mitigatedchaos:

kontextmaschine:

Well, between the remnants of Moneycat’s salon and the LessWrong/SSC (post)rationalist diaspora and poaching from all sorts of other traditions (leftists! radfems! the fucking Axis of Evil!), we’ve congealed a good chunk of the best not-for-money writers in America into the most powerful literary circle in the country here, that’s nice.

Come for the poorly-managed site full of discourse, stay for the, uh, owl pics, I guess?

I mean in my lifetime it’s been 80s Manhattan, 00s Brooklyn, and 10s LF/Twitter, Tumblr seems as due for a turn as anything

The Algonquin Round Table was mostly shitposting