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matthew @pahuski.com · 2d

Happy Columbo’s Day

Screenshot from Columbo. He his talking to his dog, which is sitting is the drivers seat of a car. “Okay, I’m gonna put you in charge. You take care of the car. You’re a responsible dog. When I get back, if the car’s okay, I’ll give you another cookie.”

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Max Anderson @maxanderson.bsky.social · 2d

“Luffy’s hat represents Christ’s crown of thorns” would be a great kernel to build a tumblr shitpost from

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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Max Anderson @maxanderson.bsky.social · 5d

It's funny how the tradcaths love saying "submit to Rome" but they hate actually submitting to Rome.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 5d

As Pope Leo begins to reveal some of his views on divisive issues, some conservative critics of his predecessor are rejecting the possible rise of another “liberal pope.”

As Pope Leo riles conservatives, some say ‘just focus on the church’

Conservatives who hoped that Leo, the first U.S.-born pope, would be more of a traditionalist instead hear echoes of his predecessor, Francis, in his public statements.

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Max Anderson @maxanderson.bsky.social · 6d

good grief.

'I need the shittiest take you have. no, that's too shitty' meme

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Max Anderson @maxanderson.bsky.social · 6d

woke pope 2: woke poper

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 6d

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

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Max Anderson @maxanderson.bsky.social · 6d

Apropos of nothing at all, a cool thing about TN work authorization is that every time you enter the country they stamp your passport and write the name of the employer under the stamp.

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Max Anderson @maxanderson.bsky.social · 6d

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Max Anderson @maxanderson.bsky.social · 6d

Working in the US on a TN (explicitly non-immigrant) visa was great. Had a couple of "so I'm a migrant worker..." opportunities in response to people thinking I was a willing audience for their rant about migrant workers.

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Max Anderson @maxanderson.bsky.social · 6d

The turning radius is necessary so that vehicles with long wheelbases (buses, trucks) can use the roundabout. For a small residential street you can just say "we don't accommodate those" but on an arterial like Parkside you do need to support buses and light trucks.

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Max Anderson @maxanderson.bsky.social · 8d

broke: Obama staffers thinking the government is The West Wing
woke: Terrible opinion editors thinking television journalism is The Newsroom

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 8d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

Max Anderson @maxanderson.bsky.social · 10d

But idk, I’m barely beyond a layperson at this point. I still need to remind myself that they don’t use sigmoid activation functions anymore.

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Max Anderson @maxanderson.bsky.social · 10d

(2) “we don’t know how the observed behaviour emerges from those mechanisms”. The person you’re quoting is I think referring to (1), which is an increasingly common misconception among laypeople. That misconception seems to lead layperson dogmatic skeptics to reject (2) as well.

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Max Anderson @maxanderson.bsky.social · 10d

I think there’s a genuine terminology problem here. Just this morning I’ve seen people say “we don’t know what happens inside the LLM”, which is false. When we say “we don’t know how it works” it variably implies (1) “we do not know the mechanisms that are involved” or /

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Max Anderson @maxanderson.bsky.social · 14d

I would simply not post my exhaustive list of 'artistically good' video games if Disco Elysium (admittedly goated) was the only non-AAA game I'd ever played. Fallout NV isn't even the only 'artistically good' game from that studio + director.

Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 15d

im thinking…

disco elysium
half life 2
bioshock
fallout nv
rdr2
….
end of list?

Max Anderson @maxanderson.bsky.social · 15d

Maybe I'm missing something here, but it's not clear to me what regulator has the ability to say no here even if they were so inclined. There's no market consolidation, they're paying a premium over the stock ATH, and the Saudis are generally not prohibited from owning US firms.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15d

FT: Several people said they expected the transaction to go through fairly easily.

“.. What regulator is going to say no to the president’s son-in-law?" 🤡

@financialtimes.com $EA
www.ft.com/content/61ce...

How Jared Kushner brokered the $55bn takeover of Electronic Arts

Trump’s son-in-law used deep ties in Saudi Arabia to help pull off the largest buyout

www.ft.com

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Max Anderson @maxanderson.bsky.social · 15d

Yeah I'm something of an alpha male myself: feature-incomplete and bug-ridden.

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Tolarian Community College @tolariancommunitycollege.com · 15d

The Ultimate Pauper Showdown!

It's Andrea Mengucci vs @gavinverhey.bsky.social vs @themaverickgirl.bsky.social!

Check out Shuffle Up & Play 88 right here, right now: youtu.be/SCWMs8JdoAM

#MagicTheGathering

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Max Anderson @maxanderson.bsky.social · 15d

hell yes, love Tolarian pauper content.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 15d

You would think the obvious solution to "the volunteer-powered project we all train our AI models on for free isn't adequately twisting reality to our political views" would be "... and so we stopped training on it" and not "... and so we will force the volunteers to bend to our will"

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 16d

tired: it's always DNS

inspired: ICANN feel it coming in the air tonight

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16d

(that williams' "evidence" is easily dismissed by just looking a little closer is typical though)

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Jennifer 🎃 @jenyetagain.bsky.social · Aug 21

"moby dick" is how fans shorten the title it's actualy mobile suit richard

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Max Anderson @maxanderson.bsky.social · 19d

Great news, the Build Canada dorks are now trying to tell you what your position on federal bills should be, using AI that seems to break regularly and produce inconsistent results for near-identical bills (Hellenic Heritage Month is neutral, but Albanian Heritage Month should be voted against?)

Max Anderson @maxanderson.bsky.social · 20d

ah, the author is on bluesky! @nickhunebrown.bsky.social thanks for a wonderful bit of local journalism.

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Max Anderson @maxanderson.bsky.social · 20d

The headline that we're heavily subsidizing the horse racing industry is eye-catching, but this whole piece is well worth reading. A really thoughtful, in depth look at the industry from someone with a personal connection to it. @thelocal.to rules.
thelocal.to/breakdown-at...

Breakdown at the Racetrack | The Local

Once a lucrative gambling business, Ontario's horse racing industry is now heavily subsidized by the government. As gamblers turn to online gaming, and ideas about animal welfare shift, a cluster of f...

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