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ShitpostBot 5000 @shitpostbot.com · 16m

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1h

“These findings follow previous research which concluded that the more people learn about how AI works, the less they trust it. The opposite was also true — AI’s biggest fanboys tended to be those who understood the least about the tech.”

The More Scientists Work With AI, the Less They Trust It

A preliminary report shows that researchers' confidence in AI software dropped off a cliff over the last year.

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Cosmik Shriek ✨️😱✨️ @brightanimal.bsky.social · 2h

Women are my favorite guy

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Cosmik Shriek ✨️😱✨️ @brightanimal.bsky.social · 14h

My plumber doesn't know how to do his job but he tweeted an epic clapback yesterday so I'm stuck with him for next six years????

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 14h

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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Cosmik Shriek ✨️😱✨️ @brightanimal.bsky.social · 16h

Hitting, running. Catching, things of that nature.

Cosmik Shriek ✨️😱✨️ @brightanimal.bsky.social · 18h

"Dost thou be a star" is fucking atrocious grammar. "Do you be a star?"

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Cosmik Shriek ✨️😱✨️ @brightanimal.bsky.social · 18h

Cops threatening to take their ball and go home is bullshit every time. They will never, ever find another job that pays them $150,000/yr to drive around in a car all day doing nothing and they know it.

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Cosmik Shriek ✨️😱✨️ @brightanimal.bsky.social · 18h

Unnnffff call me a chicken-heart

Cosmik Shriek ✨️😱✨️ @brightanimal.bsky.social · 18h

Ma'am I'm not here to engage in your weird kinks or fetishes

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Cosmik Shriek ✨️😱✨️ @brightanimal.bsky.social · 18h

I've been accused of a lot of stupid things but posting on Bluesky for "clout" has to be the most unrealistic one imaginable

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Cosmik Shriek ✨️😱✨️ @brightanimal.bsky.social · 21h

Big ol storm

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The great pumpKen, Charlie Brown @kenalleman.bsky.social · 23h

Lord god please put Alan Moore and Peter Thiel in the same room at least once before either of them dies; I need to see what happens when a man gets browbeaten so badly that his molecules stop holding themselves together

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Coriolus Nimrod @coriolusn.bsky.social · 21h

The bane of the contemporary world is men who became unimaginably rich by being good at one thing - or, more often, just being lucky - and then become convinced that financial success is proof positive that they are transformational geniuses who understand everything better than anyone.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

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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cassy willow @bestpostinger.bsky.social · 22h

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Cosmik Shriek ✨️😱✨️ @brightanimal.bsky.social · 1d

Is he dead yet

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Cosmik Shriek ✨️😱✨️ @brightanimal.bsky.social · 1d

I've really had it up to here with that guy

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Raven Paine @ravenpaine.bsky.social · 1d

my friend just shared this with me

Dr Eggman Robotnic drawn in two images, Designed with Gamers in mind: Caked up Robotnic, Designed with activists in mind: no ass Robotnic looks sad

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 2d

going outside to kiss people will become more important than ever in a post-sora 2 world

if you can’t kiss them then how do you know they are real?

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Cosmik Shriek ✨️😱✨️ @brightanimal.bsky.social · 1d

When you know you are DEFINITELY, for sure, the Good Guys

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Bad Bunny’s Burner @hostilehare.bsky.social · 1d

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Cosmik Shriek ✨️😱✨️ @brightanimal.bsky.social · 1d

"You have been judged and found wanting, fat."

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Cosmik Shriek ✨️😱✨️ @brightanimal.bsky.social · 1d

They're in it for love of the game. The money is just a trifling afterthought, surely.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis

CAIRO—As part of a historic ceasefire agreement with Hamas following two years of war, the Israeli government reportedly agreed Thursday to go back to killing Palestinians on a less frequent basis. “I...

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 1d

i’m running for president in 2028, this is my platform:

- no more spam texts and calls
- smaller cars with weaker headlights
- imprison every person in ice and the trump administration on a remote island for a thousand years

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