Levi

Levi

@nlevismith.bsky.social

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An overconfident Team USA getting embarrassed by a much smaller country in front of a global audience is their last and most beautiful tribute to the American military yet

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I think there is something to explore that many nations at the WBC have come showing what they love about their country (dancing, celebration, tradition) to represent the people while the American team has shown up representing and only celebrating the military

Razzball@razzball.bsky.social

He's wearing a Front Toward Enemy shirt; Team USA saluting each other in the outfield; they know they haven't been drafted right?

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The American Century of Humiliation continues apace. China is using AI to accelerate industrial and scientific processes and Americans are like 'AI is a literal guy who lives in my computer and he's taught me eight new types of physics and that if I kill myself I'll escape the Matrix'.

Jacob Silverman@jacobsilverman.com

Interesting piece examining how Chinese policymakers don't seem to care about AGI and think about the utility of AI differently than American counterparts desperate to win "the AGI race." open.substack.com/pub/highcapa...

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we’re doing woke 2 with the energy of the mf spanish inquisition biiiish

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

McIVER: Do you consider yourself a religious man? LYONS: Yes mam McIVER: How do you think judgment day will work for you with so much blood on your hands? LYONS: I'm not going to entertain that question McIVER: Do you think you're going to hell, Mr Lyons?

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[working for the company named after the crystal ball that pretended to be a window on the world but was actually in service to a great evil that warped whoever used it] Uhhhhhh, you give information to ICE??

makena kelly@makenakelly.bsky.social

SCOOP: Tensions at Palantir have grown in recent weeks over the company's work with ICE. On Friday, CEO Alex Karp tried to calm concerns in an hourlong video that offered few specifics—instead offering NDAs to workers who want to understand how it's empowering ICE. www.wired.com/story/palant...

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Hyunsu Yim@hyunsuinseoul.bsky.social

SEOUL, Jan 13 (Reuters) - South Korea's special prosecutor on Tuesday requested the death penalty for former president Yoon Suk Yeol on charges of insurrection over his brief imposition of martial law in December 2024.

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Replying to @moiradonegan.bsky.social

Anyway it would be cool if the left was willing to organize around women’s liberation, because the right is definitely organizing around misogynist contempt.

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It’s weird to live in a time when basic principles like cruelty is wrong, cheating is empty & the idea that curiosity, generosity, originality, the satisfaction of earned accomplishments & loving intimacy are the center of a good life feel like countercultural concepts

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The 19 richest U.S. households saw a $1 trillion wealth increase in 2024, a rise that exceeds the size of Switzerland’s economy. These 19 households now control $2.6 trillion in wealth — almost as much wealth as the bottom 50% of American households. If this isn't an oligarchy, what is?

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Replying to @eladn.bsky.social

And America in general makes politics so core that it can be hard to remember there is something larger than all that. We need to always remember to see past what’s in front of us. And to appreciate the beauty of everything. And just… to think about something else. Learn about something else. Grow.

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We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again

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Maybe everyone can see it now, but the world's richest people have tanked it all to restock assets and get liquid after years of illegally playing with funny money. They used "the wokeness" as a cudgel and it worked. The next Disney princess WILL be white, as we all eat beans under the highway.