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@shanley.com
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The forbidden tech critic. Venture capital, tech fascism, the Network State, crypto. Welcome to my studio. www.vcinfodocs.com

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shanley @shanley.com · 42m
I hate that it always happens at this cost but I also know that its something that victims want to happen, is for other girls to be warned and understand what they are dealing with out there, and hopefully, hopefully hopefully to develop better systems among us to keep girls safe and help them.
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shanley @shanley.com · 16h
How much time of my time I spend thinking about Open AI and Anthropic: 0.5%
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shanley @shanley.com · 16h
Things have gotten literally 0 better for women in my entire lifespan so far.
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shanley @shanley.com · 19h
I wish actual debate was more common and also that it was a matter of honor to debate if challenged. There is not a single one of my detractors who could win a debate with me. Not even close.
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Feral T. Robot, Oil Swamp Utility Bot #7629 @feralrobots.bsky.social · 21h
As a data point, I know of state schools where a score or more of frats cropped up suddenly around 1985-86, when drinking age changed more or less nationally to 21. It was all about having a place to get drunk without legal interference.
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 21h
I went to an HBCU & we had Black fraternities. The Black ones & white ones are the same for how they allow young men to get away with rape scot free completely socially permitted. Society just accepts that frat boys, who are really adult men, can rape & everyone knows about it & it's perfectly fine.
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capillariancrest.bsky.social @capillariancrest.bsky.social · 21h
I will never, NEVER forget the image and the sound of the screaming, crying girl running naked out of a frat house and toward a police car my sophomore year of college. I was out on the town and saw this scene unfold and immediately went home to cry.
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Banned on LinkedIn for replying “gun” @fakesusan.bsky.social · 21h
Yeah these little shits fucking love killing each other and you’d think that would be a bigger scandal? When I was a freshman at BU, an MIT freshman named Scott Krueger died during a fraternity initiation. Alcohol poisoning. He was not allowed to stop drinking.
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Der Fisher @blackholefun.bsky.social · 21h
Been arguing for this for decades. I don't care how many guys happened to be in the one fun and friendly nerd fraternity. Those are not representative of what happens at most and everyone who went to a fray heavy uni knows how many rapists are walking free with no repercussions.
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shanley @shanley.com · 21h
Shut down all fraternities. That shit should've BEEN over
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shanley @shanley.com · 28/09/2026
Alright let's look at BlackRock's Latin America investment report for the first half of 2026.
Over the six months ended 30 June 2026, Latin American equities produced a return of 10.5% ahead of Developed Markets of 9.7% but lagged the broader Emerging Markets which produced a return of 23.8%. That gap is almost entirely a story of sector composition. Emerging Market returns were dominated by Asia, where the Asia ex-Japan index returned 26.2%, driven by a concentrated group of large technology companies benefiting from global artificial intelligence (AI) spending. Technology accounts for close to half of that index by weight and is effectively absent from the Latin American index, which is led instead by financials, materials, energy and consumer businesses. Latin America therefore had little direct participation in the period's dominant return driver..

That same composition is what makes the region valuable in a global portfolio. While AI-related names drove headline returns, the period was a volatile one beneath the surface, with the escalation of the US–Iran conflict pushing energy prices sharply higher before conditions eased as a ceasefire came into prospect and the Strait of Hormuz reopened. Latin America proved relatively resilient, supported by its limited direct exposure to the conflict and its position as a major exporter of energy, metals and agricultural commodities. Brazil and Mexico, which together represented approximately 85% of the benchmark at 30 June 2026, both delivered positive returns of +9.3% and +10.9% respectively..

All performance figures are calculated in US Dollar terms with dividends re-invested.Latin America offers a differentiated response to a more fragmented economic and geopolitical environment. The region has limited direct exposure to many of the world’s major conflict zones and is a leading producer of the commodities required for AI infrastructure, electrification, energy and food security, including copper, lithium, iron ore, oil and agricultural products. Over time, demand for these products will grow both globally and domestically, giving the region a real growth dynamic. Locally listed businesses should benefit from this growth.

Investing in Latin America remains a volatile business but the companies based in the region have more experience with these conditions than companies in more economically mature regions. Their stock markets offer excellent diversification from the current, heavily tech-driven US stock markets, as well as interesting valuations.

