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Kelson Thomas (poped up) @kelson.bsky.social · 14m

the book enjoyers

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Kelson Thomas (poped up) @kelson.bsky.social · 12h

good morning from this cat ice cream cone

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Just Some Guy @utopianparallax.bsky.social · 2d

I keep seeing him described as a Christian and these lectures as his religious views, but as near as I can tell he's just using "antichrist" as an epithet, and "apocalypse" as a warning about what he sees as bad outcomes.

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Just Some Guy @utopianparallax.bsky.social · 2d

It's just incredible that Thiel commands this kind of attention for this kind of incoherent rambling. Oh, the drug-addled skeleton that invented PayPal guy has thoughts about the eschaton? Has anyone considered just...not caring?

George Pearkes @peark.es · 2d

I couldn't believe this but it's true, Thiel can't decide whether the antichrist is Greta or Big Yud. Positively reeling.

(Washington Post) -- Tech billionaire Peter Thiel recently warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of technology or artificial intelligence are "legionnaires of the Antichrist" in private lectures on Christianity that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future, according to recordings reviewed by The Washington Post.
In the four, roughly two-hour lectures, which began last month and culminated Monday at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Thiel laid out his religious views to a sold-out audience told to keep the contents "off-the-record," according to an event listing. He argued that those who propose limits on technology development not only hinder business but threaten to usher in the destruction of the United States and an era of global totalitarian rule, according to the recordings.
"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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Kelson Thomas (poped up) @kelson.bsky.social · 21h

Yes unlike That Guy you are not currently hellbound

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Kelson Thomas (poped up) @kelson.bsky.social · 21h

impossible to feel bad for a guy like that. That's just funny

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Kelson Thomas (poped up) @kelson.bsky.social · 21h

Ahhh yeah, hell. I'm familiar. 🙏

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Kelson Thomas (poped up) @kelson.bsky.social · 21h

60m? Lmao

Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 22h

It’s obviously a sympathetic audience on here, but everything about this makes no sense to me. Deciding this is the asset class where you’ll make a fortune, and then once you have 10x an enormous fortune, continuing to bet huge — what’s the thought process? You trying to buy a hockey team?

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Kelson Thomas (poped up) @kelson.bsky.social · 22h

when bruce springsteen talked about haunted dusty beach roads this is what he was talking about

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Kelson Thomas (poped up) @kelson.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder if they'll remember to pay the Coast Guard lol

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Kelson Thomas (poped up) @kelson.bsky.social · 1d

i love the grocery store

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2d

anyone else notice that the west took a turn for the worse once the concept of signaling one’s own social virtue became derogatory, almost as if cynically deriding all displays of charity and good will is indicative of a deeply cynical and nihilistic society capable of collaborating in genocide

larry @larrrrrry.bsky.social · 2d

her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character

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Kelson Thomas (poped up) @kelson.bsky.social · 1d

Yes there are proprietary enzyme compounds that make the name brand stuff actually better. It's so annoying

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Kelson Thomas (poped up) @kelson.bsky.social · 1d

in or out, kid

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Kelson Thomas (poped up) @kelson.bsky.social · 1d

its called Massachusetts look it up

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Kelson Thomas (poped up) @kelson.bsky.social · 1d

donald trump and his cronies don't want ordinary Americans to be able to have breakfast like this on a Saturday morning

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 2d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Kelson Thomas (poped up) @kelson.bsky.social · 2d

Charlie Brown is short for Charles Brownie

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scaryssa walmart dog @meo.bsky.social · 2d

if you think this world is bad you should see some of the others

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Kelson Thomas (poped up) @kelson.bsky.social · 2d

lmao

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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cuuuurse-ty 🕯️ @curses.zone · 2d

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Kelson Thomas (poped up) @kelson.bsky.social · 2d

I'd rather have an outback steakhouse than a steak back in my outhouse

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Kelson Thomas (poped up) @kelson.bsky.social · 2d

lmaooo

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Kelson Thomas (poped up) @kelson.bsky.social · 2d

these people man

ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

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Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 2d

Why am I one of the 24 accounts followed by the dictionary

A screenshot of Merriam-Webster's bluesky account. It is following 24 people, including me

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