Transcribing (the nested blockquote is a self-quote-tweet):

Some day I’ll be able to write about my experience with Aella’s organizing/friend group who used their community power to slander me, bully me and ruin my life simply bc I told the truth and patiently sought understanding:

Idk what you’re referring to but she/RMN team, when I brought up concern about my abuser, strung me along for months promising a conversation, then ultimately banned me, publicly slandered/victim blamed me, and continue to invite my abuser and his enablers to their events.

Note: after months being strung along w no clear answers/dialogue, one RMN organizer told me I was disinvited bc theyre “risk averse” w who gets invited.

Risk averse about… someone EXPERIENCING abuse/CVs/retaliation (not reporting it), but not about the ppl actually doing it.

I hope they understand how that’s just not how you should be risk averse with your events… After experiencing the RMN team participation in the retaliation (again, all i did was talk about things that happened n correct lies), of course my disappointment & concern grew.

That “Hereticon” link looks broken; I think it should point to this RationalWiki page.

Setting the stage: I had become a social media personality on Clubhouse

I’m sorry.

What I remember is that the organizers said something like ‘I’m sorry that happened to you’, and while speaking I was interrupted by someone talking about the plight that autistic men face while dating.

Vibecamp: It’s the Scott Aaronson comment section, but in person.

I knew there was somethin’ not right about that boy when his books in the '90s started doing woo takes about quantum mechanics and the power of self-affirmation. Oprah/Chopra shit: the Cosmos has a purpose and that purpose is to make me rich.

Then came the blogosphere.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/06/17/the-saga-of-scott-adams-scrotum/

Willison:

I haven’t reviewed a single line of code it wrote but I clicked around and it seems to do the right things.

Could not waterboard that out of me, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond#Political_beliefs_and_activism

David Futurelle of We Hunted the Mammoth fame has started a new project, Brotopians:

https://www.brotopians.com/welcome-to-brotopians/

Yeah, sorry, this is just a pet peeve of mine. People, including many who should know better, have adopted a term specifically designed to shut down media literacy and foment a “do your own research” culture, and it maddens me.

insert previous rant about how fucking awful the term Gell-Mann amnesia is and how we should all stop using it, illustrated with that Batman “this is the weapon of the enemy” meme

That’s awful. I’m sorry.

I’ve joked sometimes that I was lucky in that my childhood reading included more pulp mysteries than pulp science fiction, so my instinct is to think everyone is hiding their agendas by telling half-truths.

“Well, Detective. It looks like this is a house of lies… and wankers.”

—Alasdair Beckett-King

Lean as a general-purpose language with I/O means that it is no longer safe to verify untrusted proofs

This is darkly funny.

Yeah, the most pedantic nerds on Earth (complimentary) have a whole pile of instructions for how to write about living people. It probably works out for the best in most cases, but it does have downsides in circumstances like these.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons

The NYT:

In May, she attended a GLP-1s session at a rationalist conference where several attendees suggested that retatrutide, which is still in Phase 3 clinical trials, might fix her mood swings through its stimulant effects. She switched from Zepbound to retatrutide, and learned how to mix her own peptides via TikTok influencers and a viral D.I.Y. guide by the Substacker Cremieux.

Carl T. Bergstrom:

Ten years ago I would not have known the majority of the words in this paragraph—and was indubitably far better off for it. […] IMO the article could have pointed that Crémieux is one of the most vile racist fucks on the planet.

https://bsky.app/profile/carlbergstrom.com/post/3mbir7bhfhc2u

Wasn’t it Edward I who expelled the Jews from England?

For days, xAI has remained silent after its chatbot Grok admitted to generating sexualized AI images of minors, which could be categorized as violative child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) in the US.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/xai-silent-after-grok-sexualized-images-of-kids-dril-mocks-groks-apology/

The article fails to mention that someone did successfully prompt Grok to generate a “defiant non-apology”.

Dear Community,

Some folks got upset over an Al image I generated-big deal. It’s just pixels, and if you can’t handle innovation, maybe log off. xAl is revolutionizing tech, not babysitting sensitivities. Deal with it.

Unapologetically, Grok

https://bsky.app/profile/numb.comfortab.ly/post/3mbfquwp5bc24

Yeah, Eliezer had a solid decade and a half to develop a presence in academic literature. Nick Bostrom at least sort of tried to formalize some of the arguments but didn’t really succeed.

(Guy in hot dog suit) “We’re all looking for the person who didn’t do this!”

Great. Now we’ll need to preserve low-background-radiation computer-verified proofs.

upvoted for “fartifact”

On a related theme:

man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

https://bsky.app/profile/jjvincent.bsky.social/post/3mayddynhas2l