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Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · 19h

Wired is doing amazing work these days, and Katie Drummond has been a phenomenal leader.

Please don’t cancel your subs there. And if you weren’t subscribing, please consider to do so.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 20h

New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.

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Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · 19h

Ps: if your response is: “calm down, they were just being provocative for clicks,” consider how that headline would’ve read if it’d been about any other demographic group.

Do you think those groups’ advocacy orgs wouldn’t be banging down NYT doors this morning?

That’s the point.

Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · 19h

The NYT showed us this morning that even the most respected institutions think it’s OK to perpetuate the subjugation of one demographic group only: women

Imagine if this headline had been written about any other group. Heads would’ve rolled.

www.linkedin.com/posts/ebboyd...

Holy soon-to-be-fired-NYT-editor, Batman! This is all over the socials this morning. But here's what no one's talking about: Imagine that any other group's name had been in there: ⁉️ &qu...

Holy soon-to-be-fired-NYT-editor, Batman! This is all over the socials this morning. But here's what no one's talking about: Imagine that any other group's name had been in there: ⁉️ "Did Black Peop...

www.linkedin.com

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Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · 19h

Agreed. We need to come to terms with the fact that women are the only demographic group we can be casually disrespectful about in this way. Imagine if they’d written a headline like this about any other demographic group.

More on why this is so shocking:

www.linkedin.com/posts/ebboyd...

Holy soon-to-be-fired-NYT-editor, Batman! This is all over the socials this morning. But here's what no one's talking about: Imagine that any other group's name had been in there: ⁉️ &qu...

Holy soon-to-be-fired-NYT-editor, Batman! This is all over the socials this morning. But here's what no one's talking about: Imagine that any other group's name had been in there: ⁉️ "Did Black Peop...

www.linkedin.com

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Innocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social · 1d

Would it Be Better if Women Were Chattel Again?

I’m quietly confident about my pitch to the NYT op-ed page

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Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · 1d

Mexico's president filed police charges against a man who groped her, while she was speaking to supporters on a street in the capital.

"If I don’t file a complaint, then what message does that send to all Mexican women?"

Damn straight

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Mexico president to seek charges after being groped on street

Claudia Sheinbaum says she is pressing charges because "a line must be drawn" against the harassment of Mexican women.

www.bbc.com

Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · 1d

I just heard a mainstream news reporter refer to Abigail Spanberger (46) and Mikie Sherril (53) as “quite young.”

Ffs

This is the kind of oblivious sexism that has a direct impact on how the media reports on women politicians.

@theguardian.com: Train your reporters better

Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · 1d

Remember how his family eventually gave his father a fake office, because he was suffering from cognitive issues, and they made him believe that he was working all day, when it was all just make believe? Me thinks this is kind of the presidential version of that.

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Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · 1d

aka "extinction burst"

Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · 6d

This is such a critical point that a lot don’t get.

And not just that. Sep from the convo abt $, you’re also competing *attention-wise* w anything else that a consumer could be giving their attention to (not just other media that covers your topic). It’s why this is such a tough biz

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Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · 6d

Everything we know abt "Frankenstein" is wrong.

Say what?

No movie has told the real story from the 1818 novel. They've all just been forms of fan fiction, repurposing the orig into monster movies, vs the gorgeous story it actually was.

I explain why:

www.thepersistent.com/where-is-mar...

Why Frankenstein Needs a Female Director

Male directors can't go Mary Shelley's tale justice

www.thepersistent.com

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Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · 7d

Man asks Claude to check his article about the demolition of the East Wing.

Claude insists this is fictional, bc if such an event had happened, it would be major international news, and as of yet, Claude is not aware of it

😮

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 7d

I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum.
www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...

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Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · 11d

I remember that one. Whether it was true or not, we definitely lived by it, and as far as I can remember, we never got penalized for it :-)

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Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · 12d

Woo! Sonia Raman becomes the first woman of Indian American origin to become head coach of a WNBA team (the Seattle Storm)!

(She comes to the Storm from the NY Liberty, where she was the first Indian American woman to become an assistant coach)

frontofficesports.com/storm-sonia-...

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Kathleen Davis @kathleenedavis.bsky.social · 14d

In all the (justified) uproar about the East Wing demolition @lizaboyd.bsky.social noted that the East Wing was the home of the Office of the First Lady and that by tearing it down, it's another of the administration's efforts to reduce the visibility of women across the board.

Trump Has Demolished a History of Work by First Ladies

The East Wing was the nation's symbolic heart.

www.thepersistent.com

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Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · Sep 17

Agreed, these platforms don’t need to succeed on conventional business terms bc their owners don’t care if they hemorrhage money

Rather, the platforms bring them other benefits, which help their other lines of business, which is what they really care about

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Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · Sep 8

Ah, makes sense, I guess?

Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · Sep 8

Why does that make sense, from a business perspective, for them? Do they gain some sort of mass data insight from everyone using their modems? Or does you using a modem that’s not theirs somehow mess up your neighbors’ Internet? I don’t get it.

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Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · Sep 5

We need to make it part of the culture that people who’ve decided to get married first have long convos abt how the partnership is going to work (just as you wld w a business partnership)

It feels like too many couples are ending up in situations where there are completely different expectations

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Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · Sep 2

Yes, that’s 100% a thing. I haven’t yet figured out how to make all this work, but it’s on the list!

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Cold November Mar @histoftech.bsky.social · Aug 31

“In the late 1960s, Dr. Rossiter was working on her Ph.D. at Yale, when a comment from one of her male professors puzzled her. Who, she had asked, were the women in science? There were none, he said. Another professor mumbled something about Marie Curie being the exception.”🙃

Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · Aug 30

Here's a #GiftLink for those who want to read the full NYT obit of historian of science & gender, Margaret Rossiter. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/s... #histSTM 🧪🗃️

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Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · Sep 2

It does have to do with hormones etc incl cortisol. Common in folks w ADHD if that applies. There are some ways to try to moderate it (early exposure to sunlight, lots of exercise/mvmt thruout day, diet (types of food consumed & what time). But some of it is just baked in (night owls vs morn larks)

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Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · Jul 11

The UK will ban NDAs that prevent employees from speaking out about abuse & harassment

#hugeprogress

www.reuters.com/business/wor...

UK plans to ban employers from using NDAs to silence workers subject to abuse

Britain plans to ban non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) that are used by employers to silence those who are subject to harassment or discrimination, as part of a broader bill to protect workers' rights, the government said on Monday.

www.reuters.com

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Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · Jul 11

Extrapolating from his LinkedIn, the writer is about 26 yo

“It’s good to argue” is exactly what I’d expect a 26 yo (esp one who went to a fancy prep school) to say

It’s the kind of thing that sounds super sophisticated to them, until they begin to grok other people’s actual lived experiences

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Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · Jul 11

I’m sorry this is happening to you. It’s totally abhorrent

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