- name: | LARPING: How Influencers Fake Being Rich addr: | https://www.404media.co/email/01d7cee6-e22e-41bf-a716-6e1ab72a3d57/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter cron: 2026-07-14 00:53:10.799847902 -04:00 - name: | We are truly in the Hackathon Era – Namanh Kapur interview [Podcast #180] - YouTube addr: | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clTpnp0TlYg cron: 2026-07-14 05:04:13.922357850 -04:00 - name: | "The Pitt" 7:00 A.M. (TV Episode 2025) - IMDb addr: | https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32561670/?ref_=tt_epspo_ep_1 cron: 2026-07-14 06:20:00.000000000 -04:00 - name: | Mamdani forms Public Interest Technology crews to improve NYC government efficiency and affordability - ABC7 New York addr: | https://abc7ny.com/post/mayor-zohran-mamdani-forms-pit-crew-deploy-technologists-new-york-city-advance-government-efficiency/19498735/ cron: 2026-07-14 16:45:26.131663804 -04:00 - name: | Post | LinkedIn addr: | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tillercapital_aviation-engineering-jetengine-ugcPost-7482613938875109376-I9lV/ cron: 2026-07-14 16:51:10.988550798 -04:00 - name: | Mamdani wins with NYC's click to cancel rule: this is awesome - YouTube addr: | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DacdCK9vUAs cron: 2026-07-14 17:46:20.909431546 -04:00 - name: | Clippy – the movement of 2025 to protest against AI, Big Tech, and data abuse. | Tuta addr: | https://tuta.com/blog/clippy-movement-profile-pic cron: 2026-07-14 17:49:41.862496201 -04:00 - name: | This $60 Device Killed My Doomscrolling. - YouTube addr: | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKyuLl8A4CY cron: 2026-07-14 20:18:02.459053711 -04:00 - name: | Cash/Consent | Issue 35 | n+1 | Lorelei Lee addr: | https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-35/essays/cashconsent/?ref=404media.co cron: 2026-07-14 22:57:07.420961923 -04:00 message: | Not all anti-trafficking activists and organizations are part of the rescue industry. Trafficking-survivor activists like Meg Muñoz, Kate Zen, and Laura LeMoon and anti-trafficking advocates like Kate D’Adamo work to connect people to resources without coercion. They condemn the rescue industry and advocate for policies that help victims of violence without harming other people in the sex trades. The Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women is an international coalition of organizations working to address exploitation by strengthening labor rights, supporting safer migration, providing social services, opposing discrimination against people in the sex trades, and explicating the failures of criminal justice approaches. The best anti-exploitation work is being done by those of us with experience trading sex. Too often, that work looks like showing up for one another when legal and social systems utterly fail us. Kamylla described how after she was arrested, the people who finally offered her concrete support were the other women she was locked up with, who had also been arrested on prostitution charges. “They were helping me reach my family outside,” she said, “using their credits to call people who could reach my husband.” .... In 1910, Congress responded by passing the White-Slave Traffic Act, also called the Mann Act, which prohibited the transportation of women and girls “in interstate or foreign commerce . . . for the purpose of prostitution of debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose.” The Mann Act, which was largely responsible for the development of the FBI as a federal agency, is still very much a part of the US Code. The most substantial part of FOSTA is simply an amendment to the Mann Act. This rewriting of slavery as a harm to white men and women ignored the role that rape and sexual violence played in the systemic enslavement of African Americans. The rape of enslaved African American women was not, legally, a crime, and scholars like Andrea Ritchie and Angela Davis have described how rape and sexual assault were an “essential dimension,” in Davis’s words, “of the social relations between slavemaster and slave.” Also ignored in the national moral panic around “modern slavery” were the experiences of Black women working in the Progressive Era sex trades. As Cynthia Blair describes, middle-class African Americans during this time were vocally critical of the national campaign that neglected Black brothel workers. In 1920, the civil rights activist Irene McCoy Gaines remarked on the irony of a rescue campaign focused exclusively on white women, who had greater access to other forms of employment, when Black girls and women received “less protection from public opinion than from the law.” 1. The DOJ has said that FOSTA actually makes it harder to prosecute websites for trafficking, and the only federal judge to rule on the law so far has said that the “promotes or facilitates” language only creates liability identical to existing liability under the federal Travel Act . The Travel Act, notably, is the law that was used to shut down Backpage.com four days before FOSTA actually passed. A few attorneys bringing civil trafficking suits have claimed that they are bringing the suits based on changes to the law made by FOSTA, but these claims, while attracting media attention, aren’t true. All suits thus far have been brought under preexisting state-level tort laws, to which FOSTA made no change in liability. This essay could not have been written without community-developed knowledge. Any mistakes are my own, and anything I got right is the result of living, working, and thinking in coalition with hundreds of brilliant people in the sex trades. In addition to those cited above, I am particularly grateful for conversations with Mia Little, Kate Zen, TS Candii, Viola Parker, Ceyenne Doroshow, Sophie Bee, Madeline Marlowe, Lotus Lain, Blunt, Milcah Halili, Ana, Red, Foxxy, Natassia Dreams, Josephine Laveau, Tina Horn, Rebelle Cunt, and others whom I cannot name here because it would be unsafe to do so. - name: | "The Pitt" 8:00 A.M. (TV Episode 2025) - IMDb addr: | https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32561844/?ref_=tt_ov_ep_nx cron: 2026-07-14 23:51:28.752220987 -04:00