Knights of New was a reddit meme/movement where people would take the hit of exposing themselves to the river of trash that is /r/all, sorted by 'New', and upvote good stuff while reporting or downvoting bad stuff, as a public service. Now you can do that on PieFed, too.

When sorting the home page by 'New' or 'Top', the list of posts automatically displays new content once per minute. Disabled when scrolling down. This makes voting on new content much easier and makes the threadiverse feel more dynamic and alive.

It seems like a small thing but I've been using it for a few hours and I'm surprised and how engaging it is and how it turns the threadiverse into a river of posts flowing by, like on Mastodon. Compared to the static and slow-moving feeling that the threadiverse often has, it is quite refreshing. Give it a try by going to piefed.social/home/new/all and NOT scrolling down. It's ok to scroll down to look at things but return to the top to await fresh content. The title bar of your browser will show the time of the latest automatic update.

This works in Subscribed, Popular or All feeds - it's not just for 'All'. You can also switch to 'top 1 hour' instead of 'new' and leave it running on a secondary monitor, etc so you can dip into whatever's popping off at the moment without being a true Knight.

This release also includes multiple small bugfixes:

• rss feeds import - strip tracking codes on urls so cross-post detection works properly
• exempt Googlebot from Anoobis
• default to dark mode on Linux
• tweak opacity of blocked posts to be a bit more visible
• profiles of people who have posted a lot loads much faster now and doesn't time out

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Musikstreaming bringt der Branche Milliarden. Bei vielen Musikschaffenden kommt davon aber nur wenig an. Wir zeigen wohin das Geld aus Spotify-Abos und Werbung fließt und warum Labels einen so großen Anteil bekommen. Dazu schaut Balbina auf Zahlen aus der GEMA-Goldmedia-Studie. Es geht um die Verteilung der Streaming-Erlöse und um die Frage, wie Künstlerinnen fairer bezahlt werden könnten. Auch alternative Vergütungsmodelle spielen eine Rolle. Zum Beispiel ein System, bei dem das Geld eines Accounts stärker an die tatsächlich gehörten Künstlerinnen geht. Mit Paula Hartmann, Annett Louisan, Karo Schrader, Herbert, Berq und weiteren Stimmen aus der Musikbranche.

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You came up with your own calendar system centered around your institution and you want to tell me you’re not a cult??? - istewart

One of the least online TESCRAL groups is the Monastic Academy for the Preservation of Life on Earth in Vermont. They are Buddhist Singularitarians, lead by a guru named Soryu Forall who studied at monasteries in Japan, China, and India for three or ten years. Around 2013 money started to come in from people in the California technindustry (per The Atlantic) and Forall started to acquire rural property where he and his disciples could meditate about how AI is going to end the world. Renouncing worldly things like "heat" and "minimum wage laws" probably helps. The umbrella organization seems to be CEDAR, the academy in Vermont is MAPLE, the branch in Berkeley is OAK, and the branch in Canada is WILLOW. The nonprofit is the Center for Mindful Learning. Their Form 990 is here but not very detailed. Many of his disciples are Rationalists and Effective Altruists from the West Coast. As you would expect, some very nasty things seem to happen at these retreats.

Background

Forall is a Rationalist guru out of central casting:

• middle-class parents
• "intense" as a child
• watched Terminator 2: Judgment Day at an impressionable age
• eventually finished a bachelor's degree but no traditional jobs or volunteer work on record
• gives endless lectures based on pop science and thinking really hard about how scary AI could be
• grandiose goals like "design a trustworthy religion"
• boundlessly confident
• alleged to date his students
• dreams of creating supermen (saints) who can solve problems no ordinary human can)

He does not talk to reporters about connections to Rationalism or EA and the two Old Media stories on the Academy did not pull that thread (The Atlantic and Vermont Community News & Citizen). He told one reporter that he admires Yuval Noah Harari (transhumanism-curious historian), Zak Stein (philosopher with many 'AI safety' connections who serves on the board of MAPLE), and Tristan Harris (a grad-school dropout turned 'product philosopher' at Google). Rationalists and EAs tend to assume everyone knows about him and that living on his compound for a few months or a few years is the kind of thing one does. One of the whistleblowers cross-posted to LessWrong and got a lively response where everyone takes for granted that people in their circles have travelled to MAPLE.

One of many red flags is that Forall boasts of a long list of spiritual or martial-arts affiliations:

Few Westerners have trained as deeply in traditional wisdom lineages as Forall. As a teenager, he entered a Rinzai monastery, where he was ordained under the renowned Zen Master Shodo Harada Roshi. He spent a decade training in monasteries around Asia in the Zen, Tibetan, Ch’an, and Ambedkar Buddhist traditions. While in India, he led community efforts to combat the caste system’s injustices. Since returning to the United States, he has continued to regularly work with Harada Roshi, while also training in Abenaki, Lakota and Diné Native American traditions.

