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Rhys

@thecontentflywheel.bsky.social
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In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey. E = MC Hammer. 🇦🇺 🇳🇱

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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
Creatively Tapped-Out Peter Thiel Launches Startup Called ‘Frodo, But Evil’ theonion.com/creatively-tapped-out-…
Creatively Tapped-Out Peter Thiel Launches Startup Called ‘Frodo, But Evil’
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Rhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“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
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Rhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
What’s going on at x? Oh nltimes.nl/2026/09/04/p...
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PM Rob Jetten has received 2,293 homophobic responses to his X posts in 6 months
In the six months that he has been Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Rob Jetten posted on X via the Prime Minister’s official account 323 times. He received 45,860 responses to those tweets. One in t...
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
A humanities problematisation of the anthropomorphising of AI
The philosophical response to such claims must be politically as well as metaphysically alert. Recent studies in disciplines ranging from psychology to management studies have evidenced an intuitively obvious truth: the more anthropomorphised an AI is, the more likely we are to trust it. Lisa Klaassen and Ralph Schroeder of the Oxford Internet Institute point out in the legal journal Lawfare that an anthropomorphised ("anthropic") AI is not only more trustable but also easier to market. Why call it
"Claude", they ask. "Consider the emotional resonance of the name. 'Claude' sounds friendly, vaguely French, cultivated - even trustworthy." How would we react "if the same model was called 'Xi, 'Vladimir,' or
'Algorithmic Model Unit 72'"?
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John Cutting @fortunasaga.com · 13/07/2026
On Bluesky An odd regression. Ancient memes Find new expression. Burma-shave.
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
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.
A detail from an animal seller of 18th century London offering a panther, and a sea-monster.
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Rhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Most plausible theory yet
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
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.
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Rhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
One of the all-time correction greats
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Rhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Unnamed child strikes me as the oddest name, although not by much
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Rhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Thou shalt not start a war to distract from the Epstein files
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 12/12/2025
Today in “Dudes Rock”: A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
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Rhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
This feels like a stat worth pondering
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Rhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Can you BELIEVE their names? www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...
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Rowe and Payne: finish line in sight for aptly named British duo rowing nonstop from Peru to Australia
After about 8,300 nautical miles Jess Rowe and Miriam Payne can’t wait to share their ‘tales of the high seas’ when they land in Cairns, Queensland
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Rhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Multi level howling
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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."
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Rhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Prepared by @volteuropa.org !
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Rhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
The scary thing about this is it feels plausible
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Andrew B. Watkins @windjunky.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Marine heatwave off W.A appears to have severely impacted Ningaloo coral reef: www.smh.com.au/national/wes...
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‘Like an underwater bushfire:’ Shocking images as heatwave bleaches Ningaloo
Advocates are calling this a “red alert” moment for the usually resilient reef, as a marine heatwave already linked to a fish kill and cyclone intensification moves south.
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Rhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
For me the most insightful thread yet on DeepSeek
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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 22/01/2025
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.
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‘Catastrophic’: Great Barrier Reef hit by its most widespread coral bleaching, study finds
More than 40% of individual corals monitored around One Tree Island reef bleached by heat stress and damaged by flesh-eating disease
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Rhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
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.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
(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...
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
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.
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Rhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
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..
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Alex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social · 13/02/2021
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,...
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Rhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Impressive foresight from 100 years ago www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
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Scientist’s ‘ruthlessly imaginative’ 1925 predictions for the future come true – mostly
Prof Low anticipated home speakers and gender neutral clothing, but missed his mark on herb-based street lighting
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Rhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Bubble is taking on incredible proportions
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
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
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Rhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
SoftBank, famous for investing in wework, and uber during its peak www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
theguardian.com
Trump announces SoftBank plans to invest $100bn in US projects
President-elect vows investment will result in 100,000 new jobs despite history of jobs plans not panning out
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Rhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
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.
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Rhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Epic
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Rhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
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.
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Rhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
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. 🤯
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Rhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Imagine this clown in charge of your health system.
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Rhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
…and the airstrip needs to be removed so the area can be rewilded…..right? Right?
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God @thegodshow.com · 30/11/2024
Thou shalt not groove to the YMCA while marginalizing the communities that made the song iconic.
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Rhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Love me a good iambic skeet
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Rhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Wow. One amazing thread.
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Rhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Every time i see his latest tweets screen shotted here I have to do a double take and ask myself if it’s real
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Rhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Incredible amount of wishful thinking a d fantasists in this group of voters www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
theguardian.com
Trump voters hail controversial cabinet picks as the government they want
Trump voters in the American heartland are excited, even as senior Republicans are less than enthusiastic about some of the president-elect’s choices
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God @thegodshow.com · 23/11/2024
Someone called this mass exodus from Twitter ‘the fall of the Broman Empire’ and I died laughing. 💀
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The US is now selling weapons and military jet fuel to a wanted war criminal
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Rhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
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.
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Rhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
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-...
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The X exodus - could Bluesky spike spark end of Elon Musk's social media platform?
Even Google appears to trust X less, with one expert telling Sky News the search engine treats X competitor Bluesky as 10 times more important than Elon Musk's platform.
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Rhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
A diet of steroids, processed food, petty grievances, and fake tan never hurt anyone.
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Rhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
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
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Rhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I believe “geriatric millennials” is the accurate nomenclature. I know. My false teeth nearly fell out when I heard that term too.
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