Sean Dillon
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Let us assume that we are fucked.
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This is the best account of the rationalist sex cult aspect of things I’ve seen.
I stand by thinking “the intellectual foundations of this entire panic are built on sand” is the more important headline, but this thread hammers home how absolutely shitty people they all are too.
I stand by thinking “the intellectual foundations of this entire panic are built on sand” is the more important headline, but this thread hammers home how absolutely shitty people they all are too.
some middle rat history, w/clarifications:
1) I should have titled my previous "AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult In Berkeley, California" so people would stop arguing with me about people who aren't in Berkeley, California.
2) The sex cult part of this is both predatory and integral to what they do.
1) I should have titled my previous "AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult In Berkeley, California" so people would stop arguing with me about people who aren't in Berkeley, California.
2) The sex cult part of this is both predatory and integral to what they do.
September 18, 2026 at 5:34 PM
This is the best account of the rationalist sex cult aspect of things I’ve seen.
I stand by thinking “the intellectual foundations of this entire panic are built on sand” is the more important headline, but this thread hammers home how absolutely shitty people they all are too.
I stand by thinking “the intellectual foundations of this entire panic are built on sand” is the more important headline, but this thread hammers home how absolutely shitty people they all are too.
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I will also stress that Neoreaction a Basilisk is not in any way an op except inasmuch as the op was to write something interesting that people would want to read, and then use the money to move to Ithaca.
i keep seeing 'this is all a psyop' takes from totally-not-effective-altruist-or-rationalist people so
as one of the chief belligerents i want to make it clear that i am a free actor and i just do not like your faction
everyone who knows who you guys are just saw you almost win and it terrified us
as one of the chief belligerents i want to make it clear that i am a free actor and i just do not like your faction
everyone who knows who you guys are just saw you almost win and it terrified us
September 18, 2026 at 5:25 PM
I will also stress that Neoreaction a Basilisk is not in any way an op except inasmuch as the op was to write something interesting that people would want to read, and then use the money to move to Ithaca.
Sometimes, you gotta show your students movies.
September 18, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Sometimes, you gotta show your students movies.
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Coming soon: The Comics Courier, A Comics Criticism Journal [Issue 5]
A newspaper-format journal dedicated to in-depth comics criticism edited by Tiffany Babb
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September 17, 2026 at 4:57 AM
guess what? (it's time to click on the button)
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I think focusing on the "sex cult" aspect of the rationalists, while understandable for attention-grabbing, puts the emphasis in the wrong places. Sure, yes, the rats have sex, and because they're a fucked up abusive cult, some of that is fucked up abusive culty sex, but that's not the focus.
September 17, 2026 at 9:24 PM
I think focusing on the "sex cult" aspect of the rationalists, while understandable for attention-grabbing, puts the emphasis in the wrong places. Sure, yes, the rats have sex, and because they're a fucked up abusive cult, some of that is fucked up abusive culty sex, but that's not the focus.
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Holy shit, went to a talk and signing by Mary & Bryan Talbot about their new Mary Wollstonecraft book, and ended up at the front of the signing queue; Bryan Talbot only went and did a sketch of Mary for me!!! 😮😮😮
September 17, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Holy shit, went to a talk and signing by Mary & Bryan Talbot about their new Mary Wollstonecraft book, and ended up at the front of the signing queue; Bryan Talbot only went and did a sketch of Mary for me!!! 😮😮😮
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Volume 2 of Last War in Albion is now available in print. The story of how Watchmen set off a magical war for the soul of Britain. Also featuring The Cuddled Little Vice, my Hugo-nominated history of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman. Written for neophytes and deep fans alike. www.amazon.com/Last-War-Alb...
September 16, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Volume 2 of Last War in Albion is now available in print. The story of how Watchmen set off a magical war for the soul of Britain. Also featuring The Cuddled Little Vice, my Hugo-nominated history of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman. Written for neophytes and deep fans alike. www.amazon.com/Last-War-Alb...
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Actually, this is a point I don’t think I ever make clear enough.
Last War in Albion is written for a general audience. You don’t have to have read the comics. Maybe read Watchmen, but that’s it.
Also, v2 is a fine starting point. V1 is great, but you can jump on here.
Last War in Albion is written for a general audience. You don’t have to have read the comics. Maybe read Watchmen, but that’s it.
Also, v2 is a fine starting point. V1 is great, but you can jump on here.
Volume 2 of Last War in Albion is now available in print. The story of how Watchmen set off a magical war for the soul of Britain. Also featuring The Cuddled Little Vice, my Hugo-nominated history of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman. Written for neophytes and deep fans alike. www.amazon.com/Last-War-Alb...
September 17, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Actually, this is a point I don’t think I ever make clear enough.
Last War in Albion is written for a general audience. You don’t have to have read the comics. Maybe read Watchmen, but that’s it.