Shodo Harada aka. Harada Roshi is Japanese and very old (b. 1940). Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was Indian. Chan Buddhism is Chinese. The Lakota and Diné live in North America. Greedy teachers often claim a long list of titles to impress young students who have no way to discover that their knowledge is skin-deep or to deflect when students ask questions they can't answer. This academic page on American Buddhists is a bit confused too. The Japanese take teachers declaring students authentic heirs to the lineage seriously, and it looks like Forall never received that endorsement. Someone called Gordon Worley explains:

Traditionally, it's pretty common that anyone leading anything in Zen has dharma transmission. In Japan, even the lowliest temple priest has received transmission, though not permission to teach. Soryu, to the best of my knowledge, is in the opposite situation: he received some limited permission to teach (though the bounds of that permission are unclear to me), but did not receive transmission, so he cannot be said to be fully initiated into the lineage in which he trained and thus can't pass it on.

What this effectively means is that he teaches based on charismatic authority. This is not unheard of in religions, though it is unusual within Zen. A great many religions rely on charismatic authority in some form, though the strongest version of it I'm familiar with is in Evangelical Christianity.

Charismatic authority is classic rationalism. These people do not like to find a place in existing institutions where people with more skill and experience judge newcomers. They want to impress people who have no technical knowledge or training with their language and physical presence.

They are connected to a movement called Second Renaissance which uses the same cartographer as Scott Alexander used for his map of the LessWrong blogosphere.

Allegations and Responses (cw: sexual and emotional abuse)

Around 2021 a student said that she was raped by a teacher at OAK then expelled when she reported this and Forall shut down any official response. She said that after she left Soryu Forall started to openly date his current and former students. It appears likely that at least one of the Zizians was in touch with MAPLE because while they were on the run the Academy fired up a dormant Twitter account to say that lying about murder was wrong, then two Zizians were shot by federal agents in Vermont. In 2025 and 2026, more people posted about bad experiences at MAPLE, and British journalist Sam Kriss came by with questions:

• My experience inside Soryu Forall's AI-Centered Monastic Academy (2025)
• The High Control Dynamics at MAPLE (2026)
• Emerging: Making Sense of Soryu Forall and the Spiritual Rape Academy (four-hour audio, 2026)
• Kriss' article does not seem to have been published yet but he published one on Scott Alexander and Valinor

The stories have the same themes as stories from CFAR, Leverage Research, Brent Dill, and Ziz Lasota:

• deception of potential students
• bait-and-switch once they signed up
• esoteric doctrines and mysticism ("Soryu has claimed to have entered such a deep samadhi he was able to use the kinds of spiritual powers that masters usually use to read people’s minds, but this time instead used it to read the mind of the global AI egregore—or 'cyborgregore,' the collective mind of all AI systems")
• reprogramming with sleep deprivation, constant busywork, separations from family and advisors, and endless reminders of the impending end of the world (apocalypse)
• male leaders who abused their power
• a leader whose vision of "protecting life" includes the possibility of human extinction as a means to a higher goal ("He has repeatedly shared that killing every human on Earth to protect the rest of life on earth was his explicit life purpose from ages nine to nineteen—with CRISPR (a gene modifying technique that could be used to create a novel bio-weapon) as his best available means—until his vision shifted to 'killing them spiritually' (a way he frames awakening) as a superior alternative.")
• leaders who burst out in anger when people do not give them exactly what they want
• a quiet hostility towards women and femininity except as ways of keeping men in line
• rejection of any responsibility to the mundanes next door ("Asked how many townspeople it (MAPLE) would take in (if the United States collapsed), Soryu closed the question off, aghast—'take people in?! Oh god...'—setting the number at zero")
• pressure on underlings to provide free or poorly-paid labour and domestic service so the leaders do not need day jobs
• paranoia about outsiders
• mental breakdowns, panic attacks, Complex PTSD, and hospital visits for mental disturbance

Students say they were recruited for a casual meditation retreat, reprogrammed, and pushed to commit their lives or money to the organization, and that criticism is deflected back on them rather than being used to reform the organization. It also mentions that when COVID reached the academy in 2022 Soryu pushed them to ignore it ("Interviews resumed in a 9x9 room with little ventilation while Soryu himself had COVID.") Rationalists are proud that they took quick action on COVID in 2020, but silent on what to do about it since vaccines arrived. Soryu's hostility to outside experts and authorities included telling students that "if we study anything from teachers other than Soryu, they must be both Asian and ordained (thus excluding the entire Western world)." One of the reporters noticed that the disciples were overwhelmingly white and mostly male, but Forall does not seem to be keen on race talk. The same report mentions a 2023 exodus by seven people which sent a report which Soryu tossed down the memory hole.

