There Are No Girls on the Internet is a weekly podcast hosted by Bridget Todd. Every Friday we drop our news roundup — the tech and internet stories that don't get enough attention, the ones about AI, power, gender, race, and who actually gets hurt when systems fail. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. New roundup every Friday. 🎧 Here's what we covered this week: Elon Musk is losing his mind over Lupita Nyong'o playing Helen of Troy because he cannot imagine Black beauty. Brittany Wong has excellent analysis for HuffPo: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-lupita-nyongo-in-the-odyssey_l_6a0ca9fde4b0ceb40d47cc6a Meta has been removing accounts of LGBTQ+ organizations and individuals for seemingly capricious reasons. A coalition of Dutch LGBTQ+ and digital rights advocates is taking legal action. The excellent resource Repro Uncensored reports: https://www.reprouncensored.org/research-overview/meta-legal-action Federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies are pooling resources to track and surveil "anti-tech extremists," which includes people and organizations who oppose data centers at county board meetings. Daniel Boguslaw reports for Wired: https://www.wired.com/story/us-law-enforcement-warns-of-anti-tech-extremism/ A new study of resumes found that women were judged more harshly than men for using AI. The author has not made details of the study publicly available, but it was summarized in Fortune Magazine by Eleanor Pringle: https://fortune.com/2026/05/10/identical-resume-ai-men-women-response-trust-ability/ The resume study seems similar to this seminal research paper by Steinpreis and colleagues, which was properly published in 1999 https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/advance/269/ Software engineering is being transformed by AI at incredible speed, and that is a big challenge for mothers taking parental leave. Wired's Joel Khalili writes: https://www.wired.com/story/women-parental-leave-return-office-ai/ PALETTE CLEANSER! People are rejecting the exploitative, consumerist version of technology being sold to us and building their own Cyberdecks. Cat Zhang writes this joyful piece at The Cut: https://www.thecut.com/article/cyberdecks-anti-ai-resistance-trend.html Let us know what you think by emailing [email protected] or leaving a comment on Spotify. Bridget's forthcoming audiobook with Simon & Schuster, Love At First Prompt, explores AI, sex, and intimate relationships. Pre-order at LoveAtFirstPrompt.ai Follow Bridget: Instagram | TikTok | YouTube | BlueskySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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