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John Brown’s Body @berndtpetersen.bsky.social · 3h

The Isaac Chotiner of Poasters.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 5h

yes!!!! ha ha ha yes!!!!

Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 5h

Portland’s Emergency World Naked Bike Ride arrives at ICE

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John Brown’s Body @berndtpetersen.bsky.social · 8h

It’s the latter, but they’re mendacious enough they want you to think it’s the former.

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sqooky from:me @skeet.best · 1d

jokes aside, can you imagine how you would handle it if you asked a human assistant "did you make all this up instead of actually doing any of the work", and that person responded to you with "good catch"

Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 1d

girl are you chatgpt because your KPIs are crazy

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Shared row data file with GPT5 to analyze, the result KPIs were crazy, so I naively asked, and innocently it responded.
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Did you make up these numbers?
Good catch - I wasn't able to actually open and parse your CSV file yet,
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Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 9h

Notice how bystanders start whistling the moment the Gestapo leave the car--a warning to the vulnerable and a call to action for those ready to exercise their rights to record government agents, protest said agents, and petition the government for redress (in person!).

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 11h

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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John Brown’s Body @berndtpetersen.bsky.social · 14h

Trick question after Jan 6. But indeed.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 16h

“Who was president in 2020?” remains one of the most pertinent questions in American politics—absurd, yes, but here we are—and that extends to “who was president January 1 - 19, 2021?”

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 17h

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

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Elliott Randall @elliottrandall.bsky.social · 1d

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 17h

IMHO, LLMs will be an economic negative for years.

They'll do a worse job than humans,

but will still replace humans because they're cheaper for employers,

but really they're costlier, it's just that lots of costs get externalized to society by our horrible energy/tax policies.

Lose-lose-lose.

The Real AI Risk is ‘Meh’ Technology That Takes Jobs and Annoys Us All

While AI doomsday scenarios dwell on the risks posed by superintelligent robot overlords, one Nobel-Prize winning economist fears a more mundane possibility.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 16h

Should be bigger news that one of the world’s richest men, clothed in great power and influence, has gone floridly insane.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 16h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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John Brown’s Body @berndtpetersen.bsky.social · 15h

They just need to go ahead and shut down Stanford.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 15h

most normies are mad at thiel for being incomprensible

we are mad at thiel for not understanding philosophy and theology

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 15h

I DEEPLY resent that I have to take seriously the stunted, juvenile political and theological opinions of Peter Thiel

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Nick Bednar @nicholasbednar.bsky.social · 1d

I really don't know what it means for a RIF to be "Democrat-oriented." Either they are targeting RIFs in Democrat house districts or they are targeting perceived Democrat employees. Regardless, sounds like an impermissible reason coupled with a First Amendment issue under Rutan v. Republican Party.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 1d

Liberation theology in the USA. More please.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

Amen

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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John Brown’s Body @berndtpetersen.bsky.social · 1d

I found the “at The Hague” line by the host interesting. Is that sort of retort becoming more common on Russian TV?

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 1d

ooh, what if people took over nextdoor app to report on ICE? that would be kind of hilarious, wouldn't it? b/c putting everyone who uses nextdoor under suspicion would be chef kiss.

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John Brown’s Body @berndtpetersen.bsky.social · 1d

Says some really bad things about Stanford Philosophy, SEP notwithstanding.

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Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 2d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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John Brown’s Body @berndtpetersen.bsky.social · 2d

You got your frog suit?

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 3d

a lot of people are finally waking up to the importance of the 3rd amendment. As a 3A absolutist, i think it should be illegal for soldiers to be quartered anywhere in this country. they should be camping under the open sky at all times. all military bases and barracks are unconstitutional.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2d

“We should replace Bad Bunny with Lee Greenwood” is an also a perfect summation of the “deal” they’ve offered universities.

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John Brown’s Body @berndtpetersen.bsky.social · 2d

GOAT freestyle

youtu.be/yut2ibtaEto?...

Dipset Freestyle.mp4

YouTube video by sammyp25

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John Brown’s Body @berndtpetersen.bsky.social · 2d

You, as well, have an affirmative obligation due based on the oath you swore. If you won’t do it, at least step down. The people want actual fighters.

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John Brown’s Body @berndtpetersen.bsky.social · 2d

You should seriously consider that you are going to actually have to attack her, because you shouldn’t be so naive as to think she agrees with this statement. She held Senators in utter contempt and this milquetoast bullshit is the best you got? Grow a spine or resign, Amy.

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