Warning: it may raise your blood pressure (it certainly did mine while researching and writing it).
06.03.2026 15:33
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Warning: it may raise your blood pressure (it certainly did mine while researching and writing it).
I wrote about several exceptional women in the arts, science, and literature whose work was misattributed, dismissed, stolen, or even destroyed—and who still often don’t get the recognition they deserve.
And if you find that hard to believe, you’ve never met a truly passionate person.
It’s insane to claim that without the promise of financial reward or the threat of poverty we would stop innovating and making things. If writers, artists, inventors, & creators of any other kind had the freedom to work without the constant financial anxiety, our society’s creativity would explode.
Social media algorithms are far from neutral. And they can be remarkably effective at reshaping what we believe, sometimes without us ever even noticing. I wrote more about this in my recent piece:
A recent study of Elon Musk’s X found that users who relied on the platform’s default 'For You' algorithmic feed were more likely to shift toward right-wing positions on issues such as immigration, crime, and inflation. Even after switching back to a chronological feed, the shift didn’t disappear.
If only we'd worried more about incompetent, mediocre men with fragile egos dominating empires than about women in leadership 'getting their periods and perhaps becoming a bit emotional.'
The fact that so many people care more about climate policies' impact on economy than economy's impacts on our climate really shows that humanity have lost the plot.
So much modern ‘innovation’ doesn’t actually make most people’s lives materially better.
Do most people really need another app, another subscription service, another AI chatbot, or do they need groceries that don’t break the bank, a place to live they can call their own, universal healthcare, and childcare?
In bonobo societies, when males are found abusing a female or her offspring, female bonobos band together to intervene and make sure they won't do that again. Some males sometimes join these female-led 'gangs', too.
It's about time we were more like bonobos.
Recent news headlines might as well say: the most despicable, disgusting men you can imagine unsurprisingly did the most despicable, disgusting things, and, perhaps even less surprisingly, there will likely be no consequences for any of it.
It makes no sense to bend the human body to fit a capitalist system we humans invented, instead of bending that system to the needs—and limits—of the human body.
As I wrote about in the piece below, it’s perfectly normal to want to slow down and rest right now. And we should be able to do exactly that.
Much of the mainstream advice on 'beating the winter blues' treats it as a personal problem that can be fixed with the right mindset or products. But we wouldn’t need any of this if capitalist work culture didn’t expect us to work year-round on the same schedules and at the same productivity levels.
The point of learning from history is to avoid repeating the same atrocities, not to justify and protect existing ones. But if you only learn it from the oppressor's point of view, that's often exactly what ends up happening.
Future generations will be baffled by how many of us failed to grasp this basic fact. We all contribute to the climate crisis, but our responsibility is not equally distributed.
It took just three days for the richest 0.1% of people, and ten days for the richest 1%, to exhaust their fair share of carbon emissions for 2026, according to a new Oxfam report.
Social media platforms (of which Grok is now part) then make the mass circulation of that abuse easier than ever before, too.
This is a problem on a scale we've never, ever, seen.
Comparing Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok and its new 'digital undressing' function to what Photoshop does is just disingenuous.
AI tools make it easier, faster, and cheaper than ever before to allow deranged individuals to mass-produce nonconsensual, sexually explicit imagery of women and children.
If more men were forced to step into women’s shoes, even for an hour or so, and experience the kind of harassment so many of us endure, it might become much harder to dismiss it as 'not that bad.'
In a recent study, a group of young men were immersed in a virtual reality scenario in which they embodied a young woman subjected to verbal harassment in a subway station. Every participant reported strong emotional reactions—most notably fear, disgust, and anger.
This same pattern also underpins other dominance-based hierarchies. Most of us, really, are nudged to accept our own submission to the few in exchange for the illusion of power over those deemed other and lesser.
Both gender roles are, at their core, about submissiveness—women submitting to all men, and men submitting to a handful of men perched atop the socio-economic pyramid.
Sexual and reproductive healthcare is a basic human right, not a privilege contingent on geography or political mood swings.
The European Parliament voting to support an EU fund that expands access to abortion, allowing women from countries where it’s restricted or banned to obtain care in another member state, free of charge, has to be some of the best news of the year.
@katiejgln.bsky.social substack about women's skepticism re AI is great, comparing women's adoption rates of AI to adoption rates of similar tech and citing all my favorite sources about the ways AI tools systematically reinforce bias.
open.substack.com/pub/thenoosp...
@katiejgln.bsky.social thenoosphere.substack.com/p/how-corpor...
Over 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists had been granted access to the recent UN climate summit, COP30, significantly outnumbering almost every single country’s delegation, except the host, Brazil. Why do we keep allowing massive corporations to keep hijacking the climate agenda, over and over again?
It’s then hardly unreasonable to say that giving assistants/chatbots female names risks repeating and even reinforcing the very discriminatory patterns and bias women already suffer from.