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.
Russian social media influencers are speaking out against what Putin has done to Russia. They fear this is their last chance before they lose all internet freedom in Russia.
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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People remember how you make them feel.
Looks like she’ll remember feeling loved ♥️
Brutal 💀
Democrats are underreacting to Donald Trump’s obvious mental decline.
They should be shouting it from the rooftops and on every cable show, just like Republicans did with Joe Biden.
Trump is clearly not well.
I couldn’t agree more, why don’t Dems seem to get it.
Even the bees are pizzed
It’s about time, come on , do it !
What exactly is going on with the FBI being able to extract Signal message content from Apple's iPhone notification database? @josephcox.bsky.social gets into it.
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A young man from Sichuan, China goes to "Skid Row" in Los Angeles to feed the homeless. Ends up getting arrested.
Meanwhile, the typical American will pay a federal income tax rate of 14.5%
This is what a rigged system looks like.
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I can answer that ; Gallego is full of shite.
He’s all politics and not more than politics.
I don’t trust that guy, at all.
Friendly reminder: Ruben Gallego knew exactly who Eric Swalwell was. And I’d hazard a guess that he was fine with it. Just look at his text messages.
NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health.
'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:
When a USAID whistleblower told Trump people that it'd be hard to pull together accurate info on Malaria since DOGE had turned off access to the whole team who worked on that issue, one of the guys shouted “See, this is why, just because it might work at Twitter does not mean you can do it here!”
This is who some of them are, not all of us .
Bernie: Oligarchs want to make ordinary people feel there is nothing they can do to shape the future. They say we got the money, control the politics and the media, say you ain’t got nothing.
What we are here to say to Mr. Musk and his friends: Go to hell.
If there were justice in the universe he would have fallen on his fugly face and all the kings horses and all the kings men, couldnt put that pos together again.
Mother dog says thanks to this woman for feeding her puppies.. 😊
Joe Kernen comes close to having a coronary on air as Pete Buttigieg dogwalks him all over the Squawk Box studio about Trump's economic mismanagement and inflation
He’s/they are so pathetic.
Absolute cringe.
This isn’t ever gonna end, it it
Breaking: Trump orders the dismantling of the US Forest Service.
All regional offices are being shut down and the research program destroyed.
More on the disbandment of the US Forest Service.
This is so well done. 👌
trump & company humiliated on a grand scale .
Malignant narcissists really don’t like being publicly humiliated.
This has got to be killin trump et al.
Iran winning the pop culture.
Trumps losing all over the place. Sad lol
