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Adanthar @adanthar.bsky.social · 1d

true story: I own 0 gold and one (1) Rai stone. a minimum of one Rai stone is required to make it

Adanthar @adanthar.bsky.social · 2d

"Voters increasingly blame Democrats for shutdown"

Democratic voters: "yes, that's us, we're good with this"

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2d

"lying silver-tongued charlatan runs to the US, attempts to reinvent himself, turns out to be pretty good at an important job" this is like one of the foundational American Stories www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...

The Superintendent’s Bio Seemed Too Good to Be True. It Was.

www.nytimes.com

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Adanthar @adanthar.bsky.social · 3d

the update to this story is uhh *something*

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 4d

If OpenAI lights $1 trillion on fire and achieves nothing of technical consequence whatsoever except for the destruction of existing US copyright and IP laws it would likely be the most effective pro-growth intervention in decades and more than easily justify spending that money.

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Adanthar @adanthar.bsky.social · 6d

the US media is certainly completely fucked, which is helping the Democrats out quite a bit

much like Trump was helped out by not being on social media for two years, the Dems are enormously helped by nobody having to see Chuck Schumer

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 6d

New Washington Post poll on who voters blame for the government shutdown:

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Adanthar @adanthar.bsky.social · 8d

anyway, just hedging some commodities risk here

Adanthar @adanthar.bsky.social · 8d

I am not concerned about the hegseth speech in a "the military could fire on civilians" way; that is a very long process that's very hard to do

what's much easier to do is to hollow it out. we won't have the latest drones or any counter to China because the logistics guys are too busy with pushups

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JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 9d

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

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Adanthar @adanthar.bsky.social · 10d

abundance, the book, is very prescient, came about at the right time, and will be what the Dems want to do in 2029

abundance, the political movement, is far too up its own ass and doesn't make sense as a "platform" - that's a different beast

and none of it says anything about the 2028 meta

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Adanthar @adanthar.bsky.social · 13d

abundance the hell out of every community board in america

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Adanthar @adanthar.bsky.social · 14d

Not watching this but it’ll probably have at least one banger

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 16d

far and away the most compelling argument for pro-natalist policy is how fucking dysfunctional greying countries are becoming politically. can't cut elderly benefits. can't raise taxes. can't let in workers. no throw only fetch politics until something collapses.

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Adanthar @adanthar.bsky.social · 16d

Farage's new proposal is simply "cancel ILR" (green cards), replacing them with renewable temporary visas

this is probably where the global far right is going; it will obliterate the economies of the states that fall into this trap, but obv they don't care

would reexamine moving to the UK, tbh

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Adanthar @adanthar.bsky.social · 17d

Not sure if week 1 or this week was the Jetsiest football ever. Or possibly week 2. Really all three are pretty high up there

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Adanthar @adanthar.bsky.social · 23d

Polymarket valued at 9b (and turning it down?!) means, ultra-conservatively, their upcoming airdrop will never start sub $1b circulating market cap and will probably be much higher

lifetime site volume: in the $25b range as of today

implied airdrop value at $1b MC: $40k per $1m lifetime volume

gg

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Adanthar @adanthar.bsky.social · 23d

itt, a christmas goose is celebrating the death of a thanksgiving turkey

Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 23d

Charlie Kirk was a bad person and his death is cause for celebration, writes journalist Evan Urquhart.

Read our very special free speech edition of Assigned Media.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Charlie Kirk is Dead. Here’s Why I’m Celebrating! — Assigned

It’s a wonderful thing to outlive a someone who spent his life working for your elimination. That's why I'm celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk.

www.assignedmedia.org

Adanthar @adanthar.bsky.social · 24d

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Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 26d

The way to tell what level of a poster you are is how much your groupchats are feeding you updates without you having to seek them out.

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Adanthar @adanthar.bsky.social · 27d

Intuition but in this case it’s more “it’s impossible for these prices to all be right at the same time”

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Adanthar @adanthar.bsky.social · 27d

The dislocation between the true odds of Mamdani to win the runoff, the odds of Cuomo to finish second, the of Sliwa going anywhere and the price of these things on Poly/Kalshi across multiple contracts is as high as anything I’ve seen in a while

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