The New and Improved Bimbo Summit
Why Paris Hilton tapped AOC and Laurel Lee on Capitol Hill
Passing the DEFIANCE Act? That’s extremely hot.
I think we all know how I feel about anything artificial intelligence, but just to reiterate: I rebuke it, in any form, in dedication to the gospel of doing things myself. Watching AI image generators convert unsuspecting women into non-consensual digital pornstars has been one of my least favorite developments yet.
Paris Hilton agrees. In her words, the bill “gives survivors of image-based abuse stronger legal tools to fight back when intimate images are shared without consent — including harmful AI-generated deepfakes.” This would unlock the door to lawsuits over millions of humiliating images X’s Grok has recently generated of women, for example.
This issue means enough to America’s OG influencer that she’s willing to travel to the least sexy place in America for the second time in just over one year. She helped deliver the Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act at the end of 2024, and after the Senate unanimously advanced the DEFIANCE Act, it’s looking like she might go two-for-two.
She’s pivoted from her early aughts detached persona and embraced a stripped back version of herself in public that honors her personal trauma from abuse and exploitation. It’s done something no one ever expected: make Paris Hilton relatable.
While photoshoots and aesthetic advocacy can send a message, they don’t make a mandate. That’s where Reps. AOC and Laurel Lee (FL) came in. The unexpected duo, of opposing viewpoints and disparate levels of name ID, flanked the Hilton Heiress throughout her day on the Hill this week.
AOC is the connective tissue between politics and culture. Lee’s task is taller: rally the right and stick like velcro on Speaker Johnson until he brings it to a vote. The costars are heavily represented in content — strut like you mean it videos, “legislation is #hot” stories, speakers at the press conference.
The gathering is intimate, but it brought another handful of women representatives into the frame. It’s tough to look at them, listen to them, and know that the common thread that connects them is sexual harassment, abuse, or assault. It’s a sad visual at first, until it hit me that for the first time in forever, we’re seeing a powerful projection of solidarity.
My lingering thought watching throughout the day: the congressmen who cosponsored the bill were noticeably absent from the press conference — instead going for a photo op indoors. That’s a big optics play, and we’re talking about Paris Hilton here … every choice, inclusion, and exclusion is intentional. Maybe they’re just not hot.
ARTIFICIAL UNINTELLIGENCE
If you had to guess which picture of a protester getting arrested is real and which was edited with AI … actually it’s not even subtle enough to perform the illusion of similarity. The one on the right is obviously edited. I’m sure, by now, it’s starting to become clear that it’s none other than the White House taking creative liberties to alter this photo to post on their feeds.
The response to an onslaught of inquiries on the edit?
