Lucinda Nelson

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YouTube/Google has written a letter to Jim Jordan best summarized as “Yes sir thank you Mr Jordan sir”

It made Jordan so happy he wrote a very long tweet thread about it.

In it, he gloats ab getting them to agree never to do the fact-checking kind of “censorship” and to moderate how he prefers.

honestly, it's a close call

Dante’s lesser known Tenth circle of hell is writing the last 500 or so words of any given piece of work

What Ezra means by "the right way," and what I meant expressing a similar line this morning, is that Kirk was operating within a liberal framework that was modeled on persuasion and included real, robust support for free speech. Obviously it's not an endorsement of the content.

These people have smarted themselves into the dumbest fucking arguments.

Determining whether someone is "doing politics the right way" depends almost entirely on the content of their speech! If someone lies constantly and endorses authoritarians that's not practicing good politics.

all i know is that normalizing debate with fascists has only facilitated the rise of fascism.

This immediately sprang to mind when I heard the news (for obvious reasons given my recent book). I think Gamergate will be studied by historians (assuming we have any of those left in the future) as not just an inflection point, but a flashing red warning sign that people didn't want to see.

Sure does make it seem as if the president was participating in the organized sexual abuse of girl children.

! I've been banging this drum for months

Due process is how you determine things like 'is this person a citizen' & 'did they break a law'

GOP's insistence that noncitizens & lawbreakers shouldn't get due process is putting the racism-cart before the logic-horse

ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

Neo-Nazis and racist rallies: why it’s important the Australian media call them for what they are When reporting on racist rallies, it’s important the media don’t fall for the shadowy language used by organisers.

THIS.

if it looks like a neo-Nazi rally and quacks like a neo-Nazi rally, it’s probably a neo-Nazi rally

Maybe it’s the ~3 years I’ve spent analysing and writing about the online response to the Depp v Heard trial talking here, but I’m really not sure another series of Johnny Depp puff pieces is the journalism we need right now

I 🩷 the DMRC

Ned's new paper, The Art of the (Platform) Deal, can be found here: ojs.weizenbaum-institut.de/index.php/wj....

Episode 26: The Art of the Platform Deal with Ned Watt Read Them Sideways · Episode

🎤 A new episode of Read Them Sideways is now available with host @katemfitzgerald.bsky.social and @nedwatt.bsky.social, discussing Ned's new paper and the future of fact-checking on the back of Meta's policy changes. 🎤

open.spotify.com/episode/5FUI...

Episode 27: Ten Years of Trumpism DMRC Roundtable Read Them Sideways · Episode

Ten years ago today, Donald Trump announced his bid for the Republican nomination in the 2016 United States presidential election.

To mark the occasion, the Read Them Sideways team came together to record a roundtable episode of 10 Years of Trumpism.

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Congratulations to PhD candidate, @jiarut.bsky.social, for her two new articles in June! 🎉

The first is a solo authored paper, "Broadcasting your virtual self: Exploring the authenticity construction and subjectivity of VTubers in China"

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

they’re transvestigating the new pope

Kateryna Kasianenko presenting her opening slide.

Wonderful to see another excellent @qutdmrc.bsky.social PhD student reach her final seminar milestone – @kkasianenko.bsky.social with a thesis on cosmopolitan responses to the Russian war on Ukraine. 🇺🇦 🫶

The ideas around “neutrality” and “bias” have done so much damage in the mainstream media. These ideas only work in one direction—against the left—and result in people in the industry who personally identify as left-leaning overcompensating and doing the right’s work for them

Episode 22: Meta hate speech policy changes with Lucinda Nelson Read Them Sideways · Episode

Relevantly to International Trans Day of Visibility, the new Read Them Sideways episode discusses recent changes to the Meta hate speech policies, with a particular focus on transgender and queer people. Listen to hear @lucinda-nelson.bsky.social lend her expertise!

open.spotify.com/episode/5Fhb...

I’m also reminded of how perpetrators of sexual violence use claims of incompetence or confusion to get away with violence.

It benefits fascists to keep their incompetent actors in the public eye for similar reasons. A lot of people believe you can only be evil if you do it on purpose.

The Machine-Readable Renter — Samantha Floreani Participants needed! Are you a renter in Australia? Have you ever used tech to find and apply for a home, log maintenance, or pay rent? I want to speak with you!

I’m already feeling deeply grateful to the renters who I have had the chance to interview so far - each one with such interesting stories and perspectives.

If you’re a renter and you’ve got experience using ‘RentTech’, I’d love to speak with you too. More details and contact form here:

The real MeToo “cancel culture” was what happened to the women and other victims who came forward. They were retraumatized, harassed, humiliated, sued, fired, and blacklisted. Then they were the subject of a revisionist history that MeToo went “too far” and deserved a reactionary backlash

It should be recognized that society is still grappling with the cultural and policy implications of the rapidly shifting understanding of gender. There are some issues - such as participation in sports and appropriate medical care for minors - that remain fiercely debated, even by those who broadly support trans rights. There should be room for those conversations. But what shouldn't be debated is whether the government should target a group of Americans to be stripped of their freedom and dignity to move through the world as they choose. This is a campaign in which cruelty and humiliation seem to be the fundamental point.

The idea that there should be a public debate about the appropriate medical care for a minuscule population of children remains one of the most absurd lies that these liberal transphobes, NYT edit board included, tell themselves. No there shouldn’t! It’s not an appropriate matter for public debate!

Thanks for the kind words!

A group of three people working at a bench with bowls and icing. They are smiling.

A photo of a group of people standing around a table of cupcakes.

I ran a “bake your thesis” (or more accurately, “decorate a cupcake like your thesis”) competition with @lynrose.bsky.social at the @qutdmrc.bsky.social summer school this week and everyone smashed it! Here’s to more silly fun times ✨

I’m so impressed by everyone’s decorating skills!

Federal health workers terrified after 'DEI' website publishes list of 'targets' Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies.

This list is mostly Black women. It's clear that the entire anti-DEI project is just neo-segregation. It's the same reason they only targeted Black women at Harvard. They don't believe people of color or women should have any positions of power. www.aol.com/federal-heal...