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hm. im not sure i see the connection. the above doesn't look like a few nutcases; it looks like fairly prominent endorsement of rape culture and its continued funding

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shreyan (wise) @shreyanjain.net · 02/10/2026

but like i think the examples ponder gives above pretty strongly show patriarchy in rationalist spaces and its implicit acceptance? it's one thing to abstractly believe something and another to actually embody it

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shreyan (wise) @shreyanjain.net · 02/10/2026

to me feminism is to fight patriarchy, which i think are structures and norms which disproportionately enable exploitation of women

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shreyan (wise) @shreyanjain.net · 02/10/2026

...y'know, i am not sure if he realizes who each of those people would actually be in that analogy.

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shreyan (wise) @shreyanjain.net · 02/10/2026

at least pause it so we can figure out what's going on

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shreyan (wise) @shreyanjain.net · 01/10/2026

I think you may find surprises there actually

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shreyan (wise) @shreyanjain.net · 01/10/2026

no, it's more that you seem to be an antisemite tbh

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shreyan (wise) @shreyanjain.net · 01/10/2026

buddy i am almost sure that the most prominent Muslim elected official in America cares a little more about Islamophobia than you do

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shreyan (wise) @shreyanjain.net · 30/09/2026

i do really like the taste of hydrogen peroxide for some reason

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shreyan (wise) @shreyanjain.net · 30/09/2026

uhhh so i think if you assume a strategy to combat antisemitism is automatically about israel you might be the problem

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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shreyan (wise) @shreyanjain.net · 30/09/2026

my im not a creep shirt etc

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shreyan (wise) @shreyanjain.net · 30/09/2026

They're not good for anything and this is what they do

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 30/09/2026

I know it would be an unpopular proposal, but we should just ban frats, tbh

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ngl I saw this in isolation and thought it was all happening in like 1803

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shreyan (wise) @shreyanjain.net · 29/09/2026

Claude can call me load-bearing cause I'll be bearing your load 🥺🤤😏😉

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🌱📈 @cwonus.org · 27/09/2026

"san fransisco values" would make a really great slur for effective altruism

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shreyan (wise) @shreyanjain.net · 27/09/2026

wait actually yes this would be a fun thing to do

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shreyan (wise) @shreyanjain.net · 27/09/2026

how is engels in this category

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Ivy @poisonivy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

so the inkhaven dude ask ppl to come up with fermi estimates to complain about slutcon and demanded 'better discussion' from ppl talking about slutcon some people do not see how deeply misogynist that culture is because it's hidden behind the veneer of math

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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

chat is this good?

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shreyan (wise) @shreyanjain.net · 27/09/2026

okay he does raise a good point about how anyone buying a memecoin in 2026 has gotta know what happens tho

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shreyan (wise) @shreyanjain.net · 26/09/2026

all of your arguments about pain and consciousness and moral weight are STUPID because any framework you adopt relies on answering questions that are UNANSWERABLE. seek not to answer these questions but to live independently of those answers

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shreyan (wise) @shreyanjain.net · 26/09/2026

your hypothetical BORES me talk about something INTERESTING instead of rehashing this OVER AND OVER again

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shreyan (wise) @shreyanjain.net · 26/09/2026

i wouldn't trust ThePrimeagen to write even my timer app

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