"And they writhed with their feet for a little space, but for no long while."

A year ago (follow me closely here) Steve Sailer gave an interview with Alex Kaschuta, whom I had never heard of. I think it was the first of Steve's run of online podcast appearances.

Six months ago, Alex interviewed Regan Artnz-Grey, whom I had never heard of.

Two weeks ago, Regan interviewed Jacob Falkovich, whom I had never heard of.

One of Jacob's pinned tweets is a poll by Aella, whom I had . . . well, okay, I had watched the John Stossel interview with Aella a couple of years ago, but whom I had never otherwise followed, and I want to make sure everyone knows this.

Anyway . . .

My take. I've been given to understand (Louise Perry, multiple podcasts, no links, sorry) that, um, choking is now A Thing. (Don't blame me, I'm Gen X.) It occurred to me, reading this poll, that, done correctly, choking could offer its participants a replicable experience of killing / being killed? Not judging, jusk asking the question.

On a related note, in the post-election analysis of Trump's bypassing media gatekeepers by his appearance on Joe Rogan and a number of other podcasts, I have seen the word "manosphere" used to describe the universe of these podcasts. And its frankly irritating. The manosphere was indeed A Thing 15 years ago, and while I could see stretching the term to cover Andrew Tate and Fresh-n-Fit, it is an abuse to apply it to Joe Rogan. It would be rather more accurate to say that such good ideas that were pioneered by the original manosphere have now been assimilated into the larger dissident memeplex (and whatever their differences I would include Alex, Regan, Jakob and Louise as participants); those ideas that were less true or useful have been left to . . . whatever corner of the discourse Andrew represents.