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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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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 5h

I see things like this and then I see articles about male loneliness and why don't women use AI more

And it sort of feels like there's a connection to be made.

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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Gen -Xistential crisis @feralchristineb.bsky.social · 11h

Yes, that’s the one.

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 19h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Gen -Xistential crisis @feralchristineb.bsky.social · 13h

Don’t ship stuff to the US if you don’t have to.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

Gen -Xistential crisis @feralchristineb.bsky.social · 13h

A Cdn chocolate company on Tik Tok was talking about their customer bulk orders being destroyed.

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Gen -Xistential crisis @feralchristineb.bsky.social · 13h

Does that make me an OG if I followed you here from twitter? You were probably one of the 20 accounts I came here for originally.

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Nick Tsergas @nicktsergas.ca · 14h

I'm sure this would be "digitally sovereign" much in the way all the grapes at Loblaws are "grown in Peru."

ANALYSIS | Why OpenAI wants to help Canada build homegrown artificial intelligence | CBC News

OpenAI wants to help Canada build a sovereign digital infrastructure for artificial intelligence, putting the country in a tough spot as it tries to distance itself from overreliance on U.S. tech comp...

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Gen -Xistential crisis @feralchristineb.bsky.social · 18h

Trying to use up some of the apples from our tree.

Two homemade apple pies cooling in the kitchen bay window.

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 21h

Good fucking grief leave this woman alone

The Independent @the-independent.com · 21h

‘Morning Show’ star feels forced to address subject after media speculation

Jennifer Aniston addresses claims she’s ‘selfish’ for not having children

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Gen -Xistential crisis @feralchristineb.bsky.social · 20h

Binge watching this today. Thought it was a new show. It’s 5 years old and wasn’t far off.

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NEXT - watch tv show streaming online

Find out how and where to watch "NEXT" online on Netflix, Prime Video, and Disney+ today – including 4K and free options.

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KatieSherrod @katiesherrod.bsky.social · 1d

Good for him.
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Band director resigns after refusing to hang Ten Commandments in Texas classroom

The educator of 42 years said the mandate is a line he refuses to cross. “Politics and religion have no place in the public schools,” he said.

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Jen Stewart @jstewgie.bsky.social · 1d

A legend has died. Southin was "the first woman in BC to be named QC and the first woman to argue a case before the Supreme Court of Canada [and] the first woman bencher in BC [and] the first woman in the Commonwealth to head a law society." www.legacy.com/ca/obituarie...

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View MARY FRANCES SOUTHIN, KC's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 1d

People paid $200 a ticket to listen to Peter Thiel do bog issue antisemitism for four lectures about his belief in the antichrist.

Lots of fools wishing to be relieved of their money, I guess.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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He believes the Armageddon will be ushered in by an antichrist-type figure who cultivates a fear of existential threats such as climate change, AI and nuclear war to amass inordinate power. The idea is this figure will convince people to do everything they can to avoid something like a third world war, including accepting a one-world order charged with protecting everyone from the apocalypse that implements a complete restriction of technological progress. In his mind, this is already happening. Thiel said that international financial bodies, which make it more difficult for people to shelter their wealth in tax havens, are one sign the antichrist may be amassing power and hastening Armageddon, saying: “It’s become quite difficult to hide one’s money.”

It’s because the antichrist talks about Armageddon nonstop. We’re all scared to death that we’re sleepwalking into Armageddon. And then because we know world war three will be an unjust war, that pushes us. We’re going hard towards peace at any price.

What I worry about in that sort of situation is you don’t think too hard about the details of the peace and it becomes much more likely that you get an unjust peace. This is, by the way, the slogan of the antichrist: 1 Thessalonians 5:3. It’s peace and safety, sort of the unjust peace.

Let me conclude on this choice of antichrist or Armageddon. And again, in some ways the stagnation and the existential risks are complementary, not contradictory. The existential risk pushes us towards stagnation and distracts us from it.

How does Thiel think Armageddon will happen?
Thiel rarely gives a definitive answer about who exactly the antichrist might be or how Armageddon might come about – a central point across his lectures is that nothing is written in stone or inevitable – but he does give the contours of what a global conflict that could lead to Armageddon might look like.

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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 1d

A wall that was spray painted with swastikas and a message of “F- your kids” beside an Every Child Matters banner is now home to a new mural showcasing the history and present of Treaty 8 First Nations www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Treaty 8 mural transforms vandalized wall in Fort St. John | CBC News

After vandals defaced the Treaty 8 office in Fort St. John with racist graffiti, Cree artist Alisa Parenteau picked up her paintbrush and responded with colour, leading a new wave of public art making...

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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 1d

A 66 year old residential school survivor was invited to be the first to start tearing down the remains of his former residential school near Tofino, B.C. this week. He says he was scared to return but ultimately it helped heal his soul www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Survivors hope for healing as former residential school near Tofino is demolished | CBC News

The last remaining buildings of the Christie Residential School on Meares Island near Tofino, B.C., were demolished in a ceremony Thursday, attended by survivors who said they hoped the destruction of...

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Gen -Xistential crisis @feralchristineb.bsky.social · 1d

Of course Dacey has stuck his nose in somewhere it doesn’t need to be.

Screenshot from Tik Tok of Chris Dacey at the ostrich farm.

Universal Ostrich Farm... Central Kooten...

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Chris Dacey at the Universal Ostrich Farm wondering where all the farms missing bird are. This is a question many people have wondered since the beginning, why are the farms counts so off?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

😳 800 citations in two years for ignoring the laws in Nevada and @GovBillLee invited this wrecking crew to dig through the capital city www.newschannel5.com/news/elon-mu...

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ladies and gentlemen, the weekend 😌 @craigweekends.bsky.social · 1d

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 2d

A photo shared online in October supposedly showed protesters in Portland, Ore. ‘baiting’ United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with doughnuts suspended from fishing lines--is actually from a #Toronto #Canada protest

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Fact File: Photo of Portland doughnut 'ICE fishing' protest actually taken in Toronto

A photo shared online in October supposedly showed protesters in Portland, Ore. ‘baiting’ United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with doughnuts suspended from fishing lines. The phot...

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 2d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 2d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

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DeniseG @denisegutzmer.bsky.social · 2d

Utah runs the world's largest remote-controlled cloud seeding effort

The Utah State Legislature put big money into cloud seeding this year to help mitigate drought impacts. The cloud seeding budget went from roughly $200,000 in 2022 to nearly $16 million.
#drought 🧪
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Utah now runs the world's largest remote-controlled cloud seeding program

Utah's expansion of cloud seeding is starting to provide a return on investment, water policymakers were told Thursday.

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Gen -Xistential crisis @feralchristineb.bsky.social · 2d

This surprises people? I thought this was the assumption all along.

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CPAC TV @cpac.ca · 2d

At a news conference in Ottawa, PM Mark Carney announces three measures that will be in the upcoming fall budget: making tax filing easier for low-income Canadians, making the national school food program permanent, and renewing the Canada Strong Pass for next year.

#cdnpoli

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