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nature is just what we call the parts of ourself that we cannot control opinions sustainably sourced from organically harvested social theorists No Nazis, No Kings. @heresiarch on the previous site & @[email protected]

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fear-REESE’S-eek-ARGHh @heresiarch.bsky.social · Nov 5

“average person eats 3 spoonfuls of peanut butter straight from the jar a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spoons from jar per year. Peanutbutters Heresiarc, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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fear-REESE’S-eek-ARGHh @heresiarch.bsky.social · 7h

Tired: apple silicon

Wired: Apple silicone

spookillumi @illumi.meme · 8h

inventing a computer you can stick your dick into

fear-REESE’S-eek-ARGHh @heresiarch.bsky.social · 7h

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 7h

the thing is, all that knock off amazon operator gear you bought to look tough and scary just looks fucking silly when you are being gyrated at by someone wearing an inflatable frog costume and being mooned by a naked bagpiper on a unicycle, it just doesn’t work, the self image cannot hold

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 8h

It should not be understated how much clever shit like this actually annihilates morale at places like ICE/CBP.

Getting made fun of like this on national television while people laugh at you is.. well, you may call it victory wine, but it ain't.

fear-REESE’S-eek-ARGHh @heresiarch.bsky.social · 22h

world building is Good actually

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

fear-REESE’S-eek-ARGHh @heresiarch.bsky.social · 1d

Thiel finds this convincing because 1) he’s an idiot who can only come up with one, and 2) no one near him dares to say so

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fear-REESE’S-eek-ARGHh @heresiarch.bsky.social · 1d

The thing that people need to understand about readings like these is that they are incredibly easy to come up with. A reasonably competent master’s student could come up with a twelve different paranoid readings of a box of cereal.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

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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fear-REESE’S-eek-ARGHh @heresiarch.bsky.social · 2d

everyone knows that 2-4% of philosophy majors go full Evil

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

fear-REESE’S-eek-ARGHh @heresiarch.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t know if It’s Happening but Trump seems to think It’s Happening

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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fear-REESE’S-eek-ARGHh @heresiarch.bsky.social · 2d

Every cop who resigns because of Mamdani saves the city $1m in civil suits per year

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fear-REESE’S-eek-ARGHh @heresiarch.bsky.social · 2d

SCENE: inside apple barrel

APPLE ONE (visibly rotted): i am telling you if that new apple inspector is hired i am out.

APPLE TWO (showing signs of decay): right there with you, man, right there with you

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 3d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

fear-REESE’S-eek-ARGHh @heresiarch.bsky.social · 3d

can’t argue but also he started with a lot more room to improve

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fear-REESE’S-eek-ARGHh @heresiarch.bsky.social · 3d

Unsolicited pic dic

Picture of a book titled FIRST
PICTORIAL DICTIONARY

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fear-REESE’S-eek-ARGHh @heresiarch.bsky.social · 4d

reading, taking notes

fear-REESE’S-eek-ARGHh @heresiarch.bsky.social · 4d

Was discussing the costumes with my partner and we concluded their genius is how they draw attention to ICE’s costumery. The masks, the vests, the guns: it’s costume too, but a macho utilitarian aesthetic that denies its own pageantry. Facing an inflatable frog, though, it’s impossible not to see it

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fear-REESE’S-eek-ARGHh @heresiarch.bsky.social · 4d

ICE sobbing, posting on developer’s forum: wizard frog op it’s warping the meta all wizard frogs now PLS PATCH

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 5d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

fear-REESE’S-eek-ARGHh @heresiarch.bsky.social · 4d

oh he’s definitely invading now

Nicholas Whyte 白怀珂 ǝʇʎɥM sɐloɥɔᴉN @nwhyte.bsky.social · 4d

María Corina Machado from Venezuela has won the Nobel Peace Prize.

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María Corina Machado - Wikipedia

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fear-REESE’S-eek-ARGHh @heresiarch.bsky.social · 4d

The way this faceturn brings us appreciably closer to Speaker Taylor Greene gives me the heebies

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Marjorie Taylor Greene on CNN (!): "I'm getting phone calls from people that are saying if the ACA tax credits expire, they aren't gonna be able to have health insurance. They're going to have to drop it."

fear-REESE’S-eek-ARGHh @heresiarch.bsky.social · 5d

superficialism

fear-REESE’S-eek-ARGHh @heresiarch.bsky.social · 5d

Drake has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever (drop a diss track on the judge, lose the ensuing rap battle, sue, etc)

Josh Russell @jrussjruss.bsky.social · 5d

NEWS: Federal judge tosses out Drake's defamation suit against record label over Kendrick Lamar's diss track "Not Like Us."
"Because the Court concludes that the allegedly defamatory statements in “Not Like Us” are nonactionable opinion, the motion to dismiss is GRANTED."

fear-REESE’S-eek-ARGHh @heresiarch.bsky.social · 5d

This. I always think i know what I’m going to write before i start, and it is always changed enormously—deepened, complicated, clarified, if not wholly transformed—in the writing.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 5d

I think the killer argument against relying upon AI to write is the massive amount of thinking and concept-welding that goes on for me (and I assume most everyone else) during the *process* of writing something - it’s a cognitive process and I know I’d actively get stupider if I skipped it

Decorative Gourdian Knot @buckrawheat.bsky.social · 5d

I also just wonder if any of these people have ever really appreciated the value added in going through the experience of something like this. The fact that it changes you to engage with and puzzle over your own work, that you're not a content printer that just needs juicing to go faster.

fear-REESE’S-eek-ARGHh @heresiarch.bsky.social · 5d

Ah bummer, he’s in a pig in the city moment again

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 6d

‘AI is here to stay and change things’: Mad Max director George Miller on why he is taking part in an AI film festival

The director believes AI has made film-making ‘way more egalitarian’ – and is set to lead the judges at Omni AI film festival in Australia There’s no arguing the use of artificial intelligence in film-making is getting a bad rap. Last week’s unveiling of Hollywood’s first AI “actress”, Tilly Norwood, generated howls of protest from actors’ unions across the UK and US, where the industry is still reeling from last year’s 118-day strike over, among other issues, the threat of AI. And earlier this week, Australia’s Productivity Commission was pilloried by Liberals and Greens alike for failing to recognise the dire impact AI may have on the country’s creative industries. Continue reading...

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fear-REESE’S-eek-ARGHh @heresiarch.bsky.social · 6d

Gonna be all about the timing

fear-REESE’S-eek-ARGHh @heresiarch.bsky.social · 6d

A new challenger has appeared: insurance fraud

Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 6d

They did give me a nightmare scenario addition:

"The larger the datacenter, the larger the battery backup it needs, which we also only have recently started addressing in the code."

And added "So, yeah, I guess we're waiting for a Triangle Shirtwaist Fire for datacenters."