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Karissa Barrows @sjbsmama.bsky.social · 24m

LMAOOOOOOOOOOO can we tax billionaires please so they can maybe be forced to remain at least SOMEWHAT tethered to reality?

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 7h

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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Kim Wincen @wincenworks.bsky.social · 24m

Keep seeing otherwise smart people bragging they have found uses for it and they're all always:
1. Trivial shit no one would pay for; or
2. Unfalsified, where they just assume it did a good job but don't verify.

They just like playing with computer that pretends to talk to them.

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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 2h

I was at this concert and lemme tell you, I've never seen a bigger audience pop than this.

If only there was some kind of message Democrats could read from this. Oh well!

www.thedailybeast.com/pop-star-cha...

Pop Star Pauses Concert to Say ‘F*** ICE’

Chappell Roan slammed the federal agency on Friday, while Chance the Rapper put out the same message at a different concert.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 50m

Just say you don’t care at all about news reporting or basic honesty and prefer media that confirms your various extremely predictable biases

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 3h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 3h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social · 3h

Putting out a call: if you were part of WOTC’s late-2010s live events (Stream of Many Eyes, D&D Live, The Descent), I would love to talk to you as part of the Actual Play book.

[email protected] will reach me, either to schedule a chat or to share your memories.

Please feel free to share.

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failnaut @failnaut.bsky.social · 11h

it genuinely crushes me to see chip and pin machines in UK healthcare

Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 1d

It’s dispiriting that this is what getting a COVID vaccination now looks like to this chronic asthmatic.

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Kim Wincen @wincenworks.bsky.social · 11h

Main driver seems to be that OpenAI needs more money from outside the AI funding circle.

Softbank, who was supposed to fund them for the next 5 years, is struggling to find more money.

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CerberusXt @cerberusxt.bsky.social · 12h

Good morning Bluesky !

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SLAM JOHNSON @mlyp.bsky.social · 12h

you should sub to my patreon you get videos a few days early, progress updates when I remember to write them and also music stems and art stuff

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14h

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.

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the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 2d

The Government of New Zealand has made a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!

Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!

YouTube video by thejuicemedia

www.youtube.com

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 1d

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 17h

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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Kim Wincen @wincenworks.bsky.social · 15h

a man with a ponytail is holding a sword in his right hand

ALT: a man with a ponytail is holding a sword in his right hand

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Toussaint Egan @thesaintoftous.bsky.social · 18h

Booted up the Industria 2 demo and immediately this hallway alone had me feeling some type of way.

Concept art of G-Man standing in a hallway suspended in time in Half-Life 2: Episode 2

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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 18h

futurism.com/future-socie...

New Paper Finds That When You Reward AI for Success on Social Media, It Becomes Increasingly Sociopathic

Stanford scientists unleashed AI bots in different environments, including social media, and they started behaving unethically.

futurism.com

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 1d

This Place Has The Juice, Blood Of Christ edition

Dave the Atheist @davetheatheist.bs... • 1h
How about not shoving your cult down our throats. Deal ?
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Ben B. @abominaldrvibes.bsky.social • 1h
I'm agnostic
Dave the Atheist @davetheatheist.bs... • 1h
Which gods are you agnostic about ?
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juan barquin @woahitsjuanito.bsky.social · 1d

Walked out of a movie to news of Diane Keaton passing away and I don’t even know what to say. One of the most important actresses to me personally, someone whose career and style has influenced my own deeply. We were so lucky to have her.

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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 19h

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Kim Wincen @wincenworks.bsky.social · 18h

The strange case of Woody Allen becoming the successor to Henry Kissinger.

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 23h

HOW THE FUCK IS DIANE KEATON DEAD BUT THAT OLD BITCH WOODY ALLEN STILL ALIVE???

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 23h

HOW THE FUCK IS DIANE KEATON DEAD BUT THAT OLD BITCH WOODY ALLEN STILL ALIVE???

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 19h

Listen sometimes the situation simply requires a Catholic

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i love that 17th century jewish poltergeist story where the family living in the haunted house calls a catholic priest for help before they contact a rabbi, because yeah, i think that would be my call too; id be like, oh? a demon in my house speaking latin and drawing inverted crosses on my wall in sulfuric bile? then without even questioning my faith i'd call up the catholic church and be like yo father, one of your boys loose come get him

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 21h

66%! TWO-THIRDS FUNDED, folks!

Back "Rigsby Wi Book 2: Burn it Down" on Kickstarter! You can still snag cool add-ons, like a commission from creator @secase.bsky.social!

ebooks of this Eisner and Ignatz nominee start at just $8!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...

Rigsby WI - Volume 2: Burn It Down, by SE Case

The second volume of SE Case's Eisner-nominated webcomic about the brutal disaster of being a teen in the early 2000s!

www.kickstarter.com

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