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Creatively Tapped-Out Peter Thiel Launches Startup Called ‘Frodo, But Evil’ https://theonion.com/creatively-tapped-out-peter-thiel-launches-startup-called-frodo-but-evil/

“Gibney’s basic take on Musk is that he’s a confidence man whose power comes only from the stock market and disappears the minute we see through the facade of sales pitches.” Doubt this will do anything to the incredible valuations of his companies but one can always hope

What’s going on at x? Oh nltimes.nl/2026/09/04/p...

A humanities problematisation of the anthropomorphising of AI

On Bluesky An odd regression. Ancient memes Find new expression. Burma-shave.

Living in the 1760s in London, you may have asked yourself: Why not buy a "Remarkable Tame Panther" that you "may play with it as they may with a Dog"? Or a "SEA-MONSTER"? Or both? What could possibly go wrong with a panther and a sea-monster in your house? I have so many questions.

Most plausible theory yet

As a teen In the 90s I loved Rage against the machine. I bought a Tshirt with the lyrics "fuck you I won't do what you tell me" on it and my mom made me take it back for a refund. So I did exactly what she told me.

One of the all-time correction greats

Unnamed child strikes me as the oddest name, although not by much

Thou shalt not start a war to distract from the Epstein files

Today in “Dudes Rock”: A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.

This feels like a stat worth pondering

Can you BELIEVE their names? www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...

Multi level howling

French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

Prepared by @volteuropa.org !

The scary thing about this is it feels plausible

Marine heatwave off W.A appears to have severely impacted Ningaloo coral reef: www.smh.com.au/national/wes...

For me the most insightful thread yet on DeepSeek

This will get almost no attention. It fucking should though. The combustion of coal, oil and gas is killing one of the most remarkable and important places on the planet before our eyes, and most people are looking away instead.

As someone who has worked in fintech (not crypto) for some time, every time I meet someone in the space, they seem to be 1) a wide-eyed optimist who (sometimes genuinely) believe that crypto is going to better the world, 2) a shameless money-grabbing opportunist, or 3) transitioning from 1 to 2.

(Axios) - The $TRUMP memecoin — a financial asset that didn't exist on Friday afternoon — now accounts for about 89% of Donald Trump's net worth. www.axios.com/2025/01/19/d...

My 3 y/o was reading Meta’s new community standards when she turned to me, gravely, and asked: “Daddy, why don’t people like the nice tech bro man with the fro and the bling?” And when I told her “because woke America has been neutered of its masculine energy,” she started crying.

Yeah the lack of vision and imagination and complete stagnation of creativity is really messed up for a company that was arguably the first social media giant. Feels like they ran out of ideas a decade or so ago now..

I've been thinking for a long time about how we got to this moment of planetary ecological emergency, and, conversely, what the world might look like had we taken a different path. I enjoy good retro-futuristic ecotopian visions,...

Impressive foresight from 100 years ago www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

Bubble is taking on incredible proportions

Crypto operates like a pyramid scheme, where new entrants enrich early adopters, hoping to pass the bag to the next wave. The issue? Deep pockets are needed to deliver returns for BlackRock, Fidelity ETFs, and underwater crypto startups. The solution? US taxpayers as the bagholders of last resort

SoftBank, famous for investing in wework, and uber during its peak www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

So much respect for people like this who can make calm and collected arguments under pressure when engaging with bad faith actors. Hopefully he opened some eyes among the viewers.

Epic

If it's more or less acknowledged that the story "broke" here in terms of global social media, this will further strengthen the network effect of BS and undermine twitter for anyone remaining there who still cares about real-time news.

How to live a healthy life according to Robert F. Kennedy, presumptive US Sec. of Health. 1. Eat unprocessed food. ✅ 2. Don't drink water with fluoride. 😬 3. Don't drink pasteurised milk. 🤮 4. Don't get vaccinated. 🚑 5. Take heroin to help you concentrate when studying. 🤯

Imagine this clown in charge of your health system.

…and the airstrip needs to be removed so the area can be rewilded…..right? Right?

Thou shalt not groove to the YMCA while marginalizing the communities that made the song iconic.

Love me a good iambic skeet

Wow. One amazing thread.

Every time i see his latest tweets screen shotted here I have to do a double take and ask myself if it’s real

Incredible amount of wishful thinking a d fantasists in this group of voters www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

Someone called this mass exodus from Twitter ‘the fall of the Broman Empire’ and I died laughing. 💀

The US is now selling weapons and military jet fuel to a wanted war criminal

Wow. Thats presumably a lot of zombie accounts on threads. Also demonstrates why user base is a vanity metric unless the users are verified in some consistent way, and combined with clearly defined usage metrics.

Salient point: "Bluesky is 20x smaller in terms of the # of people on the platform," he says. "If you search for people [on Google], you will find Bluesky 10x less often than you will find X. "But," he says, "it's 10x more important to Google today for factual info" news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

A diet of steroids, processed food, petty grievances, and fake tan never hurt anyone.

Fascinating to watch: - reverse network effects in full swing - completely ruined business model - desperate attempts to launch new products and reassure users everything is fine All play out in real time

I believe “geriatric millennials” is the accurate nomenclature. I know. My false teeth nearly fell out when I heard that term too.