Your Board believes that in key markets for the Company such as Brazil and Mexico, equities remain attractive for international investors as they offer a discounted investment opportunity compared to other emerging markets. We have a well-diversified portfolio and an experienced portfolio management team and your Board believes they can take advantage of the opportunities described above.
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shanley @shanley.com · 29/09/2026
I am just disgusted.
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shanley @shanley.com · 29/09/2026
Here's some writing I have done on pedophilia, some of it could have used some more editing but hey. - We need to incorporate an anti-pedophilia ethic into our movements
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We need to incorporate an anti-pedophilia ethic into our movements — Shanley
In the past ten years, we’ve made some really significant progress in defining clear movements and also using theories and foundations from other movements to create more complex, detailed, overlappin...
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shanley @shanley.com · 29/09/2026
It really seems to me that girls and women are reaching a new level of throwing down about rape and pedophilia. So many survivors have come forward, inspired by the Epstein victims, has shown the staggering prevalence of rape and pedophilia. It has been DAMNING testimony.
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shanley @shanley.com · 28/09/2026
who tf is hasan piker
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shanley @shanley.com · 28/09/2026
i have to say, i have so much respect for EMDR therapists, they spend all of their time listening to truly gut wrenching shit and the worst of the things that people and especially kids experience.
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shanley @shanley.com · 28/09/2026
Alright let's look at BlackRock's Latin America investment report for the first half of 2026.
Over the six months ended 30 June 2026, Latin American equities produced a return of 10.5% ahead of Developed Markets of 9.7% but lagged the broader Emerging Markets which produced a return of 23.8%. That gap is almost entirely a story of sector composition. Emerging Market returns were dominated by Asia, where the Asia ex-Japan index returned 26.2%, driven by a concentrated group of large technology companies benefiting from global artificial intelligence (AI) spending. Technology accounts for close to half of that index by weight and is effectively absent from the Latin American index, which is led instead by financials, materials, energy and consumer businesses. Latin America therefore had little direct participation in the period's dominant return driver..

That same composition is what makes the region valuable in a global portfolio. While AI-related names drove headline returns, the period was a volatile one beneath the surface, with the escalation of the US–Iran conflict pushing energy prices sharply higher before conditions eased as a ceasefire came into prospect and the Strait of Hormuz reopened. Latin America proved relatively resilient, supported by its limited direct exposure to the conflict and its position as a major exporter of energy, metals and agricultural commodities. Brazil and Mexico, which together represented approximately 85% of the benchmark at 30 June 2026, both delivered positive returns of +9.3% and +10.9% respectively..

All performance figures are calculated in US Dollar terms with dividends re-invested.Latin America offers a differentiated response to a more fragmented economic and geopolitical environment. The region has limited direct exposure to many of the world’s major conflict zones and is a leading producer of the commodities required for AI infrastructure, electrification, energy and food security, including copper, lithium, iron ore, oil and agricultural products. Over time, demand for these products will grow both globally and domestically, giving the region a real growth dynamic. Locally listed businesses should benefit from this growth.

Investing in Latin America remains a volatile business but the companies based in the region have more experience with these conditions than companies in more economically mature regions. Their stock markets offer excellent diversification from the current, heavily tech-driven US stock markets, as well as interesting valuations.

