whatever pronouns. LGBTESCREAL+. pretentious taste in books, bad taste in musicals, exquisite taste in vegan baking.
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those global poverty donations are real bad optics for AI safety
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The excerpt is from Dario Amodei's 2010 GiveWell guest post as a Princeton physics grad student; he donated the $10k to VillageReach (child vaccines) and described the critical analysis as emotionally taxing.
blog.givewell.org/2010/06/03/my-…
nytimes.com/2026/11/05/tec…
for most of my life people were like "someone being friends with their exes is a green flag of them being emotionally mature and not vindictive" but now I see people on X being like "only weirdo sex-posi poly people are friends with their exes, normie women see it as a red flag"
afaict the thesis of this article is that men are more resilient and like conflict more than women and don't get their feefees hurt like women do, which is why the most significant threat to civilization is that men feel unwelcome when people call each other mean names :(
How I came to see the “Great Feminization” as the most significant event of our century—and a potential threat to civilization. compactmag.com/article/the-g…
for all the people on this app invested in whether my son's gay: he announced that he HATED boy scouts and ONLY wanted to be in frozen. he was also inconsolable that we didn't take him to the Addams Family musical and was mollified only by us promising to show him a bootleg
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anyone remember back in the 2010s when people said that the fundamental, eternal difference between left and right is that right-wingers are more afraid of pathogens
I have to say "female gaze (fuck, marry, kill)" is something many discord channels are already providing me a nigh-infinite supply of and I didn't have to pay any $1000
This is our highest tier of ticket. Let me pitch you on why it's worth the cost:
The three tiers go something like this:
Participant (1k): Closest to a 'normal con', in the sense that you can wander around, go to open talks. Our talks are given by pretty experienced people, many of which we are paying a fair amount of money. We're also bringing in a lot of women, who are going through some training and will be there to wander the grounds and give honest feedback if you hit on them.
Insider (3k): All of the above, and *also* closer to a bootcamp experience. You get access to another set of workshops that are more intensive, meant for smaller audiences, and usually involve more participation. Think of this as a series of small-group classes where you can take turns working directly with teachers and volunteers to practice whatever needs practicing. You also get priority entry to any limited-entry groups that are open to participants.
Protagonist (9k): All of the above, and *also* personalized coaching. You get access to a private lounge room, a concierge, and regular scheduled 1:1 sessions with coaches. You also get priority access to any limited-entry events open to the other tiers. The protagonist experience is hands-on and customized specifically for your needs, where we track your progress over time and help you achieve the specific goals you set.
I think all the tiers are great for different reasons, but Protagonist is really worth it if you want to intensively fast-track any progress.
For example: I was fortunate enough to stumble into private lessons for dance early on. I learned *extremely* fast, and went from zero to proficient in two years. After this I tried attending some group classes, and was like holy shit - the learning rate is *so* much slower, because the feedback I'm getting about what moves are correct vs. bad is slower.
The goal with protagonist is to be the 'private lessons' of sexual success. We're thinking of this as packing the most rocket fuel we can into your days.
(example of a segment below! pink is open to everyone, purple is open to insiders and protags, blue is protags only)
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for basically my entire life I've been more woke than any of my friends of color & it breaks my heart that if I chronicled any of the conversations that result I would be super cancelled
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I will not be reviewing IABED because I think all of my readers already have eleventy billion reviews of it. I will instead be reviewing more neglected material such as Unlocking the Red Closet: Gay Male Sex Workers in China
kind of irritated by the number of people going "I think IABED is wrong about lots of things but I'm also very worried about AI so I think it's a great book that lots of people should read so that they can also be worried about AI, while believing wrong things"
wild number of responses to this post going "obviously no monogamous woman would allow her bf to speak at a con about sex, her bf might cheat!" like idk if your gf doesn't trust you to go to a sex con without cheating maybe you aren't the right person to give the pro-mono speech
hello x followers if you are at metagame you should come say hi to me. I am the one with green hair. I don't think there's anyone else there with green hair but if there are they're probably cool and you can say hi to them too
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idk that we can conclude the shooter isn't left-wing because he used "gay" as an insult on his bullets. very online left-wing zoomers ironically call things "gay" as an insult all the time. it's countersignalling
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whenever someone dies, everyone wants to reckon with their legacy, and this is really awkward when the person got shot for political reasons and you *also* want to convey that you shouldn't assassinate people for political reasons
I keep being surprised by being nonbinary. I keep going "wow, I have this deep alienation from womanhood............ but also this deep alienation from manhood........... too bad there are literally only two options"
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I think that the British government should refrain from arresting Graham Linehan so that I don't have to defend Graham Linehan
this but unironic. I cherish a smug little belief in my heart that none of you people would do NEARLY as well as me at having a personality disorder
