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

"it's for men who are scared of approaching women" wow i wish i had a gun

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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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these dudes make beavis & butthead look like fred astaire and dick van dyke

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love the creativity of sino djs but the remixes of blue & white porcelain to edm beats are so confusing like should i be throwing ass on the dance floor or sobbing in the corner composing poetry & thinking about a lost love???

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"just one more run" i told myself then i lost 40000 runes :))))))) permanently :))))))))

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immediately finding and killing the dung eater so my bud blackguard can live

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[beavis & butthead voice] huh huh huh huh huh. dectus

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remembering the time the malding (mad, balding) ceo had a public crashout that led to a bunch of comics ppl mass deleting their accts (including me)

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i would hunt the new meta ai mascot with a crossbow

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/09/2026

hayao miyazaki should also have the right to fire 2400 rounds into mark zuckerberg & everyone else who reduced his work into empty kawaii aesthetics as a means of promoting their toothless work

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I don't know if it's just me but it feels like even the people who don't use LLMs to plagiarise are becoming more transactional, more extractivist (particularly of POC, young people, women), perhaps just as a reflexive instinct in the PLAGARISM-IS-FINE era We gotta do an opposite force to that all

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/09/2026

I feel like one of the most radical, best and most rebelliously good things you can do right now in the informational online space is just....give people credit, love, support and shoutouts. Even if they just inspired you or prodded a thought you built on, name them and thank them loudly.

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

a thousand year voyage under the wisdom of the moon happy midautumn

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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

happy mid autumn i'm sharing some snacks & tea with my ancestors

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This is the dream our forefathers fought for.

A person sitting at a desk in an office, smiling at the camera. A computer monitor displays characters Nick Wilde and Judy Hopps from Disney's Zootopia. Text on the image humorously references Claude doing their job, allowing time to look at art involving Nick Wilde and Judy Hopps.

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back to my favorite 🍂🍁 cozy 🍁🍂 game ☕️ elden ring

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Katherine Lam @ LBX 431 @katherinelam.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

ok they didn't. they just got added to a sitewide blocklist for ai shills. well they know what to do if they wanna get taken off 🤷🏻‍♀️

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badly done and very brief little guide about contrast when thinking about composition! this is really just the tip of the iceberg, but it is something i think about a lot! if you take one thing from this, its that composition is ALL about relationships between the elements. (1/2)

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PW BLOCKED ME???? LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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well well well i really wanted to make something new for the only show I'm officially tabling at this year (BEC the weekend of Nov 14) so here we are. it'll be about 28 pages of collected comics + art. you really can just make a little book if you want to!

downstream: collected little daoist and friends. bubble text set on a pond painting

bug or rabbit, who
can say--
they drift downstream,
to seek the Way

in flowers and sun,
in rain or tree
perhaps those smallest
are the ones most
free

little daoist drifts downstream among willow leaves and minnows

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genuinely on the verge of calling for a boycott of publishers weekly from my fellow cartoonists sending books for their review if they are going to continue shilling for every ai company that pays for a placement. there needs to be consequences.

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"telling a faceless company on social media to kys isn't cool" i would stuff your head in a toilet and slam my foot on the flush if i could. genuinely what the fuck is ppl's problem

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happy mid autumn 🍂🌕 thanks for all the love you guys have given MOONCAKES over the years. i truly appreciate how many people have made my debut comic part of their hearts & lives. it has a very special place in mine too

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i tried a new snack shop in chinatown today, asked for the freeze dried white peach bc peach season's over & bro goes "did you see the insta reel" bc they had almost sold out of the peach (in the reel) yes i did see it & come bc it piqued my interest & yes i did want to kill myself admitting it

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i would hunt the new meta ai mascot with a crossbow

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most romantasy preorder art is bad bc those authors see art as something you order on demand as a consumer product first & foremost like fries at mcdonald's, an accessory to the REAL work-- their book. not as another person's interpretation of an emotional or aesthetic experience.

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she's mad bc i keep taking away pieces of laundry to fold and she can't smash herself onto a pile ):

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whenever i see someone pity marketing i think ok sucks to be you & scroll past. i have no patience anymore for anything

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i'm uhh not really feeling this decor at the radahn festival

three dudes being burned at the stake as tarnished and blaidd watch

"general radahn, greatest demigod of the shattering, awaits you!"

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spending thousands of runes on arrows bc i decided to play archer someone who is good at the economy please help

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beavis and butthead do volcano manor

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