Nothing says a well-oiled intelligence apparatus like quiet firing your DNI during a self-inflicted war in Iran
...while the CIA is caught up in a deadly unsanctioned drug raid in Mexico...while Five Eyes allies are withholding intelligence cooperation.
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Also, I'm making a little something for the Wyrd and Ruin zine that's part of the campaign. 👀
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💯 The reason companies drive these massive 40+ ft trailers in dense cities is so that they can minimize the number of distribution centers they need to pay to maintain
These massive trucks:
1. Are very dangerous in big cities
2. Destroy the roads at an incredible rate, bc road wear goes as weight^4
The more I think about this, the lower Beshear slips on my 2028 list. It's not just the hippie-punching, it's the line he draws between "inmates" and "people". You know what nearly half of American adults call "inmates"? Family members.
NEW: A PR company is operating a bizarre fake news site that's plagiarizing original journalism at a massive scale -- all while spewing misinformation, publishing hallucinated quotes, and replacing real people’s names with “Jane Doe.”
Also: it misquotes the Pope.
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Oh.
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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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?
⚠️ Palantir released what it describes as a vision for “The Technological Republic” in which it argues AGAINST democratic and cultural pluralism and FOR militaristic supremacy enforced by a technocratic elite who produce AI weaponry.
These points stand out:
Louis Mosley, grand son of Oswald?
The fact this country has fascist dynasties is fucking shit
"You are not here to save the world. You are here to be remembered."
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I look forward to Harvard spending hundreds of millions to hire a bunch of bigoted professors that will inevitably be hounded out due to scandal and calling it "ideological diversity."
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$40,000+ raised! Just a little more to go to hit $50,000 for our charities!!!
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In the US, the birth rate for 15- to 19-year-olds dropped 7% last year. But what seems like good news for society has been lamented by some leading Maga figures
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A great number of the harms in this country would not have happened if this society protected Black & Indigenous folks the way it does white people.
It covers environmentalism, education, healthcare, financial scams, workers rights, surveillance, police violence, wage theft, everything.
We actually did it. Thank you all so much!
Foundry VTT, we're aiming for you next.
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Not dunking on Zack or this post, I’m just always struck by how easily American journalists will admit that the media shapes public polling and political outcomes when they’re not talking about America.
I think another reason many Americans Feel Bad About the Economy:
There is a constant barrage of information indicating to the casual observer that people who run scams and lie and refuse to play by the rules aren't just going unpunished, they're *making way more money than you are* as a result.
In one week, this happens and a councilman’s house gets shot up in Indiana for pushing a data center. Maybe AI is a scapegoat for broader crumbling sentiment in America, maybe it’s genuine hate for the industry. Either way, it’s hard not to see this as a sign of more to come
“We are collateral damage.” - Mark Graham, Wayback Machine
When preservation is caught in the crossfire, it’s not just libraries that lose—it’s the public’s access to history, knowledge, and truth.
The web shouldn’t disappear behind closed doors.
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The Bangladesh Association of Southwest Florida has organized a GoFundMe for the children of the woman whose murder Trump is exploiting
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Pete Hegseth believes that Jesus guides Tomahawk missiles, even when they hit elementary schools.
I wrote about the roots of his militant faith - from the Crusades to the confederacy - and what they mean for the US and Iran today.
Calls are increasing inside Congress for investigations into the prediction market platform Polymarket after the latest instance where groups of anonymous traders made strategic, well-timed bets on a major geopolitical event hours before it occurred.
you consider the few things that have pushed these guys into action, and the many things that haven't, and increasingly coming to the conclusion that no matter what the issue you care about is, you need to jam up airports
I think this is really important, and I'm worried it's never going to filter into the mainstream: Finland is producing studies that their researchers claim cast doubt on gender affirming care for youth, but they hide the ways their idiosyncratic approach itself could be to blame.
Kinda baffling that this view is not more widespread.
Miles Taylor @MilesTaylorUSA The Trump administration is quietly trying to build medical dossiers on all federal employees. Their prescriptions. Therapy appointments. Abortion records. For millions of people (and their families). They won’t say how they’ll use it. But I can venture a guess. Quote CBS News @CBSNews · 9h The Office of Personnel Management is asking insurers that cover federal employees and retirees to hand over details about their medical visits, their pharmacy claims, and more. https://cbsn.ws/4tBfdJ7
This seems bad.
NOW: B52 bombers are literally in the air on their way to Iran and hundreds of thousands of Iranians are in the streets waving flags and surrounding bridges & power plants.
Difficult to imagine this has any precedent in modern warfare.
(🎥 Al Jazeera)
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