Your Board believes that in key markets for the Company such as Brazil and Mexico, equities remain attractive for international investors as they offer a discounted investment opportunity compared to other emerging markets. We have a well-diversified portfolio and an experienced portfolio management team and your Board believes they can take advantage of the opportunities described above.
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shanley @shanley.com · 28/09/2026
Tech criticism is a conspiracy of incompetence and always has been.
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shanley @shanley.com · 28/09/2026
I truly hate to turn to an institution that is relentlessly culpable for the very phenomenon, but has anyone written an academic paper on why this extreme obsession with ideology at the expense of materialism has manifested in this time?
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shanley @shanley.com · 28/09/2026
This. A lot of people who do this to me I told to leave me the fuck alone 10+ years ago, they never let go, just wait for opportunity to pile on . Bluesky does a lot of gamergate style shit and people get away with it. People will literally do this shit because you didn't want them near you.
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shanley @shanley.com · 28/09/2026
The venture capital military is racing to "re-arm" Europe and "modernize the arsenal". This is going to be a huge source of $$$$$$$ for them as well as leading us further down a path of global tension. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/latvia-moves...
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shanley @shanley.com · 28/09/2026
One of the messages to the market that is being sent by AI executives is: you need to pay us money to protect you from us.
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shanley @shanley.com · 28/09/2026
I kindof feel bad for literally anyone doing AI discoursing right now 😭 these are some of the most unhinged dialogues ever seen regardless of which "side" you are on.
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shanley @shanley.com · 27/09/2026
The clearest element being left out of the AGI/doomerism/AI God/super intelligence conversation is... China. Cuz anything they are doing with AI has a lot to do with China. So we should ask ourself how that plays into these shenanigans.
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shanley @shanley.com · 27/09/2026
I'm glad there are a lot of people who work on surveillance as a topic, because, i gotta admit to y'all, i have always found the surveillance angle very boring. (not unimportant, but boring)
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Matthew Gyamtso (Jee) @freedomforall.net · 27/09/2026
Perps can see physical and psychological signs of the already victimised who have yet to heal their wounds - why re-victimisation is so very common. Triggering a survivor into compliance is easier for them than risking brutalising someone who's psychology is more self-reliant.
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shanley @shanley.com · 27/09/2026
Bro i have been with some absolutely evil men like pure evil. 😭 from 16-25 was like a straight shot of psycho evil shit. this was so far beyond "she has bad taste in men" it was more that bad men were finding me
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shanley @shanley.com · 27/09/2026
@sopwithcamus.bsky.social i thought your sn was "Stop With Camus" for a sec lol
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shanley @shanley.com · 27/09/2026
Some things do not change.
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shanley @shanley.com · 27/09/2026
I do think one thing I noticed about getting older is you can definitely just live in the simple moments so much more. like you can just look at like a flower or a tree and be like fully in the moment in a way that at least i never did in my 20s and early 30s. me: flower. cat. cool breeze.
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shanley @shanley.com · 27/09/2026
Me having a mid life crisis: I am so sad that i never got to be a singer/songwriter in an obscure but critically acclaimed folk band touring America's mid dive bars
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shanley @shanley.com · 27/09/2026
buying a case of non alcoholic champagne 🫧🫧🫧🫧🫧 and not the cheap stuff!!! 😆
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shanley @shanley.com · 27/09/2026
i'm not really a sparkling water type but if you are super thirsty and just slam one there is something about it that HITS
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shanley @shanley.com · 27/09/2026
Basic bitch weekend 🪄
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shanley @shanley.com · 27/09/2026
people really enjoy this part, when they trigger the fuck out of me and i get really fucking upset because I have PTSD and they get to watch me suffer. They love that.
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shanley @shanley.com · 27/09/2026
LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT IN THE AGE OF EPSTEIN YOU ARE HARASSING A PEDOPHILE VICTIM FOR DATING AN ABUSER 😂
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shanley @shanley.com · 27/09/2026
I hate fucking everyone lol i cant wait to be dead and be away from all this shit. 😂
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shanley @shanley.com · 27/09/2026
When you get attacked by a pedophile, forevermore, there is a certain kind of man who will make a beeline for you. When the fox hears the rabbit screaming He comes a running But not to help. They can smell it on you. Some people are not people.
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shanley @shanley.com · 27/09/2026
One thing I miss about the 90s is that every CD would have a song about domestic violence or rape in it. It was like part of the format and it was baked in. Stabbing Westward was incredibly real for this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-jm...
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YouTube video by Stabbing Westward - Topic
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shanley @shanley.com · 27/09/2026
Meanwhile I'm literally in EMDR rn because THE PEDOPHILE WHO KIDNAPPED ME, TRANSPORTED ME ACROSS STATE LINES, TOOK UNDERAGE PORN OF ME, BEAT ME AND RAPED ME HUNDREDS OF TIMES, has finally been arrested for murder, and I'm trying to heal all of the abuse from men I've suffered after that.
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shanley @shanley.com · 27/09/2026
Gil Duran has openly and publicly threatened me with Weev stuff because I won't take having my work erased standing down. He's like "well I'll just repurpose these attacks on you that happened because of your work on tech extremism to serve my career"
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shanley @shanley.com · 27/09/2026
People lie too much
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shanley @shanley.com · 27/09/2026
how can life be so good and so bad at the same time? its a mystery to me.
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Dj Ripley @djripley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
by the way, this magazine still has one of the best and most relevant collection of writing on tech (and culture) with many articles correctly and priesciently identifying pretty much EVERYTHING mainstream media and tech people say they are NOW worried about.
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shanley @shanley.com · 27/09/2026
Reading people: Lately in my nightly reading sess, I read a few chapters of non fiction and then switch books to do some fiction reading, in the same sitting. Does this seem smart but is actually dumb?
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shanley @shanley.com · 26/09/2026
It's hard to explain like how awful it is to be publicly humiliated for years on end with the same shit.
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shanley @shanley.com · 26/09/2026
The ratio of Peter Thiel to Marc Andreessen talk is wayyyyyyyy off
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shanley @shanley.com · 26/09/2026
I'm fucking tired
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shanley @shanley.com · 26/09/2026
This is the worst part to see this shit be used again. People are using attacks by fascists *on me* to discredit my work ... on tech fascism. Make it make sense. lol
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