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T<\/span>he tech entrepreneur Bryan Johnson has devoted his life to dodging death. The 48-year-old is obsessed with becoming the healthiest person in the world and is on a quixotic quest to reverse his biological age and live forever. As such, Johnson is disciplined about what he eats, takes dozens of supplements a day, and measures every single biomarker possible, boasting that he is \u201ccertainly the most biologically measured person ever\u201d.<\/p>\n In short: good luck finding any ice cream in his freezer. But you know what you will find? His girlfriend\u2019s menstrual blood. On Thursday, Johnson, a chronic oversharer, posted a photo of his 30-year-old girlfriend, Kate Tolo, on X with the caption: \u201cKate\u2019s period blood is in my -80 \u00b0C freezer. Around 10 mL.\u201d<\/p>\n This isn\u2019t the first time Johnson has collected a loved one\u2019s bodily fluids: a few years ago he boasted about infusing himself with a liter of his \u201cblood boy\u2019s\u201d plasma. What in God\u2019s name is a blood boy? Oh, that\u2019s just what Johnson calls his son Talmage, who was 17 at the time. Johnson also donated a liter of his own blood to his own father.<\/p>\n This also isn\u2019t the first time Johnson has taken it upon himself to share personal information about his loved ones on the internet. Last year, he posted data comparing his and his teenage son\u2019s nocturnal erection metrics. \u201cNighttime erection data from my 19-year-old son … and me,\u201d he wrote on X, tagging Talmage. \u201cHis duration is two minutes longer than mine. Raise children to stand tall, be firm, and be upright.\u201d<\/p>\n Once we\u2019ve all taken a moment to recover from that, we can move on to the menstrual blood in the freezer. What is Johnson planning to do with it? Study it, apparently. \u201cMenstrual blood is valuable and underutilized \u2026 It\u2019s a non-invasive look into the uterus,\u201d Johnson explained on X. Tolo and Johnson intend to examine the blood for everything from endocrine disruptors to microplastics. \u201cI like that Kate is a science experiment with me,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n OK. But does she <\/em>like it? Well, she hasn\u2019t said she doesn\u2019t. Rather she replied to his post with a message saying: \u201cThanks for looking after me bby.\u201d<\/p>\n Tolo hasn\u2019t just given a one-off blood sample. Johnson has said that she is collecting \u201c14 million data points on her menstrual cycle\u201d, which he touts as a \u201cworld first for female health\u201d. Her protocol involves \u201c100+ tasks a day\u201d and \u201c50+ devices\u201d, all of which is being monitored by a \u201c12 person medical team\u201d. Tolo has to take regular urine samples, swallow a temperature pill, and blow into a metabolism tracker. At exactly 9.42 pm, he writes, she has to \u201cinsert techno tampon device\u201d. When the Independent asked for more information about the techno tampon, Johnson said: \u201cWe will be sharing more on that soon.\u201d<\/p>\n Tolo has done some sharing of her own. In mid-July, she was featured in a Wall Street Journal piece titled: \u201cBryan Johnson\u2019s girlfriend wants to share her body with the world,\u201d where she explained that she\u2019s doing all this data-tracking for the good of womankind. \u201cI\u2019m really doing it because I think that this is our path toward women being understood in the world and being seen,\u201d Tolo told the Journal. On a personal level, Tolo has said she has polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome, and is hoping to find treatments that might help her symptoms. Helping her out with that is the famous techno tampon: the Journal\u2019s piece features a photo of Tolo looking very intently at a small tampon-shaped device which will track her blood-flow variations.<\/p>\n As Johnson has said: \u201cWomen are not well understood medically.\u201d It wasn\u2019t until 1993, when US Congress passed a law requiring that women and minorities be included in clinical research, that we began to be properly represented in medical trials. Menstruation has also been understudied. Indeed, until 2023 there hadn\u2019t been a published study testing period products like tampons using human blood. They\u2019d used saline solution instead. This sort of \u201cmedical misogyny\u201d has impacted the quality of care that women get, and resulted in women\u2019s pain not being taken as seriously as men\u2019s.