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Stuart Culpepper @culpepper.bsky.social · 2h

Cobie's back.
'Ah man wtf': Coinbase buys Cobie's Up Only NFT for $25 million, unlocking potential for new episodes | The Block share.google/laUey9eJRC6p...

'Ah man wtf': Coinbase buys Cobie's Up Only NFT for $25 million, unlocking potential for new episodes

The NFT's fine print states if bought Cobie and his cohort Ledger have to produce 8 episodes of the popular podcast.

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Stuart Culpepper @culpepper.bsky.social · 1d

What were these NBA players and coaches thinking? How could they risk so much for so little?

Stuart Culpepper @culpepper.bsky.social · 2d

You obviously spend so much time on this stuff. It's really remarkable.

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Karen Jerzyk @karenjerzykphoto.bsky.social · 2d

"We live as we dream: Alone"
1/1 filmed video (not ai, not computer generated) taken at Plum Island, MA.
Available on @exchgART @solana @SolanaStatus @solanaspaces

https://exchange.art/single/yrgf1sSkZddJCCNK6jCj9jstbE55uH1znqGrrvnDyvE

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Stuart Culpepper @culpepper.bsky.social · 2d

I think Graham has learned his lesson.
-- Suzanne Collins

Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 2d

SCOOP: Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner apologized for homophobic language and antigay slurs he admitted to writing on Reddit in an interview with me this afternoon, after I confronted him on comments I discovered from as recently as 2021.

www.advocate.com/politics/gra...

Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner admits using ‘indefensible’ antigay slurs in unearthed Reddit posts

"Today I find that stuff abhorrent," Platner told The Advocate. "And I am sorry that I ever used it.”

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Stuart Culpepper @culpepper.bsky.social · 2d

Totally normal.

Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: Federal Reserve officials, who are unable to receive U.S. economic statistics due to the continuing government shutdown, lost access to a separate measure of employment data from ADP, a payroll-processing firm whose data-sharing with the central bank has been public for years, per WSJ

Stuart Culpepper @culpepper.bsky.social · 3d

Credible.

Harry @harry.bsky.team · 3d

A note for sports: Bluesky’s engagement rate was x10 higher than X’s across a sampling of identical posts made on both platforms by @rapsheet.bsky.social (sharing with permission)

Fwiw we see a similar trend across all communities, not just sports. Real people, real conversations.

Stuart Culpepper @culpepper.bsky.social · 5d

I think my biggest problem with No Kings is it rests the premise of resistance. This has been the dominant message from the Democratic party since the ascent of the Trump movement. It is not language moving forward in a different direction. It's language that solidifies a stationary position.

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Stuart Culpepper @culpepper.bsky.social · 6d

I love what you make.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 7d

Tyler the Creator on whether youth culture still exists. I don't know if this is completely true, but it does seem more true today than in the past.

Excerpt reads: "Perhaps it’s this particular admixture of openness and mystique that accounts for the diversity and devotion of his fans. It’s rare for an artist 15 years into his career to be at the peak of his popularity, but here he is — and today, Tyler’s fans range from middle schoolers to baby boomers. That’s a testament to his appeal, though he has his own theory. “I don’t know if youth culture exists anymore,” he says. “I think a 42-year-old and a 15-year-old could have the same humor and style.” He thinks back on himself as a teen, caught up in “Crank That (Soulja Boy)” (2007), a song that many older hip-hop heads despised. (At the time, Ice-T said that the song “single-handedly killed hip-hop.”) “And now,” Tyler adds, “it’s like, people be on Twitter, 25 years’ age difference, talking about the same thing.”"

The excerpt is from a New York Times Style Magazine feature on Tyler the Creator, titled "Tyler, the Creator Always Does Things His Way"

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Stuart Culpepper @culpepper.bsky.social · 8d

music.youtube.com/watch?v=DXee...

New York Groove

YouTube video by Ace Frehley - Topic

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Stuart Culpepper @culpepper.bsky.social · 8d

Cory Doctrow with a very keen vision of what's going to rise from the embers of the AI boom. And great news for dishwashing.

pluralistic.net/2025/10/16/p...

Pluralistic: The AI that we’ll have after AI (16 Oct 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Stuart Culpepper @culpepper.bsky.social · 9d

Dying

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Stuart Culpepper @culpepper.bsky.social · 9d

This is a marginal justification.

AI audio is not at all capable of the nuance of the author, or a trained VO artist. In the US Kayla Scanlon's hit book In This Economy audio version was done by sampling her voice with AI. It's simply impossible to listen to and makes her book seem trash.

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Stuart Culpepper @culpepper.bsky.social · 11d

Required reading.

open.substack.com/pub/theargum...

Creative destruction is a miracle. It’s also a political problem.

The Nobel Prize in Economics has a lesson for abundance liberals

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Joan Grey @joangrey.bsky.social · 12d

Huh. That argument/discussion in the article could be used to support UBI. He's not sure what humans will do without "(fake) jobs", but he's sure humans will find something.

Yes, absolutely. Give us UBI, and we'll create art and science that is fulfilling and amazing, in the best ways.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 12d

You go too many levels of irony deep and you’re not sure if you’re kidding or not anymore

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Stuart Culpepper @culpepper.bsky.social · 12d

Grasshopper you have snatched the pebble from my hand.

Stuart Culpepper @culpepper.bsky.social · 12d

I love how he plays the game.

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Stuart Culpepper @culpepper.bsky.social · 13d

You're a legend

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Stuart Culpepper @culpepper.bsky.social · 13d

💔

X Ray Eyes @xrayeyes.bsky.social · 13d

See you Diane.

Ehy, si sente che avete fatto ragioneria!

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 13d

The initial response from the various military-affiliated social media groups I follow seems.... unconvinced.... that the troops will actually get paid on time.

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Stuart Culpepper @culpepper.bsky.social · 14d

Well done. Really good writing. You wove a story from a lot of disparate parts.

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Stuart Culpepper @culpepper.bsky.social · 14d

Drs. Dunning and Kruger, we have a new subject for your research.

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist | US news | The Guardian share.google/rlPLcQL6WfPB...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 14d

🖼️ The Ceryneian Hind, BreeAnn Veenstra.

Hind on grassy hillside looking down beside blossomed tree, painting.

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