Also it's go time lol.

Working now on putting all of the raccoon sequences into one big, fluid, video. It's at like 20 minutes now though and I don't think people are going to sit and watch the whole thing.

!kino !hatewatchers What's everyone watching this week?

Besides today's real life Chiefs-no

I kinda hate rationalists but I haven't heard a convincing counter argument on AI doom.

ahahahahahahahahaha

oguz-ismail 3 hours ago | prev | next [–]

How does a 27-year-old fail to kill an 80-year-old with a samurai sword?

tibbetts 3 hours ago | parent | next [–]

Probably by trying to do it from first principles.

It might be time for me to take my assorted SFBA Rationalist Cult writing and put them on a blog. I'd have done it already but the goddarn fascism just keeps on marching onwards.

Aurornis 3 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [–]

Weird to see a community I followed show up so close to home and negatively like this.

I had some coworkers who were really into LessWrong and rationality. I thought it was fun to read some of the selected writings they would share, but I always felt that online rationalist communities collected a lot of people with reactionary, fascist, misogynistic, and far-right tendencies. There's a heavily sanitized version of rationality and EA that gets presented online with only the highlights, but there's a lot more out there in the fringes that is really weird.

For example, many know about Roko's Basilisk as a thought exercise and much has been written about it, but fewer know that Roko has been writing misogynistic rants on Twitter and claiming things like having women in the workforce is "very negative" for GDP.

The Slate Star Codex subreddit was a home for rationalists on Reddit, but they had so many problems with culture war topics that they banned discussion of them. The users forked off and created "The Motte" which is a bit of a cesspool dressed up with rationalist prose. Even the SlateStarCodex subreddit has become so toxic that I had to unsubscribe. Many of the posts and comments on women or dating were becoming indistinguishable from incel communities other than the rationalist prose style.

Even the real-world rationalist and EA communities aren't immune, with several high profile sexual misconduct scandals making the news in recent years.

It's a weird space. It felt like a fun internet philosophy community when my coworkers introduced it years ago, but the longer I've observed it the more I've realized it attracts and accepts a lot of people whose goals aren't aligned with objectively "make the world better" as long as they can write their prose in the rationalist style. It's been strange to observe.

Of course, at every turn people will argue that the bad actors are not true rationalists, but I've seen enough from these communities to know that they don't really discriminate much until issues boil over into the news.

And boy howdy would it KILL them to put an actual price on a website? I don't want to "chat" with "Kartishyria" just so she can send me a pdf with the fricking number on it you double BIPOCs

TAKE MY MONEY ALREADY

4chan: The internet's unwashed basement where anonymity breeds brilliance and degeneracy in equal measure. It's like a digital Lord of the Flies, but with more memes and fewer conch shells. Genius ideas drowned in a sea of edgelords—congrats on inventing half the internet's culture while staying a cesspool.

BlueSky: Twitter's awkward cousin who showed up late to the party with a "decentralized" buzzword and a dream. It's like someone saw Mastodon and thought, "Let's make it shinier and still somehow less relevant." Enjoy your echo chamber with better branding, I guess.

Groomercord: A g*mer's paradise turned into a labyrinth of crypto scams, furry roleplay, and "community" servers where the mods rule like petty dictators. It's Skype meets Lord of the Rings chatrooms, minus the charm and plus a billion notifications you'll never read.

Facebook: The boomer mothership where your aunt shares Minion memes and anti-vax conspiracies between FarmVille updates. It's a digital retirement home that somehow still knows what you shopped for last week. Zuck's watching, always.

Gab: Twitter for people who got banned from Twitter for being too Twitter. A libertarian fever dream where free speech means "say the quiet part loud" and the algorithm's just a megaphone for the fringes. Enjoy your edge, edgelords.

iFunny: A meme app for people who think Reddit's too intellectual. It's like a time capsule of 2012 humor—edgy enough to feel rebellious, tame enough to not scare the middle schoolers who still use it. Scroll, cringe, repeat.

Instagram: Where influencers sell you a lifestyle you can't afford, filtered through 17 layers of Photoshop and existential despair. It's a beauty pageant for avocado toast and gym selfies, judged by bots and thirsty simps. #Blessed.

Kick: Twitch's scrappy rival that's like, "We'll let you say slightly more slurs!" It's the Wild West of streaming, except the cowboys are 19-year-olds raging at Fortnite and begging for subs. Bold strategy, let's see if it pays off.

KiwiFarms: The internet's gossip rag meets stalker diary. It's a site dedicated to "documenting" weirdos with the subtlety of a sledgehammer and the moral compass of a broken GPS. Drama so niche it's practically a PhD thesis in petty.

Lemmy: Mastodon's even nerdier sibling that's all about "federation" and "open-source." It's like Reddit for people who own too many Linux T-shirts and think upmarseying is a sacred duty. Decentralized boredom at its finest.

Mastodon: The hipster Twitter where everyone's smug about escaping the bird app, but it's just fractured echo chambers with worse UI. Toot your horn all you want; no one's listening outside your 12-person instance.

rDrama.net: A site so self-aware it's basically a parody of itself. It's Reddit's chaotic little brother, obsessed with stirring the pot and laughing at the mess. Drama for drama's sake—honestly, kinda respect the hustle.

Reddit: The hive mind where groupthink reigns supreme and every opinion's an upmarsey away from gospel. It's a cesspit of memes, mansplaining, and subreddits so niche you'll find 14 people arguing over vintage toaster coils. Karma's a heck of a drug.

