Here's some fucking scary shit:
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/NXIVM-secretive-group-where-women-are-branded-12288356.php
― akm, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 21:39 (seven years ago)
yikes. also lol of course the dude who made WHAT THE BLEEP DO WE KNOW got roped in.
― maura, Thursday, 19 October 2017 09:09 (seven years ago)
i clicked on this very clickbaity story, and then boom there it was, 11th paragraph
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-mysterious-death-of-a-tantric-sex-guru
― goole, Saturday, 21 October 2017 20:32 (seven years ago)
“Like Mindvalley’s A-Fest” is a good punchline. I’m sorry about that lady though.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 21 October 2017 22:52 (seven years ago)
julia allison has been getting into all this stuff, if any of you remember her
― maura, Sunday, 22 October 2017 02:30 (seven years ago)
as a journalist, thought leader, or follower?
― mh, Sunday, 22 October 2017 14:54 (seven years ago)
as a selfie-taker mostly
so i guess """"journalist""""
― maura, Monday, 23 October 2017 00:53 (seven years ago)
i once blabbed to n!t@$h4 t!ku at a party for half an hour about mindvalley and awesomeness fest and begged her to investigate and write something.
― gr8080, Monday, 23 October 2017 19:21 (seven years ago)
Malaysian friend of mine who had been mostly smoking pot in the USA in the decade-plus since he came here for college moved back to Malaysia and was INSTANTLY sucked into this world. Within a month of being back there he was all sharp suit and haircut, "personal branding", an "entrepreneur" without a business or product, the whole nine yards.
Thing is, though, it kinda seems like it's working for him? He looks genuinely happy, even if he does post rah-rah MLM bullshit on Facebook ten times a day. I hate to think about how much money is being leeched from him by whatever organization has their hooks in him (dude seems to be at "seminars" every other week), but he really seems to be doing better emotionally than when his life consisted of pot, minimum wage, and GTA5.
― Dan I., Thursday, 26 October 2017 18:11 (seven years ago)
Another NXIVM story.
http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/is-nxivm-a-cult-what-we-know-w512261
― nickn, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 01:31 (seven years ago)
via dayo:
http://voicecult.org/
― gr8080, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 15:54 (seven years ago)
https://medium.com/@bescofield/tech-bro-guru-inside-the-sedona-cult-of-bentinho-massaro-a56314f830ef
― gr8080, Monday, 4 December 2017 17:38 (seven years ago)
I can read things like that and they seem incredibly troubling but it's hard to tell the number of people who are really invested as opposed to ones who attend more lightweight life coaching junk and meditation sessions? I hope it's mostly that, but the idea of that many people being into some young narcissist screaming at them about him being the godhead is almost too much
― mh, Monday, 4 December 2017 20:58 (seven years ago)
this article makes me feel like humanity really has to be at peak up-our-own-asses
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/15/improving-ourselves-to-death
In December, with the end of their project approaching, Spicer reflects that he has spent the year focussing on himself to the exclusion of everything, and everyone, else in his life. His wife is due to give birth to their second child in a few days; their relationship is not at its best. And yet, he writes, “I could not think of another year I spent more of my time doing things that were not me at all.” He doesn’t feel like a better version of himself. He doesn’t even feel like himself. He has been like a man possessed: “If it wasn’t me, who was it then?”
― El Tomboto, Monday, 15 January 2018 21:34 (seven years ago)
yes, I meant to link that article the other day. enjoyed it a lot, though I would have welcomed an even more scorched-earth approach
― k3vin k., Monday, 15 January 2018 21:37 (seven years ago)
I had to lol because I thought that was about Sean Spicer for a minute
― mh, Monday, 15 January 2018 22:38 (seven years ago)
Me too!!!
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Monday, 15 January 2018 23:15 (seven years ago)
this guy, whom I used to work with, still spams me:
http://akeynotespeaker.com
― Milking the Soft Power Dividend (dandydonweiner), Monday, 15 January 2018 23:22 (seven years ago)
http://www.worldofbuzz.com/heres-need-know-viral-milo-sugar-controversy/
― gr8080, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 16:48 (seven years ago)
i'm .. not sure i want to click on that url
― The times they are a changing, perhaps (map), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 17:54 (seven years ago)
it's not about *that* milo
it is from a site that wants you to turn on notifications, which, sigh
― maura, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 17:56 (seven years ago)
in short:
NYT posted this article about shady food product labeling in malaysia:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/23/health/obesity-malaysia-nestle.html
which prompted our boy to post this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n84kruNsYxc
which has apparently gone viral in Malaysia and resulted in consumer rights groups holding press conferences etc
― gr8080, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 16:16 (seven years ago)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5612379/Smallville-actress-Allison-Mack-takes-control-branding-cult-Nxivm.html
More NXIVM shit
― omar little, Saturday, 14 April 2018 16:34 (seven years ago)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/smallville-actress-allison-mack-arrested-by-fbi-in-connection-with-nxivm-cult
― how's life, Friday, 20 April 2018 21:56 (seven years ago)
https://i.imgur.com/wkCwl6F.png
― mick signals, Saturday, 21 April 2018 00:13 (seven years ago)
It's true, I never looked at it that way, but you're so right -- snif! -- my host's database server IS down. I think it's been down ever since I married Robert, and I just didn't want to admit it.