Insiders responded to the allegations by means such as:

• Issuing a FAQ:

Is it true that Soryu is not authorized to teach or run a residential Buddhist training center?

This is false. Before starting MAPLE he was authorized to do so by well-known teachers of the Vipassana and Zen traditions.

Is MAPLE a primarily hierarchical organization?

No. The org chart is quite flat. We regularly have whole-organization meetings in which everybody’s views are taken into account.

...

At another time, while Soryu was away traveling, the leadership team tried to convert the entire organization away from Buddhism. When Soryu returned, he saw this and told the leaders that if they wanted to go in this direction, they could, and that he would go do something else. They were unwilling to take on the financial responsibility of the organization and refused the offer.

• Publishing a YouTube parody of one of the accusers (this by a "coach" at the same organization as mathematician and sometimes rationalist Qiaochu Yuan)
• Reaffirming their undying devotion to Soryu Forall thought:

In the late spring of the 15th year of training at Monastic Academy (MAPLE), a writer named Sam Kriss came to MAPLE. In the last hours of his visit, Soryu Forall guided the community in a workshop on mindful decision making.

Mid-way through the workshop, Sam Kriss shifted the topic of focus from decision making to structures of domination, e.g. hierarchies, with a particular emphasis given to the lens of Marxism. He asked: “What creates mechanisms of domination?” and “In environments [e.g. MAPLE] where people are trying to clear out the attachment to thinking, are there fewer structures of domination?”

To the first question, the community answered: “Attachment to thinking.” Vimoksha engaged with Sam in detail on this to open a way for him to see how structures of domination are caused by mind.
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To the second question, the community answered: “There are fewer structures of domination here than in the mainstream.”

As these points were made and as Sam Kriss was beginning to engage with the points more directly, the community sat in agreement and clarity, happy with these teachings.

As these points were made, I felt a sense of appreciation and celebration for this community of leader-sages-in-training.

Aella announced that this sounds bad and abusive and totally unlike Tuesday at Lighthaven. x.com/Aella_Girl/status/209101… archive.ph/fZ0Lc

Conclusion

I believe people's reports that they were abused by OAK and MAPLE staff. People told similar stories about CFAR and Leverage Research and VibeCamp (not to mention Maoism and Scientology). It looks like Forall controls the revenue and the daily lives of people at the academy. I am more interested in MAPLE's connections to other TESCREAL groups. Some of the Zizians were arrested in Vermont, and the local news story noticed that MAPLE tweeted that killing was wrong during the manhunt for the Zizians, after being silent for years. Bay Area rationalism and postrationalism have Buddhist connections but the leaders of Bay Area Rationalism tend to have Jewish or Christian backgrounds. Did he really fall into the same vices as the rats on his own? It would be typical if the same guru who tells students not to use screens has intense online connections. I would also like to know more about where he fits into Buddhist traditions and practices, because founding your own monastery with eclectic practices is a great way to delete the 'preventing abuse' parts of existing Buddhist traditions.

Some EAs share the Buddhist concern about the suffering of wild animals and insects.

BlueMonday1984

2026-08-23 23:17:40

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th August 2026 - awful.systems

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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned so many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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Quedlinburg gilt als UNESCO-Weltkulturerbe mit den meisten Fachwerkhäusern Deutschlands, aber die Kleinstadt im Harz kämpft mit den gleichen Problemen wie viele Regionen in Sachsen-Anhalt: akuter Ärztemangel, Landflucht und die Folgen des Klimawandels. In dieser Folge erklären wir, warum der Harz seit 2018 fast 90 Prozent seiner Fichten verloren hat, wie die Landarztquote gegen den Ärztemangel helfen soll und warum Quedlinburg trotz aller Probleme eine der lebenswertesten Kleinstädte Deutschlands ist.
Wir schauen uns an, wie sich Deutschland gegen den Ärztemangel auf dem Land wehrt, was der Borkenkäfer mit dem Klimawandel zu tun hat und warum ausgerechnet ausländische Fachkräfte unser Gesundheitssystem retten.

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Was haben Promis und Social Media Trends mit dem Fediverse zu tun?

"Klar sind Instagram, TikTok und Twitter Scheiße, aber im Fediverse habe ich keine Reichweite.", dieser Satz fällt immer wieder, wenn es darum geht, Menschen von freien dezentralen Social Media Diensten zu überzeugen. Aber stimmt diese Behauptung überhaupt? Darum geht es in diesem Vortrag.

