was there an ownership change or something? this is atrocious

New pride month Odium Symposium episode. We go through the life and activism of notorious homophobe and orange juice queen, Anita Bryant

https://www.patreon.com/posts/18-swallowing-of-160587597

i don’t think she should be allowed to say “the ghetto.” doesn’t matter whether it’s problematic when someone else says it, she definitely doesn’t get to

i have already seen ai enthusiasts make quite clear that they imagine the purpose of formal theorem verification is to act as a bolt on for llms

she badly underestimates my capacities as a hater

new odium symposium episode (at the link and on all platforms). we talk to professor of africana studies danielle procope bell about her recent paper “‘Pick-Me’ Black women: tactical patriarchal femininity in the Black manosphere.”

https://www.patreon.com/posts/17-introduction-159058420

oh my god lmao. finally we understand how that happened

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fun fact: even vixra has had an anti ai paper policy for idk how long, at least ten months

https://bsky.app/profile/scgriffith.bsky.social/post/3lsek4cpnpk2n

so we now have an invitation to do an episode of posting through it, which is a (really really good) podcast on the far right. we pick a topic, no other specifics. i am thinking this can be something to do with rationalists and the far right, probably something race sciencey.

SSC leaps to mind but im not sure that’s where ill want to start for an audience that doesn’t necessarily know anything about rats. any thoughts?

it’s a golden… bowler hat?

i feel like people in real life would be far less likely to press the red button, because twitter is almost wall to wall nazis and real life is not

When I was about 12, I got into a discussion about the environment with another kid at school. She told me that it didn’t matter if we ruined the environment of the countries we all live in now, because we could all just move to the Arctic or Antarctica.

this is the level the median hackernews poster thinks on

anthropic is the most moral ai company in the universe

guys

People generally do not like being killed.

source?

i’m in the middle of freefalling down a research rabbit hole and ran across this person decrying curtis yarvin as a fake monarchist who doesn’t understand what makes REAL monarchism good:

https://www.reddit.com/r/behindthebastards/comments/1iy4fto/moldbug_morons_and_monarchism_an_xpost_of_my/

someone in the replies asks the obvious question

Ok but what stops the monarch from being a tyrant

and their answer is that you can just kill the monarch

It’s still One Person. A mortal, fleshy person. Their defence is that they’re inoffensive, things are stable, nothing is directly their fault and people are bound by law and oath. But if they screw up badly enough that the things they’re supposed to do don’t happen? There’s more of everyone else than One Person.

new odium symposium episode is now available on all platforms. we look Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini’s Gender Without Identity, a contemporary work of queer psychoanalytic theory. then we look at a case study in which it all goes wrong.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/14-just-call-me-155052365

also we’re starting a discord for the podcast https://discord.gg/7tEEE39Fx

also also we’re going to release our first subscriber episode next week, where we look at the pseudoscientists of paper repository viXra

i love seeing tracing pop up! a true heel to toe bootlicker incapable of seeing himself as anything but the MOST independent thinker

new odium symposium episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/13-joker-is-both-154123315. links to various platforms at www.odiumsymposium.com

we read umberto eco’s essay ur-fascism (we have mixed feelings about it) and then apply it to frank miller’s 1986 batman comic the dark knight returns