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Connor Turner @ctoverdrive.bsky.social · 13h

The content was just pure slop.

Connor Turner @ctoverdrive.bsky.social · 16h

It’s terrifying that someone who wields so much influence over power has such a horrible understanding of Watchmen and [checks notes] One Piece.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 20h

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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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 16h

As someone whose time freelancing for MLSsoccer was a vital step in my career progression, and someone who generally gleans insight from the observations of others:

This sucks so hard.

MLS is using generative AI to write match recaps. Writers used to get paid freelance rates to do that. Hssssss.

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Connor Turner @ctoverdrive.bsky.social · 1d

It's been a long time since I have seen a semi finals, for a major league, with at least 3 really likeable teams.

TSN @tsnofficial.bsky.social · 1d

The Milwaukee Brewers are heading to the NLCS for the first time since 2018! 🙌

The Brew Crew handled the Chicago Cubs 3-1 in Game 5 of the NLDS, winning the series 3-2.

Connor Turner @ctoverdrive.bsky.social · 1d

This slop was atrocious.

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Connor Turner @ctoverdrive.bsky.social · 1d

Holy fuck these are bad. #VWFC

"The second half saw Vancouver maintain their attacking momentum with Sebastian Berhalter missing in the 47′ and Daniel Ríos having shots blocked and saved."

Jordan "InanimateJ" Minamimaye @inanimatej.bsky.social · 1d

MLS is now using Generativr AI to create match summary reporte and they’re as soulless as you’d expect.

But MLS is also accepting feedback so rake them here fam

www.mlssoccer.com/news/match-r...

#VWFC

Match Recap: Orlando City SC 1, Vancouver Whitecaps FC 2 – October 11 | MLSSoccer.com

Vancouver Whitecaps FC defeated Orlando City 1–2 on Saturday at Inter&Co Stadium in MLS Regular Season action.

www.mlssoccer.com

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Connor Turner @ctoverdrive.bsky.social · 1d

Glad I turned on the #flames game to see them drop two goals in three minutes….

Connor Turner @ctoverdrive.bsky.social · 1d

Started tearing up just watching this. I would not be able to hold it together if I was her brother.

I have no idea how the US heals from this.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

“YOU hit HER.”

CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)

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Connor Turner @ctoverdrive.bsky.social · 2d

Who is even going to be playing? Müller and Laborda?

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Connor Turner @ctoverdrive.bsky.social · 3d

Pretty sure this is one of those games you just put behind you and move on. With this condensed schedule there are going to be a few games like this.

#flames

Connor Turner @ctoverdrive.bsky.social · 3d

The toughest gig outside of being a #sabres podcaster.

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Connor Turner @ctoverdrive.bsky.social · 3d

Ha. I respect that.

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Connor Turner @ctoverdrive.bsky.social · 3d

Wild that Wolf gets the start two nights in a row. Makes sense, but that's wild. #flames

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Connor Turner @ctoverdrive.bsky.social · 3d

She’s already done that.

Most people in Metro Vancouver weren’t really paying attention to pipelines politics, but you bet they will be now. The BCNDP aren’t going to let a good reason to boost their poll numbers and the Liberals aren’t gamble any seats in Metro Vancouver to make Smith happy.

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Connor Turner @ctoverdrive.bsky.social · 3d

I honestly just bought the new Hayley Williams album, because “find me at Whole Foods, bitch” is an epic quote.

Connor Turner @ctoverdrive.bsky.social · 4d

Kadri you magnificent bastard. #flames

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4d

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Connor Turner @ctoverdrive.bsky.social · 4d

It's like the The Army–McCarthy trials, but run by the characters from Idiocracy.

Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 4d

Bondi claiming they arrested [checks notes] "the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa" has me in stitches

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Bondi: "Bondi: "Just like we did with cartels, we are going to take the same approach, President Trump, with antifa -- destroy the entire organization from top to bottom. We are going to take them apart."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Connor Turner @ctoverdrive.bsky.social · 4d

Man Prime Days is such an absolute scam.

My wife and I marvel at how much we don't miss having Amazon in our lives since dropping it a year and a half ago.

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 4d

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

Connor Turner @ctoverdrive.bsky.social · 5d

Touched a nerve there I guess.

Fair point on the extension part. My point about the last year of McDavid’s contract turning into a gong show if they haven’t won the cup or come close before that final year still stands. The Oilers are going to have to get it done asap.

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Connor Turner @ctoverdrive.bsky.social · 5d

If people want to be realistic, the #oilers probably only have this year to win the cup.

Imagine if they get swept in the first round this year, what the narrative will be leading into the summer and throughout McDavid's "final year" as an Oiler. That pressure will be more than any team to handle.

Cervantes Xavier 🇨🇦 @cervantesx.bsky.social · 5d

#Oilers Captain Connor McDavid thought carefully about his words on whether his 2 year hometown discount extension sets a window for the organization:

"... If it lends urgency, that's a good by-product, I guess"

#LetsGoOilers

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Connor Turner @ctoverdrive.bsky.social · 5d

Flacco is one ring away from having the full AFC North infinity gauntlet.

TSN @tsnofficial.bsky.social · 5d

Veteran QB Joe Flacco has been traded to the Cincinnati Bengals! 🐯 Per Ian Rapoport.

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 5d

MAY I EXPLAIN?

DEAR ANN LANDERS: It is obvious from reading your column that large numbers of husbands and boyfriends are going bisexual or totally gay. I'll bet few women have figured out why this is happening to them. May I explain?

--North County Times, 15 Aug 1982

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The Onion @theonion.com · 5d

Slipknot Travels To India To Begin Psychedelic, Free-Love Phase Of Career https://theonion.com/slipknot-travels-to-india-to-begin-psychedelic-free-love-phase-of-career/

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