WIRED's leak of private retreat "Dialog" sparks debate over "secret society" characterization

I got invited to one, but the list of potential attendees they sent me was mostly SAAS executives etc, so it seemed boring. Now WIRED gives the full list and it's got Senators, Cabinet members, etc. In retrospect, of course the actually powerful people wouldn't give permission to include their names on the email sent to untrusted would-be recruits. At least I'll have a great story to tell my kids about why we're locked out of the permanent overclass.

I think I might be the second most scandalous person who attends tbh.

im coin toss on whether you'd like it. it's a lot of talking in like... idk a cultural way that you do not seem to talk in. like literally cadence and word choice. but they do pretty well at making the structure good and you gotta just find like the 3 ppl you think are real interesting and then go pester them. half the time I go it's pretty boring but the other half i find a life-changing person i fall in love with/become great friends with/work on a project with. you gotta find the ppl who don't use that specific cleanshaven cadence and word choice

it's still good like i obvs have gone six times. it's really good for meeting people in wildly different worlds than you are in

@Aella_Girl Was this like bohemian grove, but for Xers and Millenials? Was it like Richard Nixon said about Bohemian Grove - "the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine"?

@Aella_Girl @slatestarcodex I went once, made 1 new friend, got to talk to people about topics that one rarely hears about in the bay (like long term marriages!), overall worth it, but the spicy conversations are not so spicy if one lives in the bay or is an online spicelord

@Aella_Girl What makes you elite?

@Aella_Girl What an interesting life

@Aella_Girl eh, libs being there isn't much of a surprise. but if anyone from DSA went it might be news

@Aella_Girl Sounds like a room full of rich fart sniffers.

@Aella_Girl I haven't read the article but the title of it reminds me of movie commercials that use quotes like viewers are saying "Non-stop Action", "On the Edge of My Seat", "Blah Blah Blah".

If someone can vouch that the article isn't clickbait, then I'll read.

@Aella_Girl How much are tickets

@rustybonesaw people hate her bc they’re not her

@drethelin uh im not sure i should say, they range in price, but they range from very expensive to very very expensive.

@Aella_Girl you get eiffel towered by elon and thiel?

@Aella_Girl Second? 🤨 Brent Dill gets an invite too? 🙈

@slatestarcodex @Aella_Girl Come! I've mentioned your name a few times...

you would find some of it great, probably some of it a bit sophomoric (which is an update in itself)

@Aella_Girl hmm... who's the first?

@Aella_Girl yes! please do

@Aella_Girl Asked to guess the event given only the clues in the Wired headline and Aella’s tweet, GLM 5.2 correctly guesses this has to be a Peter Thiel event. It has some joke suggestions for who out-scandals Aella, like did they get Sam Bankman-Fried out of jail…