All of this is worrisome. And now Palantir is so integrated into gov it'll be hard to get them out.
"The way in which Palantir grew caused unease within its own ranks. A year ago, some former Palantir employees wrote an open letter about the violation of the company’s prior ethical guardrails."
We have to prosecute them.
This is a boringly accurate, purely factual description of events.
And again, this is simply not receiving the same breathless BIDEN FAILED IN AFGHANISTAN type of coverage, even though this is orders of magnitude worse on every dimension. The two parties simply are not held to the same standards.
The left would have us believe that all cultures are equal. But in reality, some produce marvels while others turn out AI slop and descend into cocaine-fueled fascism.
by Alex Karp
It’s a mark of how completely normalised the corruption & depravity have become that we barely bat an eyelid at the thought of two *property developers*, one Trump’s nepo baby son-in-law, being sent to represent the USA in peace negotiations with Iran. Sometimes it all hits you afresh.
I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.
But I was told he was just a balls and strikes umpire guy...
Talk about barbarians at the gate. But that this desecration barely registers means it's not just the terrible people rampaging through the Kennedy Center to fear. It's us.
The mining process exposes minerals to rain that creates sulphuric acid ergo Minnesota is a bad location. The company is foreign owned, would ship to China and back, no discernible US benefit per @hcrichardson.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
My only question is when do these evil jerkoffs go to jail. This is murder pain and simple. I believe they are practicing for the time when they decide to come after us. I have no doubt they would kill to stay in power.
Whew these times are tough. A torrent of bad news on the envioronment today.
Never, ever, ever, ever vote for a Republican for any office.
This is an appalling tip-toe around the Trump family's overt corruption. Do news, please, PBS.
plenty of private sector jobs that are fine or even good for society. "lobbyist for Kalshi and Coinbase" is not among them
Opinion Editorial Board America’s income tax is progressive The rich already pay more than their fair share
Unbelievable stuff from the Washington Post on behalf of Jeff Bezos today.
We don't have to go global to seek a source for that rhetoric. See: Birth of a Nation.
"This is chicanery"
Rep Joyce Beatty's (D-OH) new court filing challenging Trump's renaming & shuttering of Kennedy Center
"Defendants have no meaningful answer to the fact that they have renamed the Kennedy Ctr in open defiance of the organic statute"
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Former TIME editor Richard Stengel: “He is repeating every foreign and domestic policy mistake the US has made over the last 5 decades, but he’s doing it with a gracelessness, cluelessness, and corruption that has no precedent.”
The effective federal corporate income tax rate:
1950: 50%
1990: 25%
2020: 13%
Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate.
That is how we will pay for it.
For decades, men from Milwaukee voided even the appearance of cannibalism. Jeffery Dahmer is taking a different approach.
There's no greater sign of the iron grip that "both sides" framing has on American journalists than the repeated descriptions of the unhinged tantrum Trump is throwing over the pope's anodyne statements on Catholic doctrine as a "feud" or a "fight" or anything else that implies they're both to blame
Insane blasphemy
Agree that it's an inappropriate focus for the story.
The amazing, letter-perfect performance of NASA this week is a ferocious rebuke to the right-wing fools who constantly tell us that for-profit businesses always do a job better than the government.
Hungary’s prime minister is more important to Donald Trump than all of his voters put together, than all Americans, than America itself, and it’s not even close. I wrote an essay yesterday to explain why: snyder.substack.com/p/the-hungar...
I still do not understand why Democrats in Congress did not pick an enormous fight over this.
When words work.
Everyone should read the entire thread and QTs on the great Paul Robeson. One piece of his legacy I have not seen: gridiron star. At Rutgers, Robeson was a two-time All-American and perhaps the best player in collegiate ball. He then played two historic years in the APFA/NFL.
i firmly believe that kennedy wants preventable diseases to rip through american communities since, in his warped mind, those who survive without vaccines will have proven themselves “healthy.”
This was so beautifully written, a work of literature and history.