Rumble: YouTube for people who think YouTube's too woke. It's a video platform where conspiracy theorists and "censored" talking heads thrive, all while pretending they're the underdog. Spoiler: You're still not Alex Jones famous.

scored.co: A right-wing Reddit clone that's so obsessed with "owning the libs" it forgot to build a personality. It's like Gab and X had a baby, but it only inherited the angry uncle vibes. Points for effort, I guess.

soyjak.party: A meme factory so deep in irony it's practically performance art. It's 4chan's weird nephew, churning out soyface edits for an audience of three people and a bot. Niche doesn't even begin to cover it.

Threads: Zuck's Twitter knockoff that's as exciting as a beige wall. It's Instagram's text-based midlife crisis, trying to capitalize on Elon's mess-ups but forgetting to bring any soul. Scroll, yawn, uninstall.

TikTok: Brain rot in 15-second bursts. It's a slot machine of dance trends, lip-syncs, and "hacks" that'll have you wondering how humanity survived this long. China's greatest export since gunpowder, and twice as addictive.

Tumblr: The pastel graveyard of 2010s fandoms, now a ghost town of aesthetic blogs and lingering SJWs. It's like walking through a digital thrift store—quirky, dated, and faintly sad. Still waiting for the Superwholock resurgence.

Twitch: Where charisma goes to scream at video games for 12 hours while chat spams "Poggers." It's a cult of personality meets digital busking, with hot tub streams and ban hammers keeping things spicy. Just don't ask about the ad revenue split.

watchpeopledie.tv: The internet's darkest corner, where curiosity meets morbidity in a way that'd make even 4chan blush. It's a grim reminder that some people's "entertainment" is others' nightmares. Proceed with caution, or better yet, don't.

X: Elon's playground, where free speech means chaos, bots, and blue-check clout chasers. It's a dumpster fire you can't look away from—half genius, half trainwreck. Still better than Threads, somehow.

YouTube: The video behemoth where cat clips, tutorials, and unhinged rants coexist under an algorithm that hates creators. It's the internet's TV, complete with ads you can't skip and comments you shouldn't read. Demonetized dreams live here.

Honestly, I kneel to papa musk, never thought that Grok 3 would be that impressive. . Did I miss any social media sites?

🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer has warned the UK faces a ‘cohort of loners who are extreme’ as a leaked Home Office review proposed tackling extremism by focusing on behaviours in the online ‘manosphere’ rather than ideology

[@SkyNews]

— Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) January 28, 2025

Dude bankrupted his entire town. He even drained his daughter's college fund.

Must be a special level of gigacuck to play Destiny 2 in current year +8

Gm - Lil B

With the tarrif debacle going on, I have started trying to buy from Canadian owned businesses and Canadian products.

If you are able to, please join me in trying to make a difference in what this could / will look like for the future of Canada. What we buy could make a huge difference in not only Canada but also other countries targeted in the future.

Sobeys, Loblaws, and Save-On-Foods are Canadian owned, as well as:

Other Canadian grocery stores

IGA: A group of independent grocers in Canada. Sobeys franchises the IGA name.

Safeway: A chain that was established in 1929 as a subsidiary of the American Safeway chain. Sobeys purchased Safeway in 2013.

Some Canadian-owned grocery products

Primo tomato sauces, pasta, beans, lentils, rice, and oils

Unico pasta, oil, tomato sauce, beans, peas, jarred marinades, and olives

Aylmer soups and broths

Canton soups and broths

Organika bone broth, collagen, and electrolyte powders

Italpasta pasta made in Canada with Canadian wheat

If you have other suggestions or other Canadian owned stores and products. Feel free to add them.

To all my American brothers and sisters, this is not personal, and I know you didn't choose this or your leader.

https://madeinca.ca/ - I have not used this site yet, but it looks like it gives you canadian made products of almost every category.

Front page edit

Send Canadian things

!burgers !leafs !r-slurs !trump2024 !trump2028 !project2025 !the_donald

In 2023 I was training to run a marathon but then injured my leg and didn't do anything for a month and even after I recovered I got lazy and gave up

one time I was playing Mario Kart and came in 8th place when half the players were CPU

What are some times you have failed races?

Full accelerationism to self destruct the USA!

been getting into ja rule, mystikal, missy elliot, ludacris, all the greats of the 2000s

got any favorites?

!applechads

!chuds tired of winning yet?

#BREAKING: The UK just ordered Apple to give them access to all encrypted backups worldwide, including Americans, allowing British authorities to spy on any user.

— Insider Wire (@InsiderWire) February 7, 2025

URGENT @chrispavlovski @ric_rac @PathNetworks is so far behind on bills they are being evicted by @Equinix from multiple locations across the entire planet.

This company has been unethical for a decade and now it's a sinking ship. @rumblevideo is STILL ON IT.

GET OFF OF PATH pic.twitter.com/DiDhIpOFDW

— Josh (@XJosh) January 30, 2025

I just wanted to post about

Frankie Muniz, Hollywood actor who starred in ‘Malcolm In The Middle’, is now a professional Stock Car Racing driver

He finished in 10th place at Daytona. Incredible pic.twitter.com/NNtEZBIAsE

— Dudes Posting Their W’s (@DudespostingWs) February 16, 2025

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