peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”
Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 5d agoThis is actually hell, right?
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Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 5d ago
The death of Bob Pettit means there are no remaining living members of the Milwaukee Hawks (1951-55), the franchise that of course became the Atlanta Hawks. www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...
Bob Pettit, who starred at LSU and then in NBA, dies at 93
Bob Pettit, who was named an All-Star in each of his 11 NBA seasons and was one of the greatest scorers and rebounders in league history, died, the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame said Thursday.
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@freezydorito.lol did you see the new species of cat discovered yet the other site is going crazy about it
Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on
rax ‘levon honkers’ king@raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 2w ago'oh so you want china to beat us' bro what the hell do i care leave me to the humble life i am trying to build for myself
I am SORRY for sharing something that was posted on the other place, but this is too good.
its cute that windows has a sound for 'hardware unplugged' period so like when you unplug a usb drive its the same sound same emotional reaction as when you are updating gpu drivers and as far as windows understands you just ripped the gpu out of the case with your bare hands
Billionaires being unafraid to say things like this publicly is a major indicator of how bad things have gotten
Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 2mo agoVery cool that Shopify’s CEO thinks the poor should have far less of a vote than the rich. Still worth that ad read money, folks?
I’ve often said: if I had 2 million quid total in assets I would disappear off the face of the earth
derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2mo agobeing a billionaire and on the internet all day is crazy to me. if i had even five million dollars, you would not find me online whatsoever.
being a billionaire and on the internet all day is crazy to me. if i had even five million dollars, you would not find me online whatsoever.
Fun fact! Two companies - Samsung and SK Hynix - make up 58% of the entire value of the Korean stock market. The reason their stocks are inflated are almost entirely because of AI data center capex. Retail investors are the largest buyers of Korean stocks this year. Anyway the fact isn’t that fun
Fun fact apparently there’s a new meta of them called puckys or whatever
Roxi Horror 💀🌸@roxiqt.com · 2mo agoI know a lot of people have stopped paying attention to labubus which is fine but there is an important update: the newest ones have hair for some reason and look like hardworking divorced mothers from the 90s.
OpenAI head of strategic futures posted: “Open-weight models are inherently decelerationist” This is OpenAI’s version of “Linux is a cancer” Both baseless emotional phrases, but one appealed to the masses, OpenAI’s appeals to Silicon Valley sects and telegraphs the Ezra Klein punditosphere.
everybody knows “curtains for Zoosha” as a foundational getting-old tweet but I believe “peeble streamer on doop” is a concept worthy of wider recognition
Brits are like “Look who’s boiling vegetables now.”
BREAKING: Lindsey Graham’s sudden death reveals everyone’s wake-up time on Sundays.
Black Aziz Anansi@blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 3mo agoSo Lindsey Graham is really dead?
It’s like when your food is taking a long time to come out so your server brings some free bread to apologize for the wait.
noticing a lot of people forgot what our greatest modern philosopher said about patriotism
Let’s call this an “experiment” and maybe repeat it again when there are other things to celebrate. (My money is on this being done for the parade of ships on July 4th)
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 4mo ago
There was a fantastic blog/website that someone had done a while back with some visualisations of comparing different animal sounds in different languages, does anyone else remember this and can help give me some hints to find it again?
Of course they’re all fucking effective altruists I stg we need a purge of them from all institutions of power
maia arson crimew 🏴@crimew.gay · 4mo agoHere are all 113 alleged members we were able to successfully extract. This data can also be verified via versions of the site captured by the Wayback Machine, even if it doesn't properly render the website.
re: wemby saying the spurs "absolutely dominated most of the series." I've seen folks point out that english is wemby's second language. fair. but having watched him since year one, his grasp of the language is firm enough to say "the knicks beat us." he didnt say it bc he doesnt think that.
i created this meme like 4 years ago on twitter and it went super viral and i think i got like 20 death threats. that's how you know i was cooking with this one
on where victor wembanyama and the san antonio spurs go from here: www.theringer.com/2026/06/14/n...
The Spurs Lost. Victor Wembanyama Won’t Forget.
San Antonio’s Finals collapse was painful, preventable, and possibly the last break the rest of the NBA will get.
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Anthropic, on their quest to achieve market supremacy via regulatory capture and hyping the dangers of AI, has managed to get the leopards to eat everyone’s faces. Now they can’t sell their new products to anyone.