Bard spotting on Bluesky 11 February 2025

deputy ambassador mark rippetoe's novella, the trip to dallas (@swolecialism.bsky.social):

Yamashita's Gold! This is either some real deep and regionally-specific crankery or this guy has so lost it he's confused the plot of a neal stephenson novel with reality

Scythe of Saturn (@shermanist.bsky.social):

Some of this is genuinely impressively insane. Where did some of this even come from?

post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social):

I was gonna say, isn't this about the point in Cryptonomicon I stopped paying attention to the plot

Buttadeus (@thewanderingjew.bsky.social):

I want to know more about the banking system of rural China based around a central golden buddha filled with gemstones.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

That must be why the Communist Revolution killed all the Buddhist monks and nuns and then kept their gem-filled Buddha statues sitting around, to be their banks, right

Buttadeus (@thewanderingjew.bsky.social):

it all adds up