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Practicing perpetual positive regard and missing weird Twitter.

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humanity itself is the answer to the ultimate question and we are accurate down to the atom

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it's hard to die of stupidity in 2026 and this is a problem

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@marklevinshow if only there were still republicans brave enough to criticize him

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@ianbremmer Trump's going to give them $300B and the straight will get closed again in a week

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90% of poly culture is this

[Holly ⏸️ Elmore @ilex_ulmus]

Dear @Aella_Girl,

I’ve heard a lot of people seeming to think that I reject you wholesale, or that I don’t approve of you for being a sex worker. I want to set the record straight about why I do not want to work with you and have made certain comments, and offer the chance for a dialogue if you want. I also want to apologize.

I don’t like you because of how my ex-husband, Ronny Fernandez, your plzdontkillus cofounder, would make sexual and romantic bids at you in front of me (presumably also in private) while we were in a monogamous relationship. This was his fault, and it contributed to our divorce, but because it caused me to resent you as well, I came to you about it, hoping to give you a chance to show you weren’t down with it. You were cold to me, dismissing my concerns with “he’s not my type.” At that point I realized we were not friends. It wasn’t your responsibility to stop him, but your priority was him and my feelings weren’t part of the equation.

When you’re in an abusive relationship, it’s easy to feel more angry and betrayed at the people around you than at the abuser. I felt angry at you and many others from the rationalist community, as well as general rationalist culture, for supporting him. It’s not your fault that I was in an abusive relationship. It was his fault. Even though I think my feelings are valid, especially when you opted not to help me when I reached out, I recognize that I’m transferring anger onto you that really belongs to him.

I saw you once say that I judged you for being a sex worker. I think you were remembering a time when I argued that, because Ronny had your nudes, you didn’t just have a platonic relationship. I have also critiqued the blurred line between your sex work and your intellectual content, where engaging with you without sex is still a form of flirtation and erotic connection, for a similar reason. My issue has never been with the sexuality. It had to do with how you and our mutual friends were insisting that I had no recourse against my partner cheating on me— that I was in the wrong for feeling jealous.

Perhaps you regret this, or would regret this now that you know how I felt. It would make a big difference to me if you did. There are also subject matter disagreements I have with you on AI Safety work, and I wrote a lot of them up, but upon introspection I think that discussion would be pretty collegial if I saw you have empathy for a wound in me that’s still healing. The breach of trust was really a personal thing.

I’m also writing to share my concern about your current relationship with Ronny. Ronny lovebombs you epically on main, and I think that could lead to epic devaluation and exploitation if you’re not careful. I have wondered if he’s pushed you to do and share more and more extreme things when I see him seeming to get dividends. I saw him negging you and undercutting you even when he and I were together, and he’s good at portraying that destruction of self-esteem as rationalist introspective virtue and fucky intimacy. No matter how annoyed I may feel at you, I would never want you to go through what he did to me.

I’m going to unblock you, and you can DM or reply if you wish.

Holly

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racism is obsolete. it's inaccurate (there are shitty people of all colors) and ineffective (there are better ways to identify shitty people and deal with them)

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it's not about black people vs. white people it's criminals vs. everybody else. people just don't understand statistics

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imagine an America where Trump supporters and Karmelo supporters destroyed each other

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@MattWalshBlog just like supporting Trump! amazing how some topics make people retarded.

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The Karmelo Anthony verdict is an even better IQ test than Trump support.

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@constans maybe we should prevent crimes?

[Ben Zeisloft @BenZeisloft]

I am a member of the Church of Mormon. I believe in the Trinity, reject Joseph Smith as a prophet, and oppose the notion that Jesus and Satan are brothers. But since my church has Mormon in the name, I am a Mormon, and I demand that the world recognize me as such.

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As annoying as what happened to 60 minutes is, that was the goal. As disastrous as the Trump admin is, that's the goal. It's more important that somebody's job. It's more important than being right. It's about keeping the country together. The "other side" will always be with us.

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If America becomes balkanized, we're done. There are probably lots of intelligence efforts designed to keep politics at a 50/50 gridlock. Generating media that appeals to both sides is a solution. It's not about normalizing dishonesty or authoritarianism, although they are risks.

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@Acyn that gentle hand on her shoulder after having a giant baby temper tantrum

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I thought the whole reason Mormons went West and founded Utah is because Americans at the time didn't see them as Christian. Did they think that changed?

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app that describes your character by watching you drive

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@ContraPoints I would imagine most irreversible and indefensible decisions would produce this reaction from otherwise loving parents

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wealthy Romans and SF tech people throw orgies

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@KyleLascoShow @HunterBiden imagine the brains of the 51 people who liked this shit

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

pretty decent encapsulation of the last few years on here