Congratulations to Tim Apple, ass-kisser.

The first step towards "feeling honored" is to conduct yourself honorably.

The fact that dishonorable men are routinely lauded and rewarded does not change that essential truth, as shown by the most powerful man and the richest man both being profoundly insecure and self-loathing.

The press is intent on whitewashing Republican agency out of everything.

lmao i wasn't prepared for the fuckin rainbow infowars logo

Big win for WLP, and a reminder of the importance of state courts and state constitutions. PA, by statute, broadly prohibits Medicaid payments for abortion. That was just thrown out as a violation of PA's Equal Rights Amendment and PA Constitution's equal protection clause.

Posting this in the hopes it can be manifested:

Palantir's greatest source of profit comes from underpaying its so-called "forward-deployed engineers." They are paid well, but only a fraction of their value to the company. They should be encouraged to unionize.

I know, right? In his own telling, you can't do manual labor, you can't learn to code, you can't work in an office, so the "education and reskilling" is to, what, be born rich?

Schulman's compensation last year was $34 million. He believes 20-30% unemployment is almost at hand, and his solution is "more education and reskilling."

I don't think he understands what it would be like when a population armed to the teeth has 20-30% unemployment and no social safety net.

We’re defending Western Civilization by kicking Plato and Shakespeare out of university classes.

Every couple years we count how many people want economic and racial justice and they always say very clearly that they don't. More than any other group they don't want those things.

Yeah. "I disagree with the Court's legal analysis" is one thing, but "the Court isn't using legal analysis to decide cases" is another. The latter is no longer in the realm of law and should not be treated as if it is.

That Miles Davis fellow seems talented. Obviously, I could give him some tips to be a better musician, but he's okay.

I'm more pissed off about imaginary numbers having multiple applications to practical real-world applications. Not even just quantum physics, just ordinary stuff like alternating current.

That's just bullshit. Whoever built this place is messing with us.

Indeed, sure seems like cop lingo for "the Black guy looked at me wrong and had to be put in his place."

Recall the Supreme Court held there was a constitutional right to stand on a public sidewalk and scream homophobic rants at a soldier's funeral as long as you're a bunch of right-wing religious freaks, but apparently it's a crime to stand on a public sidewalk and smirk while Black.

Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler incident - Wikipedia

Reminds me of the Brown–Stigler incident. Stigler had 21 aerial victories at that point, he was a battle-hardened veteran. But he saw that barely flying B-17 and its injured crew and knew it would be wrong to shoot them down.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie...

🎶And more, much more than this
I was just basic🎶

21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?

Palantir is part of the "regressive and harmful" subculture that destroyed USAID, terminated mRNA research, trashed NIH & CDC & FDA & EPA, and brought back measles. Within the next few years, their subculture will be responsible for more preventable deaths than any other in human history.
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17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives.

Palantir has already been paid billions to do this, building surveillance systems, predictive policing tools, ICE tracking platforms, and gang databases that sweep in teenagers because they wore the wrong color. Palantir is glad it doesn't reduce crime, because failure means more gov't money.
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14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war. 15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia.

Forgive me for suspecting a man selling battlefield software might have a motivated view on whether the losers of the last world war should rearm.

The "long peace" praised in 14 was built on the settlements he wants to dismantle in 15; noticing that contradiction is mere "theatrical debate."
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5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed.

Every generation of arms merchants has its own version of this claim: someone else will do the bad thing, so it's not bad when we do it. "Theatrical debates" is meant to contrast thinking about the appropriate use of violence as mere performance art, whereas killing people is sober realism.
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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.

This lofty language has two key caveats: (1) they feel an obligation solely in terms of "defense," not more broadly, such as common welfare, public health, or even democracy; (2) they admit a "debt" yet offer no repayment, instead demanding the exact opposite, that the country pay them even more.
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A couple points on this manifesto, apart from the racial superiority subtext others noted.

Palantir is a company built on public contracts, they bill the state billions to surveil and target the state's population. The manifesto exists to justify their demand for even more.
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I dunno, maybe Palantir has a point: can anyone deny that Silicon Valley has produced a regressive and harmful subculture? That things would be better if we excluded their inferior subculture from America? 🙃

I wrote a whole book about AI but I agree with this completely — and also the implication that there are countless other areas of research more important than AI.

Every time a Democrat mentions how to talk to "ordinary people" they mean "how I was told to talk by a handful of weirdo consultants in DC with gross fixations on throwing certain groups under the bus and who would not last a day in an ordinary job interacting with ordinary people."

In an administration brimming with moral degenerates, RFK Jr keeps finding ways to stand out.

Conservatives' brains are so broken. Thomas is one of the most powerful people in the country and he lives like a billionaire, vacationing on private yachts and private ranches.

But he is still filled with resentment over "liberals" making his life miserable back when he was a baby in 1948? Wut?

It's telling that the entire premise of the shadow docket is that lower courts are incompetent. Not wrong, not the normal judges-can-disagree stuff. SCOTUS is certain the Appellate and District courts are all so truly incompetent that they cannot properly decide injunctions, forcing SCOTUS to act.🙄

Mike Nellis @MikeNellis "I'M NO LONGER CATHOLIC!" Hannity ABANDONS HIS FAITH for Trump NELLIS X.com • +*+

Amazing that in the national divorce the libs are getting the NFL, butter and cooking oil, being attracted to adult women, standup comedy, Bud Light, and now also Catholicism