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Patrick Boyle 💎

@pboyle.bsky.social

New video just went live on YouTube!

November 29, 2025 at 6:50 PM

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Bag Holder

@bagholderquotes.bsky.social

November 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM

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southpaw

@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social

When will Elon pay the tariffs on all his imported tweets?

November 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM

Patrick Boyle 💎

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New video premiering on YouTube in five minutes!

November 23, 2025 at 11:08 AM

Patrick Boyle 💎

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A Magician!

Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 7d

Thomas Massie says the FBI is sitting on information that implicates 20 other men in Epstein's child sex trafficking operation

They include a rockstar, six billionaires (including one from Canada), a high-profile government official, a very prominent banker, and a magician

November 23, 2025 at 1:06 AM

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Keubiko 🇨🇦🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦💪

@keubiko.bsky.social

With X - The Everything App down, how is Grok getting such high quality data to train on?

November 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM

Patrick Boyle 💎

@pboyle.bsky.social

New video premiering on YouTube in five minutes. I hope to see some of you in the chat.

November 14, 2025 at 10:12 PM

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Quantian

@quantian.bsky.social

In addition to the extremely obvious whitewashing of far-right topics, Grokipedia is also *incredibly* long-winded and tedious. Their article on Apartheid is longer than the Wikipedia article on World War 2!

Alexios Mantzarlis @mantzarlis.com · 16d

NEW on @indicator.media: A first *full-scale* comparison of Grokipedia v Wikipedia.

Last week the awesome @harold.bsky.social rocked up to my desk bearing gifts.

Hal had collected almost all 900K Grokipedia entries and compared them to their Wikipedia equivalents for text and citation similarity.

Grokipedia cites a Nazi forum and fringe conspiracy websites

A site-wide comparison with Wikipedia sheds light on what Elon Musk is trying to do

indicator.media

November 14, 2025 at 4:09 AM

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Sean O’Kane

@seanokane.bsky.social

that’s the sound of 1,000 companies rushing to dump bad news today

David Enrich @davidenrich.bsky.social · 17d

New Epstein emails just dropped, and they involve Trump. 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

November 12, 2025 at 1:41 PM

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southpaw

@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social

Kim Kardashian asked four psychics if she was going to pass the bar, revealing a somewhat deficient understanding of the concept of jurisdiction.

Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 18d

To wit. Stay in your lane. This moron is yelling about her psychics lying to her saying she was gonna pass. Yes her psychics.

Page Six @pagesix.com · 18d

Kim Kardashian puts frustration on display after failing California bar exam: ‘Full of s–t’

November 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM

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Sami Badawi

@samibadawi.com

Trying to understand AI’s circular financing and how concerning this is. The best resource I found is by @pboyle.bsky.social

Is AI’s Circular Financing Inflating a Bubble?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbL7...

Is AI’s Circular Financing Inflating a Bubble?

YouTube video by Patrick Boyle

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November 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM

Patrick Boyle 💎

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New video on Grokipedia premiering in five minutes on YouTube! Join in the chat if you are free.

November 8, 2025 at 9:25 PM

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Max Read

@maxread.info

we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...

One way of thinking about Twitter, especially in the Elon Musk era, is as the latest and most sophisticated version of the mailing lists that have powered the conservative movement, and the various scams and cons and schemes that constitute it, since the 1960s--in other words, as a huge and immediately accessible collection of suckers, waiting to have their avidity and paranoia exploited for cash. The predictions markets here are happy to play the same role with heavy X.com users as crypto scams and meme-stock hustlers did on the same site a few years ago, or as cash-for-gold ads did with Fox News viewers a decade before that, or as direct-mail get-rich-quick schemes did with Goldwater voters deep in prehistory.1

But the demand for dumb money created by the increasing annexation of our everyday social and cultural lives into casino-market hybrids like predictions markets (or, arguably, social media itself2) isn’t going to be satisfied solely by a pre-existing population of Birchite suckers. We talk a lot about the “male loneliness crisis” but in my estimation we don’t talk enough about the “male suckerfication crisis”: The process by which young men are continuously cultivated--by politicians, influencers, podcasters, sportscasters, and the very structure of social networks--as dupes and suckers, both for the enrichment and empowerment of Trumpist politicians and movements but also in service of the profits an ever-expanding roster of gambling and gambling-adjacent industries, among them app-enabled retail day-trading, crypto speculation, predictions markets, and of course, actual sports betting.

November 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM

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Amanda Fischer

@amandalfischer.bsky.social

Some of my favorite crypto hypocrisies from when I was at the SEC:

1. Lawmakers yelled at us for not suing Binance fast enough and have since gone absolutely silent since Trump got in business with CZ