Palantir Twitter Manifesto YouTube video by The Morbid Zoo

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announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite

No joke, there must be 15,000 op-eds with this exact take.

I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time

This is a valid point: whenever you see this sort of high-pressure sales tactic turned on a technology, you can be CERTAIN that it's a fake—actually useful new tech sells itself!

And don't underestimate the effectiveness of FOMO as a tool in the hands of a con artist.

Don’t worry I love library! Just…not as an expositional tool 😁

I want a "conference" where every academic cooks a dish for everyone and we all talk about our work casually while cooking. People can sous chef for each other. We eat and talk about our work in progress. You submit an abstract and a recipe.

Your regular reminder that "viewpoint diversity" (all sides!) is the rhetorical smokescreen used to platform race science, white supremacists, misogynists, and climate change deniers on college campuses. Far right trojan horse -- that Harvard donors will happily push right in through the gates.

Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog A weird thing is that whenever I post criticism of Al, the majority of the people agreeing with me seem to be leftists. It's pretty much the only position I hold that seems to be more popular with the left than the right. It should be the opposite. My whole point about Al (especially Al in creative fields) is that it isn't human, it doesn't have a soul, and we cannot surrender our society to an unhuman soulless algorithm even if it makes our lives easier in some ways. It's very strange that an argument predicated on the existence of the soul resonates with the left while conservatives tend to scoff at it. 3:02 PM • Mar 12, 2026 • 748.5K Views

"for unknown reasons, my mortal enemies appear to be concerned with the core essence of humanity in a way that my allies are not. oh well, better not think about it too hard."

what do you even fucking do with this, man? the president is beefing with the pope while posting AI sop pictures of himself as jesus and the catholic vice-president is telling the pope he is doing theology wrong. i am not and have never been religious and this shit shocks and bothers me.

White people invented racism and then immediately got jealous

The other thing is that in a gig economy there is no degree that promises a good career anymore, not because you should have studied computer science or social media management instead of history or Russian literature, but because there are no careers

"But at this point, we can see War for what it really is: as the flailing and obviously doomed effort of a declining power to make its peculiar combination of bureaucratic war machines and speculative financial capitalism into a permanent global condition." . - David Graeber

Speculative Financial Capitalism is always part of the equation.

ALL experiences that could be classified as economic are mediated by socially conditioned expectations, assumptions, & aspirations. All experiences period, really, but especially something as complex & culturally freighted as the category "economic." There are no "direct," unmediated experiences ...

I really don't think people understand how DEEPLY out of hand the normalization of Nazi talking points has gotten. Like you post a challah recipe and people say that everyone you know should go "back to Poland" (which has approximately the same Jewish pop as Rhode Island) and that Hitler was right.

Republicans are all trying to stand like Trump now lol. They all look so uncomfortable, it’s pathetic

Same goes for every "genius" academic or scholar.

You're like "those pervert glasses might be useful for augmented reality in plumbing, or-" and he's like "what do you mean, look at me wearing them. Check this out, you can meet me in the Metaverse in a boardroom for a business meeting. You can talk to my digital twin. Behold my works, ye mighty,"

It's so fucking weird that literally all of Zuckerberg's company is now just marketed directly at him, *he* is the person they are marketing at.

All his products are a mirror he can look in and see himself, and he can't understand why he would want to make things other people want.

Going back in time to tell 2015 me that Trump will get elected which brings about a new plague and then he'll get re-elected for a second term after attempting to overthrow the government and his biggest political foe in 2026 is the Pope who is from Chicago

transphobia is a luxury belief, which is why it’s so prevalent among beltway types who don’t have real problems

it feels trite to say at this point but that would be murder & illegal & i'm pretty sure advocating for it is also illegal

"we must fight for the middle class" is basically the 14 Words for capitalist party duopoly

Hungarian Voters Increasingly Out Of Touch With Heartland America---Will This "Danubian Elitism" Prove To Be A Mistake?

academics should also be sharing these things and not accommodating bad faith narratives.

‘Everything is gone’: Israel destroys entire villages in Lebanon Rights groups fear tactic of ‘domicide’ trialled in Gaza, where entire areas are made uninhabitable, is being used again

Nations don’t have “rights to exist.” WTF does that mean anyway?
People have a right to exist. The people of Lebanon, the people of Congo, the people of Palestine—those are people and they have a right to exist.
Explain to me these state “rights of existence.”

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Every few months or so, a prominent economist writes an article like this full of sweeping claims about globalization & geopolitics & how it’s all different now, which mostly suggests they haven’t read <50 years of international political economy research, & I really just don’t know anymore.

if they start using "papist" as a slur again well I'm sorry to say I'm not strong enough to resist relapsing on catholicism