RĂŒmeysa ĂztĂŒrk, the Tufts student detained be ICE last March who repeatedly won legal battles, has finished her Ph.D and returned to her native TĂŒrkiye (aka Turkey), the ACLU says in a press release.
There is a settlement agreement as well.
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Anger over the data center boom has spilled into politics with voters unseating local politicians who support them. It's become an issue hard to ignore in the midterm elections. n.pr/3QfF8I1
New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally.
It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. đ§”
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...
Because there are more of us than there are of themâŠwe have lost that understanding.
Weâre all downstairs, making the teaâŠ
The cure for TB exists. The will to deploy it universally does not, yet. That gap is not scientific. It is political.
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Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.
Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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Me too!
I have had 13 of them. I trust!
No surprise that the CEO of Palantir, a tech monopoly financed mainly by the state, whose founder distrusts democracy, which builds tools to centralise state surveillance, has a problem with pluralism:
âWe must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralismâ
Confused. You are always on? (Meaning, working)
Last night the US quietly lifted sanctions on Russian oil for another month - two days after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said it wouldnât happen.
#BBCNews live news: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cq...
Iran closes Strait of Hormuz again over continued US blockade of its ports, state media says
OrbĂĄn rode to power on resentment over the economic stagnation that developed under center-left governments. But he leaves office with Hungarians facing falling wages and higher inflation than similar countries are experiencing. OrbĂĄnâs sectarianism and intolerance have sparked neither a religious revival nor a fertility bump; Hungaryâs population is shrinking and has become more irreligious, even as OrbĂĄn has demonized LGBTQ people, âMuslim invaders,â and Jews. OrbĂĄnism, in short, did not make Hungarians more rich, Christian, or freeâunless you happened to be one of OrbĂĄnâs buddies, in which case you may have gotten rich. As most Hungarians felt their economic circumstances worsen, OrbĂĄn provided them with relatively powerless targets to hate.
Orban made grand appeals to âChristianityâ and âWestern Civilization,â but his âilliberal democracyâ was just a scam, a way to make him and his buddies rich while subjecting Hungarians to stagnation and robbing them of their freedom. Sound familiar? (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
BREAKING: Weâre taking the government to court over Palantir.
The government is refusing to hand over important briefings given to Wes Streeting about the ÂŁ330m NHS data contract with Peter Thielâs surveillance firm
So weâre taking legal action.
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-w...
Inspired by an online conversation and the hard work of others, I set off to examine age groupings among Australians confirmed as COVID-19 cases from 2020 to April 2026. The findings revealed interesting patterns, especially in the very young.
virologydownunder.com/age-and-covi...
Hereâs this weekâsâ Better Offline monologue. I discuss how AI labsâ dangerous rhetoric around AI capabilities and job loss is antagonizing society, and that de-escalation starts with Altman and Amodei talking about LLMs as normal software.
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This is dope as hell. Humans are pretty amazing at doing cool shit when there aren't some stupid assholes fucking shit up
Pope Leo: "The world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants, yet it is held together by a multitude of supportive brothers and sisters.â
âIf you are a Republican candidate, you would like to not be talking about the economy right now. So this gives you an opportunity to control the debate and move it from economy to problems with Islam."
The national media is eating up this report as justification for perpetuating the lie that universities themselves - as opposed to decades of attacks from the far right authoritarian party - are responsible for eroding trust in higher education. You can almost hear them salivating at the chance.
A sanctioned Iranian supertanker - with its tracker on - has sailed through the Strait of Hormuz into Iran without interference. (Fars)
Looks like the US blockade is just hot air. Who would have guessed.
Haha. Funny.
Map of the Peak District National Park, designated 13 April 1951
Happy birthday to the Peak District National Park, designated #otd 13 April 1951. Originally 555 square miles of moor and valley, the 'great north roof of England.' It would never have happened but for one woman... 1/4
Indeed, EU law *literally* protected Magyar from prosecution by OrbĂĄn, who wanted to prosecute him - but Magyar is an MEP, and the European Parliament refused to waive his immunity balkaninsight.com/2025/10/10/m...
iâll be in rome in a few weeks. pope leo handbasket interview??
