genna
@genna.bsky.social
Creator, Pages Past, a podcast where your favourite people revisit their old favourite books. Editor, college instructor, library lurker, luddite. Opinions mine. Torontonian.
Listen: https://pod.link/1753505445
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new episode of Pages Past is out far and wide! Everybody's @newestolympian.bsky.social fave, Dr. Steven Parra, revisits The Tennis Partner by Abraham Verghese, a memoir that inspired him when he was starting out in his medical training. as always, no need to read the book! pod.link/1753505445/e...
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This is one of the worst, most horrifying exposures we have ever seen. It is hard to overstate how bad the things that people are using tools like for are, and it's insane to pretend like these tools are anything other than nonconsensual porn machines
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn
Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social me...
www.404media.co
November 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
This is one of the worst, most horrifying exposures we have ever seen. It is hard to overstate how bad the things that people are using tools like for are, and it's insane to pretend like these tools are anything other than nonconsensual porn machines
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
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“ur posts have been so good today” thanks im having a psychotic event
November 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM
“ur posts have been so good today” thanks im having a psychotic event
❗MANDATORY UPDATE ❗ please trash your reliable Windows 10 computer and buy a subscription for The Software That Kills You
"Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: 'Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.'"
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
November 19, 2025 at 5:22 PM
❗MANDATORY UPDATE ❗ please trash your reliable Windows 10 computer and buy a subscription for The Software That Kills You
listen with care because it will make you ill: www.youtube.com/live/JY0_g80...
November 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
listen with care because it will make you ill: www.youtube.com/live/JY0_g80...
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we try to be fair to companies and to people we write about because it’s the right thing to do ethically, legally, morally. but once we stopped caring about access and started talking to people who are affected by the rich and powerful (customers, employees) our stories got better (better scoops!)
November 18, 2025 at 11:09 PM
we try to be fair to companies and to people we write about because it’s the right thing to do ethically, legally, morally. but once we stopped caring about access and started talking to people who are affected by the rich and powerful (customers, employees) our stories got better (better scoops!)
I can see why many people find this worrying, but I am incredibly hopeful about how clergy and church life may have a moderating, grounding effect on young, radicalized men (think statue profile pics) who show up to Orthodox churches looking for a Jordan-Peterson style theology of stoic masculinity
I was kind of wondering how long it would take for this to happen, and for these reasons www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...
Orthodox Church Pews Are Overflowing With Converts
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I can see why many people find this worrying, but I am incredibly hopeful about how clergy and church life may have a moderating, grounding effect on young, radicalized men (think statue profile pics) who show up to Orthodox churches looking for a Jordan-Peterson style theology of stoic masculinity
I have never been more certain of anything in my life like I am certain that tech people who talk like this have megadosed on LLM outputs and given themselves ChatGPT disease. that's the intellectual equivalent of taking a donkey kick to the head daily! they have computer CTE!
Ok I found a part I agree with in this fever dream. It’s just that this whole piece relies on an assumption that the “hope” is a sure thing. Making AI not-a-bubble.
Which is what you need to believe to buy into a bubble—that you somehow *know* the line will continue to go up forever.
Which is what you need to believe to buy into a bubble—that you somehow *know* the line will continue to go up forever.
November 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I have never been more certain of anything in my life like I am certain that tech people who talk like this have megadosed on LLM outputs and given themselves ChatGPT disease. that's the intellectual equivalent of taking a donkey kick to the head daily! they have computer CTE!
I was exposed to a tech conference against my will over the summer (work), and two brainrotted, degenerate executives went on a rant about exactly this, incorporating a bunch of Peter Thiel rhetoric about Greta Thunberg being the antichrist. pls remember these people don't care if we die
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November 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I was exposed to a tech conference against my will over the summer (work), and two brainrotted, degenerate executives went on a rant about exactly this, incorporating a bunch of Peter Thiel rhetoric about Greta Thunberg being the antichrist. pls remember these people don't care if we die
just thinking of the hope and optimism and fight that was in the women who started projects like Ms in the 70s. they'd be raging, RAGING, at what has become of the world for women msmagazine.com/2024/11/04/w...
November 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
just thinking of the hope and optimism and fight that was in the women who started projects like Ms in the 70s. they'd be raging, RAGING, at what has become of the world for women msmagazine.com/2024/11/04/w...
A further three women, unnamed, were reported in the medical literature as having died as a result of restricted access to abortion care in the United States. We don't know if any of them are the same women below. journal.chestnet.org/article/S001...
November 19, 2025 at 3:26 PM
A further three women, unnamed, were reported in the medical literature as having died as a result of restricted access to abortion care in the United States. We don't know if any of them are the same women below. journal.chestnet.org/article/S001...
Amber Nicole Thurman
Porsha Ngumezi
Nevaeh Crain
Candi Miller
Josseli Barnica
Yeniifer Alvarez-Estrada Glick
Taysha Wilkinson-Sobieski
And now, Tierra Walker
Porsha Ngumezi
Nevaeh Crain
Candi Miller
Josseli Barnica
Yeniifer Alvarez-Estrada Glick
Taysha Wilkinson-Sobieski
And now, Tierra Walker
NEW:
In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.
She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.
Then she died.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.
She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.
Then she died.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Amber Nicole Thurman
Porsha Ngumezi
Nevaeh Crain
Candi Miller
Josseli Barnica
Yeniifer Alvarez-Estrada Glick
Taysha Wilkinson-Sobieski
And now, Tierra Walker
Porsha Ngumezi
Nevaeh Crain
Candi Miller
Josseli Barnica
Yeniifer Alvarez-Estrada Glick
Taysha Wilkinson-Sobieski
And now, Tierra Walker
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NEW:
In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.
She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.
Then she died.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.
She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.
Then she died.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 11:08 AM
NEW:
In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.
She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.
Then she died.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.
She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.
Then she died.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
the relationship between online creators and their audiences is not like celebrity/fan, it is like clergy/flock. in this essay I will
November 19, 2025 at 4:24 AM
the relationship between online creators and their audiences is not like celebrity/fan, it is like clergy/flock. in this essay I will
I can’t help but be charmed by Zohran because he has almost the exact same name as my best friend Zofran
November 18, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I can’t help but be charmed by Zohran because he has almost the exact same name as my best friend Zofran
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new episode of Pages Past is out far and wide! Everybody's @newestolympian.bsky.social fave, Dr. Steven Parra, revisits The Tennis Partner by Abraham Verghese, a memoir that inspired him when he was starting out in his medical training. as always, no need to read the book! pod.link/1753505445/e...
November 18, 2025 at 1:27 PM
new episode of Pages Past is out far and wide! Everybody's @newestolympian.bsky.social fave, Dr. Steven Parra, revisits The Tennis Partner by Abraham Verghese, a memoir that inspired him when he was starting out in his medical training. as always, no need to read the book! pod.link/1753505445/e...
bring back stigma on some things!!! sports betting is degenerate!
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
bring back stigma on some things!!! sports betting is degenerate!
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Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Submit a Claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
I know it will never happen, but it is my dream that some creators somewhere get something other than a settlement. I don't just want money. I think you should GIVE IT BACK. open up your doom drawer of mixed-up creative works, untangle the ones you weren't given permission to use and GIVE IT BACK
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I know it will never happen, but it is my dream that some creators somewhere get something other than a settlement. I don't just want money. I think you should GIVE IT BACK. open up your doom drawer of mixed-up creative works, untangle the ones you weren't given permission to use and GIVE IT BACK
Dan and Phil telling a story on their podcast about getting hate crimed as teenage baby gays in Blackpool .... rip my heart out of my chest why don't you
November 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Dan and Phil telling a story on their podcast about getting hate crimed as teenage baby gays in Blackpool .... rip my heart out of my chest why don't you
sucks to suck
People who use ChatGPT can't post on X about it being down and I think that's hilarious
November 18, 2025 at 2:23 PM
sucks to suck
lack of replies to this is a bit scary
if you survived perimenopause what is your secret
November 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
lack of replies to this is a bit scary
things you may not have known are down due to the CloudFlare outage: Any apps you blocked with Freedom (even if the blocked session is up), aO3, the Spotify chapter function
November 18, 2025 at 1:54 PM
things you may not have known are down due to the CloudFlare outage: Any apps you blocked with Freedom (even if the blocked session is up), aO3, the Spotify chapter function
new episode of Pages Past is out far and wide! Everybody's @newestolympian.bsky.social fave, Dr. Steven Parra, revisits The Tennis Partner by Abraham Verghese, a memoir that inspired him when he was starting out in his medical training. as always, no need to read the book! pod.link/1753505445/e...
November 18, 2025 at 1:27 PM
new episode of Pages Past is out far and wide! Everybody's @newestolympian.bsky.social fave, Dr. Steven Parra, revisits The Tennis Partner by Abraham Verghese, a memoir that inspired him when he was starting out in his medical training. as always, no need to read the book! pod.link/1753505445/e...
please don't write headlines like this, even to be cute
The app Text With Jesus uses artificial intelligence and chatbots to offer spiritual guidance to users who are looking to connect with a higher power: on.nbc10.com/7XM8xrf
People can text with Jesus on a controversial new app. How does it work?
Artificial intelligence app Text With Jesus lets users chat with biblical figures and it is raising debate over faith and technology.
on.nbc10.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:12 AM
please don't write headlines like this, even to be cute
if you survived perimenopause what is your secret
November 18, 2025 at 3:05 AM
if you survived perimenopause what is your secret