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I know that kinky people are stigmatized and judged, but we've got to free ourselves of this defensive attitude that any criticism of anything kink related is oppression from a wicked vanilla world.

Jesus. I thought being pressured to go out drinking with colleagues was bad enough… 😫

Software makes soft minds

That's true. Nvidia just want to sell GPUs to them.

Jensen is quite literally too old for this shit.

many such cases i am sure. 🫣

Thinking with the little head is a big problem.

…which has been the case for centuries and ain't slowin' down just yet. It'd be nice if it did

I'm going to say this again, Again bsky.app/profile/frog...

When the sex cult has more money than most countries combined... it's time to take away the keys to the sex dungeon

I thought Peter Thiel lead the cult and I'm pretty sure most people aren't gay so how does that whole thing work? Does he just watch from high above / from behind double sided mirrors or what

I mean media companies (I’m pretty sure) are made up of the worst kind of strivers and attention seekers who have no sense of boundaries and no interest in it either (maybe in a “boundaries for thee but not for me” kind of way) (also not an expert, just an observer, could be totally wrong)

There's some overlap!

Just pointing out, if I didn't want people to treat their work as their lifestyle and central purpose of their life, I would simply pass labor laws that give people a lot more rights in the workplace and to job security.

I am surprised that, as luridly obsessed with policing other people's personal lives as Republicans are, their conspiracy-obsessed base aren't going berserk over this. I get why the leadership isn't: it's the same reason they steer attention away from the Epstein files.

And the conviction you have to save the world from destruction and have to commit everything to that goal, every mean necessary is permitted. A perfect cover for misconduct, if you talk, you a threat that could cause the world to end (eventually)

And this isn't just a belief system that the people with power happen to espouse, it's the entire foundation of the industry in which the victims are trying to build a career.

Exactly this- because once it becomes coercive, it's by nature no longer consensual. Since sex, in our culture, is so taboo, we often aren't taught how to navigate sexual situations. That makes it easier to keep a culture of shame and silence around it, and use it to control and exploit people.

Yeah, exactly. It’s an extension of that bro dude business mentality, where they have client meetings at strip clubs. “You don’t mind, right? You’re cool, aren’t you?”

Legalization doesn't mean decriminalization.

so…capitalism

That standup video in the article mentioned Boston as a hub for this stuff - any connection to the Somerville polycule stories from a month ago?

This is why it's crucial that everyone in the polycule be at most marginally employed

I’m thinking that the quote is anonymous because it’s ubiquitous and a universal truth.

It is worth spelling this out because I certainly hadn’t joined the dots.

Most of us at this point understand why it's bad for people to feel pressured to go to the bar and drink hard liquor to advance professionally. But somehow you replace "bar" with "group sex party," and suddenly it's "why the judgment, hmm?? Can't people be poly???"

I suspect they're just trying to get training data for their private and personal models/dolls. As usual, without getting consent. Bit like the contents of books, &c.

Ewwwwwww!!!! Norms exist for a reason, folks!

Thank you. I knew about the laissez-faire sexual behavior of some fraction of the SV tech/venture capital community. I never connected that it was both truly casual *and* expected. "Go along and get along" will never hit the same for me.

Man I'm morally grappling with the fact that I was probably at Burning Man at the same time as Elon Musk decades ago, meanwhile rich nerds were taking all the wrong lessons from the 10 principles and wilding all the way out, yikes

Ugh, I’m sorry.

I’m taking from the views I’m reading. AI has been developed by a number of people who are loose on the concept of consent.

Consent has always been a concept a bit beyond the tech bros’ ken.

It's all about power imbalances. Going to a sex party: fine. Your employer saying you should go to a sex party: Yikes.

I am getting such an education this week. (I mean about the cult.) (obviously sex under pressure is bad.)

although if you think of the actual nerds you knew, they probably went to college, maybe even MIT or CalTech, maybe found work in academia or industry in physics or chemistry or maybe didn't, maybe they did biotech. Maybe the academics are barely hanging on, DOGEd out of a job.

Look upon my works, ye nerdy, and despair