Reporting from the Gmail dungeon
Well, it looks like Gmail sent last week’s newsletter to the spam folder. Possible reasons for this include:
current or former subscriber of this newsletter reported it as spamcurrent or former subscriber of a different Buttondown newsletter reported it as spam, and Gmail is now suspicious of the entire Buttondown domaintoo many links to saucy websitestoo many links in generalsaid “fuck” too muchmassive corporate conspiracy against me specificallyGoogle (like most tech companies), doesn’t employ humans to deal with issues like this anymore, so it’s basically impossible to know which of the above is the case. Hopefully this week’s newsletter goes through—and if you missed it last week, maybe check your spam folder.
This Week’s LinksConservative activists gave Alberta government list of ‘inappropriate’ books in school librariesMia Khalifa says selling body On OnlyFans is better than ‘selling it to the army’Action4Canada is a conservative Christian group with more than 60 chapters across Canada. The group promotes deeply conspiratorial beliefs, claiming the Canadian government and education system have been “infiltrated by radical LGBTQ activists” and that SOGI education and sexually explicit books are part of a “global agenda to sexualize children, interfere with parental rights, eliminate the natural family and normalize pedophilia.”
Fitness App’s ‘Anonymized’ Data Dump Accidentally Reveals Military Bases Around the World“Honestly, I think that selling your body, like if we are going by that definition, being in the army is worse than being on OnlyFans. You’re selling your body to the government.”
… it’s easy to deduce who’s using Strava in places where American-based technologies are relatively rare. Smartphones and Fitbits might be scarce in a particular remote area of Afghanistan, leaving us to conclude that it must be the presence of US troops.
I guess I could try saying “fuck” less to avoid getting classified as spam, but the very idea offends my principles.
-K
