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EGADS, It's LÜ BOOOOO!!!!!

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EGADS, It's LÜ BOOOOO!!!!! @cheflubu.bsky.social · 11d

BONE GLUUUUUE'S REAAAADY

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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 3h

destroyed digital media so he can force you to attend an in-person lecture and listen to his half-baked 2004-era AV Club essays

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 6h

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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EGADS, It's LÜ BOOOOO!!!!! @cheflubu.bsky.social · 1m

Leshar is a monster

EGADS, It's LÜ BOOOOO!!!!! @cheflubu.bsky.social · 7m

Did he fuck kids

The Athletic @theathletic.com · 37m

BREAKING: Penn State has fired head coach James Franklin, the school announced Sunday.

www.nytimes.com/athletic/670...

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 2d

An image of Roboute Guilliman in his full sci-fi Roman Emperor regalia, gloriously gesturing into the future, overlaid by the text from tumblr user "so many orcs which reads: " *voice of someone craving even the tiniest sliver of control* i could make a spreadsheet,

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EGADS, It's LÜ BOOOOO!!!!! @cheflubu.bsky.social · 11m

Gief in Semis is good, gg to blaz, great play.

EGADS, It's LÜ BOOOOO!!!!! @cheflubu.bsky.social · 12m

two men with beards are facing each other with the words angief and zangi on the bottom right

ALT: two men with beards are facing each other with the words angief and zangi on the bottom right

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EGADS, It's LÜ BOOOOO!!!!! @cheflubu.bsky.social · 14m

sigh

EGADS, It's LÜ BOOOOO!!!!! @cheflubu.bsky.social · 15m

COME ON KOBOYAN DO IT FOR THE GRAPPLERS

EGADS, It's LÜ BOOOOO!!!!! @cheflubu.bsky.social · 17m

TAKE HIM FOR A RIDE

EGADS, It's LÜ BOOOOO!!!!! @cheflubu.bsky.social · 17m

COME ON ZANGIEF SUPREMACY

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EGADS, It's LÜ BOOOOO!!!!! @cheflubu.bsky.social · 20m

Ichi the Witch is The Accountant but magic

EGADS, It's LÜ BOOOOO!!!!! @cheflubu.bsky.social · 34m

Couldn't think of a more "I don't know shit about anime" match-up yeah?

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EGADS, It's LÜ BOOOOO!!!!! @cheflubu.bsky.social · 34m

Me muting this account

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EGADS, It's LÜ BOOOOO!!!!! @cheflubu.bsky.social · 41m

Data quality doesn't matter

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 2d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

EGADS, It's LÜ BOOOOO!!!!! @cheflubu.bsky.social · 42m

I'm willing to invest upwards of ten euros in VC angel investor money into whoever can invent sex 2, a sex that reverses tiredness

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☆「ＹＡＳＥ」IdolismJ ☆ @idolismj.yase.world · 5h

That green base wasn't the only color that ended up looking washed out in the final design

Fighting-Games Daily @fgcdaily.bsky.social · 5h

🎨Bayonetta's character designer, Mari Shimazaki made Miary Zo's Costume 03!

“The combination of a green base with red accents was inspired by the Madagascar flag, and from an early stage onwards, a white inner layer was incorporated to highlight Miariz's dark skin.”

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EGADS, It's LÜ BOOOOO!!!!! @cheflubu.bsky.social · 4h

This is what a life without positive male role models creates imo

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 6h

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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EGADS, It's LÜ BOOOOO!!!!! @cheflubu.bsky.social · 4h

Imagine how stilted and inhuman you must sound for a German person to go "no that's a robot"

EGADS, It's LÜ BOOOOO!!!!! @cheflubu.bsky.social · 4h

My partner just told me she knows when guys use LLM to send messages because it's always bad and unnatural

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EGADS, It's LÜ BOOOOO!!!!! @cheflubu.bsky.social · 4h

He hasn't heard back but he's still sending texts like "are you there" and "I'm so lonely"

EGADS, It's LÜ BOOOOO!!!!! @cheflubu.bsky.social · 5h

Pathetic: use AI to craft text messages to women who never wanted to talk to you in the first place

Prophetic: getting dates because I believe trans rights are human rights and Israel is committing genocide with my whole chest

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EGADS, It's LÜ BOOOOO!!!!! @cheflubu.bsky.social · 5h

Dude must have been absolutely boring as shit in person

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 10h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 6h

So thankful that dudes without game now have the option of driving all of our energy bills up to come up with devastating lines like it was nice to meet you

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 10h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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EGADS, It's LÜ BOOOOO!!!!! @cheflubu.bsky.social · 6h

Harada brought more soul calibur to tekken