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Weird Bros @weirdbros.bsky.social · 21h

Weird Bros @weirdbros.bsky.social · Aug 21

Sam Altman was recently on Theo Von's podcast, during which he outlined his vision of the future of Earth, in which it will be "tiled" with data centers for AI. Oh, what a blissful future!

(He also suggested we might even need to enclose the entire solar system in a Dyson Sphere eventually. 🤔 )

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Weird Bros @weirdbros.bsky.social · 21h

You're still thinking too small. As the article notes, after suggesting we tile the Earth in data centers, Sam Altman then goes on to say well actually maybe we should build a Dyson Sphere around the *entire solar system*. 🤷‍♂️

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Weird Bros @weirdbros.bsky.social · 1d

What, you don't want the majority of the Earth tiled in data centers?!

www.dailygrail.com/2025/09/futu...

Future Slop: OpenAI's Sam Altman says we're going to need to tile the entire Earth with data centers to power AI

Our world is currently being run by people who are completely detached from reality. That’s been my growing realisation as I’ve been researching tech billionaires for a book I’m writing about the Dark...

www.dailygrail.com

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Weird Bros @weirdbros.bsky.social · 1d

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Weird Bros @weirdbros.bsky.social · 1d

As a person that thrives on following logical threads, after reading Thiel my brain feels like mush, with no solid ground to stand on.

It reminds me of some people I've encountered on forums who seem to have psychiatric problems, and ramble on about how they've made sense of random patterns.

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Weird Bros @weirdbros.bsky.social · 1d

Fully agree - and I think the rambling writing is just how it comes out of his brain. Everything, no matter how contradictory, is forced to fit into his worldview, confirm his biases. He's very well read, but doesn't even see other people's ideas; only how those ideas might conform with his.

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Weird Bros @weirdbros.bsky.social · 1d

Having tried to track his thinking on a number of subjects over the years, and reading/watching him express his thoughts, I am actually beginning to suspect that he is starting to worry himself that he is the antichrist...

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Weird Bros @weirdbros.bsky.social · 1d

Hahah, I was literally going to post that meme!

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Weird Bros @weirdbros.bsky.social · 1d

Which is kind of a big deal since it's the completely opposite meaning. Although, weirdly, he gets the quote right in a recent essay, but still interprets it as the opposite meaning?

(Though, having read/listened to a lot of Thiel, he does that a lot...)

firstthings.com/voyages-to-t...

Voyages to the End of the World - First Things

Francis Bacon dreamed of abolishing disease, natural disasters, and chance itself. He also dreamed of abolishing God.

firstthings.com

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Weird Bros @weirdbros.bsky.social · 1d

Source:

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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’

www.theguardian.com

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Weird Bros @weirdbros.bsky.social · 1d

Peter Thiel citing Alan Moore's Watchmen in his Antichrist lecture series feels like sacrilege.

Screenshot from Guardian article on Peter Thiel's Antichrist lecture series, that reads: "In his second lecture, Thiel also explores the idea of the antichrist through four works of literature – Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis, Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, Alan Moore’s Watchmen graphic novel and Eiichiro Oda’s manga series One Piece. Thiel states that identifying the antichrist is possibly “hard to do in the present and always sort of controversial”, but that “you at least identify the antichrist in literature”.

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:

Direct quote from Thiel's lecture follows: "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."

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Weird Bros @weirdbros.bsky.social · 2d

Source:

wapo.st/48rBstK

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

wapo.st

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Weird Bros @weirdbros.bsky.social · 2d

Peter Thiel is going to burn the world to the ground because of his fear that he might have to pay a substantial amount of tax.

(Also: Kind of hilarious how he must be so disappointed that the untaxable world promised to him by The Sovereign Individual didn't eventuate 😂)

Screenshot from Washington Post article on Peter Thiel's lecture series on the Antichrist: "“It’s become quite difficult to hide one’s money,” Thiel said, according to the recordings. “An incredible machinery of tax treaties, financial surveillance and sanctions architecture has been constructed.” Wealth gives the “illusion of power and autonomy,” Thiel added, according to the recordings, “but you have this sense it could be taken away at any moment.”"

