One of my favorite things about this article is that they quote @astrokatie.com a few times but there's an enormous distance between the first one and the second one, so for a long time it feels like they called up an astrophysicist just so she could say "the fuck are you nerds talking about"
Hartzog said lawmakers need to create more specific rules tailored to the unique threat posed by the combination of facial recognition and nearly undetectable surveillance technology before it becomes ubiquitous. Those laws need to target not only people using the technology, but also the companies behind it, he said. “A lot of these conversations tend to focus on, ‘is it OK to use these glasses or this tool to surveil other people?’” he said. “What often gets lost in this conversation is, ‘is it OK for companies to design these really socially hostile tools in ways that will foreseeably lead to massive violations of privacy?’”
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Every Cyberpunk author: In my book I invented the concept of the evil tech megacorp as a cautionary tale.
Palantir: At long last, we have created the evil tech megacorp from every classic cyberpunk novel.
Prediction markets are presented as real-time measures of probable outcomes driven by collective investment. Which is what horse racing odds are, and we don’t treat those as more than a novelty. Gift link: www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...
this is just a warmed over david duke speech from 1990
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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“In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political,
I must listen to the birds.
And in order to hear the birds,
the warplanes must be silent”
- Marwan Makhoul
I wonder if the brain worms feel good, like a little massage inside your head
I've had some friends suggest that there was plausible deniability for people who used to work at Palantir who thought at the time it was just another tech company. I always found that hard to believe as it was always creepy and cultish. But after this... anyone still working there...
Line graph time series of monthly mean surface temperature anomalies for the Northern Hemisphere region only. Every month is shown from 1940 to 2026. There is a long-term warming trend in all months of the year.
Line graph time series of monthly mean surface temperature anomalies for the Southern Hemisphere region only. Every month is shown from 1940 to 2026. There is a long-term warming trend in all months of the year.
Line graph time series of monthly mean surface temperature anomalies for the Arctic region only. Every month is shown from 1940 to 2026. There is a long-term warming trend in all months of the year and a strong seasonality.
Line graph time series of monthly mean surface temperature anomalies for the Antarctic region only. Every month is shown from 1940 to 2024. There is a long-term warming trend in all months of the year, but less obvious than the other regions.
Compare different regions! These graphics look at the varying seasonality and trends in the magnitude of monthly temperature anomalies since 1940 for the Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, Arctic, and Antarctic...
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JFC the details in this—and the complete and utter lack of understanding of, and care for, both international diplomacy and the arts that they reveal.
I mean, I knew it was bad, but holy crap.
And now I’m really worried about the Kennedy Center’s art collection on top of everything else.
bless & protect the whistleblowers & fact tellers.
I wrote this skeet as a hypothetical and then 24 hours later 🫠
Pope on plane to Angola: "A certain narrative has taken hold—one that is not entirely accurate-due to the political situation that arose when, on the first day of the trip, the President of the United States made certain statements regarding me.... Much of what has been written since then is nothing more than commentary upon commentary, in an attempt to interpret what was said. An example is the important address delivered at the Prayer Meeting for Peace on April 16. That speech had been prepared two weeks earlier—well before the President commented on me and on the message of peace I am promoting. And yet, it was interpreted as if I were attempting to engage in a renewed debate with the President —something that is not in my interest at all."
huge portions of media think they’re the refs in a Vatican VS White House MMA fight and they’re delusional. this is a one-sided beef where the Pope says something sensible like “war is bad” or “we should not bomb schoolchildren” and all the hit dogs on Capitol Hill and Fox News lose their marbles.
It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly
Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way
this is what they are feeding the crew of the USS Tripoli
NYT cooking page has basically no meat on it
"Dumplings With Peas"
"Broccoli Cheddar Beans"
This has been an open secret for years among everyone at Harvard Law but we're not supposed to acknowledge it officially.
It's completely perverting the entire profession and ensuring ideological capture.
Despicable fucking government.
orban controlled the media, the government, the budget, the justice system, the institutions
but he did not control the vote casting and he did not control the vote counting
theres a lesson here if we are willing to take it
I too have written about white conservatives in southern state legislatures rushing through bullshit changes to the law just to thwart the advancement of literally one black man, but I'm a historian who writes about the Jim Crow era South and not a reporter discussing current fucking events there.
Some cool research on threat actors using your home fiber connection as a mic in your home
www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss-paper/h...
Screenshot of Elmo next to his pet's fishbowl in Elmo's World. The subtitles say "We. Dorothy's been thinking abou and down to what’s her daughter."
four birds in a cartoon from Sesame Street, with the caption reading "Oh, shit"
Another Sesame Street cartoon saying "Oh shit"
Screenshot of Big Bird in Hooper’s Store with live human Alan and a flying red bird. The subtitles read: "Time for the birth of terror. Me"
Do not watch Sesame Street on Tubi with the subtitles on 😭. I swear, I didn't edit or add anything. Is it hilarious? Yes, but also, they need to fix this immediately. Absolutely incomprehensible and bad
2 years ago I did a PoC to run #rust 🦀 in the #pixel modem
Today it shipped in millions of devices!
They grow up to fast! 🥲
security.googleblog.com/2026/04/brin...
#rust #security #smartphone #baseband
the future is already here it's just unevenly distributed. the USA will have gone from being a leading edge EV maker in the early 2010s to a global laggard by 2030, mostly because we elected Trump twice (and it'll probably kill the US auto industry)
Imagine being in space 30 min ago and now you’re about an hour from In n Out
