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OκULTRA XP🧿, writer for The Economist

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OκULTRA XP🧿, writer for The Economist @0kultra.bsky.social · Feb 26

I have come to accept a simpler and more general argument against billionaires: by their very nature they impose centralized planning over economy they infest, becoming de-facto communist planners, and thus impose upon their habitat all the pathologies that rise from impossibility of planned econ

Boo Jank @billjank.bsky.social · Feb 25

It may be finally sinking in that a world of radical wealth inequality is unstable, actually.

There should be reward for good work, yes. There should not be outsize reward for being born rich.

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Jim Kersey @jimkersey.bsky.social · 4m

Found this in a pile. Good morning!

Drawing of a guy recognizing The Amok Bros., who deny the assertion.

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OκULTRA XP🧿, writer for The Economist @0kultra.bsky.social · 3m

Robotrolling aside the way the LLM mostly keeps on track of the plot is remarkable. Given that it is probably some tiny model makes it even more remarkable

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I Made an AI Game Companion Have an Existential Crisis

YouTube video by MitchManix

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 11m

Trump’s fraud stunt with the tariffs on China, cost the US economy $1.65 trillion, which was wiped out in seconds.

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 11m

These sullen, sanctimonious, supposed of Jesus remain oblivious to the irony that a massive police presence and a diligent volunteer staff of dozens were required to continually protect families, adult couples, children, and elderly attendees from them.

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Our Town's PRIDE Festival Was a Beautiful, Joyful Celebration of Community. Then, The "Christians" Showed Up.

“And they’ll know we are Christians by our love.” - Christian hymn

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Vivienne M @vivziepop.bsky.social · 3h

I feel frustrated that “bad writing” nowadays is just people’s catch all way of saying they didn’t like it. Cuz what’s the bad writing? the story? dialogue? structure? A lot is subjective to taste. There’s always ways to detect “bad writing” but it takes justification past “this isn’t what I wanted”

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blpdc.bsky.social @blpdc.bsky.social · 23m

ChatGPT just scored Thiel at 20-25 out of 100. With 0 being drivel and 100 being profound, and I kind of trust the drivel machine to identify drivel.

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erikhendrickson.bsky.social @erikhendrickson.bsky.social · 43m

I agree, but your thread is too long, too hard to read.

Vought is a Christian Nationalist extremist, an incredibly dangerous, evil person, who is using Trump to replace our government with a dictator theocracy.

This is an emergency.

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wargarurumon.bsky.social @wargarurumon.bsky.social · 34m

He mad that he can't controll american society/culture

He mad that he simply lost the debate

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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qntm @qntm.org · 34m

As economic growth continues to falter, the civic council of Omelas debates adding a third child

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OκULTRA XP🧿, writer for The Economist @0kultra.bsky.social · 31m

I duno man, that's just pocket Cyrano

OκULTRA XP🧿, writer for The Economist @0kultra.bsky.social · 35m

Honestly with his money he could hire a good SciFi author to make up a new religion

Che-boo!-rashka @leshij.bsky.social · 1h

Guess it's harder to charge $200 bucks for a lecture in which you call Greta Thunberg and AOC Galactuses (Galacti?)

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 3h

I just don't understand the desire to use the antichrist as a metaphor in this way when you're going to detach it from any biblical analysis at all and talk about comics and manga.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 57m

it is truly remarkable that almost 100 years later, the paper is up to the same issues again. and this time they cannot be blamed on foreign correspondents

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1h

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The New York Times’ ‘Nazi Correspondent’

As Adolf Hitler rose to power in Germany and then embarked on his program of world conquest and mass extermination, The New York Times’ Berlin bureau chief was busy slanting the news in his favor

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 44m

The irony of Theil rambling on about how everyone he doesn’t like is the Antichrist like a philosophy undergrad drunk on cheap vodka in the dorm’s common area is that if you’re going to look at any public figure and say they could be the Antichrist it’s Donald Trump, a guy he supports.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3h

lmao

In his last lecture, Thiel also responds during the Q&A portion to a question about potential 2028 presidential candidates and whether they are antichrist or katechon. When asked about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Thiel says that he worries about there being a “woke American pope”– Pope Leo XIV – and a “woke American president”, creating a “Caesar-Papist fusion”. He goes on to talk about Ocasio-Cortez in relation to Thunberg:

One of the ways these things always get reported is, I denounce Greta as an antichrist. And I want to be very clear: Greta is, I mean she’s maybe sort of a type or a shadow of an antichrist of a sort that would be tempting. But I don’t want to flatter her too much. So with Greta, you shouldn’t take her as the antichrist for sure. With AOC, you can choose whether or not you want to believe this disclaimer that I just gave.

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Lokana @lokana.bsky.social · 1h

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crazy ass moments in nu metal history @numetalmoment.bsky.social · 19h

Ian Watkins has been stabbed to death by a prison inmate. The Nu Metal Agenda is sending critical support to the inmate during this difficult time. numetalagenda.com/ian-watkins-...

Ian Watkins Released From Prison, Welcomed to Hell

In case you needed to read some good news today.

numetalagenda.com

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1h

www.openculture.com/2016/11/the-...

The New York Times’ First Profile of Hitler: His Anti-Semitism Is Not as “Genuine or Violent” as It Sounds (1922)

I’ve heard it again and again. The now President-elect made vicious and belittling attacks on African-Americans, Muslims, immigrants, women, the disabled, etc. during the campaign season (and for seve...

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1h

we're due for the 100 year anniversary of the NYT's Stalin and Hitler apologias

Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 21h

Trump straight up murdering people in the Caribbean and the NYT writes this

The Trump Split Screen: A Peacemaker Abroad, a Retribution Campaign at Home

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 1h

Were gonna find 274 people that I pardoned, and out them back in jail!!

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 2h

This has real -- I intended to dm "Pam" -- energy.

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 1h

It's the problem with conspiracy theories meeting reality. A little thought and it becomes clear why it's so insane. You pardoned 274 agents Mr. President?

Haggai Elitzur @helitzur.bsky.social · 1h

Haven't they been going back and forth on this since the actual day of J6? Alternating between "it was great, they were all patriots" and "it was all an antifa false flag."

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OκULTRA XP🧿, writer for The Economist @0kultra.bsky.social · 1h

This may have to do with aspects of Asian cultures that are incomprehensible to Republicans, for example Korean culture has notion "배신", act of violating trust or allegiance, harming ones who helped you, and - this may be especially hard for republicans to grok - it is considered very bad in Korea

wargarurumon.bsky.social @wargarurumon.bsky.social · 3h

One of the most fascinating developments i often think of is how Asians just completely turned towards democrats

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 14h

Bad Bunny went from bagging groceries recording music on SoundCloud to being one of the most streamed artists in the world. He embodies the entrepreneurial spirit of Latinos that Republicans say should make them natural conservatives. Instead they are crashing out on him.

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Ezada Sinn @ezadasinn.com · 2h

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 14h

Just a reminder that Wikipedia is the only remaining reliable source of information that right wing billionaires can't control. (Although they'll never stop trying.)

Please donate to them whenever you can. Even a little bit helps.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 17h

Republicans feel empowered by their leader's autocratic coup against the Constitution to pursue their most cartoonishly evil agenda items, like literally making it easier to kill seals and whales

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Republicans try to weaken 50-year-old law protecting whales, seals and polar bears

One of the U.S.’s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction, is the subject of an effort for cutbacks from Republican lawmakers who now feel they have the political will to do so

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