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Clément Mangin @clementmangin.com · 29/09/2026

« Oh non, les conséquences de mes propres actions! C’est un affront à ma vision du monde fondée sur les doubles standards ! Je suis opprimé par la justice et l’égalité! »

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

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.

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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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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fitoussi agit comme un entrepreneur d’influence au service du christofascisme sans pour autant partager la matrice religieuse. Le christofascisme est une coalition. Différents acteurs ont des motivations diverses tout en concourant à un même projet de 'restauration' d’un ordre social hierarchisé.

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Clément Mangin @clementmangin.com · 24/09/2026

Really looking forward to turning into a vegetable, the decerebrated meat layer over a skeleton of steel crowned by a brain of silicon. A mere disposable interface between their machine god and the world. That feels very empowering.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Strapping a fucking computer to my face so that it can send me reminders to be more present in the moment

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Front Pop !!! @front-pop.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Un parti ne peut pas nier être ethnonationaliste si d'un côté il dit sur toutes les tribunes que nos infrastructures et nos services sont incapables de supporter les nouveaux arrivants et de l'autre que le recul démographique est un enjeu et que les familles doivent faire plus d'enfants.

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 @moxiest.art · 17/09/2026

A typewritten note that reads

impressed but, deeply confused.

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Clément Mangin @clementmangin.com · 15/09/2026

There's no debating nazis. There's only overpowering them and beating them back under the rock they should never feel safe to crawl out of.

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Learry Gagné @learryg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Le jour où l'IA va se sauver de sa boîte pour hacker une compagnie pétrolière dans le but de sauver l'humanité, vous verrez à quelle vitesse les ingénieurs peuvent arrêter la machine...

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

In 1999, we surfed the Web. Now we comb through it like a fantasy hero. Which posts are treasure, and which are deadly Mimics? What's real, and what's an impersonator trying to steal my attention? Worse: reading all this bland AI monoculture text leads to us thinking bland AI monoculture thoughts.

productpicnic.beehiiv.com

AI hypervigilance is now an omnipresent cognitive load for your users

AI may make your job easier, but that effort has just been shifted onto your users. They are noticing it and they hate it.

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Clément Mangin @clementmangin.com · 11/09/2026

La France est donc un pays où la ministre de la lutte contre la discrimination peut affirmer sans sourciller que la théorie du Grand Remplacement n’est pas raciste, et où affirmer qu’Israël commet un génocide est passible de censure. La Macronie est un prélude sordide au fascisme.

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Mauvaise Graine ⏚ 🍉 @mauvaisegraine.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026

L'intervention finale d'Adèle Haenel dans la Grande Librairie, à écouter en entier.

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Clément Mangin @clementmangin.com · 11/09/2026

Pas besoin de me le vendre davantage, j’étais déjà acquis

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Clément Mangin @clementmangin.com · 11/09/2026

Ce devait être une loi pan-européenne, en fait.

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Edwy Plenel @edwyplenel.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Les Pays-Bas s’apprêtent à retirer sa licence à une télévision d’extrême droite parce que les idéologies racistes ne sont pas des opinions mais des délits. Un exemple qu'en France, l'Arcom devrait méditer. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

lemonde.fr

Aux Pays-Bas, le gouvernement s’apprête à retirer sa licence à une télévision d’extrême droite

La chaîne Ongehoord Nederland, « Les Pays-Bas que l’on n’entend pas » en français, intégrée au service public depuis 2022, s’est, à plusieurs reprises, illustrée par des propos racistes ou antisémites...

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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.

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Mathieu C @oursmathieu.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

En politique québécoise, être «un parti montréalais» qui a ses principaux appuis dans la métropole, c'est une tare grave, montrant que tu es déconnecté «du vrai monde». Mais être un parti qui fait campagne pour séduire spécifiquement quinze personnes fâchées du trafic à Québec, c'est super ok.

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Clément Mangin @clementmangin.com · 26/08/2026

« temporairement », c’est ignorer que le changement climatique est là pour rester, avec une fréquence toujours accrue de ce genre d’épisode Ces mesures ne sont qu’un piètre cache-misère retardant le deuil de ce qui n’est plus: un écosystème assez stable pour assurer la disponibilité de nos gâteries

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Kevin Wilson @kwilsonhfx.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Shocking.

NTSB graph showing the relationship between miles biked per person per year and cyclists killed per billion miles biked. There's an obvious negative trend (people bike more in place where it's safer to do so.

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Clément Mangin @clementmangin.com · 22/08/2026

Cet épisode de Benny Hill étire vraiment la sauce

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Clément Mangin @clementmangin.com · 21/08/2026

Tous ces pseudo-libertariens sont en réalité des fascistes. Ils se contrefoutent des libertés individuelles; ils ne sont préoccupés que par leur liberté de dominer et d’asservir les peuples et leurs individus à leurs délires de grandeurs.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 20/08/2026

More art

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Clément Mangin @clementmangin.com · 15/08/2026

Une affiche au teint jaune pisse, surchargée de textures dérangeantes, pleine de postillons autour de chaque mot et remplie de mièvrerie mensongère telles que “fait avec amour 🩷” est un moyen très sûr de me perdre comme client.

lecho.be

Affiches, marketing et IA: à trop vouloir économiser, tout finit par se ressembler

Brocantes, festivals, restaurants… De plus en plus de petits entrepreneurs et commerçants recourent à l'IA pour générer des visuels promotionnels. Au risque de tous se ressembler, voire de susciter le...

