Sophie Gilbert

The Most Reviled Tech CEO in New York Confronts His Haters Avi Schiffmann says he’s enjoying the angry reaction to the Friend AI pendant. Is he serious?

Gasped at the ending to this. (It's all cool edgy fun and games until someone gets chatbot-induced psychosis.) www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Opinion | Six surgeons general: RFK Jr. is a threat to the health of Americans It was our duty in office to warn of dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

“Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk.”

Six former surgeons general condemn RFK Jr.

House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Set Ablaze Authorities are investigating a fire at the home of a South Carolina judge who had reportedly received death threats in what could be the latest incident of political violence across the country.

Over the weekend, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller repeatedly attacked judges, calling them part of an "organized terrorist attack" on the US government....

On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames

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‘Obedient, yielding and happy to follow’: the troubling rise of AI girlfriends AI dating sites claim they remove potential for exploitation, but critics say they are reinforcing harmful stereotypes

We are parching our planet for racist AI memes and for men to have chatbot girlfriends who don't challenge them www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,

The JDV description!! Note-perfect!

To: Entire Military Leadership of the United States, Stationed All Over the World, Who Would Have to Be Flown In Very Disruptively and Expensively If This Weren't an Email but for Some Reason Were an Urgent In-Person Address From: Pete Hegseth CC: Donald J. Trump Subject: WARFIGHTER ETHOS PLEASE DROP EVERYTHING YOU ARE DOING TO READ THIS EMAIL AT ATTENTION. THIS IS NOT SPAM AND I AM EXTREMELY SOBER! YOU ARE TOO FAT TO FIGHT WARS!

if the Trump Hegseth address had been an email www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

ICE Officer ‘Relieved of His Duties’ After Pushing Woman to Floor

Shockingly, it turns out there is a limit to what is tolerable. This is an opportunity to be exploited. Record everything. Get loud.

And get trained in bystander intervention.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/n...

He did this, unmasked, in full view of multiple cameras and onlookers. If you saw this kind of assault happen on the street you'd call the police.

What an incredible homage to its two inspirations, Embassy Vestibule In A 2003 First-Person Shooter and Buffet Room In The Old Soviet Hotel Where I Stayed When I Had Covid In Ulaanbaatar Last Year

such a good idea!

It's *terrifying* every time you have a fever during pregnancy for exactly this reason

I do think it’s conspicuous that no real public conversation has emerged over the reality that the rise of AI means that women and girls no longer have a choice about whether their image is made into porn; that this is now a cost of entry for their participation in public life.

“There’s an invisible thread that connects all of us women who go through an experience of public shaming,” @monicalewinsky.bsky.social tells @sophiegilbert.bsky.social at #TAF25.

Watch more: bit.ly/3IkhDd9

Television Critics Association The Television Critics Association (TCA) condemns ABC's indefinite suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, which is the latest in a series of actions aimed at silencing critics of the Trump administration. The Walt Disney Company's capitulation to the demands of the FCC chair this week represents a wanton disregard of the First Amendment's guarantee to a right for people and the press to speak without government retribution. TCA stands with the Writers Guild of America, which said in a statement it is "united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent," and SAG-AFTRA, which said this "is the type of suppression and retaliation that endangers everyone's freedoms." The government attempting to punish creatives, writers, and/or journalists for speech that officials do not like is authoritarianism. Corporations that profit from the words of television stars, writers, and journalists must defend their employees from governmental pressure, which is different from setting their own creative and editorial standards.

TCA condemns ABC and Disney’s capitulation to the government’s demands of censorship.

"Kudos to whatever stylist absolutely nailed her request to go to the royal palace in 'Babadook Mode.'"

This is terrifying

A Bleak World Without Women "Task," HBO’s new Delaware County–set crime drama, has violence, vengeance, and a point to make about men.

Wrote about TASK (I love TASK) www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

On the full-color front cover of Ms. magazine’s “Special Issue on Men” (October 1975) is Robert Redford’s yellow T-shirt-clad back—with an issue Ms. in the back pocket of his blue jeans.

Robert Redford was an early supporter of Ms., the feminist magazine cofounded in 1971 by Gloria Steinem. For the October 1975 “Special Issue on Men,” that was Redford’s back—with an issue of Ms. in the back pocket of his jeans—on the front cover. nymag.com/news/feature... #feminism #RIPRobertRedford

The 3 stages of grief: denial, anger, ballroom

broadly I think something people miss about bsky is that the two main groups which did not migrate over here en masse are moderates and low trust / shitposter leftists

this is a disproportionately a high trust liberal to left space

Hello! @sophiegilbert.bsky.social and I will be on Reddit later today to talk this weekend's Emmys, because as they say about TV, a little counterprogramming goes a long way. Who's "they"? Who knows, but that's a question you can ask us during our AMA! See you there at 3 pm EST!

“The story is this: masculinity is the default in American politics, and to this day, even when women have been at the top of two presidential tickets, masculinity to a large degree defines what kind of behavior, what kind of signifiers, are acceptable in top political candidates.”

"His team didn't get it." From Kamala Harris's memoir: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Extreme views are heavily over-represented on social media

Social platforms’ tendency to reward hostile content creates incentives that systematically reward simplistic messages and extreme positions and this fuels populism www.ft.com/content/9251... via @jburnmurdoch.ft.com

Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book, including the letter with Trump’s signature that he has said doesn’t exist.

Read more: 🔗 on.wsj.com/4nGGdnJ

Hurrah, @ejeancarroll.bsky.social!