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Tech Twitter's Christian Wunderkind Nicole Williams
Find Nicole at twitter.com/nwilliams030. ➡️ Patrons get early access to podcasts, not-yet-published writings, videos from my paid courses, and more. Become a patron at...
From Hacker to Homesteading Author with Travis Corcoran
Travis Corcoran worked on startups before he built a homestead and turned to indie book writing and publishing. He recently launched a homesteading book on Kickstarter...
The Lindy Scam: A Case Study of Paul Skallas
Paul Skallas aka Lindy Man is an acolyte of Nassim Taleb. He operates a particularly strange and, frankly, dubious hustle selling ebooks. This is a case study of his o...
Introduction to Georges Bataille with Nina Power
Get our free Bataille study guide and learn more about our online course at theotherlifenow.com/bataille. ➡️ If you'd like to discuss this podcast with me and others,...
Anna Khachiyan's Insubordination
Anna Khachiyan from Red Scare tells the story of how she left her PhD program at NYU; how she has more intellectual influence because of it; whether living in NYC is w...
Selling Zines and Quitting Jobs with Sonya Mann
We look under the hood of Sonya's business operations as a writer and zine-maker
How Aella Makes Bank on OnlyFans
Aella is a blogger who recently started on OnlyFans, the new decentralized porn platform revolutionizing the adult industry. We talk about the sociology and economics ...
Do Not Despair (Kierkegaard and The Sickness Unto Death)
Some reflections on despair, existentialism, and Christianity via Kierkegaard's book The Sickness Unto Death. ➡️ I publish a free weekly newsletter about independent i...
Radical Politics for Control Societies: Based Deleuze Lecture 4
This is Lecture 4 (out of 6) in the Based Deleuze lecture course. You can get the whole series at gum.co/deleuze. ➡️If you'd like to join my Discord server, request an...
Engineering negative virality
In-depth case study of a nuclear tweet. After my globally nuclear tweet about Greta & Epstein, I thought a lot about the factors that predict negative virality (AKA be...
The Social Science of Tiger King with Geoffrey Miller and Diana Fleischman
The absolute final word on all social-scientific questions related to Tiger King, the recent Netflix documentary. Taking questions from Twitter, we analyze: Why these ...
Midnight B4 Moldbug in LA
We recorded this late in the evening before the live show with Curtis Yarvin.
Curtis Yarvin Live at the Based Deleuze Release Party in LA
In our epic 3-hour talk, Curtis Yarvin discusses: Democracy, his preference for Bernie Sanders, debunking the American Revolution, benevolent dictatorship, Ancient Rom...
Quarantined Bunkercast with Diana Fleischman and Geoffrey Miller
On the COVID-19 pandemic, intergenerational warfare, comparative politics, exogenous shocks, class war, whether Trump caught the virus, and other speculations on the n...
TFW NO GF with Filmmaker Alex Lee Moyer
TFW NO GF is a documentary about young men on the internet (pepe? wojak? frogtwitter? incels?). It was set to premiere at SXSW before the whole festival got cancelled ...
Aella the Enlightened Cam Girl Writer and Entrepreneur
Aella (@Aella_Girl) is an internet thinker/creator/entrepreneur in the Rationalish sphere. She just launched a new card game called Askhole, research-backed card game ...
Music Careers and Hierarchy Cheers with Charlie Looker
Charlie Looker is best known as a musician but he's also a passionate weird-theory lurker in various internet recesses of ill-repute. We've chatted here and there for ...