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Is New Yorker style to spell it “Aëlla?”

I think you should aim specifically for a journalist.

I've tried to explain the barest minimums to my friends and family and the only person to believe me until the dam of chaos overtops into consequences is my wife. These are mostly well educated nerds with decades understanding politics, internet culture, or both. Lay folks aren't ready.

you'd want to write up the more sex pest coded side of the rat sex cult thing, I think. I live in the bay and I've heard some backchannel shit about leading rationalists via various people I trust at various times, and I'd bet there are plenty of stories out there, for the right journalist.

because these are the people trying to dictate foreign policy of the united states on ai

I think "gangbang" draws a lot of eyeballs

100%

it turns out that sometimes if you tell people at the Evil Outlet things that help your cause, you get results that are better than just telling everyone they should ignore it and burn the heretics at the stake

in b4 a bipartisan movement to ban and persecute polyamory

Jacob Coxon's 10% P(DOOM) thing + the Pacing the Frontier post are all over my LinkedIn and in serious work conversations. I think we need to stop any attempt at regulatory capture now by creating a backlash before politicos get in bed with these folks or we won't get another chance.

No good. Battlefield: Earth is a Geneva Convention violation

Timnit Gebru’s TESCREAL Bundle explainer is a good one, tho it doesn’t really have sex in it. firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

No problem. I also have this Google doc of sources. Mostly anti-This-Shit, but there's a few pro- articles near the end just to provide context. Fair warning; Some of the articles may misgender some of the subjects, and it appears to be by accident. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Read’s piece is great.

Is it going to involve Harry Potter's harem in methods of rationality

What brought this up now?

Actual public service with real political impact (which is also how I assume you meant it)

There's probably a way to describe, basically, "Bohemian Grove meets Burning Man with influences of transhumanism on the side" in a serious way, but for it to be taken seriously is the difficulty.

Do the normies read

oh and you made *Bouie* aware of this for the first time lol

Thanks, @lizthegrey.com! We'd love to consider pitches on this topic.

I'm not sure I'm the right person either, but this is good to know, and i know some folks and if I may pass the offer along, I will!

I just learned about the Zizians from this post and it is a really good thing transphobes are dumb because between this wiki article and how 80% of trans women on here post I could create a trans panic in America that would have JK Rowling personally thanking me for my contribution to our deaths.

This is a job for Jon Ronson.

This was my first exposure to them: www.wired.com/story/deliri...

unfortunately it's so bonkers that about 30 words in you've already lost any imaginable normie

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Ok this is kind of tangential and isn’t everything one would need to know but it is an article in a normie pub and it does provide some key info about EA and related communities, and I feel like a lot of people missed it. www.wired.com/story/deliri...

On a related note, we’ve been watching “Strange Angel”—a fictionalized account of the early years of American rocketry—about Jack Parsons and the Aleister Crowley Thelema sex magic cult. There was some L. Ron Hubbard-adjacent stuff in his later years…

I think @wired.com might be a good place, but I don’t know anyone there personally.