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Lavajackal @lavajackal.bsky.social · 12h

$40 Billion now apparently www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Argentine Bonds Jump Amid Reports of Aid Pledge by Bessent

Argentina’s sovereign bonds jumped Wednesday after media outlets reported that US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent outlined financial aid that would total $40 billion to Javier Milei’s government.

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Lavajackal @lavajackal.bsky.social · 15h

You'd think they'd exempt crops that can't really be grown in the US from the tariffs but I guess if they were smart enough to consider that they wouldn't implement tariffs in the first place.

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Tootlefish @tootlefish.bsky.social · 18h

It simply should not be possible to make a steam train out of our marginal taxation rate graph.

UK marginal taxation chart crudely turned into a steam train

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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Hard Drive @hard-drive.net · 1d

“Like a starving Snorlax, our fans will gobble up whatever slop we dump into the Poké-trough like the loyal swine they are.”

- CEO of The Pokémon Company Tsunekazu Ishihara When Asked Why Pokémon Legends: Z-A's Entire Lumiose City is a Single Model

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Lavajackal @lavajackal.bsky.social · 1d

He's still whining about that?

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Lavajackal @lavajackal.bsky.social · 1d

Newsmax has a line they won't cross?

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Lavajackal @lavajackal.bsky.social · 1d

90% of the time when the general public consensus says a book has bad prose I like that book and the reverse is true when they say a book has good prose.

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Lavajackal @lavajackal.bsky.social · 2d

Ok but I kind of want to see that version of it now.

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Lavajackal @lavajackal.bsky.social · 2d

He does feel like a character editors would ask authors to "tone down a bit" doesn't he.

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Lavajackal @lavajackal.bsky.social · 3d

Unfortunately a not insignificant amount of them aren't tagged properly as being adult games.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d

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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Lavajackal @lavajackal.bsky.social · 5d

Ok this is just getting silly.

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 5d

Dying to know what he plays

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Lavajackal @lavajackal.bsky.social · 6d

Nice I just make the cut.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 6d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Lavajackal @lavajackal.bsky.social · 6d

Defending the indefensible is kind of tankie 101.

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Lavajackal @lavajackal.bsky.social · 7d

Badenoch is far worse but it's not as immediately obvious because instead of being PM she's the least relevant leader of the opposition this country has ever had.

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 7d

If the government really wants to scrap degrees which deliver no value to the UK and indeed have led to £ billions in damage to the economy and culture of the UK then it just needs to scrap the Oxford PPE degree and arrest everyone who has taken it.

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Lavajackal @lavajackal.bsky.social · 10d

I'm sorry what?

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Lavajackal @lavajackal.bsky.social · 10d

Political version of Amorim.

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Lavajackal @lavajackal.bsky.social · 11d

If LLMs truly excel at anything it's breaking people's brains apparently.

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Lavajackal @lavajackal.bsky.social · 13d

The US talking about giving Ukraine more support for long range strikes in Russia has probably got him terrified given Ukraine are already wrecking their oil refineries.

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Lavajackal @lavajackal.bsky.social · 13d

If he ever finds out about the Good Friday agreement he'll try and take credit for that in hindsight.

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Lavajackal @lavajackal.bsky.social · 14d

Seems to be an incredibly effective strategy for Ukraine.

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