Just what the doctor peppered
ok so looking further into it adi shankar has made anti-trump comments in the past (in like. 2017) and has apparently recently made comments abt how “anarchism wont work you have to work with the current legislation” so hes either a recent trumphead or a very stupid centrist
wait isnt adi shankar also the guy who was making the hyper light drifter series
wait isnt adi shankar also the guy who was making the hyper light drifter series
everytging im hearing about Dante’s America Adventures: The Animated Series
Twenty-One Things You Don’t Say to a Transsexual by Riki Anne Wilchins.
The fact that I am the only transsexual you know only emphasizes that…we are secretly plotting to take over the planet Earth, and infiltrating your prevailing nontranssexual culture is just our first step
In TransSisters: The Journal of Transsexual Feminism, issue 3, volume 1. 1994.
WAIT
I JUST REMEMBERED HEARING AN ELON MUSK QUOTE WHERE HE TALKS ABOUT HOW HE BELIEVES CHESS IS "TOO SIMPLE" OR WHATEVER AND HE SAID HIS FAVORITE GAME WAS A GAME CALLED "POLYTOPIA"
I JUST REMEMBERED THAT IVE PLAYED POLYTOPIA
It being Elon's favorite game (or at least one so important to him that his biographer dedicates a lot of time to it) is.....really really funny.
Basically, imagine Civilization, but as a mobile game. So like if Civilization Revolution was even more dumbed down (that's a Civilization insult. That's devastating. It's devastated right now). For what it's worth, it's not a bad game. On the contrary, from what I could tell in the little bit of time I played it, it's a perfectly competent game with good design. But it's not a deep game by any means. I played through it once, won easily on my first go, then saw that the other playable characters had barely any differences between them.
Like, not to imply you can judge a book by its cover, but here's what it looks like
I came across an article by Dave Karpf discussing this exact thing, and I think it describes it wonderfully
In what may be a first in American history, President Trump just expanded the presidential pardon power to include corporations. [...]
On Friday, Trump issued full and unconditional pardons to four individuals and a related cryptocurrency exchange, BitMEX.
BitMEX solicits and takes orders for trades in derivatives tied to the value of cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin. Last summer, BitMEX entered a guilty plea in a Manhattan federal court for violating the Bank Secrecy Act for having operated without a legitimate anti-money laundering program. Prior to August 2020, customers could register to trade with BitMEX anonymously, providing only verified email addresses.
On Jan. 15, 2025, BitMEX was criminally fined $100 million in connection with its guilty plea, which was on top of $130 million in civil penalties previously imposed by the Commodities Futures Trading Commission. At sentencing, the judge noted that BitMEX, which is incorporated in the Seychelles, had claimed not to operate in the U.S. for several years even though U.S. customers comprised a large share of its business.
Although the text of the pardon is not yet public, it presumably wipes out the criminal penalties against BitMEX and forgives the crimes, making it legally impossible for federal prosecutors to go after the company for any crimes falling within the scope of the pardon at any point in the future. It also changes the company’s incentives for compliance with federal criminal laws. On March 31, the company posted on X that its trading volume had surged $1.22 billion the prior week. [...]
Trump panned cryptocurrency as a “scam” in 2021, but he has since created his own crypto firm, World Liberty Financial, with his eldest sons. Last week, the firm announced it would be introducing a new coin (its fourth), which will be known as “USD1.”
So far, Trump’s crypto companies have reportedly sold $550 million in coins, with a business entity tied to the president getting 75 percent of sales. That’s not including the memecoins that he and Melania Trump both launched before his inauguration. As of Feb. 11, the memecoin $TRUMP had plunged in value, but had generated $100 million in fees reportedly owed to an entity associated with Trump.
