we owe our evolutionary success to our social behavior; interdependence is our species' primary survival strategy. it's isolation that will get you killed in an apocalyptic scenario, not the other way around.
Also: "We did not include allegations against local clergy, because there are too many."
sfstandard.com/2026/04/20/7...
It’s just a softly worded immunity demand.
The Palantir screed comes from powerful people wanting the moral language of care, grace, and inclusivity only when they are the ones asked to be accountable for the consequences of their own power.
Don’t give it to them.
They must face significant consequences for what they’ve done.
“Another way to look at this is that billionaires have joined a war on professional administrative class of public servants precisely because of their proximity to formal mechanisms of accountability.”
That part! Everything from documentation to compliance mechanisms to whistleblowing is a threat.
“Move fast and break things” as an ethos was always going to run into “laws are a hinderance to xyz” and while people may cheekily call it ‘cyberpunk’ or such the reality is it’s nothing more than white collar criminality and should be prosecuted as such
"holy shit! you were censored for believing in God?"
LOL no, not that
"for thinking it's appropriate to observe religious holidays in the workplace?"
haha no not that
"Which religious beliefs, exactly?"
oh, you know the ones
Reading in journal club
AI has supercharged scientists—but may have shrunk science
based on this Nature paper:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.science.org/content/arti...
The sansei grandpa who runs the kitchen every Sunday told me “welcome home, Katharine” as I strolled into temple this morning and 🥹
This is the reason the stock market is completely disconnected from the real economy.
It ended up being 30 pages and I just dropped it on the state of California.
Palantir put plans for techno-fascism in a document. Like a techno-fascist manifesto with themselves at the center. Features fascistic distortions of language and declarations of inherent superiority that should be acknowledged and made permanent, but driven by and with a more central role for tech.
"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."
I am not a lawyer, but am I reading correctly that the majority opinion cited the concern of “irreparable harm” to the coal industry (which employs ~40,000 people) with no mentions of the “irreparable harm” higher CO2 emissions could bring to the population of (at the time) ~7,500,000,000 people?
Biology has been putting the Central Dogma to shame for a bit
The carbon sinks are collapsing (XXX tG) due to too many humans wanting too much. Due to #microbiome loss, forestry stores 83% less CO2 than primary untouched forests in Sweden (only 2% primary). Worldwide we are at 10% and falling?
sustainability.stanford.edu/news/shockin...
#Extinction #CO2
go home biology, you’re drunk.
reverse transcriptase is now taking sequence instructions from a protein
the tech elite is losing it! good times
This is textbook “the elites are losing it"
Also that “water and power libel” structure should ping all sorts of alarms
This is a fun little Substack post of an authoritarian realizing he has lost control of the narrative and publicly dysregulating
dimly remember something like “don’t forget to feed your troops” from the Art of War, that Military 101 textbook for noble failsons
"The University of California system, the California State system, the City University of New York — these are the institutions actually educating America’s workforce, actually moving first-generation students into the middle class, actually delivering on higher education’s democratic promise."
And knowing the problem is not technology, but human emotional capacity is more threatening because it forces us to admit the monster might be in the room with us. In the mirror.
Blaming humans requires things like accountability and nuance. Things like losing moral simplicity and realizing the bad guy might be your in-group, and actually dealing with moral undercurrents.
"Oh noooooo," go the people who don’t have the social skills and comfort with ambiguity to confront it.
People will blame anything but other humans using their agency to make choices.
If you're only looking at the surface talking points, of COURSE they seem unrelated, but that’s exactly the superficial layer I'm saying isn't the interesting part.
Gun debates, social media debates, and AI debates all produce:
panic about loss of control
projection of systemic anxieties onto a tool
moralizing around identity and legitimacy
symbolic fights about who gets to have power or define what’s real
arguments about deeper trust issues than the tech
You are confusing the content of the yelling with the structure of the yelling.
The social mechanics are completely identical.
This is a textbook sociological pattern of how people react to social destabilization carried out with the use of new technologies.
