This is such an old man post but I can't stand the split colors on the baselines.
Don't like the patterns inside the arc, either, but I could get over that. Everything else, fabulous. But the colors on the baseline...
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i'll take the bold (for bluesky) position that working for raytheon or northrup or whatever does not make you an irredeemable person, but palantir is very different because they are making karp's insane worldview the company's official public position, they're explicitly saying you believe this, too
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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these are immensely self absorbed men who pine for nazi germany and apartheid south africa — stagnant, backwards regimes btw — because they imagine themselves the masters of the universe.
The prevailing philosophy in Silicon Valley is the most poisonous, amoral, and antihuman ethos since National Socialism.
Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed.
We must get rid of Palantir altogether.
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This is so incoherent that it only makes sense as a billionaires reactionary brain farts. Eg: public employees are not “priests” and are over compensated. Reality: they are underpaid and have been serially abused. Next point, people engaging in public life (read: DOGE, Palantir) deserve our grace.
18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within. 19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all.
In the last year many public servants have had their lives ruined. People who knew less than they did pushed them out of work they loved with no real plan. Many were defamed and "put in trauma."
But that is not who Palantir is referring to. It views criticizing the tech bros as intolerable.
A whole lot of very big companies have very large consulting contracts with Palantir.
Curious to get a response from those companies on how they feel about being associated with this mission statement.
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Who knew the answer to world peace was "NYSE trades on the same hours as Waffle House"
Oh neat
Not trying to doom, but Fetterman does mean we likely need 52, right? "I'm not leaving a vacancy on the most important court in the country."
We need bonuses for progressive cops.
They will sit on that stage and laugh about how concerned we are all about this. As in, someone will literally tell a joke about "the heat", and they will laugh at it.
Because they are "reasonable, open-minded people", and you are all raving lunatics over-reacting and trying to "police speech".
It's a miracle! He can see! He's healed!
Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.
Writing probability theory problem sets
Maybe i'm misunderstanding where people are coming from because, you know, text-based social media. If people are saying "this idea has legs but is complicated to execute," ok, agreed.
But to me the responses have a tenor of "no, that's impossible, nothing can be possible, all must be bad."
I dunno, man. There's a very large industry with a ton of jobs, and the people who choose to reply are only listing the reasons why that's not going to work.
There are issues, yes, as people have pointed out. But they could be addressed with a concerted social and governmental effort.
That is the only answer a small but absolutely exhausting portion of Bluesky is ever happy with.
Fine, you're all right. Everything is horrible and nothing is possible. We should all give up, lay down in the street, and die. We all good now?
All I'm saying is if the question is "where is a reliable path to employment" one very good answer is nursing. There are lots of policies we could pursue to encourage that.
If you want to add other qualifiers to the question then it becomes a different question.
Sure. I suppose I'm coming from the perspective of current college students (since those are the anxious ones I see every day).
Pivoting mid-career, yes, that's harder.
(I don't think more people are fundamentally not equipped to be good nurses than good SWEs.)
You may not want to do it. I get it. But a lot of people probably did not initially want to "learn to code" either.
Any time I have a student in my office who is worried about job prospects after graduation I say if that's the thing you want to maximize just GO TO OUR TOP-RANKED NURSING SCHOOL!
I understand the point here, but honestly: nursing!
Neo-Nazis have shut down the entire federal funding office for social and behavioral sciences so they can spread election, war, and health disinformation without accountability, and we have to suffer the final indignity of the tongue-in-cheek lie we might be able to debate them into decency
