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Friends of Pudding @friend2pudding.bsky.social · 15m

i love the concert movie, absolutely beautiful

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Friends of Pudding @friend2pudding.bsky.social · 43m

cd haul!!!!

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4h

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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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 7h

In my eyes EDDINGTON is the second best film of the year and OBAA's farcical partner-in-crime, and the Pueblo cop from that film's opening really hit the nail on the head when Sheriff Joe Cross is rambling and telling him to listen and he just responds, "I *am* listening. Shut up!"

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 7h

When ITV albeit late on a Sunday evening when nobody was watching broadcast a play with revolutionary Marxist themes. youtu.be/o0KxIR2xO-E?...

Occupations - starring Donald Pleasence, Georgina Hale, Jack Shepherd & Nigel Hawthorne (1974)

YouTube video by Classic British Telly

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Friends of Pudding @friend2pudding.bsky.social · 8h

sums up the future of online for me that Instagram updated and now when i open it instead of showing me photos of my lovely friends and their beautiful pets, it autoplays (with sound) AI slop reels: today bilbo shooting gollum with an AK47

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C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 8h

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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Friends of Pudding @friend2pudding.bsky.social · 1d

kind of annoying the tron 3 score isnt following me playing everywhere i go... especially when i cycle. who do i write to about this

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Friends of Pudding @friend2pudding.bsky.social · 1d

tron 3 - what on earth is up with the one star reviews lol. it is incredibly well crafted. music and visuals (prob esp in 3D) frequently extraordinary.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 1d

The billionaires have been organising to seize as much control as they can because they know very well that sooner or later, every democracy on earth is going to recognise that the best place for them is prison, in self-defence.

A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley

Some are worried that the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be a bubble waiting to burst.

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Friends of Pudding @friend2pudding.bsky.social · 1d

avatar 3 looks amazing imo

Friends of Pudding @friend2pudding.bsky.social · 1d

someone has put up literally dozens of union jacks up on my street overnight - was not expecting this to reach east lothain!

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Friends of Pudding @friend2pudding.bsky.social · 1d

and then the support act for the band im seeing covered break stuff with a dancing cookie monster dressed as fred durst (nookie monster) anyway.... night saved 👏

Friends of Pudding @friend2pudding.bsky.social · 1d

saw this on the listings and was like nooo cant believe i missed it!

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Friends of Pudding @friend2pudding.bsky.social · 1d

enjoying the new testament album!

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Chris Martin @mreschatologist.bsky.social · 1d

Jabba the Hutt with downward word balloon

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d

it was obvious from the moment the attack happened that this was not only a tragedy for Israel but was going to become a tragedy for Palestine, and I still remember who was cheering it on.

Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 2d

If you were online on October 7, 2023, this is no surprise.

Overshadowed by the fact that Israel retaliated with a genocidal war is the reality that amid the attack seemingly professional/moral people spent days praising every report they found of Israelis, including children, being murdered.

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 3d

This is a person who is still taken seriously and published in left-wing spaces.

To be clear: No, most Israeli Jews are not descended from Polish Jews. And even for the minority who are, it would obviously not be safe for them all to go there now, given the Polish government.

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Friends of Pudding @friend2pudding.bsky.social · 2d

i am completely signed up to the showgirl backlash. but i think Tortured Poets is *really* strong personally. Not pop, but feels like a victory lap for Taylor's post-Folklore style

Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social · 2d

This would make more sense to me if Taylor was coming off a generationally great album or something rather than Tortured Poets Department

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 2d

“The Fate Of Ophelia” by Taylor Swift debuts with 128.896 million streams in its first week on the global Spotify chart.

It’s the biggest streaming week ever on the platform.

Friends of Pudding @friend2pudding.bsky.social · 2d

surely the lawyers dont just fact check by looking at twitter

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Friends of Pudding @friend2pudding.bsky.social · 2d

also it isnt live right? i think it being said during recording is one failure but baffling to me that legal missed it during the edit. weird if theres no review or if it is that holey

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Friends of Pudding @friend2pudding.bsky.social · 2d

woo hoo the storm damage to my roof is covered by insurance!! have bought a tix to gorillaz to celebrate 🎉 🥂

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Friends of Pudding @friend2pudding.bsky.social · 2d

loved tanita tikaram since buying ancient heart on vinyl from a charity shop in surrey - new album is REALLY good imo. nice to see a release from her with some infrastructure behind it.

Friends of Pudding @friend2pudding.bsky.social · 2d

legit thought this was liz kendall

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 2d

Breaking news: María Corina Machado has been awarded the prize for ‘keeping the flame of democracy burning amidst a growing darkness’ . The win dashes the hopes of US President Donald Trump. on.ft.com/4ocHAKY

Friends of Pudding @friend2pudding.bsky.social · 2d

wow wow wow the transition to ritual autophagia! if the rest of the album is half as good, it is their best LP yet

Friends of Pudding @friend2pudding.bsky.social · 2d

loving the new Sanguisugabogg record - theyve always had a good sound but the production is fantastic. the drum sound on felony abuse of a corpse is absolutely incredible, every beat crisp and clear - delighted

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