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[Schwabster🇱🇹🇩🇰🇺🇦 @Ziggydank]

HE DID IT

THE FUCKING MADMAN ACTUALLY DID IT

[El Señor De Los Memes @UltimoLegend]

Mornin

[Alex Finn @AlexFinn]

Sam Bankman-Fried is the greatest investor of all time

Cursor just got bought by SpaceX today. SBF invested $200k into Cursor in 2022

He also invested in:
2021- Anthropic: $500M → ~$75B
2022- Robinhood: $648M → ~$5B
2022- Genesis Digital: ~$1.15B → ~$3B
2022- SpaceX exposure: ~$100M → ~$10B

That means if he weren't in jail today and still owned all this equity, he'd be worth ~$100 billion

But because he got a greedy and put customer funds into crypto, he had to divest from all those positions at cost

He'd be top 20 richest people in the world. Now he's just trying not to drop the bar of soap

[𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗 @shagbark_hick]

It's sort of crazy to think that the 1990's were really the last hoorah for genuine outlaw shit.

When CCTV became ubiquitous and computerized interstate record systems became common -- the days when an outlaw was an even match with a lawman effectively ended.

This was only the beginning. As the 2000's, 10's, and 20's progressed, thermal FLIR, drones, flock cameras, license plate readers, and so on were also added to the LEO arsenal. With them, old-school crimes like bank robbery fell off a cliff. It was the end of an era.

Some reading this will say "good," and I don't blame them. Less crime is a desirable outcome from all of this.

But the end of the "outlaw era" and the unprecedented technological superiority of the state has also effectively ended the era of bottom-up revolutions, guerilla uprisings, civil wars, and so on in the West. At this stage, the only conceivable avenue through which a major militant uprising could occur would be if some proportion of the US military defied orders and expropriated weapons systems wholesale.

This is also "good" in at least some way: it objectively reduces the chances of a horrible, gory civil war.

However -- it's also the death of the "a little revolution every now and then" idea that is so core to the American idea of freedom. Constantly, I hear rhetoric about how "if things get bad enough, the people will revolt," with the implication being that if they did, we'd see a "Second American Revolution" that would usher in a new era of freedom -- or something like that.

So far as I can tell, that idea is now dead. The totality of state power has intensified and been made incredibly precise. State-sponsored mass surveillance continues to worsen. Your odds of doing anything major -- be it a crime or a guerilla revolt -- and getting away with it have never been lower.

Because of this, there's likely not going to be a "revolutionary reset" for an abnormally long time. Now, when freedoms erode, there isn't really an outlet for reclaiming them by direct action. The technology now exists to ensure that every conceivable outlet or avenue for people-driven challenges to state power is essentially impossible -- and by my eye, it'd require a coup within the US military to change that.

[Over the Ledge @over_the_ledge]

@wonsukchoi_ @metricbase Mine was really good at first but now is has turned down a ton. You arent having this happen?

[tenso @distributedkv]

how it feels to use Opus now

[Udi Wertheimer @udiWertheimer]

this must be what the furries felt like when they took away gpt 4o

[Gay Interrupted @TwinkTheory]

The savvy concubine positions herself on the day of ascension

[Over the Ledge @over_the_ledge]

@VincereLudum @andrewmccalip I was having this issue this morning before work as well

[Over the Ledge @over_the_ledge]

@andrewmccalip Favorite ad so far was https://t.co/K9zrM37YvM

Super cool tool you've made here man. It feels great to be able to perpetuate a pro subscription as long as you survive :)

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@HaydenHewitt @patcito @dimodzx @toddsaunders It is painful to watch you trying to interact with this guy. He doesn't want to understand what you are saying.

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@spacepixel You kinda raped me on GACHA

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@themooncallsuuu @NaturallyIthink Explain what a square is without reducing it to number/length of sides or right angles.

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@TheFastBatman @Lordmiles @_mirceabarbu Are you suggesting that a new party would take control of a wallet that was previously owned by someone else? They are just sharing the private keys and trusting the Tates to not take the money?

[ًً @stoyatel]

just saw an absolute fucking chad on my timeline

[Italian 🚅🇮🇹🇻🇦 @Italian347]

In the beginning was the.... Word, you say?

[Christian Heiens 🏛 @ChristianHeiens]

“Dude, the culture war is a distraction from fighting the REAL enemy. The Left should win on everything though.”

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@hibiscuslattee @unknowntee @big_mac_n_chees @augiexp_ @harper033_ @Wexie14 I've never smoked a cigarette in my life.
I couldn't possibly contract lung cancer.

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@hibiscuslattee @augiexp_ @harper033_ @Wexie14 If smoking can cause cancer then why don't I have cancer?