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choo choo choose anger @ralphtheewiggum.bsky.social · 3h

The difference bet the way the press handled Biden’s vs Trump’s health issues, as well as the standard to which they hold his conduct is one of the greatest scandals in the history of journalism.

Their conduct, and the knowledge they’ve done tremendous damage to their profession, should shame them.

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 4h

he has been talking obsessively about the afterlife for some time, he is missing for chunks of time, his aides are trying harder than usual to show he’s fit, his public appearances show someone in visible physical decline, and jd vance talked impromptu about being prepared to assume office

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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⟢ Avilone ‹𝟹 ₊˚.⋆ @faeriegasm.bsky.social · 11h

This will be the hill I die on, “porn addiction” is not real, that phrase specifically is used as a dog whistle and is backed only by pseudoscience which has been created by right wing fascist organisations with the intention to demonise minorities. It is not real, actual science proves it isn’t.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 18h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Paul Ford @ftrain.bsky.social · 14h

I’m reading up on these Girardian dudes and it seems that they got all Antichristpilled and forgot that Jesus is the resus for the mimesis.

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dvc @diegov.bsky.social · 12h

Unfortunately

Many such cases

Paul Ford @ftrain.bsky.social · 14h

I’m reading up on these Girardian dudes and it seems that they got all Antichristpilled and forgot that Jesus is the resus for the mimesis.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 14h

[Picture of Peter Thiel]
"This is your brain on cocaine, twelve unregulated testosterone-like substances, and the methylated trans-isometer of a Soviet de-icing agent rejected for excessive toxicity in sled dogs".

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17h

oh this guy is delusional delusional

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 20h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 13h

*later, after the all-hands meeting*

"why's the boss talking about wanting to destroy God and become a monument to non-existence?"

"idk let's just ship this React feature"

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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 13h

A basic ass back office web server is like $6 a month from digital ocean, I used to charge in the thousands to set this stuff up for like local real estate brokerages.

Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 13h

Enjoying forbidden delights (spinning up LAMP servers for open source business software)

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 13h

one of the greatest sins of American financial speculation/culture of hype in technology is that it completely erases (and arguably stunts) how most technological and engineering progress occurs, ie at the margin.

There are punch throughs but these, too, require at least a decade to appreciate.

Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 13h

yeah, the technological innovations if the past twenty years in QoL household products are genuinely miraculous. it just happened gradually and there isnt any one specific invention that we can point to

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foucaultshi.bsky.social @foucaultshi.bsky.social · 13h

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 15h

My “don’t worry about China, it will all be fine” shirt has people asking a lot of questions that are already answered by my shirt

A tweet from Donald Trump that reads “Don’t worry about China, it will all be fine! Highly respected President Xi just had a bad moment. He doesn’t want Depression for his country, and neither do I. The U.S.A. wants to help China, not hurt it!!! President DJT”

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 14h

it really is just Gambling

zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 15h

There is the obvious 'the boss is obsessively indexing on the level of the S&P500', but an indirect way that fate of MAGA and that of the current dominant culture in equity/risk markets are intimately related is a similar paranoid fear of being a loser justifying total indulgence wrt downside risk

Financial illiteracy @sparticuszorro.bsky.social · 1d

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 15h

There is the obvious 'the boss is obsessively indexing on the level of the S&P500', but an indirect way that fate of MAGA and that of the current dominant culture in equity/risk markets are intimately related is a similar paranoid fear of being a loser justifying total indulgence wrt downside risk

Financial illiteracy @sparticuszorro.bsky.social · 1d

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · Aug 29

All models are wrong; some are useful.

All LLM outputs are hallucinations. Some are useful.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 1d

It's incredible the extent to which Congress just utterly refuses to defend itself. You'd think for entirely self-interested reasons you would stridently oppose having the power of the purse arbitrarily ripped from you, ya know?

Why would you allow yourself to become the Roman Senate circa 27 BC.

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Karthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · 3d

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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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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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dvc @diegov.bsky.social · 18h

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Jake Flores @feraljokes.bsky.social · 1d

I can't believe this is real

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 20h

tyranny of the midwits

Jake Flores @feraljokes.bsky.social · 1d

I can't believe this is real

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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 19h

“Our analysis of the animations found that more than half contained 3D assets taken from third-party sources. Over 50 different third-party assets were identified in total, which were replicated hundreds of times across animations of sites ranging from Gaza to Iran.”

www.972mag.com/israeli-army...

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chikoritaglazer420 @jpek.bsky.social · 1d

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · Mar 25

i cannot believe that after Biden and RBG we are still having discussions about whether 80-year-olds should hold public office. they shouldn't. flat out.

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 1d

the inverse of this is how much of politics is now just accepting that you have to vote for people who hate you, so your best option is to vote for people who hate other people more than they hate you

dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · 1d

I think the main refreshing thing about Mamdani, for me, is that he actually likes New York City and wants to see it thrive for everyone.

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