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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 2h

Not sure why it has taken until late 2025 to see this, but this is how you do it. Every time. For every one of these guests.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Read the book Starting Somewhere @jphillll.bsky.social · 2h

I wrote about how AI has destroyed trust in the videos and images we see online, how tech oligarchs couldn’t care less, and the Butlerian Jihad (kinda).

www.jphilll.com/p/ai-and-the...

AI and the Total Destruction of Trust

Generating fake videos, ripping the social fabric, and what comes next

www.jphilll.com

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 16h

Pretty much

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Read the book Starting Somewhere @jphillll.bsky.social · 2h

In short:

@Frogs4girls on Twitter: I can’t believe we live in the timeline where we invented a technology to make it so we can never trust a photo or video again

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17h

It’s the Feds making Portland look like a war zone— not the protesters.

And honestly, these protesters are brilliant. They’re flipping the whole authoritarian cosplay on its ass!

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Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 2h

Is it "the rich" because I think we can drum up some support for that

Farmers urge Americans to embrace previously overlooked type of meat: 'There's really a huge, huge potential'

"Great way to support those family farmers."

www.yahoo.com

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Oglaf @oglaf.bsky.social · 2h

www.oglaf.com/capitalvices/

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2h

1) I once again take this opportunity to remind you: to keep its basic functioning, society has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

2) is...is it happening?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Frogue Prince 🏳️‍⚧️ @frogueprince.bsky.social · 2h

Gotta make the most with a busted canvas

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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 3h

destroyed digital media so he can force you to attend an in-person lecture and listen to his half-baked 2004-era AV Club essays

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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Derek Fox @partialobserver.bsky.social · 15h

This has been a big local story for us. Years of effort on the case (prosecutors withheld evidence), winning a retrial, which was then abandoned by the state. And ICE waiting to imprison him immediately on his release.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 16h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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a springfieldian werewolf in shelbyville @springfieldians.bsky.social · 15h

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Moominable Object @chimeracauldron.bsky.social · 18h

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 19h

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 20h

he's doing the impossible: making it look cool to live in new york city

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 20h

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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☁️TORI.PNG☁️ shop OPEN! @toripng.com · 20h

Mandatory.

#pixelart

warning shrimp check required; pixel shrimp illustration

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Darkonius Mavakar @darkonius-mavakar.itch.io · 2d

Simon Belmont: "ah dang, I have low health, what will i do?!"

The ever so useful wall chicken:

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Hatok @hatok.bsky.social · 21h

you telling me a horse drew this bus

Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 23h

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Lots of fed traffic leaving Broadview this morning.

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𝖌𝖗𝖊𝖌𝖌 𝖒𝖊𝖓 𝖙𝖊𝖑𝖑 𝖓𝖔 𝖙𝖆𝖑𝖊𝖘 @clinteldorado.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes, people deserve to have their faith rewarded.

Cosmic Marvel @dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.social · 1d

‘TRON: ARES’ has earned $14.3M in its opening day at the domestic box office.

For comparison, ‘MORBIUS’ opened to $17.3M.

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Nick @sregorn.bsky.social · 1d

there are a handful of American states that you should not set foot in for any reason and it includes Tennessee

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

Everything about this is bonkers. The arrest, the charge, the possible sentence, the **$2 million bail.**

reason.com/2025/10/10/t...

Tennessee man arrested, gets $2 million bond for posting Facebook meme

Larry Bushart posted a meme on a local Facebook page about Charlie Kirk. He now faces years in prison.

reason.com

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis

CAIRO—As part of a historic ceasefire agreement with Hamas following two years of war, the Israeli government reportedly agreed Thursday to go back to killing Palestinians on a less frequent basis. “I...

theonion.com

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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