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Why We’re F*cked on Disinformation
Below is my third for Exponents, Why We’re F*cked on Disinformation According to a 2019 Congressional report, Russia-backed trolls posing as Americans stoked racial tensions, targeted Black Americans with false information on how to vote, and successfully organized in-person rallies and demonstrations to support Donald Trump’s candidacy in the 2016 election. In one instance, Russian operatives … [Read more…]
Seeing love for what it is
I often second-guess myself in relationships. Am I too needy? Am I unreasonable? Am I asking for too much? Am I offering too little? Is this why I’m alone? Can I ever be made happy? Will I always find fault and focus on it? I think what’s at the heart of these questions is, “Do … [Read more…]
Defund The DHS
I recently moved my Sex, Tech, and Pop Culture Daily newsletter from MailChimp to Substack (subscribe here!). I moved over because MailChimp was charging me $89/mo and Substack is free. Also, many have asked (okay like five people) for a way to monetarily support my work that doesn’t involve buying my nudes (your loss). As … [Read more…]
What I Realized from New Sex Research: What I Like Isn’t Weird and Has a Name
There’s something about watching a woman touch herself outside the context of porn that’s so… well, frankly kind of strange. I really hate to admit this. My reaction makes zero sense to me. I’m hugely sex- and masturbation-positive. I write about sex (and other things) for a living. But the whole thing is still so … [Read more…]
Police are too Racist for Implicit Bias Training to Help
Last week I got my first piece published in Exponents Magazine, the magazine for the Neoliberal Project. I’m also now VP of Comms for San Francisco Sex-Positive Democrats. I expect to contribute more to Exponents. I’ve got a piece coming out this week on why it’s a great time to defund the Department of Homeland … [Read more…]
COVIDiaries part 14: What I celebrated yesterday
How do you celebrate the Fourth of July in a pandemic? Moreover, how do you celebrate your country when it’s keeping kids in dirty tents and raping them, its police are terrorizing protestors for asking police to stop terrorizing Black people, etc. etc. etc.? If you’re me, you do drugs in your friend’s living room. … [Read more…]
Why I stopped fangirling school choice quite as hard
When I worked at my first job after college I had a lot of free time at work and started writing a book on school choice, which I was fascinated by and believed could fix most of what is wrong with the public education monopoly. What I found while researching the book is that the … [Read more…]
The reckoning: Riots work
I’ve heard a lot of bullshit about how riots don’t work and the only thing we’re getting out of them is losing Aunt Jemima and old 30 Rock episodes. People who are mostly satisfied with the status quo and are more attached to their property than Black lives would love for you to believe that. … [Read more…]
The debate over cancel culture is ingroupist and stupid
The rumblings started a few weeks ago. People tweeted rumors that some NYT reporter was digging for dirt on the rationalist community. Get ready to get canceled. Then Scott Alexander, a blogger at Slate Star Codex and friend of the rationalists, announced he was taking down his blog because a NYT reporter was going to … [Read more…]