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i have never seen a poster’s arc as epic as will stancil’s

the posters prayer

lord, give me the confidence of a reply guy with a statistic, the humility of a linkedin bro, the knowledge of gork, and the wisdom of when to touch grass.

amen

man, remember those days before history started again? i miss that time.

ngl i love the vision of this place and want it to succeed

type of guy who comes to bluesky to complain about bluesky

bluesky will love this innovative feature

collapse all the comments saying the same thing into one AI-generated summary

trying to ratio is the point. everyone comes in with low quality dunks just to try to score points.

the narcissism of small differences

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a becalmed sharing space with thin meaning but present warmth

man i wanna use japanese bluesky, that sounds really nice

a compressed model of all human knowledge online, even slightly lossy, is a very useful thing.

they’re perfect together

they actively police that consensus by being as aggressive as possible to drive off any hint of dissenting views. the nuclear block here doesn’t seem to help either.

the spectres of lina khan and gary gensler were haunting silicon valley, and they threw hands to get that administration out. underestimated the sheer chaos and stupidity of their new bedmates though. i believe they thought they would have more influence.

thanks i hate it

faced with the choice between dead portfolios or authoritarianism, they chose the latter, although some are finding the full pill hard to swallow. assuming they’re rational actors, the re-emergence of a pro-tech left would cause another rebalancing of the scales.

conversely, it was a vocal portion of the left disavowing technology that caused prominent people in silicon valley to go fash. their fear of the left harshly regulating AI/crypto/bio and breaking up tech companies caused this most recent rightward realignment.

go back to mining ethereum, spur new crypto hype cycle. rinse, repeat.

bro got banned for death threats, hope this helps

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how are you guys so insufferable?

my children are going to be raised like the amish

he’s doing a good job demonstrating why he got shadowbanned

it’s a lost cause. it’s too useful

agency and sentience are different things

the portland protests were the most portland thing i have ever seen

You can try to change words to mean “notable Democrats I don’t like are now Republicans”, but no, there are no real conservatives here. The framing of center left publications and public figures as conservatives is only further proof of the purity spiral happening on this site.

Mark Cuban is a notable Democrat? The Atlantic is considered center left. End Wokeness has 148 followers — it and the babylon bee haven’t posted in ten months. And I know Jesse Singal is megahitler here but that guy is also a self-professed Democrat.

the butlerian jihad of dune is a story about a civilization giving up on positive sum cooperation, embracing religious fanaticism, and devolving into zero sum power struggles with frozen science, frozen knowledge, and brutal resource wars

it’s horrible