A digital illustration in simple outlines and flat textured color. A man with a white mustache wearing a sun hat is pushing an ice cream cart with bells hanging from the handle. Along with pictures of popsicles, text on the side and front of the cart reads ‘Maybe it’ll happen today’
Verge headline: Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want by Elizabeth Lopatto Illustration of a brain melting in the sun
"In the place of problem-solving technology, companies have jumped on successive bandwagons like NFTs, the metaverse, and LLMs. What these all have in common is that they are not built to really solve a market problem. They are built to make VCs and companies rich."
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is it the one who complained his phone didn't work because it got too hot but he submerged it in a pool *checks and finds I'm now blocked* helllll yeahhhh
Sowing the wind, reaping the whirlwind, things of that nature
The NYT exposé on the shadow docket reveals John Roberts as the partisan actor he’s always been — despite his reputation as a serious institutionalist that outlets like the Times have long helped him cultivate.
The essential @thelisagraves.bsky.social helps me unpack the story:
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This is not getting nearly enough media or public attention.
👉 Palantir Goes Mask-Off For Fascism. It Won’t End Well by @masnick.com
www.techdirt.com/2026/04/20/p...
There is still no real bargain to strike -- the bargain was struck in 2015 w/ JCPOA and now we have raised the value of nukes, added Hormuz as a problem, and can't credibly commit to a serious deal. There is a "deal" Trump will sell as victory, but is in reality a humiliation.
Virginia you know what to do, #VoteYesVirginia
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Every authoritarian action Trump is taking must be understood against the backdrop of his declining popularity.
He feigns strength, but he's operating from a place of weakness.
Remember this.
TOMORROW Virginia can STOP TRUMP from rigging the November Midterms! #VoteYesVirginia for free and fair elections and STOP THE STEAL! 🇺🇸💙🌊
Any candidate who isn’t pushing for serious reform of the Supreme Court is not meeting the moment
Two small children labeled “the rich” cry and shrink back in terror from a rabbit labeled “taxes” while behind them, unseen, lurks a tiger labeled “guillotines”
They really need to learn that paying taxes is the happy outcome for them.
I wonder why Dinesh might want to move on from the Epstein files… 🤔
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Earthset, recorded by Reid Wiseman during the Artemis II lunar flyby.
The initial imperfect composition, and the phone hunting for focus makes this so much more human and familiar.
A celestial scene witnessed by only 28 of us in history...more
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Lindsay is doing the best analysis I've seen of the back and forth on talks. This is from the middle of one of her threads.
I don't know what it will take to make Trump get serious. Probably a major market crash.
But he'll announce something tonight and his marks in the market will do his bidding.
🎁link - share.inquirer.com/ftxyhu
That Yale report on what's wrong with U.S. college saw some trees (high cost, unfair admission, etc.) but missed the forest: the 60-year right-wing crusade to undermine higher ed, from slashing budgets to stifling speech
How to really fix college. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/yale...
That, plus it’s always the wrong week to quit sniffing glue
DOOOOO ITTTTTTTT
Then vote YES on the redistricting measure!
Have been wondering when candidates would start talking about this. One of the biggest corruption scandals is U.S. history playing out in real time.
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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