<\/p>\n In many ways, then, Johnson and Tolo\u2019s new women\u2019s health initiative is to be applauded. It\u2019s helping break down the stigma attached to menstruation, and it\u2019s raising awareness about women\u2019s health.<\/p>\n All that said, I think a smidgen of skepticism is warranted. It\u2019s important to remember that Tolo (who has a background in fashion) and Johnson (whose background is in tech) are not exactly highly credentialled medical researchers. They own a company called Immortals that sells supplements. And guess what? According to the Journal: \u201cThe company is on the verge of launching products for women.\u201d Which makes all of this feel a lot like a marketing campaign. I don\u2019t know if the techno tampon will end up being a giant step forward for womankind, but it might well provide a healthy boost to the Immortals balance sheet.<\/p>\n Minnesota is implementing a first-in-the-nation law to ban apps and software that allow someone to \u201cnudify\u201d an image or video. Guess who isn\u2019t excited about this? Musk\u2019s AI company. xAI sued to block the new law on Monday, arguing that its definition of \u201cintimate part\u201d is too broad and the statute \u201cimposes an overbroad, content-based ban on free speech\u201d. A good time to remember that Musk is the world\u2019s biggest free speech hypocrite and only seems to care about free speech when it enriches him.<\/p>\n The genocide scholar Omer Bartov has a powerful piece in the New York Times about how: \u201cIf the plans that are being elaborated for Gaza go forward, genocide may come to be seen by some nations as the legitimate and lucrative extension of politics by other means.\u201d<\/p>\n Per a Politico poll: \u201cTwo-thirds of self-identified MAGA Trump voters say they would continue supporting a GOP candidate accused of sexual assault\u201d by a former partner. That\u2019s \u201c13 percentage points higher than the share of Trump 2024 voters writ large, which include those who do not identify as MAGA\u201d. These numbers don\u2019t really make sense considering that 100% of Trump voters voted for a man accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women, and found liable for abuse in the E Jean Carroll case.<\/p>\n Seems like a very common theme in the party of family values! As for whether this will impact Miller\u2019s career, see the poll above.<\/p>\n skip past newsletter promotion<\/p>\n Sign up to The Week in Patriarchy<\/span><\/p>\n Get\u00a0Arwa Mahdawi\u2019s\u00a0weekly recap of the most important stories on feminism and sexism and those fighting for equality<\/p>\n after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n The map was apparently made with OpenAI tools.<\/p>\n Per the Washington Post, at least nine schools in three states (Florida, Georgia, Colorado) have bought drones \u201cthat can zoom through halls, smash windows and pepper-spray active shooters if teachers report a threat\u201d. Nearly 400,000 students have experienced gun violence at school since the 1999 attack at Colorado\u2019s Columbine High School. Instead of sparking gun reform, it\u2019s spawned a multibillion-dollar security industry focused on campus shootings.<\/p>\n Resolutions like this are largely symbolic, so a possible pardon isn\u2019t completely out of the question.<\/p>\n Dalton is getting a lot of buzz after an interviewer congratulated Damon on his biceps in the Odyssey and the actor explained that his double was a female stunt performer who had \u201cthe greatest arms I have ever seen\u201d. I have investigated further and can confirm they are elite arms.<\/p>\n The Trump administration has slashed environmental research funding, meaning cash-strapped scientists are having to get creative. 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We are entering a terrifying new era of genocide-as-a-business-model<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Majority of Maga voters would support GOP candidate accused of sexual assault<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Republican congressman Max Miller accused by ex-wife and ex-girlfriend of abuse<\/strong><\/h2>\n
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Schools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Senate unanimously passes resolution opposing pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Matt Damon\u2019s stunt double in The Odyssey is a 4ft 6in woman called Devyn Dalton<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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