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@internetmaggie
Porn & Platforms 💦📚☕💻 PhD candidate @UofTInfoFaculty | Advisory Board with @Pornhub / @ECPCanada
Find me on 🦋Bluesky🦋 ✌️: @internetmaggie.com
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Joined April 2014
- 31, joyously single (glory in it!) and back in my hometown for the holidays when I ran into a longtime (8yrs) friend at a pub. Within an hour we were holding hands under the table. Changed everything. He was RIGHT THERE ALL ALONG like some deranged Netflix Christmas movie.
- Despite the hype, Deepfakes don't target politics, but porn. Rather than hurting powerful politicians, they target most vulnerable workers in our midst, women and porn performers. Read my new piece in @thewalrus here:Replying to @thewalrusToday, anyone can make their own deepfakes using free software like FakeApp or Faceswap. Reporting on deepfakes has emphasized their potential for disinformation. But, writes @internetmaggie, this panic ignores the harm they currently cause. Read on: thewalrus.ca/the-double-exp… 3/5
- Replying to @internetmaggieuntil someone comes around to make you dizzy again, look for the platonic loves that are all around you and soak that good stuff UP 💜
- Catherine McKinnon’s opinion piece on OnlyFans proves she’s an out of touch relic, about as relevant as dial up Internet I read her laughably bad antiporn NYT OpEd so you don’t have to: a thread 1/90s antiporn icon Catherine McKinnon is back, calling OnlyFans a pimp, and accusing sex workers of “gaslighting” actual survivors for suggesting consent can exist. Absolutely bonkers to platform this. Via @nytopinion nytimes.com/2021/09/06/opi…
- In honour of the new #Animorphs movie announcement, let’s revisit some of the iconic @davidmattingly book covers where I relate too strongly to the mid-transformation phase:
- My latest for @globeandmail: Age verification is a trojan horse for Internet surveillance Billed as online safety, Age-ID systems don't protect kids from most real harm they face online, but set alarming censorship & surveillance precedents for us all
- 33, and deeply indebted to Retinol and Sunscreen. Now *exclusively* wear outfits I feel comfortable or powerful in. Lastly, stopped fighting my own hair with trendy but mediocre cuts. Finding a stylist to play with the texture I’m working with leveled things UP!
- woke up today and chose the good life Please enjoy my comprehensive thread on HimbosI LOVE this question, ok: Bimbo was originally applied as a gender neutral term of endearment (a twist on ‘bambino’), used affectionately - not as a barb. Betty Boop’s dog was named Bimbo!
- woke up today on my 33rd birthday & walked out of the bedroom to find my partner scattered my fave childhood book series along the hall like rose petals. I now own the compete #Animorphs. Lifelong goal. I’m in heaven & as my 3rd grade self suspected, it’s a @Scholastic book fair
- Replying to @internetmaggiethis gem right here could be describing minimum wage servers, factory farm workers, migrant labourers just about any form of precarious work under capitalism, where not all work is a girlboss passion project SHE IS DESCRIBING THE WORK IN SEX WORK. 7/
- Replying to @DesmondCole and @MasseyCollegeBravo to Professor Trotz, for quickly and publicly showing principle! but the @MasseyCollege should be absolutely ashamed for such a ridiculous choice, and having put her in this position to begin with.
- Replying to @internetmaggieshe doesn’t substantiate claims like this one - convenient, since peer reviewed research in psychiatry and sociology *consistently* shows porn has no links to increased violence or assault (in fact it says the opposite!) real ‘video games caused columbine’ vibes 3/