― mick signals, Saturday, 21 April 2018 00:15 (seven years ago)
i've always had trouble establishing connections
― forensic plumber (harbl), Saturday, 21 April 2018 00:36 (seven years ago)
.@EmWatson I'm a fellow actress like yourself & involved in an amazing women's movement I think you'd dig. I'd love to chat if you're open.— Allison Mack (@allisonmack) January 24, 2016
@iamrashidajones As a fellow actress I love your work, and what you have to say. Maybe we can connect sometime?— Allison Mack (@allisonmack) May 25, 2014
― maura, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 15:05 (seven years ago)
most accomplished post-smallville career by some distance
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 15:18 (seven years ago)
did not realize that one of the smallville EPs was brian robbins, the ex-HEAD OF THE CLASS GUY who worked closely with his former co-star (and recently deposed from nickelodeon producer) dan schneider
― maura, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 15:23 (seven years ago)
also annette o'toole was in smallville! her LAW & ORDER ep with her husband (michael mckean) is one of the best
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0629340/
― maura, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 15:25 (seven years ago)
Ugggggh, those tweets are so triggering. It took me way too long (I mean, not that long but still way too long) to realize a friend of mine was trying to recruit me for some crazy cult shit she was (and presumably still is) a part of. It's so violating to realize that someone's seeming interest in and regard for you really has nothing at all to do with you.
― Across the You Never Her (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 15:28 (seven years ago)
i'm sorry! that's horrible.
― maura, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 15:30 (seven years ago)
I search online every so often for a friend who got involved in the LaRouche org/cult when she went to college but after the mid-00s, nada.
― louise ck (milo z), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 15:33 (seven years ago)
A friend of mine who took a red pill recently and has become a “successful” alt-right leaning meme cartoonist tried to recruit me into a pyramid scheme cult once.
― omar little, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 15:37 (seven years ago)
i should've bumped this thread a few years ago for superstar machine, who apparently have never been mentioned
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 15:46 (seven years ago)
am i misremembering? i thought superstar machine and nxivm were the same thing? or had the same people?
― goole, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 16:32 (seven years ago)
holy shit are they
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 16:35 (seven years ago)
the REALLY dark connection is that (and i need to run down the details again) nxivm was connected to a really sketchy 'media criticism' organization called Knife of Aristotle, which as rebranded itself as The Knife Media. it purports to be a 'de-spin' analysis site that... just puts percentages on everything, without explanation, telling you how slanted and leftist the msm is
xp honestly i don't know!
― goole, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 16:36 (seven years ago)
superstar machine seems pretty distinct to me from what i can tell unless they share members https://jezebel.com/inside-superstar-machine-which-ex-members-say-is-a-cul-1775494367
several of my coworkers at organic avenue were so totally seduced by superstar machine that they're still in it, eight years later
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 16:37 (seven years ago)
ok whew. i think maybe some of the early bloggy coverage of nxivm mentioned them together. or my memory is crap!
― goole, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 16:41 (seven years ago)
I swear we talked about superstar machine but on a different thread
― mh, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 18:03 (seven years ago)
ah, here:hey gawker dudes. what the fuck is wrong with you?
― mh, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 18:04 (seven years ago)
Superstar Machine is a helluva band name tbh
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 18:06 (seven years ago)
― mh, Tuesday, April 24, 2018 11:03 AM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i was thinking this too! thank you for find it, search was NOT helpful
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 18:07 (seven years ago)
er finding*
you gotta put the search term in quotes, man!
apparently we also talked about it on the princess superstar thread
― mh, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 18:12 (seven years ago)
lol
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 18:15 (seven years ago)
i've been real bad at using the internet today
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 18:16 (seven years ago)
haha Brad don't apologize on every thread you bump today about being bad at internet :D
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 18:49 (seven years ago)