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Bernie Michalik @berniemichalik.ca · 12h

You love to see it

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 13h

Attorney General Letitia James to Headline Rally for Mamdani

www.nytimes.com

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Bernie Michalik @berniemichalik.ca · 14h

That’s a great theory.

Bernie Michalik @berniemichalik.ca · 14h

I couldn’t help but read this and feel like OpenAI rhymes with FTX, historically speaking. Might be time to pull this off the shelf and reread it www.amazon.ca/Short-Histor...

Matt Levine @matt-levine.bsky.social · 16h

This newsletter was part of an aide memoire, and I acted impulsively in writing it. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

OpenAI Keeps Doing Deals

Also crypto liquidations, inverse levered ETFs, stock buybacks and trade secrets.

www.bloomberg.com

Bernie Michalik @berniemichalik.ca · 20h

Some early morning thoughts on what it means to consider something good blm849.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/w...

What is it to be good?

What is it to be good? We often talk about people, places and things in terms of being good or not good, but what do we mean? Fundamentally when we talk about some thing being good, we are talking …

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Bernie Michalik @berniemichalik.ca · 1d

Nice relaxed Sunday today. Thanksgiving meal is tomorrow

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Bernie Michalik @berniemichalik.ca · 1d

For good reason! It’s bad enough when it happens in November!

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

more of this. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Bernie Michalik @berniemichalik.ca · 1d

It’s bad enough Christmas decorations are already in the stores, but this is too much 😄

The Weather Network @weathernetwork.bsky.social · 1d

A major cooldown and Calgary's first fall snowfall this season has been served, with the snowflakes sticking around into early Sunday morning. Drivers will still need to prepare for slower-than-usual commutes because of slippery roads. #ABwx
https://ow.ly/ggHl50XagnP

Calgary's first snowfall this fall makes for rude Thanksgiving awakening - The Weather Network

A major cooldown and Calgary's first fall snowfall this season has been served, with the snowflakes sticking around into early Sunday morning. Drivers will still need to prepare for slower-than-usual commutes because of slippery roads

ow.ly

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Bernie Michalik @berniemichalik.ca · 1d

Basically Thiel is Comicbook Store Guy.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

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.

Bernie Michalik @berniemichalik.ca · 1d

Also very niche! Might have to try this toronto.overdrive.com/media/5089994

Dinner's in the Bag

All good things come in small packages. Quick, easy and with almost zero washing up – oven parcels are the new cooking trend everyone is talking about. From families to the single workaholic, th...

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Bernie Michalik @berniemichalik.ca · 1d

toronto.overdrive.com/media/1404864 As I get older I love niche cooking books and this is one of my favorites. I appreciate the complexity of spices in well known Indian dishes, but I like this because I get the flavors I want with much less effort. A good compromise.

5 Spices, 50 Dishes

"One of those Indian cookbooks that I see myself actually going to again and again for simple, satisfying weeknight meals, and easy Indian cooking." —Fearless FreshThe premise is simple: with five com...

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Bernie Michalik @berniemichalik.ca · 2d

It had to be invented due to Cezanne and photography. Also give Braque more credit.

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 2d

“Why Cubism had to be invented still puzzles a large public,” Janet Flanner wrote, in 1939. Revisit her Profile of the artist who would come to “dominate” the movement: Pablo Picasso. #NewYorkerArchive https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1957/03/09/the-surprise-of-the-century-i

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Bernie Michalik @berniemichalik.ca · 2d

I still recall Nicholson as Eugene O’Neill sitting in a small room. He was good too I recall. And Beatty was gutsy to make it. Great film imho

Bernie Michalik @berniemichalik.ca · 2d

I have discovered Reels of pizza guys crazily tossing pizza dough while lip syncing pop songs. A fine use of the internets

Bernie Michalik @berniemichalik.ca · 2d

Excellent. A fine ride

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Bernie Michalik @berniemichalik.ca · 2d

Listening to CDs tonight like it’s 1985.

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Bernie Michalik @berniemichalik.ca · 2d

Exactly! Tantalus 2.0

Bernie Michalik @berniemichalik.ca · 2d

Also how does she drink her wine?? 🤔😄

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Bernie Michalik @berniemichalik.ca · 2d

I do not know what to make of this but I find it fascinating to see MTG shift left (I know it’s relative)

Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 2d

Marjorie Taylor Greene: "We have to do something about labor, and that needs to be a smarter plan than just rounding up every single person and deporting them."

Bernie Michalik @berniemichalik.ca · 2d

Her character also cuts Michael in a way no other character can when she tells him she had an abortion.

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Bernie Michalik @berniemichalik.ca · 2d

That’s the thing: there are costs associated with RTO and those costs are borne disproportionately by women employees. You can think of RTO as discriminatory among other things.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d

After decades of progress on closing the pay gap between men and women, it’s now widening. For the first time since the 1960s, the earnings gap between men and women has widened two years in a row, according to recent data from the Census Bureau.

Women are taking pay cuts as companies mandate return to office

Researchers are identifying several key factors behind why gender pay gap – which had narrowed steadily over the years – has suddenly widened.

wapo.st

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Bernie Michalik @berniemichalik.ca · 2d

“Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.” Bertrand Russell.
generative AI: hold my beer.

Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 3d

stop thinking right now

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Bernie Michalik @berniemichalik.ca · 2d

This is good to see, pt 2.

Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 2d

I recently sat down with three leaders who are part of the @obamafoundation.bsky.social's alumni network to hear more about their work to strengthen democracy in Hungary and Poland. They’re an example for us all. Take a look:

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Bernie Michalik @berniemichalik.ca · 2d

This is good to see, pt 1

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Bernie Michalik @berniemichalik.ca · 3d

It used to be common but not anymore. smartpeopleiknow.com/2023/08/26/w...

Whatever happened to Marechal Foch wines in Ontario?

I often wondered whatever happened to wines based on the Marechal Foch varietal in Ontario. In the 1980s it was quite common to find winemakers selling it. As wikipedia describes it: Marechal…

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