Technofacism? Why Palantir's pro-West ‘manifesto' has critics alarmed Palantir's 'manifesto' has been described as an 'AI-driven threat to humanity's existence' and 'technofascism'.

Palantir's 'manifesto' has been described as an 'AI-driven threat to humanity's existence' and 'technofascism'.

Time for the ALP backbench to put their electorates before subservience to the Cabinet. Failure to call out neoliberal economic policies, militarism and the plight of working the working class will see the loss of many seats at the next election.
Fix CGT,-ve gearing and housing!

Very good: “This confederacy of goons think that their wealth and whiteness and maleness conveys automatic competence, so they never bothered to learn anything about anything, and they fired everyone who knew anything about anything, and dismantled all the programs that helped make anything work ….”

This. I wrote about how Michael Phelps's sport-advantageous physique is celebrated, while that of Black and brown athletes - especially if they are women - is often pathologized in the Performance chapter of HUMANS: A Monstrous History (link in bio).

But who's next on the monstrification list?

The greatest threat women face is the online spread of misogyny by predator-influencers and via algorithms - even onto blank accounts set up as those of 24yo men, as in the article below.

Boys and men are being radicalized into misogyny by white men. Trans people & immigrants are not the problem.

The Tech Journalist Banned from Twitter for Criticizing Fascism, Palantir, & the Broligarchy

Palantir published a 22-part manifesto outlining its authoritarian agenda. The masks are off. It's time to purge America of these broligarchs.

With @gilduran.com

thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-tech-j...

The FBI guy is on a paranoid bender and won’t leave his room.

The War guy quotes bible passages from Pulp Fiction.

The Health guy collects raccoon dicks.

It’s an Idiocracy on steroids.

The Jerusalem Cross is a symbol of the Crusades. Disingenuous people argue it’s “just a representation of Christianity and not bigoted”

But we all fucking know the Crusades was about massacring anyone that wasn’t Christian.

Pete Hegseth has a HUGE one tattooed on his chest

It’s a symbol of hate.

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

Three times more paedophiles seeking help due to AI-created content YouTube video by Channel 4 News

This short Chanel 4 section on AI created child abuse is absolutely horrifying. The U.K. government are acting. So are 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 but new laws take time, tech is fast and most of the oligarchs are just evil 😣 youtu.be/mJdVWhlP-o8?...

I can think of a lot of more accurate and less flattering terms for dudes who travel to other countries to trap foreign women in subservient relationships than “passport bros”

Iran urges UN action over 'barbarous' US seizure, says crew families threatened <article data-history-node-id="438677" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/iran-urges-un-action-over-barbarous-us-seizure-says-crew-families" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/iran-urges-un-action-over-barbarous-us-seizure-says-crew-families" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Iran urges UN action over 'barbarous' US seizure, says crew families threatened</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Iran has filed a formal complaint with the United Nations and the International Maritime Organisation over the US seizure of the Iranian vessel Touska, calling it an “illegal and barbarous act” that violates international law and a ceasefire agreement.</p> <p>The foreign ministry said the action was accompanied by intimidation of crew members and their families.</p> <p>“The Islamic Republic of Iran … emphasises the need for the immediate release of the Iranian ship, its sailors, crew, and their families,” the ministry said in a statement carried by IRNA.</p> <p>It also warned of “very dangerous consequences” and said the United States would bear full responsibility for the escalation.&nbsp;</p> <figure role="group" class="media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="A commercial vessel is seen off the coast of Dubai on 20 April 2026. AFP" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="41924785-f0e6-49f2-be98-019ff2dbae9d" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/000_A8DX2C9.jpg" width="1341" height="754" alt="A commercial vessel is seen off the coast of Dubai on 20 April 2026. AFP" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>A commercial vessel is seen off the coast of Dubai on 20 April 2026. AFP</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> </div> </div> </article>

Iran urges UN action over 'barbarous' US seizure, says crew families threatened - www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-upda...

It was so disgusting

"People’s rights to march were trespassed upon & people have been harmed, & many of them will have the legal grounds to demand compensation.

