The bizarre culture that’s sprung up around Silicon Valley AI companies - which overlaps hugely with rationalist and effective altruist circles - appears to be seriously pressuring some women into attending sex parties for the sake of networking. This is, needless to say, horrifying.

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Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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Best description of Biden I’ve heard is that he ended up being a “pause button “ on Trumpism. Those of us who voted for him in 2020 were hoping for the “stop button”.

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The future of the American right is anti-Israel and openly antisemitic, and American Jewish organizations that have gone all in on partnering with Republicans to fight "campus antisemitism" have not remotely adapted to this.

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2027 will be the year of the linux desktop

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