Anne Nonymous
@jennbarrigar.bsky.social
she/her/elle
Law/policy with focus on reputation, privacy, smart cities, techquity and digital new media generally. Ideas and interests my own, not those of any institution or body
Law/policy with focus on reputation, privacy, smart cities, techquity and digital new media generally. Ideas and interests my own, not those of any institution or body
Essay: Ode to My Vagina
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Essay: Ode to My Vagina
Image: Betty Dodson
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November 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Essay: Ode to My Vagina
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Guillermo del Toro's 'Frankenstein' gets the monster right for the age of AI
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Guillermo del Toro's 'Frankenstein' gets the monster right for the age of AI
Too bad he lets the founders off easy.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Guillermo del Toro's 'Frankenstein' gets the monster right for the age of AI
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Canada: ‘Inconvenient Indian’ author Thomas King says he is not Indigenous www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Canada: ‘Inconvenient Indian’ author Thomas King says he is not Indigenous
King has announced a genealogist working with the Tribal Alliance Against Frauds found no evidence of Cherokee ancestry in his family lineage
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November 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Canada: ‘Inconvenient Indian’ author Thomas King says he is not Indigenous www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Huge swathes of human knowledge are missing from the internet. By definition, generative AI is shockingly ignorant too aeon.co/essays/gener...
Generative AI has access to a small slice of human knowledge | Aeon Essays
Huge swathes of human knowledge are missing from the internet. By definition, generative AI is shockingly ignorant too
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November 25, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Huge swathes of human knowledge are missing from the internet. By definition, generative AI is shockingly ignorant too aeon.co/essays/gener...
One Indigenous Community's Mining Windfall Is Another's Worry thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
One Indigenous Community's Mining Windfall Is Another’s Worry | The Tyee
As the Tahltan benefit from Red Chris and other critical metal plays, 14 Alaskan nations are pushing back.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
One Indigenous Community's Mining Windfall Is Another's Worry thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
Cliché: Like a red horse to water
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Cliché: Like a red horse to water
But where would we be without them? Up a certain creek, no doubt.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Cliché: Like a red horse to water
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Them: Another word for "those"
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Them: Another word for "those"
And what a shame it's disappearing
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November 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Them: Another word for "those"
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Remember the halcyon days of Let Me Google That for You? In the same vein, there is now Stop Citing AI stopcitingai.com
Stop Citing AI
A response to ‘But ChatGPT said…’
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November 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Remember the halcyon days of Let Me Google That for You? In the same vein, there is now Stop Citing AI stopcitingai.com
This Post Should Have Been Shorter talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/this-...
This Post Should Have Been Shorter
My favorite political blog post of all time was published by Jim...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:41 PM
This Post Should Have Been Shorter talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/this-...
Hatred of Podcasting -- thebaffler.com/outbursts/th...
The Hatred of Podcasting | Brace Belden
In 2015, if you said, “I heard it on a podcast,” you were trying to sound smart. In 2025, it’s better to lie.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Hatred of Podcasting -- thebaffler.com/outbursts/th...
Tuesday playtime www.ghostweather.com/apps/fairyta...
Fairytale Hunt
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November 25, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Tuesday playtime www.ghostweather.com/apps/fairyta...
An Existential Guide to: Making Friends
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An Existential Guide to: Making Friends
Friends Friends What Glorious Friendly Friends!
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November 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
An Existential Guide to: Making Friends
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The right did not learn cancel culture from the left; the modern right in America emerged as a censorious movement. It took decades for its free-speech faction to develop, and even then, it has only ever been a minority part of the coalition www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...
Opinion | We Have Seen the ‘Woke Right’ Before, and It Wasn’t Pretty Then, Either
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November 24, 2025 at 8:19 PM
The right did not learn cancel culture from the left; the modern right in America emerged as a censorious movement. It took decades for its free-speech faction to develop, and even then, it has only ever been a minority part of the coalition www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...
The time of the derangement
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The time of the derangement
Ian McEwan’s new novel holds up a mirror to our age of paralysis and reminds us why stories still matter.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
The time of the derangement
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Power of the Powerless [#167]
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Power of the Powerless [#167]
What to do when collective illusions take hold? Lessons from the Velvet Revolution.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Power of the Powerless [#167]
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This is How We Win -- Calling Up, Not Out open.substack.com/pub/katemann...
This is How We Win
The role of pride and calling up—not calling out—in bigotry abolitionism.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Our Morals Change with the Seasons nautil.us/our-morals-c...
Our Morals Change with the Seasons
How our sense of what’s right and wrong fluctuates through the year.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Is The Full Bush the New Power Suit? open.substack.com/pub/lizplank...
Is Full Bush the New Power Suit?
I can’t stop thinking about the skims bush thong.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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The Future of Being Trans on the Internet www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
The future of being trans on the internet
The internet has long been a source of information and support for transgender people. Now, trans rights and the internet itself are in a moment of crisis. What happens next?
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November 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The Future of Being Trans on the Internet www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
Essay: You Have Power www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-you-...
Essay: You Have Power
Image by Dmitri Posudin from Pixabay
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November 24, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Essay: You Have Power www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-you-...
Is ‘Going Viral’ Dead? -- Spontaneous original content, shared by people all over the world, made the internet a fun place to be. It’s more complicated now. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/s...
Is ‘Going Viral’ Dead?
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November 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Is ‘Going Viral’ Dead? -- Spontaneous original content, shared by people all over the world, made the internet a fun place to be. It’s more complicated now. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/s...
“But we're kind of excited that you can actually use AI to write legislation right now.” -- actually, you just think you can. You haven't done it yet, let alone successfully. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Alberta government eyes AI to write legislation for 1st time | CBC News
The Alberta government is considering using AI technology to write a law for the first time, eyeing a forthcoming piece of whisky legislation as its test case.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
“But we're kind of excited that you can actually use AI to write legislation right now.” -- actually, you just think you can. You haven't done it yet, let alone successfully. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
BC to Revisit Controversial Law Barring Some Name Changes thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
BC to Revisit Controversial Law Barring Some Name Changes | The Tyee
The goal was to block offenders from creating new IDs. Critics say it goes too far.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
BC to Revisit Controversial Law Barring Some Name Changes thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
Is Canada Adopting ICE Anti-Migrant Tactics? thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
Is Canada Adopting ICE Anti-Migrant Tactics? | The Tyee
A raid on a major Calgary construction site has raised serious questions about the government’s approach.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Is Canada Adopting ICE Anti-Migrant Tactics? thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...