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David Muller @phaezen.bsky.social · 18h

He asked AI to summarise Watchmen and One Piece for him, didn't he?

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 23h

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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David Muller @phaezen.bsky.social · 1d

I return after 2 very offline days.

I may have peopled too hard and now need a week in a dark cave to recover.

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David Muller @phaezen.bsky.social · 1d

This remains a banger of a skeet. A level of shitpost that we all aspire to really.

beetlejess @thejessness.bsky.social · May 7

Sultans of Swing and The Monster Mash are essentially the same song. in this essay i will

beetlejess @thejessness.bsky.social · May 7

does it bother anyone else that we don’t actually know what The Monster Mash sounds like?

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David Muller @phaezen.bsky.social · 4d

Has anyone seen my motivation? It seems to have disappeared.

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David Muller @phaezen.bsky.social · 4d

They are going to use the IDF method of killing random people and claiming they were part of Antifa, aren't they?

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David Muller @phaezen.bsky.social · 4d

You could always join them

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToFd...

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙶𝚘𝚍𝚍𝚊𝚖𝚗 𝙶𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚘𝚠𝚜 - 𝚈’𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝙼𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚏𝚞𝚌𝚔𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝙽𝚎𝚎𝚍 𝙹𝚎𝚜𝚞𝚜 (𝚃𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚔 𝟶𝟾)

YouTube video by Tʜᴇ Gᴏᴅᴅᴀᴍɴ Gᴀʟʟᴏᴡs

www.youtube.com

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David Muller @phaezen.bsky.social · 4d

S Search for the term search showing "No reults for search"

David Muller @phaezen.bsky.social · 4d

Search function on Blusky broken for anyone else, or is it just me?

(I would have searched to see, but welll...)

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David Muller @phaezen.bsky.social · 5d

Politeness culture can go get fucked

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David Muller @phaezen.bsky.social · 5d

Ooo, some of my personal top contenders for this list:

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
FFXIV: Shadowbringer and Endwalker
Planescape: Torment

RPGFan @rpgfan.bsky.social · 5d

Dengeki Faminico Gamer surveyed ~2,900 readers about what games they'd "eternal sunshine" to forget, and enjoy like it's the first time. 🧠 We've covered 9/10 titles on this great list (but this editor does recommend 'em all!👍).

Article DL: news./kikakuthetow...

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Jac @dairyqueenslime.bsky.social · 5d

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The Oatmeal @theoatmeal.bsky.social · 5d

Let’s talk about AI art.

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 6d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

zeldawilliams
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From Create Mode
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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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David Muller @phaezen.bsky.social · 6d

Ditto for what is happening in the US of A and in the UK

David Muller @phaezen.bsky.social · 6d

If what has happened in france over the last 2 years happened in an African, Asian or South American country the press would be talking about a failed Government.

In Europe it is a day ending in Y.

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David Muller @phaezen.bsky.social · 7d

Hear me out, V8 powered leaf blower.

David Muller @phaezen.bsky.social · 7d

Me, trying to take a SUnday afternoon nap.

Neighbour's garden service:

www.youtube.com/shorts/kAMVF...

V8 Chainsaw! Buckley log show

YouTube video by R&A Tree Service

www.youtube.com

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David Muller @phaezen.bsky.social · 7d

Would you belive that this guy is not a drag queen?

CatWoman @catwomanresists.bsky.social · 7d

Another MAGA pedophile

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David Muller @phaezen.bsky.social · 8d

Like all of them, other people recieving handouts is anathema. Them getting gifts is the natural order of things.

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David Muller @phaezen.bsky.social · 9d

not everything needs to be in the same universe. Give us more stand alone stories that don't require encyclopaedic knowledge of 50 different runs over the last 35 years.

Liam McGuire @liammcguire.bsky.social · 10d

Anyone have a particularly hot comic take?

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David Muller @phaezen.bsky.social · 9d

especially if said company is busy dealing with a data breach.

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David Muller @phaezen.bsky.social · 9d

If a company expects me to enter payment details for a free trial I am going to opt out of said free trial.

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David Muller @phaezen.bsky.social · 9d

people will sit and wartch you juggle 3 jobs and instead of offering to help, will helpfully suggest 2 other things that you can do while you are busy here.

David Muller @phaezen.bsky.social · 10d

When you realise thast Mr Cowen is a 67 year old College professor it gets even worse.

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David Muller @phaezen.bsky.social · 10d

He is also a college professor, which really puts a gross spin on his fetishisation of virginity.

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