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At least for men, I think the features communicated in the genomic message are simple things like curves and thrusting and genitals and smooth skin, plus something that somehow picks out the concept of “woman”

What Can Fetish Research Tell Us About AI?

astralcodexten.substack.com

Whenever you feel distressed — try to check if it is a fight-like, flight-like, or freeze-like response.

Don’t Fight, Flight (Or Freeze) Your Body and Emotions

pmigdal.medium.com

The Politics journalists’ ethic of efficacy enabled them to steer a course of principled action in a post-truth news era, when journalists can no longer fall back on cultural constructions of the news as a medium of objective and disinterested truths, but must come to terms with the way that their own truthclaims are shaped by the interplay of numerous private investments and negotiations. It enabled them to work strategically and constructively with a range of differently interested actors without being co-opted by these actors’ agendas, and to __remain oriented to their newsmaking ideals in a milieu that hardly seemed to appreciate their efforts__—thus offering an example of what a post-truth news practice may demand.

The Currency of Truth

Emily H. C. Chua

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