Are No Girls on the Internet

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4.4 • 820 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Welcome to the weekly News Roundup! Bridget recaps the week's tech stories that you might have missed.

Pop superstar apparently pulls controversial necklace after Nazi imagery backlash: https://www.cleveland.com/news/2025/10/pop-superstar-apparently-pulls-controversial-necklace-after-nazi-imagery-backlash.html

Here's Bridget's 2016 take on Taylor Swift: https://podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/smnty-classics-problematic-faves-taylor-swift/id304531053?i=1000421529530

OpenAI Says It Will Move to Allow Smut: https://futurism.com/future-society/openai-chatgpt-smut

A Pregnant Amazon Employee Asked for a Chair to Sit on—and Wound Up Homeless: A Pregnant Amazon Employee Asked for a Chair to Sit on—and Wound Up Homeless: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/pregnant-amazon-warehouse-workers-accommodations-eeoc-trump/

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:04.2	I'm Jonathan Goldstein, and on the new season of heavyweight...
0:08.0	And so I pointed the gun at him and said this isn't a joke.
0:12.6	A man who robbed a bank when he was 14 years old.
0:16.0	And a centenarian rediscovers a love lost 80 years ago.
0:20.5	How can a 101-year-old woman fall in love again?
0:27.6	Listen to heavyweight on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:34.9	When news broke earlier this year that baby KJ, a newborn in Philadelphia, had successfully received the world's first personalized gene editing treatment, it represented a milestone for both researchers and patients.
0:45.8	But there's a gripping tale of discovery behind this accomplishment and its creators.
0:49.9	I'm Evan Ratliff, and together with biographer Walter Isaacson, we're delving into the story of Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Dowdna, the woman who's helped change the trajectory of humanity.
0:58.8	Listen to Aunt CRISPR, the story of Jennifer Dowdna with Walter Isaacson on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:06.6	Michael Lewis here. My bestselling book, The Big Short, tells the story of build-up and burst of the U.S. housing market back in 2008.
1:16.2	A decade ago, the Big Short was made into an Academy Award-winning movie.
1:20.2	Now I'm bringing it to you for the first time as an audiobook narrated by yours truly.
1:25.6	The Big Short's story, what it means to bet against the market, and who really pays for an unchecked financial system, is as relevant today as it's ever been.
1:34.3	Get the big short now at Pushkin.fm slash audiobooks or wherever audiobooks are sold.
1:41.8	Are there any pictures of you online? Then you could already be in a massive police database without even knowing it.
1:48.0	Clearview scrapes together images from Facebook, from LinkedIn, from Venmo accounts.
1:53.7	I'm Dexter Thomas, host a Kill Switch, a podcast about how living in the future is affecting us right now.
1:59.3	Police, they are trusting the software with this magical ability to lead them to the right
2:04.4	suspect.
2:05.1	In this episode, we dive into how cops are using AI and facial recognition and sometimes
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