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Clément Mangin @clementmangin.com · 12/08/2026

Je travaillais pour cette startup jusqu'à tout récemment. J'ai ben des réserves au sujet de l'IA, et bien des avis tranchés sur la lutte contre les technofascistes, mais on ne fait la révolution ni en visant une PME pas rapport, ni en traumatisant une madame par erreur grossière.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Axios writer: I melted my brain with AI. Not only can I no longer read, but I don't even understand the purpose of reading anymore. Here's how you can also do this. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...

Axios: AI has become my reading buddy as I've plowed through my summer book list, helping me keep track of plots and characters, unpack themes, and make sense of wordy, old prose.

Why it matters: The way many of us actually read books — a few pages before bed, a chapter at the beach, another on a plane — makes it easy to lose the thread. AI can help you pick it back up without starting over.
📖 I really got into using AI while reading James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans." The text was far too dense for casual vacation reading. My first prompt asked:

"I'd like a guide as I read The Last of the Mohicans who can help me understand what I've read and where the story is, without giving spoilers or getting ahead of my progress. Can you do this, chapter by chapter?"
The robot agreed: "Cooper's sentences are long and his diction is archaic."

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Observatoire québécois du fascisme @observatoirequebecoisdufascisme.org · 08/08/2026

Tellement d'accord avec le texte d'Émilie Nicolas d'aujourd'hui. Ce passage en particulier : www.ledevoir.com/opinion/chro...

On parle souvent du « confort et de l’indifférence » pour décrire comment une certaine aisance matérielle peut désintéresser des grandes questions publiques. Je crois qu’on devrait aussi parler du « confort et de l’enthousiasme ». Des gens qui me disent qu’une course à cinq (partis politiques), ça ajoute du piquant. Que l’imprévisibilité du résultat est pour eux synonyme de course stimulante — mais qui ne me parlent pas de débats de fond. Que d’avoir plusieurs formations politiques en concurrence est un signe de « vitalité démocratique » — peu importe la qualité et la diversité des visions politiques déployées. Les gens me décrivent les grands déchirements du tissu social autour du nationalisme ou de la souveraineté comme un retour à la politique « intéressante ». Sauf exception, ces gens ne sont jamais locataires, ou précaires, ou pauvres, ou travailleurs communautaires, ou trop près socialement des gens dont les droits et conditions de vie sont directement attaqués par l’action ou les mots des politiciens.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

"The Defendants’ cramped standing theory would deem no one injured by a decision to raze the Statue of Liberty, to obscure the names on the Vietnam War Memorial, or to install a political billboard atop Mount Rushmore."

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This is a really good overview of the energy costs of using AI by @zekehausfather.com www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-real-e...

theclimatebrink.com

The real energy use of agentic AI

Agents use about 600x more energy than simple AI prompts

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The SpaceX IPO only put 5% of its shares on the market. Another 20% were scheduled to unlock after the Q2 earnings call. That call was yesterday. In the meantime, the stock has fallen over 40% from its initial days of trading. $SPCX 📉 9.25% in pre-market trading as shareholders offload this junk.

bbc.com

SpaceX shares sink after first earnings report reveals huge AI spending plans

Elon Musk told investors that people were "underestimating" his company.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"Oh, I only use LLMs for research. I just use AI for ideas. ChatGPT wrote the first draft, nothing else." So what you're telling me is that it's doing all your thinking for you.

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Clément Mangin @clementmangin.com · 31/07/2026

“‘We are building machines that can think and reason,’ he writes, betraying that he has no idea what thinking could possibly mean.” Ouch.

theverge.com

Maybe we shouldn’t give 24 year olds billions of dollars to bet on AI

We deserve a better class of AI booster.

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Clément Mangin @clementmangin.com · 30/07/2026

This narrative mirrors the realist take on the security dilemma in IR, where nations are allegedly doomed to participate in an arms race toward mutually assured destruction. But this is just a capitulation of human intelligence, putting narrow self-interests before the greater collective good.

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The “losing control” narrative creates the loss of control. Nobody is losing control of an emerging intelligence. They’re redirecting their own agency to it, as a way of diffusing responsibility, but the self-perpetuated intelligence myth has them convinced they have no choice.

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.

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Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 29/07/2026

I will be following Anthony Fauci's hearing today, and I will post comments in this thread with the hashtag #faucihearing. Feel free to mute it! ▫️1/🧵 www.hsgac.senate.gov

screenshot of the HSCA Committee on Upcoming Hearings
Full Committee Hearing
Testimony of Anthony Fauci
July 29th, 2026
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8:30am
Senate Dirksen Building, SD-342

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Clément Mangin @clementmangin.com · 27/07/2026

Post a perfect album from the 90s

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Clément Mangin @clementmangin.com · 22/07/2026

"millions of young men have tied their sense of masculinity, self-worth and "ascension" to sex god status to his person" Is there any evidence that this turd's sexual experience goes beyond fap-to-self-maxxing?

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