Giant Rat Penis part 2

lol i was thinking this post was 100% my bag

when an incel realises they’re fucked

most providers have the option to BYO domain name, usually for a fee, it’s a good idea

(tho mind you i’ve used @gmail for 20 years now)

AP takes down CF Vance apologia, not asserting things that they cannot evidence (that Vance did not have sexual relations with that couch)

before: https://archive.is/fXiMc after: https://archive.is/j3aot

This is the journalistic integrity we expect of AP News

It’s also good practice to treat occultism as weirdo fascism.

the coincidence happening over and over is a tad unfortunate

i don’t understand, what’s stopping you from just not posting if you don’t have a contribution? am i missing something?

Email is never stored unencrypted at rest on Proton’s servers. But AI prompts, which are likely your entire draft email, do exist unencrypted at rest on their servers. That’s what has the privacy nerds screaming.

look pal do you hate progress

it’s the best samalt photo

the lizard obsession is still the most human thing i’ve ever heard about Yarvin

wikipedia date is 25 June 1973, presumably that’s the false one

drip vs drool

man, all these old transhumanist videos https://www.youtube.com/@Transentience/videos you could waste hours of your life on old and pointless bs

after all this time, TIL that Roko pronounces his name “Rocko” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIwJDnej7pg

https://bsky.app/profile/jonpennington.bsky.social/post/3kxqkmezcwe2o

I went to college with him. Yarvin is curdled nerd rage personified. He also lies about his age. He’s older than me & claims a birth date that would make him younger than me.

I was on a Quiz Bowl team with him & whenever he would buzz in for an answer, he would jerk his body spasmodically, which the other people on the team called “Yarvinating.”

He’s the kind of player that other Quiz Bowl players hate, known in the subculture as a “pickoff lord.” That is to say, he’s the kind of guy who would pad his stats by diving in to buzz on easy questions, make wild guesses on intros so he could get more points than teammates, etc.

Hand to God. If anybody disputes me, I’ve got at least one other person who would remember the “Yarvinating” anecdote. I’ve got legit Quiz Bowl cred. I used to play against Ken Jennings before he was even a Jeopardy! contestant, let alone host.

I connected on Facebook with a former classmate, somebody else from that team who once appeared in a College Jeopardy! tournament. We’re both kind of just gobsmacked that we were there for somebody else’s Lex Luthor origin story.

Another bit of tea… He lies about his age. He was an upperclassman at Brown when I was a freshman & he claims to be younger than me.

see also https://www.qbwiki.com/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin

Yarvin played on the College Bowl-only team for Brown from 1989 to 1992. In 2021 he published a poem[2] stating that “No one can fucking touch me / In College Bowl.” Brown failed to advance out of the Region 1 tournament for all four years of Yarvin’s participation, making his lifetime record at intercollegiate tournaments 0-4 and demonstrating that, at a minimum, the Brandeis, MIT, and Williams teams were capable of “touching” his performance.

the lesswrong to MAGA pipeline

(from twitter)

I’m cheered that we now have so much wind and solar wanting to come online that it’s straining grid interconnects so countries (US and NL for example) suddenly have to spend a bundle on infra so that the power can get across continents to where it’s needed

this is a very cool problem to have: oh no! we have too much new clean energy!

it may not be sufficient, but it’s an excellent start

in exactly the way privacy/security companies keep doing over and over

Vassar founded MetaMed as a real-world test of the inherent superiority of LessWrong ideas. By 2015, he had his answer! they fail