There Are No Girls on the Internet - May 07, 2025


The Wait Is Over： There Are No Girls On The Internet New Season Starts May 13

Topics
fast fashion influence on mental health
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Episode Stats


Length

6 minutes

Words per minute

170.5

Word count

1,049

Sentence count

72

Harmful content

Misogyny

2

sentences flagged

Hate speech

3

sentences flagged


Transcript

Transcript generated with Whisper (turbo).
Misogyny classifications generated with MilaNLProc/bert-base-uncased-ear-misogyny .
Hate speech classifications generated with facebook/roberta-hate-speech-dynabench-r4-target .
Topics generated with Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct.
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00:01:40.300 That noise you associate with getting online back in the day, that dial-up modem noise?
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00:02:59.440 people do, right? The internet is not just created by coders and tech companies. It's created by all
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00:03:46.100 tech went wrong, where it went right, and how we can build a better, brighter internet for everyone. 0.98
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