NO 👇 LIES DETECTED, NEIL.......

Any "extraordinarily brilliant person" would know his presidency is in free-fall after his disastrous decision to enter another endless war-of-choice in the Middle East & that on November 3rd accountability is coming for the most corrupt criminal Administration in U.S. History.

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Ditto! 🫩

Drunkard rapist fox host Pete Hegseth has ended mandatory annual flu vaccines for US troops and blames President Biden for military vaccine mandates.

First, this is straight up murder in my opinion and second, flu shots have been required since 1945 when Biden was 2 years old.

meaning that any prosecution would have to show that the reporter, Elizabeth Williamson, acted with the intent of harassing Ms. Wilkins, instead of intending to simply report a story

So,wait...he doesn't like the taste of his own medicine?? Soooo confusing. 🤡
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Good riddance, Tim Cooke, and shame on you, Apple.
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The Technological Republic Supreme Dictatorship of the Billionaires

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The guillotine is a procrustean justice machine, producing moral clarity by the basketful, relieving trespassers of excess extension.

It is the best-practice remedy for vertigo experienced by so-called kings and billionaires, who by their own estimation are always one head taller than all others.

One remedy, and one only.

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Similarly, Palantir calls for national military service. This is a common and unfortunate affliction of middle-aged and older men, akin to an interest in the Roman Empire or World War II. Its simply not something you see many men in their 20s promote for obvious I-would-prefer-not-to-die reasons. Charitably, it reflects a sense of a desire for creating shared meaning among the young that the elderly perceive is lacking, or to coerce the elite into sharing the cost of military conflict. Uncharitably, it is the old telling the young how to live and risk their lives.

We all have personal views, but the manifesto completely merges Palantir and Karp's vision. Why should a tech company have a manifesto that includes rearming Germany or Japan, or calls for national military service?
Turning opinions into political manifestos demands allegiance or opposition.

Another way to look at this is that billionaires have joined a war on professional administrative class of public servants precisely because of their proximity to formal mechanisms of accountability. Civil servants are sworn to uphold the constitution, report wrongdoing to officials, follow the rules. They are in most respects more accountable than our politicians to ethical and legal requirements, and more difficult to buy off. This makes government slower and more irritating for sure, and puts those officials at odds with the Musks, Andreessens, and Karps of the world, whose vision and interests benefits from reduced oversight and accountability.

I think the Palantir attacks on bureaucrats here is ideological - like the similarly despised professors, they are a potential source of criticism.
But it is also practical. The administrative class is tasked with imposing accountability, which Palantir - like the Trump administration - dislikes.

Few groups in American public life have suffered more material or reputational damage in the past year than federal civil servants. More than 400,000 employees have left the federal government. For many, they left a dream job, pushed out by people who knew less than they did. They worked under a government where the President declared them to be the deep state, government leaders promised to put them “in trauma” and the President’s supporters often exposed them to harassment campaigns. They were demeaned by bosses who opposed the mission of their organization.

Because I study government I am sort of stuck on Karp's characterization of bureaucrats as overpaid priests - the echo of “will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?” may not be intended, but its there - at a time when they were purged from govt and he made several billion dollars.

8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive. 9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret. 11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice.

The manifesto is incoherent about public service until you realize that Karp is presenting you with two types of public servants: civil servants fired under Trump, and the tech elites who venture into government.
The former deserve your scorn.
The latter merit your understanding and praise.

image of Palantir stock price increasing after Trump elected

Karp once studied and opposed fascism. How did he become someone a Trump defender? Palantir's value is fused to MAGA.

In the Times, @michellegoldberg.bsky.social says: "the best explanation for Karp’s journey — as for most of his right-wing billionaire compatriots — is the vulgar materialist one.”

Uhhmmmm, it IS techno-fascism.

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. 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?

The manifesto makes a straightforward case that government and Silicon Valley power must be fused in order to defend Western values - which are superior to others - with hard rather than soft power. For many, this sounds like techno-fascism.
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Power without accountability: The Palantir manifesto The problems with our tech philosopher kings

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. 🧵
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Apparently Sam Altman also wrote a manifesto (on top of Marc Andreessens a while back). Are there others?
Genuine question: why do we think the tech bros are doing this? Which need does this fulfill for them?

🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did on J6 🩸🩸🩸

THIS IS WHAT AN INSURRECTION LOOKS LIKE ⬇️⬇️⬇️

The currently escalating tech backlash must be put in the context of:

“people have been listening to the most insufferable techbros in the world gleefully threaten everyone else with mass unemployment for over 6 years, and they’re sick of their shit”

mRNA vaccines continue to show major promise.

In a small Phase 1 trial led by Dr. Balachandran, some patients with pancreatic cancer (one of the deadliest cancers) reached 6-year survival.

This is why sustained investment in science & research matters.

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The time naiveté, etiquette, and patience is lightyears in our rearview mirror.

⚡️⚡️⚡️ DON'T FORGET TRUMP RAPED LITTLE KIDS & COVERED UP THE EPSTEIN FILES ⚡️⚡️⚡️

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

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.

Rep Sanchez: You're spending taxpayer dollars to drink milk shirtless in a hot tub with Kid Rock and, somehow, you think that's a better public health message than informing the public about the importance of vaccines.

Democrats are underreacting to Donald Trump’s obvious mental decline.

They should be shouting it from the rooftops and on every cable show, just like Republicans did with Joe Biden.

Trump is clearly not well.

Live Nation is a vile company!!

The convicted felon, rapist, and pedo Trump actually said that if Powell didn’t resign, he’d have to fire him and he hated to be controversial!
Really?
Attacking the Pope isn’t controversial? An illegal war isn’t?
Being a pedophile isn’t?
Duct tape his mouth!
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