Locals.com is a multifaceted social media platform. With its usual posts and comments, it is a social media platform similar to Facebook. However, we will be creating a e-mail newsletter or more accurately e-zine, The Polymath, which will provide you with weekly analysis and commentary. We are polymathic, so the range of topics will span the physical sciences, the social sciences, and the arts. Save for the occasional general announcements, this weekly e-zine will be the only direct communication that you will receive, unless you choose to receive more e-mail notifications on specific topics. As a Polymathican, you have probably noticed that the analysis and commentary of both the Left leaning 'legacy press' and the upstart, Right leaning outlets are biased at best and outright lying on many occasions. Even the physical sciences, when not ideologically infused, tends to reflect the unbridled, and typically unrealistic, optimism of the Singularitarians, Post-Humanists, et alia. You cherish erudition, objectivity and intellectual discipline. These are the editorial criteria we will use to guarantee that The Polymath will give you precisely what you want and what you are not getting elsewhere.

Locals.com also has a video functionality that will allow us to distribute content in the form of news, documentaries, lectures and even intellectual fiction. Youtube actually has a reasonable amount of this type of content, though it can be difficult to find and still must pass through Google's ideological filter. We understand that the truth is not always ideologically comfortable. Consequently, the content we will provide here must simply clear a hurdle of proper citation. I do believe that it will be refreshing.

I have set up a 'book store' on wix.com designed to provide authors (like me) with superior access to our potential readers. Like the other functionalities, I will not be running the bookstore and I will not take an equity stake in it. However, I hope that those who do build this business will use a 'review blog' format for promotion. I believe that this will be the most efficient way to get content to the proper markets.

Also, Locals.com provides a Patreon style function that only allows supporters to comment. Dave Rubin stated that his intent was to discourage flamers and trolls from going after the channels. It does have that benefit. However, to me, the most important justification is that, 'If you want a vibrant and growing community, you will provide nominal support to have it'. I am setting the support level at 24USD per year with half of it going to organizational development and the other half to community administration. For now, I will be doing all administration, but my goal is to very quickly give it to others among our community.

Locals.com provides some very interesting potential benefits. A community of Polymathicans can also provide major benefits. Because I think it is important for the future opportunities of all of us, my first book is titled, 'The Polymathic Subculture' and it is intended to promote the idea of a global community that cherishes erudition, objectivity and intellectual discipline. Share an invitation to Polymaths.locals.com to the polymathic people on your social media.