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Adanthar @adanthar.bsky.social · 2d

strictly self improvement related, no work (FIREd, bitches) although I do also advise a thing

polymarket also takes some time; donald trump not winning the nobel was, of course, free money, but you still needed to be aware the contract existed and traded high

anyway, the trenches are brutal

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Adanthar @adanthar.bsky.social · 2d

personal net worth: up on the week

people I know who are wiped: at least several, maybe more, some with ten year track records

was that trading skill? fuck no, I just had an unwillingness to be exposed to something as ridiculous as crypto without being able to monitor it daily

stay safu

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Adanthar @adanthar.bsky.social · 2d

I barely talk about crypto these days because I'm spending an enormous amount of time on a personal project and basically only do that + Polymarket since May

so with that in mind, the wipeout yesterday is another reminder that you -cannot- have your net worth in a casino, no matter how enticing

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3d

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Adanthar @adanthar.bsky.social · 3d

LLMs asked to use rude voice have a *significantly* higher accuracy rate (84% vs 80%). the reason why is obvious if you think about it:

they're trained on the posts of my people, snarky millennial edgelords who came of age during the Posting Wars

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POWERFUL CRAB FART🦀 @powerful.crabf.art · 8d

The year is 2025. There are three social networks remaining. They are run by Dweeb Lowtax, Tweaker Lowtax, and Girlboss Lowtax. You have to pick at least one.

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Adanthar @adanthar.bsky.social · 4d

Re: the shutdown, everyone expected Dems to cave and get yelled at by their fed up voters while their voters themselves want blood. that's exactly why Dems are sticking to it this time, and why the strategy is evolving towards making Rs nuke the filibuster themselves

Adanthar @adanthar.bsky.social · 6d

true story: I own 0 gold and one (1) Rai stone. a minimum of one Rai stone is required to make it

Adanthar @adanthar.bsky.social · 7d

"Voters increasingly blame Democrats for shutdown"

Democratic voters: "yes, that's us, we're good with this"

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Adanthar @adanthar.bsky.social · 7d

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 7d

"lying silver-tongued charlatan runs to the US, attempts to reinvent himself, turns out to be pretty good at an important job" this is like one of the foundational American Stories www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...

The Superintendent’s Bio Seemed Too Good to Be True. It Was.

www.nytimes.com

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Adanthar @adanthar.bsky.social · 8d

the update to this story is uhh *something*

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 9d

If OpenAI lights $1 trillion on fire and achieves nothing of technical consequence whatsoever except for the destruction of existing US copyright and IP laws it would likely be the most effective pro-growth intervention in decades and more than easily justify spending that money.

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Adanthar @adanthar.bsky.social · 11d

the US media is certainly completely fucked, which is helping the Democrats out quite a bit

much like Trump was helped out by not being on social media for two years, the Dems are enormously helped by nobody having to see Chuck Schumer

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 11d

New Washington Post poll on who voters blame for the government shutdown:

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Adanthar @adanthar.bsky.social · 13d

anyway, just hedging some commodities risk here

Adanthar @adanthar.bsky.social · 13d

I am not concerned about the hegseth speech in a "the military could fire on civilians" way; that is a very long process that's very hard to do

what's much easier to do is to hollow it out. we won't have the latest drones or any counter to China because the logistics guys are too busy with pushups

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JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 14d

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

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Adanthar @adanthar.bsky.social · 15d

abundance, the book, is very prescient, came about at the right time, and will be what the Dems want to do in 2029

abundance, the political movement, is far too up its own ass and doesn't make sense as a "platform" - that's a different beast

and none of it says anything about the 2028 meta

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Adanthar @adanthar.bsky.social · 18d

abundance the hell out of every community board in america

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Adanthar @adanthar.bsky.social · 19d

Not watching this but it’ll probably have at least one banger

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 21d

far and away the most compelling argument for pro-natalist policy is how fucking dysfunctional greying countries are becoming politically. can't cut elderly benefits. can't raise taxes. can't let in workers. no throw only fetch politics until something collapses.

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Adanthar @adanthar.bsky.social · 21d

Farage's new proposal is simply "cancel ILR" (green cards), replacing them with renewable temporary visas

this is probably where the global far right is going; it will obliterate the economies of the states that fall into this trap, but obv they don't care

would reexamine moving to the UK, tbh

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Adanthar @adanthar.bsky.social · 22d

Not sure if week 1 or this week was the Jetsiest football ever. Or possibly week 2. Really all three are pretty high up there

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Adanthar @adanthar.bsky.social · 26d

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