Also, v2 is a fine starting point. V1 is great, but you can jump on here.
Last War in Albion is written for a general audience. You don’t have to have read the comics. Maybe read Watchmen, but that’s it.
Also, v2 is a fine starting point. V1 is great, but you can jump on here.
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🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! 🚨
Navigating Obsession in Star Trek: The Next Generation #10, by @atuttle81.bsky.social: shelfdust.com/2026/09/16/n...
Navigating Obsession in Star Trek: The Next Generation #10, by @atuttle81.bsky.social: shelfdust.com/2026/09/16/n...
Navigating Obsession in Star Trek: The Next Generation #10
By Andy Tuttle Obsession; it’s a hot word right now thanks in large part to Curry Barker’s 2026 horror film of the same name, in which a lovesick loser makes a wish that the girl of his dreams woul…
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September 16, 2026 at 5:24 PM
🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! 🚨
Navigating Obsession in Star Trek: The Next Generation #10, by @atuttle81.bsky.social: shelfdust.com/2026/09/16/n...
Navigating Obsession in Star Trek: The Next Generation #10, by @atuttle81.bsky.social: shelfdust.com/2026/09/16/n...
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"what are you going to do about power when there is no wind or the sun isn't shining?" i smartly declare, confident in the fact that a fossil fuels are not dependent on a complex and fragile web of global logistical connections.
“Energy independence” only gets you so far in an economically interdependent world.
September 16, 2026 at 2:23 PM
"what are you going to do about power when there is no wind or the sun isn't shining?" i smartly declare, confident in the fact that a fossil fuels are not dependent on a complex and fragile web of global logistical connections.
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Now rewatching: KISS ME DEADLY (1955, dir. R. Aldrich), maybe the all time great noir
September 16, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Now rewatching: KISS ME DEADLY (1955, dir. R. Aldrich), maybe the all time great noir
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September 16, 2026 at 3:36 PM
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The Beat needs an EXPERIENCED writer/editor to help us with our NYCC coverage. This requires staying at home and helping post stories and report news. There is pay but it is small, but it is only 5 days work.
To be clear, this is a WEB WRITING JOB not video - dm or email w/clips heidi @ comicsbeat
To be clear, this is a WEB WRITING JOB not video - dm or email w/clips heidi @ comicsbeat
September 16, 2026 at 3:30 PM
The Beat needs an EXPERIENCED writer/editor to help us with our NYCC coverage. This requires staying at home and helping post stories and report news. There is pay but it is small, but it is only 5 days work.
To be clear, this is a WEB WRITING JOB not video - dm or email w/clips heidi @ comicsbeat
To be clear, this is a WEB WRITING JOB not video - dm or email w/clips heidi @ comicsbeat
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You wanna know what 9/11 did to us. here’s a quick sketch. I made this while I was going insane during COVID. Moral clarity will hit you when you think you might die, but I’ve always lived my life that way. i might die today. Or tomorrow.
September 12, 2026 at 7:24 AM
You wanna know what 9/11 did to us. here’s a quick sketch. I made this while I was going insane during COVID. Moral clarity will hit you when you think you might die, but I’ve always lived my life that way. i might die today. Or tomorrow.
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The problem is that "while you weren't looking the tech industry was comprehensively taken over by a cult based around a piece of Harry Potter fanfic" is self-evidently an absolutely ridiculous claim that can't possibly have happened, which is a real problem given that it 100% did happen.
The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:
September 15, 2026 at 8:41 PM
The problem is that "while you weren't looking the tech industry was comprehensively taken over by a cult based around a piece of Harry Potter fanfic" is self-evidently an absolutely ridiculous claim that can't possibly have happened, which is a real problem given that it 100% did happen.
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All the horrors people ascribe to violent and disturbing art are in fact true of reality TV, maybe the greatest "artistic" evil of our time.
September 15, 2026 at 9:38 PM
All the horrors people ascribe to violent and disturbing art are in fact true of reality TV, maybe the greatest "artistic" evil of our time.
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It’s fascinating to me that Schoenbrun is the trans filmmaker to break through and get widespread cis acclaim. Not that she doesn’t deserve it. Just that she’s absolutely from the pervert freak wing of the Community, and you don’t instinctively expect that to be where the popular success comes from.
All I'm going to say is that if you love movies you need to see Teenage Sex and at Camp Miasma. If you didn't like it, I don't want to hear about it because your opinion is wrong.
September 15, 2026 at 4:25 PM
It’s fascinating to me that Schoenbrun is the trans filmmaker to break through and get widespread cis acclaim. Not that she doesn’t deserve it. Just that she’s absolutely from the pervert freak wing of the Community, and you don’t instinctively expect that to be where the popular success comes from.
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One of the few pleasures of the Trump era is watching people invent new kinds of bad day to have in real time.
