I’d never heard of him but this curriculum for a class about futurology seems great and pointed.

Both ranting and raving will be involved.

Hmm…how about R.A.V.I.N.G: Rise Against Voracious IT Nazi Ghouls?

Hmmm…

• Reaction Watch (like retraction watch but, you know. reactionaries)

• Mad At Reactionary Techies

• Action Against Computer Cults

• Computer Users Against Reactionary Losers

• Silicon Valley Antifa

• ???

I think anything with language about advocacy, speaking out, justice, fairness etc. is good because it contrasts with the EA belief that public policy must only be discussed in a totally values neutral way with any personal standpoints optimized out.

Sorry, I guess I phrased my reply badly, I get what you mean about the weird blend (and the article you linked is actually well written), but having seen that dog fucking article I felt the need to inflict the horror on others so I wouldn’t be alone.

What about the article where she claims that based on their art, a contemporary artist “wants to fuck their dog” and the primary reason art galleries aren’t making this more clear is…because under woke you’re not allowed to sexualize disabled artists???

I promise this is my last donkeypost but I think this thread needs some donkey pictures. All pics from the Irish Donkey Sanctuary

the donkey people may not have picked their cause because it was the most rational, but that doesn’t seem to have stopped them from coming up with good ideas. it’s almost as if people can be more effective when they’re working for causes they’re emotionally connected to…

I have now clicked around some donkey sanctuary websites and am starting to feel emotional. I am sure this is what rationalists are afraid of but God the donkeys…

I’m getting the urge to give some cash to a donkey sanctuary. Does anyone know a good one

One of the members of a “wizard rock” band later went on to be in an actually good band. But as far as I am aware, this has only happened once.

I’m not necessarily an animal lib person, but I think an animal rights/animal liberation/ethical vegan framework for looking after and respecting animals is probably better than an EA one. If only because they’re more experienced in creating social change. Apparently only about 1 to 3% of Americans are vegans. So they have the numbers over the EAs, and they could probably beat them in a fight too.

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The responsibility probably rests on the rationalists here. People become professionals all the time (and indeed, maximizing impact often requires being a professional), but well under 1% of the population has the personality to ever become a rationalist.

Only 144,000 people will go to heaven!

They should try doing the Harlem Shake next

Why are they trapped in 2014 making parody music videos

I’m not sure I understand what you mean by this:

He seems to have spent a lot of time on early tumblr, but young lefty activist women horrified him. I don’t think anyone explained that people are nicer in person and volunteering in person is a great way to fall in love.

Could you explain?

I guess the “end the drug wars and stop the attacks on communities of colour” politics of that I assume many harm reduction activists had in 00s/10s California wouldn’t gibe well with the “I am rich and smart and I will never die so I should be allowed to do whatever I want” politics of TESCREAL.

I’ve never been a drug user but my impression is that like safer sex education, harm reduction education is actually more likely to turn people off using drugs than encourage them to try it. Like, check out this page about amphetamine harm reduction, which mentions that taking it might affect your immune system, damage your heart, cause psychosis and trigger mental health problems and cause malnutrition. Doesn’t exactly make it seem attractive!

Wow, it’s formerly gifted children all the way down.

Speaking of 60s psychedelics use. This is from an interview with two members of 1960s band The Pretty Things:

microdosing LSD [is] a practice [Phil] May thinks may have been invented by a keyboard player who performed with the band in the 70s. “He used to have a little lick of acid every morning while standing on his head, doing his yoga exercises.” And did it help him psychologically, as latterday devotees of microdosing claim it can? “Well, no, not really,” sighs May. “He went pretty loony, to be honest.”

Either Collison or his brother or both have been funding an abundance-y think tank in Ireland which has been the subject of some public controversy (complaints about “red tape”, etc.) Their genius proposal for increasing housing supply and density was to let homeowners build sheds in their back gardens and rent them out to people, a proposal our unscrupulous right-wing coalition government took on despite, you know, all the drawbacks of creating a new source of poor quality housing with insecure tenancy. I don’t have it in me to go looking up facts about those two gobdaws at this hour but there has been reporting by the Dublin Inquirer on the think tank.

Two shit tastes that taste shit together