Viele nutzen Social Media, um eine möglichst große Reichweite aufzubauen, um wiederum möglichst vielen Menschen ihre Inhalte zu präsentieren. Dieses "Höher, weiter, schneller!" passt auf den ersten Blick überhaupt nicht zur dezentralen Welt von Mastodon, PeerTube und Co. Doch stimmt das noch? Schließlich hat sich das Netzwerk in den letzten Jahren so sehr verändert, dass es mittlerweile einige Szenepromis mit mehreren tausenden Folgenden gibt. Außerdem wünschen sich viele, dass mehr bekannte Menschen in das Fediverse kommen. Doch was gibt es für diese für Anreize? Und steht dieser Wunsch nicht im Widerspruch zur Netzwerkkultur, in der sich alle auf Augenhöhe begegnen können?

Dieser Vortrag soll einen Einblick in aktuelle Entwicklungen im Fediverse, Fachbegriffe aus der Social Media Welt und der Funktionsweise des Netzwerkes geben. Und vielleicht können wir zusammen die Frage beantworten, ob es überhaupt möglich ist, im Fediverse reich und berühmt zu werden.

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2026-08-10 19:06:13

Der Reichweitenmythos debunked - Trailer zum Talk auf der FrOSCon am 16. August 2026

Der Trailer zu meinem Talk auf der FrOSCon 2026.

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Wo? HS 6 und im Stream

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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned so many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

BlueMonday1984

2026-08-16 23:06:49

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026

Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid - welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned so many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard. Also celebrating my birthday on Friday)

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Wir sind nicht technologieskeptisch, wir sind multimilliardärsskeptisch! Der Eid der Hypocrites statt einem hippokratischen Eid. Wir starten zurück in eine “Haken dran”-Woche und das leider direkt mit ein bisschen Düsternis - dafür aber auch mit Lorenz Meyer und echten Emotionen.
Denn: Meta wird der Prozess gemacht (und der Versuch, sich den Kronzeugen aus dem Weg zu ave-mariaisieren scheitert!), TikTok vergleicht sich aus der Strafbarkeit und bei W Social fallen die Grenzen (oder werden hochgezogen? Sucht euch die bessere Metapher aus.).

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00:00:07 - Hallo Lorenz!
00:01:45 - Meta vor Gericht
00:11:05 - TikTok: Senatoren fordern Aufklärung
00:15:13 - 400 Millionen Dollar ohne Schuldspruch: TikToks Deal mit dem US-Justizministerium
00:17:12 - Studie aus Sydney zu Kamerabrillen
00:32:37 - Surfshark-Analyse: Meta ist am datenhungrigsten
00:33:54 - Baut Meta eine eigene Suchmaschine?
00:40:25 - W Social: Anna Zeiter lobt Institut für Remigration
00:50:03 - Google AI Overview reproduziert Rassismen
00:56:04 - ChatGPT for Teens: OpenAIs Jugendschutzmodus
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Windkraft in Sachsen-Anhalt ist ein zentrales Thema dieser Folge aus Wittenberg. Viele Windräder stehen auf dem Land. Trotzdem profitieren die Menschen vor Ort nicht immer direkt vom günstigen erneuerbaren Strom. Annett Louisan spricht über Strompreise, Repowering in Wittenberg-Straach und neue Batteriespeicher in Sachsen-Anhalt. Gemeinden können finanziell an Windparks beteiligt werden. Auch Bürgerenergiegenossenschaften sorgen dafür, dass mehr Geld in der Region bleibt. In Wittenberg gibt es bereits Bürgerdialoge und verschiedene Möglichkeiten zur Mitsprache. In Porto Alegre in Brasilien konnten Einwohner selbst mitentscheiden, wofür öffentliche Gelder eingesetzt werden.

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Wir blicken auf das frühere Solarvalley bei Bitterfeld. Dort entstand in den 2000er Jahren eine starke deutsche Solarindustrie. Tausende Menschen arbeiteten in der Branche. Später brachen viele Unternehmen ein. Förderkürzungen der CDU und die Konkurrenz aus China spielten dabei eine wichtige Rolle. Ausserdem kämpft die AfD gegen Bauhaus in Dessau: Die AfD Sachsen-Anhalt nennt das Bauhaus einen „Irrweg der Moderne“. Damit greift sie eine der bekanntesten deutschen Kulturinstitutionen an. Vor der Landtagswahl 2026 bekommt dieser Kulturkampf zusätzlich Gewicht. Dessau-Roßlau steht heute zwischen Schrumpfung und neuen Chancen. Die Stadt ist eng mit dem Bauhaus verbunden. Gleichzeitig zeigt die Geschichte der Region, wie politische Entscheidungen ganze Branchen verändern können.

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