Ferdinand de Solstice

Votre humble provocateur tantôt sournois tantôt courtois.

[Ferdinand de Solstice @Ferdi_Solstice]

@NisanyanHimself İlk takipçileri ekseriyetle dilenci ve fahişelerden oluşan İsa’nın sofrasında queer’lere yer yok mu?

[Andrew Hammel @AndrewHammel1]

National stereotypes are harmless fun.

[Marc Porter Magee 🎓 @marcportermagee]

This is a better way to visualize Columbus’ voyages than the traditional way (that shows him traveling through a modern map)..

It looks a lot crazier and more daring when you see it as a trip into the unknown.

[Oliver (EU/acc🇪🇺) @0xAngler]

Is Europe cooked?

[Guillaume Gau @guillaume_ggc]

Dans son magistral "Qu'est-ce que l'Occident ?", l'historien des idées politiques Philippe Nemo explique les 5 processus historiques qui ont fait le succès de l'Occident et qui sont à l'origine de la mentalité propre à la civilisation occidentale actuelle : (1/10)⤵️🧵

[Whitney Webb @_whitneywebb]

We've been quiet recently because Mark Goodwin and I have been working to write the most comprehensive investigation into Polymarket's origins and ambitions to date.

We found that Polymarket's "official" origin story, that Shayne Coplan founded the company alone in 2020 and then built "the company in his bathroom", is a lie. Polymarket really started years earlier as another company called TokenBnk that was deeply tied to Israeli interests, specifically a crypto company founded by Benjamin Netanyahu's niece and nephew. Coplan has actively tried to obfuscate this company from his story and it's not the only thing either.

In Part 1 of this two-part series, we unravel the real history of Polymarket, directly connecting the company to Peter Thiel's efforts to resurrect controversial DARPA programs from its now defunct Information Awareness Office. Polymarket appears to have been chosen by Thiel and his associates to succeed in resurrecting DARPA's Policy Analysis Market where another Thiel-linked company, Augur, had previously failed.

Stay tuned for Part 2, where we explore the current influence of prediction markets and Polymarket, including how an insidious effort to have prediction markets replace representative democracy as a governance model is already being slowly implemented by the White House.

Read Part 1 here: https://t.co/xTmU5RzoZz

[Alex Soros @AlexanderSoros]

Today is the GOAT’s 96th birthday. Love you, dad! 🐐❤️🎂

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

The Botafumeiro is one of the most spectacular traditions of Santiago de Compostela Cathedral: eight tiraboleiros swing a 53 kg giant censer through the nave at speeds of up to 68 km/h.

The ritual has been performed since at least the 12th century.

[Orel Beilinson @BeilinsonOrel]

Before we had AI slop, there was the genre of the unnecessarily beautiful magazine cover. These covers all come from the French-language Periodical of the Electricity Company of the Istanbul Tramway Company, 1930! They even had a lovely "page de madame..."

[Ferdinand de Solstice @Ferdi_Solstice]

@idecalk diaspora insana getto sıcaklığını hissettirir, dayanışma ve idealizmi pekiştirir.

[Parisian Aesthetics @Parisianaes1]

Stunning paintings of Paris at night, in 1994 by the artist Michel Delacroix 🖼️

[Raphael Grably @GrablyR]

Je crois que l'on doit certaines des images de l'année à Maximilien Lamy, de l'AFP.

[Ferdinand de Solstice @Ferdi_Solstice]

@siphonensis odyssey hakkında fikri merak edilen tek bir kişi var...

[Naida | Inscendence @OInscendence]

"Pepita", Francisco Soria Aedo (1898 – 1965), Spanish

[Ferdinand de Solstice @Ferdi_Solstice]

@arsennisanyan Teşekkürler, almayayım. Ben Klüp Rakısından şaşmam.

[Ferdinand de Solstice @Ferdi_Solstice]

@eosayin Haliyle TR ile Avrupa gençliği arasındaki temel fark umumi refah seviyesinden ziyade çalışma disiplini ve tasarruf kültürü. Bu ikisi TR’de üniversite gençliği nazarında “statü kaybı” ve cimrilik addedilen şeyler. Bizde okuyan talebenin çalışması “dram” addedilir.

[Ferdinand de Solstice @Ferdi_Solstice]

@eosayin (Batı) Avrupa gençliğinin seyahat kültürü bizde eşi benzeri olmayan bir çalışma ve tasarruf disiplinine dayanıyor. Üniversite okurken zengin-fakir hemen herkes vasıflı/vasıfsız part-time işlerde çalışıp birikim yapıyor, bu parayla uzun “seyahatlere” çıkıyorlar. Tatil değil.

[Ferdinand de Solstice @Ferdi_Solstice]

@arsennisanyan Yalçın Küçük'ün turizm, inşaat, tekstil ve fuhuş arasında kurduğu ilişki ve "turizm ahlaksızlık getirir" tespiti hakkında ne düşünüyorsunuz?

[Ferdinand de Solstice @Ferdi_Solstice]

@arsennisanyan Düşüyor mu böyle?