Culture
Touch grease: Gen Z ditches office work for hands-on careers
As the cost of college soars and AI wreaks havoc on entry-level positions, young people are forgoing desk jobs altogether.
The Waggle: Posen’s pad, Fleet Week horniness, and how SF really feels about tech movies
Also this week in the Waggle: A bunch of weird stuff happened at Tech Week, and SF tries to land the James Beard Awards.
How SlutCon, a flirting boot camp for awkward men, became AI safety’s latest fight
Men paid up to $18,000 to practice on “flirt girls” at a Berkeley rationalist compound. Online, critics alleged it was a sex cult.
We sent a reporter to SlutCon for 72 hours. Here’s what went down
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A deep, probing look at the three-day flirting conference, where men paid up to $18k to learn to talk to women.
