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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 28/09/2026

Those who rape the Earth to shape it into their image… often have no qualms with rape either

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Ronny Fernandez runs events at Lighthaven (rationalist mixers, torture potlucks, orgies, and $100 panels on AGI). His ex-wife claims she was abused by him.

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@ilex_ulmus • 14.07
For those who don't know, my ex-husband, Ronny Fernandez,
@LighthavenPR and @plzdontkillus_ is a predator who abused me and other women. He told me he knew he was a psychopath and a narcissist.
Now he kind of openly trades in that by being one of the rapists in Aella's famous rape orgies.
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I hate that I have this past connection hanging over my head but I think the best thing to do about it is just be honest and warn whoever I can.

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Valerie Sizemore @tarwatirno.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

By late 2025, my "LightHaven bartending harm reduction" was starting to drift into enablement, and I started to scale back. Unapproved alcohol, sexual assaults, and continued tolerance of Ronny Fernandez's mysogeny and harassment became too much.

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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 28/09/2026

For years, I saw the "AI agent takes over" oversimplification in AI Safety. Now it's in the news. Then there is the complex explanation: "this is part of a slow-moving but accelerating catastrophe of automated energy extraction and artificialisation of our lands" How many people respond to that?

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So many autistic/neurodivergent women (which I bet describes a LOT of women in the Silicon Valley AI scene) report being *specifically* targeted by sexual predators who take advantage of their issues with reading social situations. Which is why I loathe the “oh, those poor autistic men” excuse.

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More comments from people in the Silicon Valley AI space on how centering group sex events in the scene is hostile to women:

La tautologer retweeted
Aimee Pepper • @artbypep
This was disappointing to read.
Sep 26
If the main community space for Al safety is the same one that people are feeling wary of visiting due to the bleed through of more sexual/edgy events, then this comment reads as deliberately obtuse at best.
At worst this reads as "I will always prioritize expanding the sexual culture of my group over other concerns, like Al safetyẠạ
Aella
@Aella_Girl
Sep 24
Replying to @tautologer @AriZerner
I am pretty fine with icing out the people who are naturally iced out by me throwing an event for consensual adults to attend. I would rather them not be in my communities I think.
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@tautologer
Sep 24
this is a huge part of why making events like this a central part of your community is bad. it creates a culture that is toxic and hostile to women
rue
@ Ruesavatar
Sep 24
Hilarious that people keep asking me if I am in San Francisco for Slutcon. I have never felt less seen or understood. ME. At
SLUTCON. WUT.
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Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

Ann Pierce
@itsannpierce
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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026

On the record, I DO think AI has the potential to be extremely dangerous in terrifying ways that we need to research and anticipate: I also want a truly diverse set of people who aren’t all part of the same millenarian Silicon Valley doom cult doing that research and safety work.

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It should really bother everyone more that these "AI" companies and the people that run them are always— ALWAYS— looking for ways to trick or coerce us into giving up more and more ourselves to them.

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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 27/09/2026

List of traits and tactics of ‘human predators’ according to Dr. Karen Mitchell’s PhD thesis:

Attributes (20)
Group 1: They drive the agenda
1. A drive for control, power, dominance
2. Self-view of superior and special, entitled
3. A pathological, explosive inner response to being compromised or challenged
4. Vengeful
5. Uncompromising
Group 2: They are motivated and operate differently and darkly
6. Predatory (including exploitative)
7. Sadistic and cruel
8. Has a low regard for laws, regulations, and agreements, as well as social and moral codes
9. Sexual/relationship boundarylessness
10. Unreasonable expectations of others
Group 3: The truth is not easy to distinguish or believe
11. Actively cultivates façade of 'normal'
12. Chameleon-like
13. Dishonest
14. Devious and manipulative (including calculated) and involving consciously misleading others to be inadvertently complicit. The DP superpower!
15. Unwillingness to accept responsibility for negative impacts they cause
Group 4: They don't experience feelings in the same way as others
16. Without authentic emotion (emotional responses are acted)
17. Callous
18. Unremorseful
19. Self-interested
20. Brazen

Weaponry or Tactics (25)
1. Intimidates with an intent to create fear
2. Isolates
3. Weaponises the justice system
4. Accuses the victim of their own nefarious deeds ('reverse attribution'), blames others
5. Creates a contrived sense of deep connection
6. Pretends to be the victim
7. Capitalises on data
8. Blocks, evades, and deflects
9. Focuses on evidence reduction and avoidance of transparency
10. Diminishes, degrades, disempowers, and discredits
11. Engages in a complex set of behaviours which are difficult to 'see through' and understand collectively
12. Uses convoluted discussion
13. Confuses and creates chaos
14. Publicly and privately provokes
15. Moves in and out of supportive and nonsupportive approaches
16. Attacks process and the qualifications, experience and integrity of professionals who challenge them
17. Ingratiates themselves to people in power
18. Dismisses, denies, and minimises
19. Justifies and excuses
20. Blackmails and bribes
21. Delays and postpones
22. Obligates
23. Forces, coerces, and bullies
24. Creates and capitalises on divisiveness, divides and conquers
25. Mirrors and copies

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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 27/09/2026

Tip to avoid predation: Start small group conversations in your local community. Keep mixing up face-to-face chats of 3-6 people. This avoids private abuse, and the bystander effect Plus you can be out of the online shithole of corporate marketing, algorithmic manipulation, and AI bots

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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 27/09/2026

sorry you had to find out this way

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normies who see evil are just confused don’t listen to them thiel is doing god’s work

Eric Weinstein
@ericweinstein

Okay. I'll take the bait.
I went to work for Peter in 2013 with opposite politics.
He sat me down right at the beginning.
PETER: "I don't want the (Thiel) Foundation to do good that the market can do. That is the job of the market. Likewise, I don't want to do the good work that is seen as good. That work can be done by people richer, weaker and more needy of approval than we are. I want us to do only the work that is *deeply* good but somehow confused for being evil, because that is the work of the courageous and the strong. We strive to be both and that is where a small foundation can make the greatest positive difference. Go look for such good and let's do that. But remember. Good has TWO different antonyms. What is "bad work"? It could be seen as shoddy work. Or it could be seen as evil work. And we can't do shoddy work. Why? Because evil that isn't competent never gets to be evil. It's just pathetic. So we have to be exceptionally competent at the good work which we do to make sure it is always confused for evil!"

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“Most importantly, society should refuse to outsource moral responsibility to any class of people who claim a special intercessory competence and authority to calculate, accelerate, democratize, liberate, harmonize or otherwise determine the “correct” future.” Yes.

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shut up, war criminal

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As a former pretentious little shit who grew out of it, rationalists (et al) annoy the piss out of me because they are adults with the mentality of tweens - they are somehow still convinced they are the greatest geniuses who have ever walked the earth. It is the worldview of an arrogant baby.

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Karl Olson 🌻 Ultraklystron @karlrolson.com · 26/09/2026

time to rip off the bandaid of trying not to make tech oligarchs mad.

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Of course, given the rest of his behavior, being an egotist whose ignoring everyone else's work checks out.

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🇨🇦 @musicmaker5.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Masters of the universe abusing women, children and other men. What circle of hell is this?

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Transaction gives way to power. And: Care transcends power.

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What AI companies do: Extraction Abstraction Accumulation What organic communities need to do: Re-distribution Re-embodiment Re-contextualisation

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026

We need to talk about predators and predatory systems.

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This is actually hell, right?

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