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Weird Bros @weirdbros.bsky.social · 2d

I think we could all “triumph over our critics” if we sucked at the fetid financial teats of Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen and Larry Ellison. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 2d

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Weird Bros @weirdbros.bsky.social · 3d

Sighting of @jacobsilverman.com’s new book Gilded Rage in the wilds* of Australia!

(* My local bookstore)

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Weird Bros @weirdbros.bsky.social · 4d

I already assumed that James Gunn's version of Lex Luthor was inspired by Thiel, given the 'Dark Enlightenment'-themed storyline of wanting to go create his own country.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 4d

Peter Thiel is the Lex Luthor of our universe.

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Weird Bros @weirdbros.bsky.social · 4d

Obligatory:

Tweet by @Merman_Melville that says "Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day"

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 8d

Panicked Curtis Yarvin—JD Vance's neo-fascist guru—plans to Flee USA.

“I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country.”

www.thenerdreich.com/panicked-cur...

Panicked Curtis Yarvin—JD Vance's guru—plans to flee USA

‘I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country.’

www.thenerdreich.com

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Weird Bros @weirdbros.bsky.social · 6d

Archived page version for those blocked from the above:

archive.is/zwLBb

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Weird Bros @weirdbros.bsky.social · 6d

I am torn between knowing the strategically correct thing to do would be to encourage all these Roganverse influencers to keep moving away from Trump, but at the same time wanting to just straight up tell them that they've ruined the lives of many regular folk.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Manosphere Influencers Who Boosted Trump Are Now Cooling on Him

Prominent influencers including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz are starting to distance themselves from Donald Trump and his policies.

www.rollingstone.com

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Weird Bros @weirdbros.bsky.social · 8d

Still the greatest heading/subheading combo in history.

Blog post heading of "The Enigma of Peter Thiel", with subheading immediately underneath it of "There is No Enigma - He's a Fascist".

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Daily Grail @dailygrail.com · 8d

Just want to point out that part of the overall plan of the Dark Enlightenment/Network State oligarchs is to create a parallel media which they control, as I noted in this article last year (Bari Weiss is a long-time fixture in the Thielverse):

www.dailygrail.com/2024/10/the-...

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Weird Bros @weirdbros.bsky.social · 13d

Actually Bill, your critics aren't concerned with regular folk in Saudi Arabia, and unlike you definitely didn't think they are all savages with machetes.

The critique is of you taking money from the *ruling regime*, which *chops its critics up with a bone saw* if they speak out about the regime.

Screenshot of text from article: "After a successful show in Bahrain, Burr was at a bar where he was watching interactions among the locals and decided, “I’m like, these guys, they’re just like us … I don’t speak the language, but I get it.”

When he flew into Saudi Arabia, Burr’s nervousness crept back, but he was struck by the amount of local Western influence. “You think everybody’s going to be screaming ‘death to America’ and they’re going to have like fucking machetes and want to like chop my head off, right?” Burr said. “Because this is what I’ve been fed about that part of the world. I thought this place was going to be really tense. And I’m thinking like: ‘Is that a Starbucks next to a Pizza Hut next to a Burger King next to McDonald’s …? They got a fucking Chili’s over here!”"

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Weird Bros @weirdbros.bsky.social · 13d

Which reminds me of this banger of an essay on Peter Thiel from 2022:

www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-enigma...

The Enigma of Peter Thiel

There Is No Enigma — He's a Fascist

www.unpopularfront.news

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Weird Bros @weirdbros.bsky.social · 13d

Thread:

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Aug 1

In March of 1945, the US Army issued this "fact sheet" to guide conversations with soldiers on the topic of fascism, paying particular attention to the ongoing threat that domestic fascist movements posed to the US. Their analysis of what a homegrown US fascism would look like is interesting.

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ORIENTATION
FACT SHEET
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WAR DEPARTMENT-WASHINGTON 25, D. C. • 24 March 1945 FASCISM!
Note For This Week's Discussion:
Fascism is not the easiest thing to identify and analyze; nor, once in power, is it easy to destroy. It is important for our future and that of the world that as many of us as possible understand the causes and practices of fascism, in order to combat it. Points to stress are: (1) Fascism is more apt to come to power at a time of economic crisis;
(2) fascism inevitably leads to war; (3) it can come to any country; (4) we can best combat it by making our democracy work.

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