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“If you were hoping for Al Pacino chewing scenery, this might be a bit of a letdown.”
– Writer and critic Adrian Daub, on the antichrist Peter Thiel says is presently walking among us. In a series of recent private San Francisco lectures, the tech billionaire has suggested the apocalyptic harbinger is: one-world state proponents, AI regulators, and “someone like Greta” Thunberg.
“Today in ‘you can’t make this stuff up,’ Meta has suspended my Facebook account because they suspect me of impersonating someone noteworthy.”
– Sci-fi author Neal Stephenson, finding it more than a little ironic that the company that named itself after the metaverse concept he coined in his cyberpunk novel Snow Crash (1992) accused him of impersonation.
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