I’ve been shouting about HowTheLightsGetIn for years, and yet philosophers I have respected or known have continued to present, headlining alongside the likes of Curtis Yarvin and extreme anti-trans propagandists. It’s a biannual reaction-normalisation machine
mRNA vaccines continue to show major promise.
In a small Phase 1 trial led by Dr. Balachandran, some patients with pancreatic cancer (one of the deadliest cancers) reached 6-year survival.
This is why sustained investment in science & research matters.
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Michael Beggs
Bay of Fires Tasmania
East Coast Tasmania Australia
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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Masterpiece. #MusicSky
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A lovely mossy boulder with a face. I walked past this venerable stone gentleman on Dartmoor when I was beginning to write my first novel, Villager, and it whispered all 104,000 words of the book to me. So now I have to pay it all of my royalties. Unfortunately my ex-publisher stopped paying me royalties last year. Understandable, the boulder was not happy. But now I have a new publisher and the book has been republished. So remember if you purchase a copy you will be helping a boulder to eat, pay the rent on his riverside moss garden, and feed his boulder family.
Yes it could be argued that keeping up with world events is important but alternatively can I interest you in hugging an ancient mossy boulder that looks like a face and quietly listening while it tells you stories from centuries cloaked in mist.
It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...
A single line in this piece just made my day:
“The electricity system operator is understood to be preparing to run the grid without any gas for short periods as soon as this summer, in a first for the UK energy system.”
Renewables *work*. And progress matters🎉
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This is the most horrifying, psychotic, grotesque message Trump has ever posted—openly threatening to commit genocide. This is beyond reckless. It’s dangerous, dehumanizing, and utterly unfit for any leader.
The US military has 22 sites in the UK.
Every day long range US bombers are taking off here to drop bombs on Iran.
This is a rogue state carrying out war crimes, and threatening more.
The UK Government must grow a spine - and stop our bases being used for this war.
So thoroughly detailed and passionately written. I hope that this war ends as soon as possible & that the Iranian people can regain autonomy. ❤️
I am a first-generation Persian/Iranian American attorney and this is the most important thing I have ever written.
It is an ode to truth and to the Iranian people who refuse to abdicate their freedom.
I invite you to read and share it widely.
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Anybody who isn't cooked by hype and has worked with these systems knows the technicians do tons of preprocessing, that racism and sexism are built-in due to the datasets, and that a doctor in the loop is invaluable.
Awesome view from Artemis II this morning.
People power works.
Together, we can force Palantir out of the NHS.
Message your local trust and tell them: Say no to Palantir
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Shall we have a No Kings thread?
Japan⬇️
You know things are getting bad for Badloss when even GB News are turning against him
I’m in Politico this morning, calling on the government to stands firm against tighter intellectual property restrictions which will only make medicines more costly and make it harder to stand up to Big Pharma bullying 🧵
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This is a great list of techniques for getting real information out of a Google search and avoiding AI slop and paid results.
(One thing not included is that if you add "-ai" to a search, you block the AI summary) cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...
Ich am at the data center
Ich am near some scarye robot dogges
Ich am at the data center surroundid by scarye robot dogges
This is how you do it.
Spring field walk with my favourite little human earlier. ❤️
Ed Miliband: "We must seek to end this conflict because its in nobodies interest for this conflict to go on for weeks and months"
Gaslighting the nation.
The UK govt is allowing the US to use British military bases to bomb Iran.
A company being awarded UK Government contracts👇🏻
Get all your cures on iHerb as recommended by 'Dr' Oz I assume.
"We see a future where intelligence is a utility like electricity or water and people buy it from us on a meter and use it for whatever they want to use it for. The demand that we see for that..." - Sam Altman
These bros are not okay.
