what if mog was one of us

People disapprove of Trump so strongly NBC had to change the spelling of the word

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this sounds kinda like a "who cares" achievement but its a very exciting milestone for rich guys who are extremely invested in a future where robots they control are slavedrivers and prison guards for the rest of the human population

"If only Habermas hadn't been rude to Alex Karp" is the new "If only Obama hadn't mocked Trump at the White House Correspondents' Dinner"

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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Suffice it to say that the cultural achievements Palantir wants to define, falsely, as belonging solely to "the West"—art, science, philosophy, liberal individualism—are all things that the widespread application of Palantir's authoritarian surveillance technology will tend to diminish and destroy

What Is Palantir? An FAQ. The Peter Thiel–founded, ‘Lord of the Rings’–inspired company has a massive government presence and is seemingly always at the center of controversy. So, uh … why does hardly anyone know what it does?

For anyone who's waking up to this Palantir statement, I wrote a guide to the company and the fatuous chauvinism of its "defend the West" cosplay ideology a few weeks ago

“crap” became “stuff,” as the Times is a family paper.

“butt” will become “ass,” if we’re lucky!

I had to make some changes to my AI piece before the Times would print it (“we’re a family paper”). A German newspaper wants to rerun it, so I’d like to translate it back before they translate it into German:

'She also documented how few women were in federally sponsored clinical trials for AIDS drugs...
That was significant, she told The San Francisco Chronicle, because “the clinical trials are the only way you can get treatment.”' Long helped save so many lives.

Yes but they silently delete 30 points from the Hawks at halftime

Vanity plate that says “SAPPHO” on a Subaru

it’s what makes a subaru a subaru

walked right into the biggest spiderweb of them all

❤️ just trying to keep on the pope's good side

So the whole thing comes down to the pope denying that Jesus was pro-war? Is this why I keep seeing reports that Leo and Trump are "feuding"? Yes, but that framing, which is all over the media, is totally wrong. Leo and Trump aren't "feuding," and Trump did not "hit back," "strike back," or "return fire" against the pope. Trump has repeatedly launched unprovoked military actions that he and his lieutenants have attempted to cloak in the language of Christian righteousness. The pope has said that Christian righteousness is incompatible with unprovoked war. Trump has publicly mocked, derided, and attacked the pope; the pope hasn't attacked Trump at all. A feud requires the participation of two people. If you say, "We should respect the sovereignty of each individual, for we are all children of God," and I say, "Fuck you, you dirty hippie," what we have is not a feud. What we have is a principled person trying to have a conversation with an asshole.

If you have the time and capacity, this is a great place to put your energy into for the next few days. The polling shows that this is going to be a very close vote, and the political implications are obviously huge.

On multiple occasions in the past year, members of his security detail had difficulty waking Patel because he was seemingly intoxicated, according to information supplied to Justice Department and White House officials. A request for "breaching equipment" —normally used by SWAT and hostage-rescue teams to quickly gain entry into buildings—was made last year because Patel had been unreachable behind locked doors, according to multiple people familiar with the request.

Every story about Kash Patel is like "he frequently arrives at work dressed as a Teletubby, likes to huff aerated phenobarbital through an inhaler, and once interrupted a hostage negotiation to ask his aides what 'FBI' stands for. But West Wing insiders now worry he might someday go too far"

Can Vance's part in this story be summed up by any old viral tweets? Everything Price Sufferer (but especiall... X @agraybee • Follow Every lifelong Catholic I've ever met is like "I think we're supposed to give this food to poor people" and every adult convert is like "the Archon of Constantinople's epistle on the Pentacostine rites of the eucharist clearly states women shouldn't have driver's licenses." 2:48 PM • Jun 17, 2022 50.2K Reply @ Copy link Read 290 replies I'm sorry, but the only way this tweet could be more JD Vance is if no one had liked it.

My two main interests

The President vs. the Pope vs. the Slop Messiah Sixteen burning questions about Trump, AI Jesus, and JD Vance attempting to correct the pope on matters of Catholic theology

I wrote about Donald Trump v. The Pope

A Prominent PR Firm Is Running a Fake News Site That’s Plagiarizing Original Journalism at Incredible Scale A PR firm is running a strange AI-fueled plagiarism mill that's ripping off — and mangling — a huge amount of local and national reporting.

NEW: We caught a site run by a buzzy PR firm ripping off local and national journalism at an almost incomprehensible scale -- it's like a fully automatic machine gun spraying bullets of pure plagiarism directly into the internet

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New German search engine lets people check whether their relatives were Nazis | CNN A new search engine that allows users to search Nazi party records in order to find out whether their ancestors were card-carrying members has been accessed millions of times since it was launched ear...

they should have called this The Zone of Pinterest

Frank Herbert I apologize for ever doubting you

The President vs. the Pope vs. the Slop Messiah Sixteen burning questions about Trump, AI Jesus, and JD Vance attempting to correct the pope on matters of Catholic theology

I wrote about Donald Trump v. The Pope

BLUESKY IS A WEBSITE THAT TURNS (post by jay.bsky.team claiming that bluesky is made with AI) INTO (picture of bluesky not working)

never forget

"go buy it at Hastings" is so real

Not as fun as it sounds incidentally

So mad I have emerged from my own skin as a being of pure fire

Look I know we're down bad but the trees still blossom in spring; the moon still waxes and wanes; giant squid prowl the ocean depths. It is simply not necessary to call looksmaxxing a "movement"

Living in the perceptual world of the wealthy and the material world of a regular person is stressful. It is *meant* to make you feel like you’re falling behind even if you’re not. That’s how demand is induced. This is just one element but I think economists miss it (among other things).