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dkhunter @dkhunter.bsky.social · 11h

People like their kitsune (kumiho?) gooning

dkhunter @dkhunter.bsky.social · 11h

I still can't believe they managed to get people to buy a $500 skin for her. And not a few! I've seen that skin way too many times lol

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dkhunter @dkhunter.bsky.social · 14h

Passionate advocacy for masking as a moral imperative at the expense of public attention paid towards air filtration does seem like a bit of a tell

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 16h

Wanna know why Sam Altman and Elon Musk and Peter Thiel all LOVED Eliezer Yudkowsky, right up until they ignored him?

It’s because he was USEFUL to their efforts to attract funding and talent to their new companies.

If you think futurism is about accuracy, then you’re the sucker at the table.

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dkhunter @dkhunter.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah I'd struggle to come up with a compelling reason why this could be an important field of study beyond 'it would be theoretically interesting to better know', and the perpetual obsession with creating genetically pure superbabies makes me uncomfortable offering even that

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dkhunter @dkhunter.bsky.social · 16h

For once, I mercifully don't know who this person is, and further you can't force me to find out

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dkhunter @dkhunter.bsky.social · 16h

I do wonder about the degree to which this is a field that we're simply not able to conduct robust research in for intractable cultural reasons, offensiveness of the hypotheses be damned.

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dkhunter @dkhunter.bsky.social · 16h

Real monkey's paw ask there

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dkhunter @dkhunter.bsky.social · 18h

You know I've honestly always been so repulsed by Fujimori's conduct that it somehow never occurred to me that Fujimori isn't exactly a stereotypically Peruvian name lol

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dkhunter @dkhunter.bsky.social · 18h

Any double-take inducing heads of state or government?

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dkhunter @dkhunter.bsky.social · 18h

Does it bring in Cloud at an appropriate level instead of 1

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dkhunter @dkhunter.bsky.social · 18h

Why are all the banner guests on a cruise sponsored by Young American's Foundation pushing 50

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dkhunter @dkhunter.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, I also appreciate the charity being extended here and feel vaguely guilty about not being able to understand the explanation lol

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dkhunter @dkhunter.bsky.social · 1d

Any idea what prompted this?

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dkhunter @dkhunter.bsky.social · 2d

To wit, one of The Onion's more prescient takes post 2012

theonion.com/after-obama-...

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dkhunter @dkhunter.bsky.social · 2d

Quick we're doing primordial nationalism again get in

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

Ultimately, the death of US manufacturing is about this attitude. It's easy to say "buy american or stfu" because virtue signaling is free. But it's hard to actually sustain a business because many Americans simply don't want to pay what it costs to produce things ethically in this country

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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dkhunter @dkhunter.bsky.social · 3d

Senior status? They still have to do a certain amount of work to maintain that though, don't they?

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 3d

We need a Senator Emeritus role where they still get to go to events and feel important but that gives them a graceful retirement route

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