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Dave @daswickerman.bsky.social · 7h

I kind of want to see a movie where Michael Shannon and Bill Hader play estranged brothers trying to save their family's regional hardware store chain.

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Dave @daswickerman.bsky.social · 21h

AND a new US-centered 100 Bullets?! Given -everything- that's a comic I think about almost daily.

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bring on the headless horses @ihavethatonvinyl.com · 21h

🎵the zombies were having fun
the party had just begun
the guests included
wolfman dracula and his son
those are people who died, died
those are people who died, died
they all did the monster mash
and they died🎵

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Dave @daswickerman.bsky.social · 21h

He is One Piece.

One Piece of Shit.

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 21h

Dude I’m calling it, Thiel is cooked. He accidentally dropped a Tangible Detail. Most people didn’t know he existed and now he’s The Billionaire Who Thinks That One Piece Is Jesus.

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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Dave @daswickerman.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah! It's really a great theater movie, the scale and the mist make it more cinematic the bigger you go with it.

Dave @daswickerman.bsky.social · 1d

Also, it's a weird movie in that it's equally good (and in some ways better) in black and white.

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Dave @daswickerman.bsky.social · 2d

Private Equity ass government. Stripping the entire country for parts.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Dave @daswickerman.bsky.social · 2d

Start a fund now to install the medallion on his grave. Job done.

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Dave @daswickerman.bsky.social · 2d

Are the utensils extra long so you can more easily reach the plates of the proletariat?

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Summer 🏳️‍⚧️ @artgirlsummer.bsky.social · 3d

Why can't AI tell the difference between a stalagmite and a pine tree, but it can draw a clear sonnenrad?

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Dave @daswickerman.bsky.social · 3d

Christopher Lee would have turned that nazi dream into a blood soaked nightmare.

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Dave @daswickerman.bsky.social · 3d

It's true! I can't wait for you all to start using my original character Scam Altman in your sora videos of hitler orgies, Gary, Indiana cock fighting, and Slap Chop guy dating sims.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3d

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Sam Altman Says Copyright Holders Are Begging for Their Characters to Be Included in Sora

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has remained adamant that rightsholders are already lining up to have their IP featured on Sora 2.

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Dave @daswickerman.bsky.social · 3d

Their inherent lack of Tylenol is why RFK Jr. subsists on a diet only of roadkill bear meat, children's foreskins, and pure grain alcohol.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3d

RFK JR: There are many other confirmations -- there are two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It’s highly likely because they are given Tylenol

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 3d

in which a cop fails to understand the concept of “magnets” during a deeply stupid mistargeted raid, and loses his loaded rifle to the uncaring maw of a MRI

www.dailynews.com/2024/09/28/l...

LAPD officer lost rifle to MRI device during bungled raid, lawsuit alleges

Van Nuys medical imaging company alleges its constitutional rights were violated by officers who mistargeted the business for an illegal pot operation.

www.dailynews.com

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404 Media @404media.co · 3d

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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Dave @daswickerman.bsky.social · 3d

Good on DC for taking a principled stand.
www.theverge.com/news/797540/...

DC Comics won’t support generative AI: ‘not now, not ever’

“People have an instinctive reaction to what feels authentic.”

www.theverge.com

Dave @daswickerman.bsky.social · 3d

Stop telling people to get off X.

Start asking them why THEY are racists.

kate conger @kateconger.com · 4d

Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.

Screenshot depicting posts on X, one showing the suspect accused of starting the Palisades Fire, a white man. The X news tab reports on the suspect's arrest, but shows a photo of a black man instead.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 4d

In some ways this is the government now

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Dave @daswickerman.bsky.social · 4d

These folks are nazis. They're spending a lot of time defending the decision to be a nazi, but they're nazis, every last one of them.
www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

These Bay Area residents left the Democratic Party. Here’s why they’re joining Republicans

The recent red shift among immigrant voters and their descendants isn’t all about President Trump.

www.sfchronicle.com

Dave @daswickerman.bsky.social · 4d

They've heard your concerns about accessibility! GDC is now only available to those who can afford a giant mech or a GAI data center!

Game Developers Conference @officialgdc.bsky.social · 4d

A New Era Awaits!

bit.ly/3KKYUIq

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Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social · 4d

You would not believe how many stories like this have been popping up over the last ~5 years

Not just full games cancelled—entire characters and plot lines removed or changed, leaving less time for making the *rest of the game better*, to try avoiding a small and malicious contingent of voices.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 4d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Dave @daswickerman.bsky.social · 4d

I love that she even manages to throw some shade at AI slop while reassuring everyone that's she's fine. Truly one of the greatest people to ever grace this earth.

Air-rum @aarum.bsky.social · 4d

IKTR DOLLY said let me put a video out. We Love You Dolly ❤️

Dave @daswickerman.bsky.social · 4d

They also were actually deployed outside of FIFA Club World Cup events.

Dave @daswickerman.bsky.social · 4d

This is going to cause massive problems.

Eric Geller @ericjgeller.com · 4d

The U.S. military is reducing the frequency of its mandatory cybersecurity training, per a new memo from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. media.defense.gov/2025/Sep/30/... (h/t www.meritalk.com/articles/pen...)