We translated the Palantir manifesto for actual human beings What happens when an all-seeing eye looks in the mirror?

We’ve attempted to translate 22 points from Alex Karp’s alien words into something more reasonable, like human words from someone who might play him in the biopic.

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We are in the unfiltered cigarette, leaded gasoline, radium paint phase of AI. You know, the part where we let companies kill people for a while until the numbers get big enough that we decide to regulate it.

Number go up Our charts tell the story of oligarchy in overdrive.

America’s wealthiest men are spending more money than ever before, in a race against each other that’s leaving the rest of us in the dust.

By 2030, data centers will consume as much energy as 41 million US homes.

Not a dime of taxpayer money or govt contracts should go to Palantir.

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

Four Democrats voted with the GOP on reauthorizing a little-known law that lets the government sidestep the Constitution and spy on US citizens.

If you’re represented by Gluesenkamp Perez, Golden, Gottheimer, or Suozzi, ask them why they’re siding with the Trump regime on government surveillance.

The attack on Sam Altman exposed a dark underbelly of the anti-AI movement | CNN Business Mainstream artificial intelligence safety groups moved quickly to distance themselves after a 20-year-old allegedly attacked the home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman last week in what law enforcement officer...

just spitballing here but one thing that might turn down the temperature is top CEOs not doing and saying insane and extremely harmful things all the time, such as enthusiastically embracing fascist movements

Screenshotted excerpt from the linked article, reading as follows: Boasberg scheduled a hearing for 5 PM and asked the government’s lawyer point-blank whether there were imminent removals planned under the proclamation. The Justice Department lawyer claimed he didn’t know, so at 5:22 PM, Boasberg adjourned the hearing until 6 PM to allow him to investigate. A removal flight took off at 5:25, followed by another at 5:45. When the hearing resumed at 6 PM, the Justice Department lawyer told Boasberg he still had no flight details to share. Boasberg ordered the government not to carry out any removals under the proclamation for 14 days, and said that if planes had already taken off, the people needed to be returned to the United States. Several hours later, the government transferred the migrants into El Salvador’s custody. Secretary of State Marco Rubio then retweeted a post from the president of El Salvador: a news headline about Boasberg’s order, accompanied by the text, “Oopsie…Too late 😂😂.”

Judge Neomi Rao called the criminal contempt investigation into the Trump administration “improper,” “unnecessary,” and “a clear abuse of discretion"

Meanwhile, the Trump administration:

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Thomson Reuters Shareholders Demand Investigation into ICE Contracts The shareholders explicitly cited multiple 404 Media investigations, including one that showed Thomson Reuters' CLEAR is integrated with a tool ICE uses to find neighborhoods to target.

NEW: On Wednesday shareholders in Thomson Reuters demanded the company’s board launch an investigation into whether its products have contributed to human rights violations, specifically with regards to Thomson Reuters’ ongoing sale of peoples’ personal data to ICE.

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This just failed.

in the dead of night, House GOP leadership is trying to not just extend but possibly expand government surveillance powers — and incredibly, @jahimes.bsky.social is working to help them do it

luckily we have members like @jayapal.house.gov @raskin.house.gov @repmcgovern.bsky.social and others prepared to throw down and hold the line

GOP leadership can’t even get their own members all on board — for them to have any Dem leaders at all lending support is an outrage. for this to be moving while the country is asleep is a scandal.

curbing these surveillance powers is hugely popular and has bipartisan support. extending these surveillance powers is being championed by Stephen Miller as essential to the Trump admin’s ”homeland security missions.”

in the dead of night, House GOP leadership is trying to not just extend but possibly expand government surveillance powers — and incredibly, @jahimes.bsky.social is working to help them do it

🚨FISA VOTE TONIGHT! 🚨 While you are sleeping, Republicans plan to jam a bill through the House tonight allowing the Admin to spy and collect data for the next FIVE YEARS.

No warrants REQUIRED. No real assurances a shady AG, FBI, or DNI director will follow the law. I am a NO!

Feels important to uplift Rep Pressley's leadership. She puts in a lot of work on issues that others often don't see as a priority. I've appreciated her anti-criminalization work over the years. She's a worker.

even if any of this is true, it's tremendous opsec to just tweet it out

Linda Yaccarino replies to a Zohran Mamdani tweet to say that taxing rich people's penthouses is "actually one of the scariest things I have ever seen"

Zohran Mamdani said he's going to start taxing rich people who buy luxury housing in NYC but don't actually live in there, and the former CEO of Twitter/X called it "actually one of the scariest things I have ever seen."

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as Congress wrangles over extending vs. reforming controversial government surveillance powers under FISA Section 702, Trump has logged on to say the quiet part out loud: a clean extension of Section 702 would enable ongoing violations of our rights

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1/ The full decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals upholding Mahmoud Khalil's deportation at Marco Rubio's specific request has just dropped. The BIA precedent on this was already bad & it was always going to have to be resolved by a higher court, so no surprises here. But a few things:

Anthropic Code Crisis Creates Copyright Contradiction For publishers, authors, and other creators, the schadenfreude might feel well-earned, writes James Ball. But is it justified?

Anthropic is using copyright claims to try to stop its leaked code being used to train rival AI models.

Critics are noticing something of an irony, given Anthropic use of pirated materials to train its models.

I've dug into the whole thing for @techpolicypress.bsky.social

These issues cut across party lines. Trump and Stephen Miller need both Republicans AND Democrats to keep these powers. If all of this scares you, I encourage you to make your voice heard.

The federal government – ICE, FBI, and more – is spying on you without a warrant.

This week, Congress will decide whether Kash Patel, Stephen Miller and Trump can keep spying on Americans. If that scares you (it should) this thread is for you.

AI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak – and think | Bruce Schneier Large language models aren’t trained on real-life conversations. As we encounter their language, it could affect our own

Oh:

A 2022 study found that children in households that used voice commands with tools like Siri and Alexa became curt when speaking with humans, often calling out “Hey, do X” and expecting obedience, especially from anyone whose voice resembled the default-female electronic voices.

My god. Essential, horrifying reporting here.

Screencap of Trump Truth Social post: I am working very hard with our Great Speaker, Mike Johnson, along with Chairman Jim Jordan and Chairman Rick Crawford, to get a clean extension of FISA 702 through the House of Representatives this week. I am asking Republicans to UNIFY, and vote together on the test vote to bring a clean Bill to the floor. We need to stick together when this Bill comes before the House Rules Committee today to keep it CLEAN! When the Dirty Cop, James Comey, the failed Head of the FBI went after me, he was using FISA Title I, the Domestic Collection, not FISA 702, the Foreign Collection, which needs to be extended today. While parts of FISA were illegally and unfortunately used against me in the Democrats’ disgraceful Witch Hunt and Attack in the RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA Hoax, and perhaps would be used against me in the future, I am willing to risk the giving up of my Rights and Privileges as a Citizen for our Great Military and Country! Our Military Patriots desperately need FISA 702, and it is one of the reasons we have had such tremendous SUCCESS on

Shrek "Some of you may die. But it's a sacrifice I am willing to make." meme

Trump calls for Congress to pass FISA 702 warrantless surveillance without any new reforms or safeguards, and explicitly admits that doing so means giving up your rights.

and yet we still have leading Congressional Democrats, like my own former Rep. @jahimes.bsky.social, pushing still for a clean reauthorization or at best minimal, watered-down reforms. what are we doing here?