PATEL: The previous regulation automatically disqualified any individual who participated in either side of it
KENNEDY: Either side of beastiality? So you disqualified the animal?
P: Well, we have great canines, but we're not going to disqualify them
K: I'm trying to understand why you did this.
KENNEDY: Either side of beastiality? So you disqualified the animal?
P: Well, we have great canines, but we're not going to disqualify them
K: I'm trying to understand why you did this.
September 15, 2026 at 3:38 PM
One of the few pleasures of the Trump era is watching people invent new kinds of bad day to have in real time.
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"I am not complicit" I love it I'm putting it on a shirt
Ed Sheeran has released a statement on Macklemore being removed from his tour for speaking up for Palestine:
“I am not complicit. […] Just because I choose not to speak publicly, it doesn't mean I don't have [my own opinions], and it doesn't mean I don't care.”
“I am not complicit. […] Just because I choose not to speak publicly, it doesn't mean I don't have [my own opinions], and it doesn't mean I don't care.”
September 15, 2026 at 3:38 PM
"I am not complicit" I love it I'm putting it on a shirt
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so did youtube or wb want to TELL me that "tim burton's world of sadboys" was blocked globally or did i have to find out from one of my patrons
the worst thing is they seem to have folded it into a claim they already rejected my dispute on THREE YEARS AGO. THEY ALREADY GET ALL MY MONEY FROM THIS
the worst thing is they seem to have folded it into a claim they already rejected my dispute on THREE YEARS AGO. THEY ALREADY GET ALL MY MONEY FROM THIS
September 15, 2026 at 4:54 PM
so did youtube or wb want to TELL me that "tim burton's world of sadboys" was blocked globally or did i have to find out from one of my patrons
the worst thing is they seem to have folded it into a claim they already rejected my dispute on THREE YEARS AGO. THEY ALREADY GET ALL MY MONEY FROM THIS
the worst thing is they seem to have folded it into a claim they already rejected my dispute on THREE YEARS AGO. THEY ALREADY GET ALL MY MONEY FROM THIS
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idk why so many people are prefacing their support for macklemore's very thoughtful statement with some dorky joke about how cringe his music is. like apart from the fact that it's not the time i think we're far enough away from its overplay period to admit that "downtown" was a pretty great song
September 14, 2026 at 9:11 PM
idk why so many people are prefacing their support for macklemore's very thoughtful statement with some dorky joke about how cringe his music is. like apart from the fact that it's not the time i think we're far enough away from its overplay period to admit that "downtown" was a pretty great song
For no reason here are some movies I love. Tell me yours!
1 Daniel
2 Evangelion 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon a Time
3 High and Low
4 Lupin the Third: The Mystery of Mamo
5 Arcadia of my Youth
6 The Night of the Hunter
7 The Parallax View
8 M*A*S*H
9 Mulholland Dr.
10 Blue
1 Daniel
2 Evangelion 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon a Time
3 High and Low
4 Lupin the Third: The Mystery of Mamo
5 Arcadia of my Youth
6 The Night of the Hunter
7 The Parallax View
8 M*A*S*H
9 Mulholland Dr.
10 Blue
For no reason here are some movies I love. Tell me yours!
1. The Iron Giant
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3. Jojo Rabbit
4. Everything Everywhere All At Once
5. Children of Men
6. RRR
7. The Imposters
8. Amelie
9. Mad Max: Fury Road
10. Spirited Away
1. The Iron Giant
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3. Jojo Rabbit
4. Everything Everywhere All At Once
5. Children of Men
6. RRR
7. The Imposters
8. Amelie
9. Mad Max: Fury Road
10. Spirited Away
September 14, 2026 at 10:41 PM
For no reason here are some movies I love. Tell me yours!
1 Daniel
2 Evangelion 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon a Time
3 High and Low
4 Lupin the Third: The Mystery of Mamo
5 Arcadia of my Youth
6 The Night of the Hunter
7 The Parallax View
8 M*A*S*H
9 Mulholland Dr.
10 Blue
1 Daniel
2 Evangelion 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon a Time
3 High and Low
4 Lupin the Third: The Mystery of Mamo
5 Arcadia of my Youth
6 The Night of the Hunter
7 The Parallax View
8 M*A*S*H
9 Mulholland Dr.
10 Blue
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Elated to announce that Last War in Albion Volume 2: The Watchmen Bomb is now available in print and ebook forms. www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/book-la...
Book Launch: Last War in Albion Volume 2: The Watchmen Bomb
It is my deep pleasure to announce the publication of Last War in Albion Volume 2: The Watchmen Bomb. Adapted from the acclaimed blog Last War in Albion, a sprawling history of the magical war between...
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September 14, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Elated to announce that Last War in Albion Volume 2: The Watchmen Bomb is now available in print and ebook forms. www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/book-la...