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The name “Bikini Kill” was a reference to Bikini Atoll, the coral reef in the Marshall Islands where the US government tested nuclear weapons after forcibly repatriating inhabitants. The military, Hanna writes, “taped a picture of Rita Hayworth to the side of one of the bombs, an act against Hayworth’s will that left her known as a ‘bombshell.’ ”

Girl on Girl

Sophie Gilbert

"We've been growing by about a million users a day for several days," said Bluesky CEO Jay Graber in an interview with NPR on Monday. "It's proving out the model that we thought would be the right approach to social [media]: Give people the tools to control their experience and they'll have a better time."

Traffic on Bluesky, an X Competitor, Is Up 500% Since the Election. How Will They Handle the Surge?

Bobby Allyn

At Anthropic, our Claude models are not trained on user conversations [by default](https://privacy.anthropic.com/en/articles/10023580-i-want-to-opt-out-of-my-prompts-and-results-being-used-for-training-models), and we take the protection of our users’ data very seriously. How, then, can we research and observe how our systems are used while rigorously maintaining user privacy?

Clio: A System for Privacy-Preserving Insights Into Real-World AI Use

anthropic.com

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