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  • Incel (insel?)

    The first time I heard the term it was from a medium article where the author claimed to have infiltrated an incel forum. My immediate thought was, how the hell does this person have any clue who the hell is behind the screens in these “incel forums”??

    Now I see the term thrown around all over reddit, especially when discussing straight men issues. I also see it showing up in TV shows. Always used to demonize and degrade straight men.

    To me, the whole “incel movement” is more likely to something created and perpetrated by “feminists” and or the LGBT movement. Especially after watching a SWAT episode about the very subject. In the episode, they find out that the “incel forum” in question was created and managed by a WOMAN.

    Not to mention this guy Thomas R. Insel! This dude is a former NIHM guy and did major studies involving vasopressin and oxytocin, two chemicals released in mammals during sex. He also volunteered to revamp California’s mental health system under Gavin Newsom and worked on a Google X technology that allows someone to detect someone’s emotional state remotely through devices (they’ve since changed the wording on his Wikipedia page).

    Again his last name is Insel. It couldn’t be anymore obvious to me. Plus why would a bunch of straight men spend their free time in a forum getting angry about women when the Internet is flooded with an endless amount of straight pornography! It just doesn’t make any sense to me and it’s always a major red flag when it’s a single word or term that is used to derail or deter conversations so easily. Antisemitism is another example of this.














  • I’m aware of his career and related, history.

    However it was Doctorow himself that mentioned his Burning Man attendance on a live tech podcast I was listening / watching 5 or so years ago.

    Here’s an excerpt from audience questions after a he gave on the AI Bubble (or Apocalypse as he puts it often), published on his blog Pluralist. Written by Doctorow

    “OK,” the young man said, “but what can we do about the crash?” He was clearly very worried.

    “I don’t think there’s anything we can do about that. I think it’s already locked in. I mean, maybe if we had a different government, they’d fund a jobs guarantee to pull us out of it, but I don’t think Trump’ll do that, so –”

    “But what can we do?”

    We went through a few rounds of this, with this poor kid just repeating the same question in different tones of voice, like an acting coach demonstrating the five stages of grieving using nothing but inflection. It was an uncomfortable moment, and there was some decidedly nervous chuckling around the room as we pondered the coming AI (economic) apocalypse, and the fate of this kid graduating with mid-six-figure debts into an economy of ashes and rubble.





  • Here’s an exerpt from one of his public talks about the AI bubble. From his Pluralist blog.

    “OK,” the young man said, “but what can we do about the crash?” He was clearly very worried.

    “I don’t think there’s anything we can do about that. I think it’s already locked in. I mean, maybe if we had a different government, they’d fund a jobs guarantee to pull us out of it, but I don’t think Trump’ll do that, so –”

    “But what can we do?”

    We went through a few rounds of this, with this poor kid just repeating the same question in different tones of voice, like an acting coach demonstrating the five stages of grieving using nothing but inflection. It was an uncomfortable moment, and there was some decidedly nervous chuckling around the room as we pondered the coming AI (economic) apocalypse, and the fate of this kid graduating with mid-six-figure debts into an economy of ashes and rubble.