Posts by Aaron Mauro
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 is so well done. 👌
I was quoted in the New York Times talking about Rosalina, my favourite Mario character (a galactic mother star goddess, what's not to love?)! Check it out here:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/04/03/arts/nintendo-mario-galaxy-movie-rosalina-princesses.html
Europe builds Microsoft-alternative ‘Euro-Office’ to reclaim digital sovereignty - tech.eu/2026/03/27/e...
We are hiring an Interactive Digital Media Specialist. This role maintains our development studios and supports research and teaching in the department. Join our award winning team as we grow our programs! #brocku brocku.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/brocku_caree...
The Billion Dollar War on Trans People (With Alejandra Caraballo) m.youtube.com/watch?v=SJa4...
SCOOP: Someone has found new samples of the iPhone spyware DarkSword and published them on GitHub, putting millions of iOS users at risk.
A cybersecurity researcher told us that the leaked spyware is "way too easy to repurpose" and "we need to expect criminals and others to start deploying this."
long story but i just founded an AI education platform. if you want to join the board or contribute to the blog, hit me up. just submitted a conference talk on "surveillance as care" to ELO. wish me luck!!!! puregenius.education
"This technology disrupts humanities-trained-largely Democratic-voters, and makes their economic power less. And increases the economic power of vocationally trained, working-class, often male, working-class voters,"
Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power newrepublic.com/post/207693/...
Today I went to RUSI and @hultquist.bsky.social told me his thoughts about what to expect from Iranian cyber operations in the near future...
Essentially, while tactics won't suddenly change, he believes the attacks will have a much wider scope...
www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/iran-cy...
NEW: A group of hacktivists calling themselves "Department of Peace" claims to have hacked an office wihin the Department of Homeland Security.
The hacktivists leaked data on more than 6,000 contracts between DHS/ICE and private companies to the transparency website Distributed Denial of Secrets.
Fact Check: Jesse Singal Lies About Trans Care At The New York Times www.erininthemorning.com/p/fact-check...
We are hiring a Canada Impact+ Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Social Change (Professor or Associate Professor, Tenured). Applications due March 26, 2026. Please share widely! #BrockU
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The headline does not convey how completely batshit this story is. The Archive Today (archive.ph etc) admin weaponized the site's captcha to attack a blogger who wrote about them and *altered archived screenshots* as part of the attack.
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Brock student remembered for accessibility advocacy, creative spirit brocku.ca/brock-news/2... #brocku
In today’s Wumao Soup, we’ll tell you 15 things about the People’s Republic of China that you didn’t learn from TikTok, Douyin or DeepSeek.
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I went to a far right, anti-gender summit in Brussels so you didn't have to.
Here's what went down:
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OSSTF/FEESO Condemns Lack of Transparency Around Brock University Layoffs www.osstf.on.ca/en-CA/news/o...
Brock University to lay off administrative staff archive.is/2026.02.04-2...
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