Palantir manifesto described as ‘ramblings of a supervillain’ amid UK contract fears Alarm caused by posts of Alex Karp, tech firm’s CEO, championing US military dominance and of AI weapons

Palantir manifesto described as ‘ramblings of a supervillain’ amid UK contract fears

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Margaret E Ward: ‘Saving the family’ is really about putting women back in their boxes An unholy trinity of conservatives, Christian nationalists and tech bros are planning to strip American women of their rights

‘Saving the family’ is really about putting women back in their boxes” These guys who struggle with emotional intimacy and bring nothing to the table can only “get” a woman by limiting her choices. They haven’t realised that it’s they who are the problem!

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This might save a life!!🤞

I’m here! I’m here!

DOJ has chosen a side between SPLC and the Klan, and they have picked the Klan.

Beautiful work

We asked what repairing the harm of enslavement would look like. This is what we found Our Legacies of Enslavement team has found humanity and dignity, not blame or guilt, are at the heart of the conversation

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Will they still get the plague vaccine or any of the other vaccines required for deployment?

Word. & I say again, once more with feeling: the crisis of higher ed is the longstanding & worsening defunding of public education, alongside all the other contemporary attacks. This bullshit doesn't help.

⭕ So begins the largest veteran and military family act of civil disobedience since the #Iraq war began, occupying the #Cannon building #Rotunda - protesting yet another forever war with Iran which includes the genocide in #Palestine,

Not yet

The Strange Death of Orbánism Franz Pokorny

Hungarian taxpayers paid American “post-liberal” Rod Dreher $105,000 last year to produce propaganda for Orban’s regime. www.jaccusepaper.co.uk/p/the-strang...

Tow?

The group, “Veterans Against Fascism”, was arrested after staging a protest inside the U.S. Capitol against Trump’s & Israel’s illegal war with Iran

“The protesters were.. former members of the U.S. Armed Forces, including disabled veterans and military family members,with a simple and devastating message: they know what war costs because they have already paid for one.”

Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity Is Near. This one is gonna be a doozy.

Uh oh.

This is a war based on lies

Tim Cook donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration.

He fawned over Trump and gifted him a 24-karat gold plaque (as Apple lobbied for tariff exemptions).

Apple donated to Trump’s White House ballroom.

And it removed ICE tracking apps from its stores following a demand from the DOJ.

Remember this.

This is a clarion call.

To the ones waiting for a sign, waiting for permission, waiting for someone else to go first: the moment is here.

The someone is you.

Veterans are in the streets.

Veterans are in handcuffs.

Rise with us. No war with Iran. Not again.

Before they were arrested- Vets are demanding an end to the war on Iran at the Cannon Building in Washington, D.C.

Like, AI literacy in any form will not protect black and disabled folks from the algorithmic bias, and the violence that emerges from it, of spicy autocomplete. Full stop. No amount of AI literacy can protect us in the deployment of the system because it is tracking the wrong problem.

Brilyent!

“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”

– Frederick Douglass

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I just found out that an AI scammer is impersonating me in their spam campaign. I am LIVID.

Please, please share this post. Warn people. I’m horrified that someone might be ripped off in my name.

No one is safe from being impersonated like this.

Buckley Carlson • @buckleycarlson X.com Remember when you thought 911 was as presented? (I did, for a long time). Now consider what you endured during Covid, Election 2020, J6 Fedsurrection, Epstein (even just the sickening partial reveal), Charlie, and Iran-for-Israel. NOW, will you say the below is crazy? Doubt it. Thanks, @DavidSmuts David Smuts • @DavidSmuts • 4/24/25 Listen folks, because this is bigger than you think. What happened with Trump's "assassination attempt" on 13th July wasn't just some random event—it was a deliberate Judeo-Masonic blood ritual, staged to deceive the masses ... Show more 6:38 AM • 4/18/26 • 105K Views

Tucker Carlson is very close with his brother Buckley. Buckley seems to believe that 9/11 was an inside job and that Trump’s assassination was faked as “a deliberate Judeo-Masonic blood ritual, staged to deceive the masses.” Okey dokey.

Reupping my review of Alex Karp’s embarrassing pamphlet of a book.

Palantir is run by a nitwit.

251 years ago this morning just before dawn, 19yo William Diamond beat the assembly on his drum to call the Lexington Company of Militia out to the town green to form up as a British column had been sighted

Diamond would fight through the whole war & have a family

I’m his g-g-g-g-grandson

This is such a nauseating stew of simmering pathologies and resentments of subnormal techbros.

A diagram showing the VDA framework and the Arc of Democracy. At the top, three icons label the essential elements of democracy: Verification (tick), Deliberation (speech bubble), and Accountability (magnifying glass). Arrows descend from each through three horizontal bands representing the arc: Substantial (truth tested, voices included, power constrained), Performative (forms remain but substance is weak, rituals without consequence), and Simulated (appearance maintained but functions inverted: propaganda as verification, polarisation as deliberation, scapegoating as accountability). A vertical arrow on the left marks the arc's direction: improvements, decline, collapse. A column on the right maps counterpublics onto the same three states: functional counterpublics act in a substantial way, hollow counterpublics in a performative way, disordered counterpublics in a simulated way. The bands shift from grey through pink to red as democracy moves toward simulation.

I've set out the framework I'm using here in an earlier thread, on VDA, the Arc of Democracy, and the moral-epistemic stacks idea, what follows applies that framework to the Palantir document directly. skywriter.blue/@eliothiggin...