Korea passes bill making viewing non-consensual sexual deepfakes illegal The country’s National Assembly passed an amendment to the Act on Special Cases Concerning the Punishment, etc. of Sexual Crimes on Thursday www.hani.co.kr/arti/english...

Korea passes bill making viewing non-consensual sexual deepfakes illegal

The country’s National Assembly passed an amendment to the Act on Special Cases Concerning the Punishment, etc. of Sexual Crimes on Thursday

Meet the Tsunoda family, one of some 10,000 families awarded the "Fertile Womb Battalion Commendation" by Japan's wartime Ministry of Health and Welfare for producing ten or more children. I highly recommend Sujin Lee's "Wombs of Empire," which has a brilliant discussion of "patriotic fertility"

AI is fuelling a deepfake porn crisis in South Korea. What’s behind it – and how can it be fixed? theconversation.com/ai-is-fuelli... via @ConversationEDU

AI is fuelling a deepfake porn crisis in South Korea. What’s behind it – and how can it be fixed?

One recent analysis of almost 100,000 deepfake porn videos found South Korean women and girls featured in more than half.

How Women—and Their Hair—Transformed South Korea Newly fashionable in the 1960s, wigs brought millions of dollars into the war-ravaged country. www.atlasobscura.com/articles/wom...

How Women—and Their Hair—Transformed South Korea

Newly fashionable in the 1960s, wigs brought millions of dollars into the war-ravaged country.

Still love the audacity and shamelessness of this song. I had a lot of fun writing this! 😎 thegrandnarrative.com/2016/09/19/s...

Not going to lie—being single in Busan in your 40s, it really DOES feel this way sometimes. But hey—I AM objectively handsome and charming these days, so why shouldn't I have high hopes that things will change from tonight? (높은 홉스 even?) 😎 Thanks for the inspiration Instagram algorithm! 🙆‍♂️

The Misgendering of Joan of Arc We know from historical records that the female-born French saint presented as a man with short black hair. Why, then, is she so damn feminine in artistic portrayals? hyperallergic.com/746319/the-m...

The Misgendering of Joan of Arc

We know from historical records that the female-born French saint presented as a man with short black hair. Why, then, is she so damn feminine in artistic portrayals?

A Brief History of Women’s Eyebrows in Art Since antiquity, women’s eyebrows have been sites of intense scrutiny, constantly shifting between trend cycles. hyperallergic.com/742148/a-bri...

A Brief History of Women's Eyebrows in Art

Since antiquity, women’s eyebrows have been sites of intense scrutiny, constantly shifting between trend cycles.

From spy cams to deepfake porn: fury in South Korea as women targeted again www.theguardian.com/world/2024/s...

From spy cams to deepfake porn: fury in South Korea as women targeted again

National police agency says it is investigating 513 cases of deepfake pornography as a new scandal grips the country

The risk of beauty W Eugene Smith’s photos of the Minamata disaster are both exquisite and horrifying. How might we now look at them? aeon.co/essays/how-s... via @aeonmag

How should we look at images of horror and suffering? | Aeon Essays

W Eugene Smith’s photos of the Minamata disaster are both exquisite and horrifying. How might we now look at them?