[Recorded October 2025 post my SlutCon lecture on Sex, Eros & Seduction]
Aella is a writer, blogger, sex worker and general internet legend. She is a major figure in the rationalist community and is known for her mind bending dives into kink, psychedelics, Christian fundamentalism and being overly sincere about every edgy.
You can find her at her infamous site 2025-12-30 14:36:01 +0000 UTC View Post
(Recorded June 19th in Vancouver, 1 day before my YNGiAM Lecture at Rio Theatre)
W. David Marx is a Tokyo based writer on fashion, culture, and the interdisciplinary, ever present pressure of status competition. He is the author of Status & Culture (2022), a wide ranging exhaustive synthesis of great thinkers on the subject of our innate drive for status, and a core source fo...
2025-12-18 13:37:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all. Writing to you from Los Angeles (which is very wet and grey, not as promised). I just hosted a rather surreal star studded anti AI event which you will hear more about later. I've got a couple interviews in the chamber for this month in relation to an upcoming video essay. But right now I'm prepping for the final stretch of lectures back home.
I'll be performing highly revised &a...
2025-11-15 21:03:21 +0000 UTC View Post
coming 2 u live from Oakland ready to talk about civilizational decline on Friday
Kill The Internet Summit at BATS Improv almost sold out. Really looking forward to it.
email cjthex@gmail.com if you're down to help with ticket scanning / Q&A mic holding in exchange for free tix. will be able to see the whole show 2025-10-09 02:31:31 +0000 UTC View Post
New interview with the ever impressive James from The Living Philosophy channel. He's a friend and a really sharp thinker, and talkign to him always yields rather dense, emotional and unexpected results. Conversation explores dreams, trut, balancing intellectualism and artistry, passion vs. curiosity, restartin...
2025-10-03 23:42:34 +0000 UTC View Post
I write to u from the throes of pestilence, sneezing coughing leaking outo f m y fuckin face. But all in perfect time with a full week to recover before I head to San Francisco to perform at the KTi Summit with Michael Burns nad Dr. Fatima (limited ...
2025-10-02 18:47:17 +0000 UTC View Post
What does it say about me that I enjoyed the chapter about the facist antisemetic traitor more htan the equanamious tragic gay
The fascist who goes in on it in the name of art I guess is just a bit archetypically attractive to my disposition, the crippling racism notwithstanding. Oh well, le...
2025-09-24 17:44:54 +0000 UTC View Post
((This essay is readable by those who haven't read the book))
{[For those like me who fell behind or waned in energy on this book, now is optimal time to rebound. Come to the end with me and we'll have the book in our blood forever.]}
--Next Wednesday we'll do Chapter 10, then the week after we'll wrap it up with the Conclusion+Afterward. I have the original 80s edition so had t...
2025-09-17 19:45:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Dr. Fatima, Michael Burns and CJ The X give lectures and answer questions about our chaotic cultural climate, the ideas that got us here and How The Fuck we might move forward.
Performing Friday October 10th @ the Bayfront Theatre in San Francisco CA.
Thank you annie, saba val and adison as always for the fantastic design work.
Michael Burns says he got arrested with these guys at a protest in DC back in the day
2025-09-05 16:38:13 +0000 UTC View Post
every page of this chapter made me angrier! °❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･
꧁⎝ 𓆩༺✧༻𓆪 ⎠꧂
I don't mean to be arrogantly critical of history through a single perspective, but just watching the concept of usury go from forbidden for moral purposes, to tribally used against enemies, to embarrassingly individualistic and psychological, was just hard to experience.
As a prot...
2025-09-01 15:58:36 +0000 UTC View Post
No Town Hall tomorrow I'm going off grid offline alone to an undisclosed location for a week
Need to read write rearrange uninterrupted For The Greater Good
I'll post The Gift book club thread tomorrow and get that back on track on Sundays.
Peace
2025-08-30 21:27:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Quite shockingly to me over the past couple days, despite my constant managing settings to disallow Google's Gemini AI to scan my data and force itself upon me, Google has twice in 4 days straight up filled my whole fucking screen with this prompt apropos of nothing! Autogenerating authorless AI Overviews on every other google search seemed not enough I suppose.
I've moved from Google Cho...
2025-08-27 22:40:20 +0000 UTC View Posthey all, apologies but need to push the town hall livestream a week. Got a bit too much on my plate this weekend, legs wobbling under the weight, trying to orient myself going forward. It's not bad, I've got a video, songs and a 3 part essay KTi manifesto all bubbling, but I seem to be struggling to figure out how to do everything when it all feels so urgent.
