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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.

AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)

This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.

[Especially don't debate the race scientists, if any sneak in - we ban and delete them as unsuitable for the server.]

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holy shit, it's Ready Player One for race scientists

He was giving knight errant, organ-meat eater, Byronic hero, Haplogroup Rlb. She was giving damsel in distress, pill-popper pixie dream girl, Haplogroup K. He was in his fall of Rome era. She was serving sixth and final mass extinction event realness. His face was a marble statue. Her face was an anime waifu. They scrolled into each other. If they could have, they would have blushed, pink pixels on a screen. Monkey covering eyes emoji. Anime nosebleed GIF. Henlo frend. hiii.

Here's The Cut puff piece on Levy which just mentions in passing her podcast with Curtis Yarvin.

anyway, nice to know they're still trying to make Dimes Square a thing

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I have now read a number of her short works, among others a daring piece titled Cancel Me and I can report that it's, shockingly, vapid baby shit.

See also from The Cut

She tells me that she reads lots of mass-shooting manifestos and jokes that incel should be included in the LGBTQ+ acronym.

Wow no way that's so wacky

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The ceilings are so high, pre-war or something like that, and in the lobby there’s a mirror that makes me feel like we’re at Versailles.

"His voice is warm and husky, like dark melted chocolate fudge caramel ... or something."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Ceilings being high comes up in several stories. It's called a literary voice.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

now you might think she's trying for manic nazi dream girl and only appears to be tiresome and vapidly horrible

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

This man's blog is intense, but I am not sure he comes off well! I clicked around and it seems like "wants to be at all the fascist parties, courts acts of violence to complain about on his blog" is, at least in 2024, a really accurate summary of his behavior.

Or, in his words:

I tell them that I’m actually pretty hated and feared by most of these people, and I can only stay around because I criticize particular influential figures in this counterculture so well that they want to fuck me, and so they keep me around to flatter them, to reflect their true hideousness back at them by elevating it to the status of myth, and then they lash out at me like the maenads devouring Orpheus.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

@dgerard @sneerclub That was a very difficult read. I feel dumber somehow…

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Crumplar is STILL writing about this loser crowd. Why? What led him to this?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

From what I can tell, like everybody else involved, it's ego and ennui? Sad but I suppose at least it's mildly entertaining to read about gormless rich kids failing very hard to be cool.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I have to add also, as someone who had a terrible time being 18 in 2004, I am truly amazed that these people took the vapid and complacent culture of the noughties, the mcinnes-era vice magazines, the cobrasnakes, the cory kennedies, the whole tshirtness of it, and made it even worse somehow.

The main inovation is that the racism went from ironic to scientific!

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

argghhhhhhhhhh

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What is a voice of a generation?” Honor Levy asks me at Corner Bar on Canal Street. “Is it the most controversial voice? The first person to write in the way that everybody writes? The person that most people hate or love?” She’s not quite sure she qualifies as a VOG, as she calls it (rhymes with dog), though, as a 26-year-old writer with a lot of hype around her first book, titled My First Book, which she has been tweeting about since she was at Bennington College, she knows that is part of the reason people might read (and write about) her.

cringing so hard my soul leaks out of my ears

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Levy is rarely boring.

[citation needed]

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

She talks incredibly fast and doesn’t finish most of her thoughts but is a fabulous conversationalist anyway because sometimes she says something that might not make any sense if you stop to think about it, but she does it with so much manic bluster you can’t help but nod along. Like “TikTok is a psychological-warfare weapon invented by China” or “If I was a guy, I’d probably be an incel or an evil gay.”

Oh my god this is mortifying. Imagine being such a tryhard yet such a fucking bore. Congratulations you sound like a thousand fucking tweets.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I kind of wish that she and I could meet. I'd stare deep into her eyes, take her hand in mine, drop my voice into the register that Grandpa Stacey used in his decades of hosting radio, and intone, "Your brain is where insight goes to die."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

also, remember that the TikTok national security scaremongering is cos a Thiel consortium wants to buy it. Levy's dogwhistle drops are carefully selected.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

this reads like someone googled a list of gen z slang and then threw it in a blender with a bunch of weird race-science memes. who is this for

I think the only acceptable response to whoever is responsible for it is a highly aggressive "touch grass"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

His face was a marble statue. Her face was an anime waifu. They scrolled into each other.

Illustrations by the dck pck AI

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

No, This is shit: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cE4lpSFNFUE

(Actually it is quite good. The linked tune that is. Not the book.)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

i bet you don't even use urbit, shitlib

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