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shit whistle @guntoucher.bsky.social · 25d

illinoiscoalitionforimmigrantandrefugeerights-bloom.kindful.com?campaign=124...

much appreciated if you have at least 25 dollars to spare that you could match me in donating to the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. abolish ICE

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shit whistle @guntoucher.bsky.social · 4h

SaltReminder™: hey Dave! it looks like you're preparing a recipe, would you like to add some salt?

ME: that's a good idea, thanks SaltReminder™!

SaltReminder™: no problem!

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shit whistle @guntoucher.bsky.social · 4h

[to marty mcfly] you talk to your wife, with your mouth? lmao

shit whistle @guntoucher.bsky.social · 4h

12 years later and i still have no idea who my wife is,

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 10h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 5h

What you see here in the children’s father, Bandit, is the culmination of sin. A father whose very name evokes crime, the criminal of criminals. Bluey, the color of sorrow. Bingo, lust for games of chance. Mother Chilli, who works part time at an airport in which planes “soar into the heavens”, thi-

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 6h

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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shit whistle @guntoucher.bsky.social · 5h

what dr manhattan says is "nothing ever ends" peter thiel FAKE FAN, DESTROYED

shit whistle @guntoucher.bsky.social · 6h

that's right

Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 13h

Holy shit someone uploaded the entire stage play adaptation of the Yakuza videogame series with English subtitles and it’s glorious and 500x better than the Amazon show youtu.be/Z2Msr4si6dU?...

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shit whistle @guntoucher.bsky.social · 6h

Agent Richard Boneload, FBI

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shit whistle @guntoucher.bsky.social · 6h

The Ninth Twerkle of Hell

shit whistle @guntoucher.bsky.social · 7h

Huge Assed Monsters from Hell!

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shit whistle @guntoucher.bsky.social · 23h

LITERAL TRANSLATION: huh?

LOCALIZATION: what in the cinnamon toast FUCK?!

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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SKELLYTON @pizzalawyer420.bsky.social · 2d

Who up raving their orb

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shit whistle @guntoucher.bsky.social · 2d

doctor strangeglove

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shit whistle @guntoucher.bsky.social · 2d

mr president we cannot afford a shared reality collapse GAP

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d

“Another former OpenAI employee who also was not authorized to speak publicly argued that releasing a deepfake AI social media platform was the right business decision, even if it contributes to the collapse of everyone's shared sense of reality.” 💀

Sora gives deepfakes 'a publicist and a distribution deal.' It could change the internet

OpenAI's new hit app has unleashed a new wave of AI slop across the internet. But what happens when there are no rules over hyper-realistic synthetic videos?

www.npr.org

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shit whistle @guntoucher.bsky.social · 2d

big if so

shit whistle @guntoucher.bsky.social · 2d

possibly true!

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Trump’s budget chief Russ Vought says that “reduction in force,” or mass firings of federal workers, have begun — a move that is likely illegal.

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+972 Magazine @972mag.com · 2d

Now, thousands of displaced Palestinians - most of them on foot - are returning to northern Gaza after Israeli troops withdrew to an agreed redeployment line. The Israeli army said the first phase of the ceasefire deal took effect at noon.

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shit whistle @guntoucher.bsky.social · 2d

fightnerd.wikia. net - Fight Nerd Characters - The Stamp Collector

The Stamp Collector is a central figure in the Fight Nerd Cinematic Universe. Operating out of the Wash King[1] laundromat, he exchanges Favors[2] for Stamps[3], which are obtained from Fights[4]