Just wasted a quarter tank of gas going to a food bank that’s closed

FML

Releasing the files ≠ prosecuting the pedos

As soon as I heard this story I could tell the media was trying to cover for this family annihilator. Disgusting

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That’s the start of a Supernatural episode

Those are trade secrets 🤫

Hey, friends: We're not free if we must wait for a regularly scheduled election to remove a madman who's terrorizing the entire world.

Impeaching, removing, and imprisoning the Trump regime NOW isn't just in America's best interest--it would go a long way toward showing our allies we can be trusted

I think Trump tried to rig the 2020 election, just as he did in ‘16 and ‘24, but underestimated turnout and that’s why he insists it was stolen.

Back to the simple natural order of things…….. not human arrogance based on destruction of our water,air, environment for profit…… for the 1%

5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed.

The headline argument is straightforward enough, democratic survival depends on hard power, hard power is now software, so Silicon Valley owes the West an AI weapons industry. Adversaries won't wait, so we can't either, which taken at face value sounds like a defence of democracy.

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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This excellent thread by @eliothiggins.bsky.social breaks down how Palantir is arguing for increased power and less accountability for the tech oligarchs—it’s worth reading in full:

19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all. 20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite's intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim. 21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures ... have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse. regressive and harmful.

22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what? Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska THE TECHNOLOGICAL REPUBLIC From techrepublicbook.com 1:45 PM • 4/18/26 • 5.2M Views

Points 19-22 of the Palantir plan include:

21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive.

and

22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism.

12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.l. is set to begin. 13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet. 14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war.

15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia. 16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk's interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves .... Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn.

17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives. 18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena —and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within.

Points 12-18 of the Palantir plan include:

12. The atomic age is ending.

and

17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime.

Palantir @PalantirTech X.com 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. 5. The question is not whether A.l. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed.

6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost. 7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm's way. 8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive.

9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness —a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret. 10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed. 11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice.

Points 1-11 of the Palantir plan include:

5. The question is not whether A.l. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose.

and

6. National service should be a universal duty.

and

10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray.

Why we said #FreePalestine because this is all just Moloch to Babylon.

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Environmental Activist Assassinated After Opposing Hydroelectric Dam - WhoWhatWhy Berta Cáceres, who defended the rights of indigenous people against big-money interests, was gunned down in her native Honduras.

Forest Service reorganization: illegal per USDA’s own counsel but true to current form, they did it anyway.

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Dude MADE at least one snuff film we know of. The line and the sand was passed ages ago.

Jfc ima need a gofundme if I don’t get out here soon

I want to ask where you found heaven but I feel like that’d be weird 🙃

Wholeheartedly agree except technically it took less than a quarter of the population to “win” the last election.

You think too highly of bmw owners.

-previous bmw service management

That’s cool af! I’ve been in live theatre and concerts for some time and I’ve always been curious how it’d be to be on a tv set

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I read this as having a breakfast joint 😅 lemme go to bed

Didn’t they get promotions to a new made up peace agency?

He couldn’t even get 38% of the population to vote for him. He’s not that popular. Folks really be out here eating up any ol thing they hear from billionaire owned media.

What a dream 😍 #jelly

I dunno who’s who’s but I know whats what and Luigi ain’t no punk don’t do my boy like that