The premier has opened the door wide for civil claims of damages to be launched & won against NSW"

(violence meted out by NSW police to protestors in🧵👇)

Tell me again how One Nation is the party of “real Australian values.” If this is what you want to be associated with be my guest but I want nothing to do with a political party that at every turn represents the worst of us.

Chief Justice’s Wife Made $10M+ as Legal Recruiter: Report At least one of the firms reportedly had a case before Chief Justice Roberts.

The corruption is just stunning.

www.thedailybeast.com/chief-justic...

The AI age is the "age of no consent" "Inevitability" means design decisions are no longer informed by user needs; now they are unilaterally imposed. The users are the ones being designed.

Users hate AI. So tech made it mandatory. Even if you don't use it, it pollutes what you read and how systems make decisions. The computer's hallucinated word is final.

And it needs all of your data to do it.

In the age of no consent, UX exists to normalized complete acquiescence to surveillance:

These monsters from the Valley act as if their own perspective is the organising principle of reality. They flatten the world until it reflects their own image back at them, and they call it order. They recast dominance as necessity, exclusion as clarity, cruelty as truth-telling. What they are building is not just a politics, but a way of being in which other lives appear as obstacles, or worse, as background.

On Palantir’s manifesto, their AI fantasies, and how Silicon Valley billionaires think they are the new Guardians of the Universe.
tdunlop.substack.com/p/the-softwa...

Article on Palantir proclaiming themselves as an essential tool in building the Fourth Reich, and war as inevitable -read 'profitable'- for them.

Anti-Palantir Petitions
US: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

British: www.change.org/p/hold-a-par...

EU: action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-03...

Aussie👇

The future of making sure you don’t leave this guy alone with your drink

Rallies say more needs to be done to stop domestic, family violence Sarah Williams said that the national “No More” rallies were designed to “amplify survivors’ voices and push for policy changes”. Portia May reports.

Multiple cities took part in this annual protest to support the fight against domestic and family violence. www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1452/ne...

"Welfare for me, rugged individualism for thee" is the motto of big businesses and the rich, and they don't get nearly enough hate for it. Curse the lot of them and anyone who is keen on enriching the filthy rich while demonising and scrutinising the vulnerable.

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Spot on

Add excessive funding of elite schools

Headline from the AFR "Time to end welfare for the wealthy, says big business"

You mean the superannuation tax breaks? No?
You mean the CGT discount? No?
You mean the fossil fuel subsidies? No?
You mean the free gas for multinationals? No?
You mean the failure of the PRRT? No?
You mean the tax dodging trusts? No?
You mean the lack of a wealth tax? No?

No you mean the NDIS FFS

The hidden public cost of private schools blowing a hole in our budget Yes, debt has blown out. Here's where you can start cutting back.

THIS

‘If you want to talk about wasteful government spending, the $12 billion a year going to well-off people sending their kids to private schools would be a good start.’ www.canberratimes.com.au/story/922838...

Labor secretary leaves Trump's cabinet after abuse of power allegations The Labor secretary's departure was announced by a White House aide on Monday, local time.

Curious what Trump's three sacked Cabinet Secretaries have in common....

Noem, Bondi and Chavez-DeRemer were undoubtedly heinous and beyond incompetent....but were they really worse than Hegseth, Kennedy or Patel?

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

“The Japanese government is getting more revenue from taxing Australian gas than the Australian government is.”

"Figures revealed today by the Insurance Council of Australia show extreme weather cost $5bn in insured losses in 2025, up 700% on the previous year. The gas corporations are making huge profits by smashing our summers... then leaving us to pay for the damage." Adam Bandt #auspol

Acid rain, toxic water & tonnes of CO2: The hidden cost of the Iran war The images coming out of the US-Israeli-led war in Iran have been described as apocalyptic. Oil depots have burned for days. Strikes have hit petrochemical facilities and the area around the Bushehr ...

More reporting on the environmental impact of 🇮🇱 🇺🇸 Middle East wars pls. There’s the decades-long & food chain impacts of Israel’s bombing of Iran’s still-dirtier crude oil. The moves of armies & the impact of rebuilding. Concrete is ☠️.
Israel’s herbicides.
#auspol
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