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Anders Larson @thisisanders.bsky.social · 5h

I stopped reading at this point. Thiel is obviously culturally and historically illiterate.

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Anders Larson @thisisanders.bsky.social · 5h

Sure hit me up

Anders Larson @thisisanders.bsky.social · 5h

Snap

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Jean François Porchez @jf.porchez.com · 6h

La France a perdu une semaine. Dites merci à Retailleau.

Sophie Pedder @sophiepedder.bsky.social · 6h

France’s new prime minister is…the very one who resigned on Monday, Sébastien Lecornu. It rounds off the most chaotic and absurdist week in French politics in modern times

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Anders Larson @thisisanders.bsky.social · 6h

three men in spiderman costumes are standing next to each other in a circle and pointing at each other .

ALT: three men in spiderman costumes are standing next to each other in a circle and pointing at each other .

media.tenor.com

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Anders Larson @thisisanders.bsky.social · 6h

(Y'all hiring?)

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Anders Larson @thisisanders.bsky.social · 6h

Anders Larson @thisisanders.bsky.social · 7h

I am so set for the evening

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 8h

What's fascinating is this idea that the Antichrist is determined by the historical contingencies of the time period in which he arises. He's basically admitting it's a socially constructed metaphor.

Also interesting that Thiel conflates science and technology.

Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 8h

Waiting for a reboot of The Omen where Thiel fights Yudkowsky, hopefully with breath weapons and maybe like lasers that shoot out of their fingers www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

“In the 17th, 18th century, the Antichrist would have been a Dr. Strangelove, a scientist who did all this sort of evil crazy science,” Thiel said in his Sept. 15 opening talk, according to the recordings. “In the 21st century, the Antichrist is a Luddite who wants to stop all science. It’s someone like Greta or Eliezer,” he said, referring to Thunberg and Eliezer Yudkowsky, a prominent critic of the tech industry’s approach to AI.

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Anders Larson @thisisanders.bsky.social · 9h

It would be censured immediately anyway.

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 1d

From the Supreme Court opinion granting Trump immunity:

"Investigative & prosecutorial decisionmaking is the special province of the Executive ... allegations that the requested investigations were shams or proposed for an improper purpose do not divest the President of [his] exclusive authority"

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Anders Larson @thisisanders.bsky.social · 1d

They all paraphrase to the point of distortion. Weirdly Chat GPT 3 didn't, but the super advanced one does it all the time.

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Anders Larson @thisisanders.bsky.social · 1d

He's denying it according to Le Monde. Let's fracking hope so

Anders Larson @thisisanders.bsky.social · 1d

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 1d

The UK is in collective denial about the damage a populist nationalist government could do given thd absence of checks and balances in our system. Not sure why, since we had a pretty close run a few years ago.

Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 1d

As an American watching our best & most crucial institutions crumble in less than a year under Trump, I suggest you make as many of these changes now, while you can.
We didn’t, obviously.

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Anders Larson @thisisanders.bsky.social · 1d

cc @aphclarkson.bsky.social

Anders Larson @thisisanders.bsky.social · 1d

That was pretty good

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Nicolas Henin 🇪🇺💙💛 @nicolashenin.net · 2d

PHIL
C'est le jour de la nomination du Premier Ministre... Encore.

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Anders Larson @thisisanders.bsky.social · 2d

And people forget that despite all the anti-German sentiment the German car industry is a primary driver of (economic) integration, employment, and export growth for CEE MS. If it doesn't modernize with an eye to the marketplace of the 21stC it will be one giant multinational Nokia

Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 2d

If Germany doesn’t put in place a pro-competitive industrial policy for cars, centred on market building, the country may well end up down the line giving messy bailouts, regulatory rollbacks in response to mounting political and union pressure - only for the sector to wither anyway.

Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 2d

German auto summit tomorrow.

The sole focus on the EU combustion engine phase-out, which is 10 years away, is baffling because German cars have a demand problem today

Berlin worries a new EV subsidy scheme would be fiscally too expensive.

But demand-side support is a fiscal no-brainer here.

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elisarojas.bsky.social @elisarojas.bsky.social · 2d

Portez des masques ffp2.

Protégez-vous.
Protégez les autres.
Rompez la chaîne de contamination.

Ce n'est pas le gouvernement qui protégera votre santé.

#CovidIsNotOver

www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...

Covid-19 : une nouvelle vague de contaminations avant le début de la campagne vaccinale

A quelques jours du début des campagnes de vaccination contre le Covid-19 et la grippe saisonnière, le 14 octobre, le variant XFG de la famille Omicron a déjà provoqué une hausse du nombre des cas dan...

www.lemonde.fr

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Anders Larson @thisisanders.bsky.social · 2d

Politics

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Anders Larson @thisisanders.bsky.social · 2d

Same

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Anders Larson @thisisanders.bsky.social · 2d

Simply put...

Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 2d

The German industrial boom, that started in 2005 when Angela Merkel took the reins (that was a coinicidence, she had nothing to do with it), is now officially over. www.ft.com/content/745f...

German industrial output falls to 2005 levels as auto sector craters

Weak August data raises risk of Eurozone’s biggest economy falling back into technical recession

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Anders Larson @thisisanders.bsky.social · 2d

Schrems III here we come

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 2d

One of the conspirators who helped Gavrilo Princip shoot Archduke Franz Ferdinand survived to see the breakup of Yugoslavia. He could conceivably have watched the Neighbours episode where Scott and Charlene got married

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 3d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Anders Larson @thisisanders.bsky.social · 2d

LR want Meloni with Le Pen.

Nicolas Hervieu @nhervieu.bsky.social · 3d

Rappelons que sans le barrage républicain, LR & ses candidats auraient été totalement essorés en juillet 2024.

Eux, les principaux bénéficiaire du réflexe républicain (sur 45 duels avec l'extrême droite, 38 gagnés).

Refuser aujourd'hui (& demain ?) de faire barrage à l'extrême droite en dit long.

Législative partielle dans le Tarn-et-Garonne : Bruno Retailleau refuse de faire barrage à l’extrême droite

Malgré le soutien affiché de Bruno Retailleau, venu animer un meeting vendredi soir à Montauban, le candidat LR n’a pas réussi le pari de se qualifier.

www.lemonde.fr