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Here’s the latest episode of Better Offline. I’m joined by @kint.bsky.social to talk about Google's recent antitrust trial losses, Meta's FTC case, and why it should give you hope for the future. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Linktr.ee/betteroffline

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There is no scenario in which RFK Jr. helps. He isn’t offering solutions, and he’s not raising valid concerns. His priorities don’t include the well-being of children or the interests of parents. Understand this; he’s not acting in your favour, and the only person he’s looking out for is himself.

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

lesswrong will be made to answer for their crimes against humanity

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

This shit is legit insane. To save you a read: They are expecting either mass global removal of humans, or a utopian society, by 2030. And that is their elevator pitch for giving more money to AI and letting JD Vance win the Presidency. It's fiction. Poorly worded and self-serving AI Fanfic.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

this is insane shit and i am actually one of the people in the world who knows enough about these guys to explain how and why it's insane shit ai-2027.com but i am also 1000 words into an altman/yudkowsky script and no end in sight that'll have to come first

submitted 17 days ago • 21 comments

People think this guy is smart.

submitted 536 days ago • 57 comments

Ten years ago I went on a reading spree of the blog posts of the "neoreactionaries," which wordcount wise meant mostly Curtis Yarvin. Back then I thought they were nobodies and I just wanted to stop my libertarian friends from taking them at all seriously. Now a fan of them is on the GOP ticket.

submitted 281 days ago • 7 comments

Wired: The Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians www.wired.com/story/deliri... archive.is/HFCtG Evan Ratliff has apparently been tracking the Ziz cult since 2022, but it only just became news in a big way

submitted 59 days ago • 2 comments

Sergey Brin hasn't been to work in at least a decade

submitted 52 days ago • 3 comments

thirty two pages into writing about the Zizians and we haven't even hit any of the murders why did i decide to do this oh no

submitted 49 days ago • 63 comments

For anyone who wanted one more take on Zizians: default.blog/p/this-is-wh...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

So anyway, all of you really need to listen to the Behind the Bastards four parter on the Zizians to understand why these tech folk “rationalists” are so big on creating a “good” AI god that will be benevolent and not murder us all because they’ve read too much Harlan Ellison.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

One of the things that comes out from the Behind the Bastards on the Zizians is the intellectual and dare I say emotional poverty of a canon whose references extend only to The Matrix, Star Wars, Harry Potter and Shonen Anime etc.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Reading and trying to understand this feels like reading the stuff published online by Zizians. What even is this?

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

i think these people are in the grip of a genuine delusion www.nbcchicago.com/news/busines...

submitted 26 days ago • 929 comments

You don’t have to be particularly sharp to decipher the code here. But if you need someone to say it, this is a major technology company and a sizable defense and intelligence contractor publicly declaring, with only the thinnest patina of deniability, that its cause is white nationalism.

submitted 8 days ago • 361 comments

That's a bold monolith coming from some guy who's a couple degrees away from Zizians (bsky.app/profile/zinn...)

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

FUN FACT: some of the Zizians had a house here in Chapel Hill. A friend of mine used to spot them in the neighborhood wandering around in black wizard robes. (She assumed they were just cosplayers, and paid them no mind.)

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

So my wife and I freelanced remotely for founder Michael Vassar's MetaMed in 2013 - a regrettable experience. We started reading this (www.wired.com/story/deliri...), and then we found out that MetaMed's Scott Alexander alleges that the Zizians are "a Vassarite splinter group" (archive.ph/xv9zl)

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

the really funny thing about mainstream journalists trying to sum up the zizians is that it's very difficult to compress the entire intellectual background. the tulpamancy thing is true, insane, and i have no idea how they chose that over all the other available background lore for this story

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

Listening to the Behind the Bastards episodes about the Zizians, and I feel like my brain is melting out of my face. Tech religions are so mind-bogglingly stupid. Good lord.

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

Sure AI hallucinated this reference, but look at it's confidence that Dr. M. Patel was involved!

submitted 15 hours ago • 9 comments

Only a rich white man can completely destroy a company and have the board respond like "going forward we need more of your time."

submitted 15 hours ago • 29 comments

GOOD NEWS! Researchers at the University of Buffalo have developed a nanoparticle-based vaccine candidate for H5N1 avian influenza (clade 2.3.4.4b) that achieved 100% PROTECTION in preclinical trials. The vaccine is under development for potential use in BOTH veterinary AND human medicine. 🧪🧵⬇️

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Freedom of speech? Not in the US. Top Producer of ‘60 Minutes’ Quits, Citing a Loss of Independence The news program has faced mounting pressure from both President Trump and its corporate ownership at Paramount, the parent company of CBS News. www.nytimes.com/2025... 1/2

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

this is a marvellous piece by David S. H. Rosenthal on climate change, the AI bubble, Nvidia's new 60kW GPU racks, and all those data centres (quotes me extensively so you know it's good) blog.dshr.org/2025/04/goin...

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment