Amia Srinivasan’s review of Loving Animals: On Bestiality, Zoophilia and Post-Human Love for the London Review of Books is thought-provoking. [Includes the obvious NSFW content, as well as brief descriptions of violence and cruelty to both humans and a…
Phone Companies Must Now Block Carriers That Didn’t Meet FCC Robocall Deadline
In a new milestone for the US government’s anti-robocall efforts, phone companies are now prohibited from accepting calls from providers that did not comply with a Federal Communications Commission deadline that passed this week. From a report: “Beginn…
How Do We Prepare Boys for Healthy Relationships?
“If we care about preparing our boys for healthy relationships, this may be one way to do it—making time and space in school, where so much of their social world exists, to teach them how to name and handle their emotions and solve problems that crop u…
Dear Sophie: Any advice for getting media coverage for my startup?
I’m an entrepreneur working on building up my qualifications for the EB-1A green card (or maybe an O-1A). Toward that goal, I’ve been trying to get media coverage about my startup. Any advice?
Twitch adds phone-verified chat, expands email authentication settings as users face ‘hate raids’
Twitch announced today that it will add new channel-level security features to help curb harassment on the platform. Now, creators and moderators can enable verified chat, requiring chatters to validate their phone and/or email before they can send messages. These settings can be toggled to enable verified chat for all accounts, first-time chatters, those under […]
The child tax credit could be on the chopping block
When Democrats passed a one-year expansion of the child tax credit in their Covid relief bill earlier this year, it was seen by many in the party as a triumph, a move that could reduce child poverty by nearly half this year.