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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.

AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)

This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.

[Especially don't debate the race scientists, if any sneak in - we ban and delete them as unsuitable for the server.]

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[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 20 points 2 weeks ago

"The left gets a new publication"

it's right wing

it's a substack

[–] TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 18 points 2 weeks ago

You don't hear too many leftists saying things like this:

I think that the Democratic Party has two factions; they disagree on a ton of important stuff. I think that the neoliberals are right on nearly all of those disagreements, and the progressives are wrong on nearly all of the disagreements.

[–] BigMuffN69@awful.systems 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

it’s weird that Piper keeps getting paid to make content, but I’ve never once seen anyone claim to enjoy any of her work…

[–] CinnasVerses@awful.systems 5 points 2 weeks ago

Has Piper ever been paid to write by an organization that was not funded by her college buddies like Caroline Ellison and Open Philanthropy staffers? RationalWiki mentions Vox (EA funded), something called Asterisk (EA funded), and this Substack blog.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Someone mispelled "painfully triangulated center" as "left".

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

that's center as in race realist

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago

and what’s at the center of race realism? Cereal. Guys. Big Grain is behind all this. /s

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 12 points 2 weeks ago

And they already showed their hand a bit: https://bsky.app/profile/gbbranstetter.bsky.social/post/3lwobzemlz22j, They wanted to defend gender norms before quickly editing it to be pro gender expression.

[–] zogwarg@awful.systems 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I love that their stated "Pitch us!" suggestion box email address pitches@theargument.com doesn't appear to have any registered MX records.

I wonder if this is an intentional shredder meme situation (I doubt it), and if not how long it will take them to notice. (I'm assuming that's the domain they wanted but haven't quite been able to buy it yet, not very serious.)

EDIT: Fixed already.

[–] zogwarg@awful.systems 8 points 2 weeks ago

Yay! some nice

Dont  Dead
Open Inside

Abundance Agenda horriffying strings of words.

How to save liberalism (without being boring)

Congratulations! You appear to be failing so far—on both counts!

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

MFW these people claim to be "the left"

alt textGorges Jacques Danton, the Jacobin's largest boy

[–] CinnasVerses@awful.systems 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It shows great confidence in their ability to find paying readers that aside from Substack's VC money they also borrowed $4 million to pay themselves. They don't need an office, printing and distribution, or a sales team and Substack provides and maintains all the IT infrastructure (maybe one admin assistant / bookkeeper).

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] CinnasVerses@awful.systems 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Wish the microblogger had archived the old text for verification but I can believe that Piper believes that marrying a femme and having many children while working a full-time, high-prestige job counts as a traditional gender role.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 4 points 2 weeks ago

Can’t wait for them to start publishing chapters of the KP coauthored glowfic!