Productive depressive episod...
2025-08-24 02:38:59 +0000 UTC View Post
click my collage to get it high quality
link yours below some way or another, love seeing them.
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Album of the August 2025 is The 1975's 2018 release ABIIOR
Beloved by many as a genre spanning insightful celebration of the modern moment, a...
2025-08-16 18:46:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Streaming this Sunday 5pm EST.
If you were at any of the lectures, drop your questions here and I'll focus on em. Will reflect on some selected emails that have already been sent in over the last couple months too.
Brain full ready to rip.
x
2025-08-08 15:24:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Nadia is the author of Working In Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software (2020) and Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading (2025).
I also highly recommend her Web 1.5 independent Twe...
2025-08-07 15:18:43 +0000 UTC View Post
About a woman from Portugal living in Scotland.
Directorial debut by Laura Carreira, starring Joana Santos.
Give it a watch if you haven't and pick a couple things to taste in the comments for communal nourishment.
Describe it as it is before explaining what its About, and talk about more than whether or not you liked it.
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This movie brought back a lot of ...
2025-08-07 14:43:12 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm home as hell from my first lecture tour & vacation.
Thursday 7th: Movie of the Month Discussion Thread [On Falling (2024)]
Sunday 10th: Public Livestream Taking Lecture Questions @ 5pm EST...
2025-07-31 15:23:31 +0000 UTC View Post
There's a waiting list for the sold out Leicester Square Theatre show! So if you request a refund directly from Leicester Square Theatre they will automatically make your ticket available to someone else who wants it. Saying this for the benefit of a few people who can't attend and a...
2025-07-19 13:41:57 +0000 UTC View PostI've gotten a few requests from people attending the upcoming lectures for some way to plan stuff with other attendees around the show. Many people are travelling, attending alone, or just looking to pre-game / debrief / dress up together or whatever.
I am famously hesitant to facilitate open access fan forums around my work , but I relate to the plight of those sincerely wanting to do wh...
2025-07-10 19:42:04 +0000 UTC View Post
[me in Variety Bar on Sauchiehall st Glasgow, where I had drank vodka on the rocks in 2015]
Salutations readers, we are here a week late because we are busy and I am in Scotland with family, friends, and the greatest job in the world. Reaping the riches of the previous 6 months of Grown Up Work. Cashing cheques, solo travelling, performing things I have prepared and polished at g...
2025-07-07 19:08:37 +0000 UTC View PostHere's the link for today! Some lovely presentations about art, video games, & theology.
See you there.
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86216188118?pwd=tsILljewe7WYsp3SzC8mwKb7kSom7n.1
2025-06-29 16:33:40 +0000 UTC View Post
rare makeup-less pic, morning after hang w friends where ppl slept over and we did tarot readings that revealed our souls
NOTE: i'm only doing chapter 5, because it is a lot to chew on, and I and many others are busy. I think we will reduce down to a one chapter a week schedule for now.
I am undergoing my final lecture development phase this week, in anticipation of 2025-06-23 19:50:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Book Reports are digital zines we create for each book. celebrating and remembering ur contributions in this time of life that none of us will get back.
=+{Often a large portion of the book club ...
2025-06-16 17:24:01 +0000 UTC View Post
"unlike the sale of a commodity, the giving of a gift tends to establish a relationship between the parties involved.* Furthermore, when gifts circulate within a group, their commerce leaves a series of interconnected relationships in its wake, and a kind of decentralized cohesiveness emerges."
* It is this element of relationship which leads me to speak of gift exchange as a...
2025-06-09 22:46:29 +0000 UTC View PostHere's the link to the livestream. Will be talking then taking calls.
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88009746387?pwd=vpFnbqAbqBvvbbzHxswK2agVZjV0nd.1
2025-06-01 19:05:21 +0000 UTC View Posthttps://youtu.be/d5mO-obJdTQ?si=D5Z-G4Thvjnm7Xk0
Leicester Square Theatre in London is sold out.
>:]
2025-05-30 19:56:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey yall! Kiki video has been in counterclaim world for 10 days, so if all goes as expected it should be reinstated publicly tomorrow (?) or soon or whatever.
In the meantime, this copyright strike has been wonderful for my business, as I welcome all the hundreds of new patrons!
patreon aint been the mecca it regularly is as I am doing Way Too Much™ with lectures and another EP a...
2025-05-28 22:24:07 +0000 UTC View Post