It’s worth reading the whole Palantir piece to see that they are leaning in to being the Legion of Doom.

Goodnight.
A waxing moon and pleasant evening.

The Presidency saved Trump from his nth bankruptcy and a prison cell.

Artist - Unknown

Celeste Roberge’s sculpture “The Weight of Grief” #art

Jenny Urquhart - Bluebell Wood.
Acrylic on canvas.

Do not chase the red dot, for it is an illusion.

Kitty Zen Master🐈‍⬛

#Caturday

Fucking dead 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

BREAKING: We're taking the government to court over Palantir Peter Thiel's surveillance firm is embedded in the NHS. Wes Streeting won't show us the briefings - so we have launched a legal challenge.

BREAKING: We’re taking the government to court over Palantir.

The government is refusing to hand over important briefings given to Wes Streeting about the £330m NHS data contract with Peter Thiel’s surveillance firm

So we’re taking legal action.

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🎨 David Hockney

Sir David Attenborough Fandom
Rare white orcas swimming in sync off Hokkaido, Japan: leucism documented in multiple sighting since 2019
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Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

Well this is not good news

LIVE: Sanders, Labor Leaders Call on Congress to Protect Workers from AI YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders

Very grateful to Senator Bernie Sanders for bringing U.S. unions together to create a common front in the face of the threat AI poses to workers and much else.

Sometimes it takes an 84-year-old to do the high tech stuff!

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Today with NATO Secretary-General Rutte, we took stock of our common work to bolster European defence and continue support to Ukraine.

We discussed the upcoming NATO Summit and how we can upscale defence industrial output in Europe. We need to invest more, to produce more and to do both faster.

WARREN: I want to understand how slashing healthcare for families so Meta gets a $3b tax cut is a 'really good outcome for the American public'

IRS CEO BISIGNANO: I don't see the two as correlated

W: Those tax cuts were paid for by pushing people off their healthcare. Did you not follow that?

I won't be able to use the laptop for several days now.

The Strange Origin of AI’s ‘Reasoning’ Abilities It involves 4chan, of all places.

The tech industry has promoted AI “chain of thought” as a revolution in technology, but the “trick” has an origin that begins on 4chan, Alex Reisner reports:

Dr. Otter.

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.

£1.999/ litre for Diesel. It's going to be above two quid tomorrow.

Luckily I don't have a Diesel anymore.

Trump - cutting prices for the world over.

1. We don't need any help.

2.Why won't they help?

3.If they don't help there'll be consequences.

4.Why is no one helping?

GOTO 1.

Trump deletes post with AI image of himself as Christ-like figure after outcry The US president’s conservative, Christian supporters decried the Truth Social post, calling it ‘disgusting’

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As we say here in U.K. “what a wanker”.

April 12, 2026 By the end of 2024, inflation in the U.S., which had soared in the aftermath of the Covid-19 lockdowns, was almost back to the Federal Reserve’s goal of 2%.

April 12, 2026
By the end of 2024, inflation in the U.S., which had soared in the aftermath of the Covid-19 lockdowns, was almost back to the Federal Reserve’s goal of 2%. Even so, during the 2024 presidential campaign, candidate Donald Trump promised he would bring prices down on Day One….

What is a naval blockade and how would it work in Strait of Hormuz? Donald Trump says that the US is going to start blockading the Strait of Hormuz. What does this mean in practice?

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Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson: “The Strait of Hormuz was already open before the war. You are the ones who created the war out of nothing and closed the strait to the rest of the world.”

Iran has threatened to close Bab el-Mandeb, the gateway to the Red Sea, in response to the US blockade, Fox reports. This would be carried out by its proxies, the Houthis.