A new documentary, 'Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere,' investigates red-pilled creators and their followers. Three women explain what dating them is like.
'love island' and the mirror of red pill ideology in modern dating
red pill masculinity, the objectification of women through entertainment ecosystems—and how it helps script modern heterosexual dating culture
What corporate thrillers tell us about the '90s economy
PLUS: Has Forum Brain crossed the gender divide?
‘Men seem to make life for women worse’: single US women share the woes of dating in 2025
Here’s why some women feel like there’s little hope in the current dating pool of men – if they’re still in the market for one
Anatomy of a Sex Scene: Heated Rivalry Edition - Reading the End
Stop saying there's no plot! A romance critic explains the craft of the sex scenes in Crave's Heated Rivalry (2025).
Women filmed in secret for social media content - then harassed online
So-called manfluencers wearing smart glasses approach women and then post videos to TikTok and Instagram.
Fascist femboys, autogynephilia, and flattering narratives
Among those who believe [autogynephilia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanchard'stranssexualismtypology) is real and the primary explanation for many or mo...
Connected Places, LLMs and slop
Friend of the channel Laurens ([@laurenshof.online](at://did:plc:mdjhvva6vlrswsj26cftjttd)) writes among other things a blog called The ATmosphere Report on...
TV Tropes
TV Tropes, the all-devouring pop-culture wiki, catalogs and cross-references recurrent plot devices, archetypes, and tropes in all forms of media.
Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society
More than 200 of the world's elites registered for a retreat whose agenda runs from panels on cult-building and sex to prepping for World War III. An associated app offers matchmaking.
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shoc…
subconsciousnetwork/noosphere
Noosphere is a protocol for thought; let's discover it together!
ATmosphere Report #147 - Year's end reflections - Connected Places
Some themes I'm watching for 2026: censorship resistance, the politics of interoperable spaces, and who gets to shape how atproto talks about itself.
Steven Spielberg’s ‘Disclosure Day’ Turns Autofiction Into Thrilling Sci-Fi
The Hollywood maestro’s latest is filled with excitement and sentimentality.
Women portrayed as younger than men online, and AI amplifies the bias - Haas News | UC Berkeley Haas
In a sweeping study published today in Nature, researchers at UC Berkeley Haas, Stanford, and Oxford/Autonomy University documented extensive age and gender distortion across online media—and found that common algorithms are amplifying the bias.
Actual Air in the Purple Mountains: An Interview With David Berman
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
