thank god in an hour all the clocks will strike 12 returning my mufos to the normal amount of high

We don't know which Cabinet secretary will be forced to resign next, but we know it'll be either Brooke Rollins or Linda McMahon because they're the last two women left.

Federal judge unloads on ‘unserious’ RFK Jr., says anti-trans policy showed his ‘cruelty’ Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai vacated the “Kennedy Declaration,” finding it unlawfully attempted to override medical standards and restrict care for transgender youth.

Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded.

“This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.”

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👏 Canada 👏 Post 👏 is 👏 a 👏 public 👏 service 👏

Nothing proves how capitalism has brain rotted everyone than thinking the post office, hospitals, public transit, libraries, etc. need to turn a profit to be worthwhile.

announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite

horseshoe theory is real. leftists almost got kat abughazaleh elected into congress and now it comes out that her boyfriend owns infowars…

god what a perfect post

Comic of the beetle from the cover of Massive Attack's "Mezzanine" meeting the crab from the cover of The Prodigy's "Fat of the Land".

Hi this joke is for me

Every urban fantasy romance cover

Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices

I Tested Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme: This 18-Core Power CPU Hits Hard Against AMD, Apple, Intel Inside Asus’ featherweight Zenbook A16, Qualcomm's new flagship laptop chip flexes massive multi-core muscle, upgraded graphics, and real momentum against the competition. The benchmarks speak for the...

Been quietly watching the Snapdragon X2E benchmarks and they’re wild, like they don’t top Apple and come with several caveats but they get within striking distance. www.pcmag.com/news/i-teste...

Tape 05 YouTube video by Boards of Canada

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new track just dropped

(no, literally, the Scottish electronica duo Boards of Canada dropped a new track like two days ago)

Tape 05 YouTube video by Boards of Canada

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Browsing this company's website and the only way I can describe what I'm seeing is imagine a school shooter was a management consultant

Healthy accountability is triggered by evidence, points upward at power, and happens in public. Disordered accountability protects insiders and aims its punishment outward. What the document does is argue for the second while calling it the first.

The 'adversaries won't wait' statement doesn't reject deliberation outright, it just makes serious deliberation always feel premature. You can debate this or that war, but the underlying question, whether to build the systems at all, is treated as settled, & that's deliberation as performance.

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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I cannot believe it's been 11 years since Freddie Gray was killed by the cops. I wrote a quick post after Mosby indicted the 6 cops. www.usprisonculture.com/2015/05/01/s... - It still holds up. None were convicted.

we need a campaign to revoke their corporate charter

URGENT ask for folks in NY 🧵:

Gov. Hochul is once again holding the state budget hostage until she gets what she wants. And what she wants is to weaken our climate laws so she wont be breaking the law by failing to implement the Climate Leadership and Communities Protection Act.

What you can do:

Vintage Sixfinger toy (“The most amazing toy ever!”), which is a toy gun that looks like an index finger, that had swappable functions - including a cap bomb, a ballpoint pen, SOS, shooting a secret bullet, shooting a secret message, and shooting a fragmentation bomb

I don’t want to point any fingers, but we used to be a country of genuine innovation.

Today, a lot of people will be talking about the manifesto that Palantir released. In addition to pouring over what those words mean, I invite you to ground the conversation in what Palantir has already done.

Its work with Israel and ICE show us exactly what it stands for.

to the extent Palantir is accurate about a threat to civilization it's that the architects of surveillance and torture were not charged and tried for building a nascent unaccountable panopticon and any healthy democracy would instead drive Alex Karp to ruin rather than give him public money for harm

*sigh*

1. That's not a direct quote. If you're going to put something in quotation marks and then go, "Wow. He just came right out and said it," it should be a direct quote.

2. This speech is from 2018. Don't present it as new/recent.

3. The actual content of the speech is bad enough.

Palantir is doing cutting edge science on whether its possible for an entire company to have cocaine psychosis

a cat sitting on a chair at the dining room table looking nonplussed by a large plate of blini

when you've siezed the means of production and aren't sure what comes next