Ivy
@poisonivy
manipulative, over-emotional bitch
noticed substack made this change wrt vexatious reports last month i do sort of wish things had progressed to the point that they would have had to have made a clear choice of either journalistic freedom or the wishes of one of their biggest creators
in today's episode of follow the money, lightcone / lesswrong has ~$900k in engineering burn it is crazy, and a little depressing to be running an arts non-profit and dealing with funding struggles and see the kind of money that's vomited at rationalists
Found this gem by one of my follows on the orange website today. Nat nails the issue with safety being handled by whoever puts up their hand. It's become clear vibecamp is either unwilling or unable to see through illusory safety measures.
still working on this but basically i love ai now because it allows someone with no visual art talent get catharsis from creating visual art
attention all tankies and ancoms on bluesky dot app: i care about you, i love you, I choose C
I’ve felt all of this. I’ve thought all of this. @franceslorenz.bsky.social 's piece made me cry, and has made me so angry. I could mention their names, what they did, how they ignored sexual assault, told me to ‘stay in my lane’ when i pointed out what a fucking disaster vibecamp is, ⏬
'why are there so many rationalist cults' did not need a blog entry to address, only pointing to the fact that the core dogma these ppl are required to believe in is that they are smarter than everyone else
finally, the messenger bag I used to this day was a collab between Tantalus and All Day Breakfast, this specific one was gifted by my friend and industry legend Adam and has a few trinkets of my social life post-tantalus
I volunteered for MAPS Canada for a few years, and legend Dana Larsen currently practices civil disobedience by running 3 mushroom dispensaries Nicolle also wrote a book on the female orgasm through the lens of Dr.Seuss, would have liked to do a reading at vibecamp, however :(
a good cross section of my social life! nicolle hodges was behind girls who say f*ck and so much more, and is now writing a book on BDSM as a healing modality my friend brandon's monster edibles company was acquired and we collabed now and again, outstanding human
as a result of being good at LinkedIn I landed Tantalus a cross-border collab with Jane West in california, the one hitter is the product and the water pipe is a gift she sent me after launch fyi to crypto companies that passed on hiring me you missed out on an eng + BD unicorn
i was also the recipient of swag, this was a limited run of a collab between Tantalus and Lululemon, I almost didn't get one but our amazing community manager Karli saved me one <3
one of the great joys of my job was grabbing a bunch of grinders and lighters and being a swag fairy at the conference and at parties
I did some journalism for the lift conference, such that I got media passes (rip jungle media), my penchant for journalism never really left me
one of the first industry parties i went to after joining TantalusLabs was the annual miss envy party, one of the legacy industry legends gave me what he called a baby dab and it was a very fun night in a gastown penthouse
it was at a conference that I met my friend Dr.Rebecca Haines-Saah, a harm reduction expert who is also a tenured prof at the U of C, and also also played Kathleen on Degrassi
before I made the trip I was working for TELUS in Alberta doing magic computer things during the day, and being a cannabis twitter celebrity by night not on my current resume is that the University of Calgary considers me an influencer
@shanley.com not sure if you've seen this about andreesen getting onto the defense department advisory board