Imagine being the graphics artists who had to explain to him how great that turned out. That person must be capable of selling anything to anyone.

Funny how this was an SEC investigation into the company and potently prison for the involved just a few years ago.

Literally this morning. This isn't some random transphobic account, it's a prominent figure in UK anti-trans politics, with 160k followers, routinely promoted and RTd by Rowling, "Sex Matters", etc. Just openly calling to completely ban being trans.

What are trans folks supposed to do with that?

Bagger 288! YouTube video by Rathergood

The Bagger 288 of the sea
youtu.be/azEvfD4C6ow

I've just been informed that they actually have 7 of these monsters and they all make the Yamato look like a toy! The Westphalian system is over and the multipolar world is cancelled. There's just one pole now and it's TUI

Lustigerweise ist die EU Ebene da deutlich weiter. Es gibt zum Beispiel schon seit einigen Jahren Programme im Bereich Genetik alle wichtigen Nutzpflanzen daraufhin zu untersuchen und potentielle Anpassungen zu testen.

Though that description could also just be Merz. Or Reiche. Which kind of makes me think it’s something that politicians who come from outside the field or have left it for a long time show much more.

Update on the most moral army in the world. Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews A photo of an Israeli soldier smashing a statue of Jesus Christ with a sledgehammer in southern Lebanon has sparked widespread condemnation. Israeli officials confirmed the image is genuine and 'promised to investigate!

This one seems to have caused panic, and it’s pretty bleak that a picture of a guy smashing a statue of a dude who died two thousand years ago is more internationally disastrous than hundreds of hours of video of civilians being bombed, burned, machine gunned, sniped, evicted and starved.

Complete delulu on this. And probably in general on estimations of enemy behavior.

[gescheiterter]

„I am Francesco Schettino and this is jackass!”

Aber wie absurd dämlich muss man sein um das zu glauben? Insbesondere wenn man sich wie Karp dauernd als Akademiker darstellt und nicht als Trump Äquivalent.

one of the most insane aspects of all of this is that "a wide ranging government crackddown after a handful of newspaper cranks said insane things based on misunderstood cherrypicked papers" is considered illegitimate in every field of endeavor except this one

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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It’s like Karp wants Palantir to be Saeder-Krupp in 2070, but it’s just Krupp in 1933

But it’s so weird. They rave about their jingoistic US view for like ten points and then mix it with the extraterritorial, international cyberpunk megacorp ethos. How is that supposed to work?

In quotes and all caps

bsky.app/profile/nume... Clashed halt mit dem US Exceptionalism der in der Liste von ihm

“You simply cannot compete with literary critics and theorists [who have recently weighed in on this subject],” was ihm Habermas zu seinem Entwurf für die Doktorarbeit antwortete, ist vielleicht einfach die beste Beschreibung von Karp…

Aber ich verstehe ehrlich gesagt auch nicht wie der jingoistic Teil zusammenpasst mit der quasi AAA Megacorp Vorstellung von Palantir

Unabhängig davon verstehe ich Karps „Vision“ auch nicht. Angenommen es gäbe dieses mythische non-neutered Deutschland und Japan und die stellen sich so auf wie er die idealen USA im Rest beschreibt, dann ende ich doch nur mit einem Haufen faschistischer Imperien die sich gegenseitig hassen?

Poor people at fault for ”city's wealth gap […] on full display”!

When your whole vision is more misery

The progressive mantra of “please, no advocacy!”

They’re really going to do the anti-pope thing again? Huh.

Multimillionär verteilt Geld von unten nach oben. Wir waren hat einfach überrascht.

In den ersten drei Sätzen schon absurd gescheitert.

december 2015, canberra

Ist das überhaupt noch Manipulation?

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I see and raise