Jeg kunne godt klart meg fint uten Kristi Himmelfartsdag, men jeg snakker likevel ikke om «religionsaktivisme» slik som hun snakket om blant annet «transaktivisme» på Nyhetsmorgen.

A screenshot of a LinkedIn post by Marc Seitz. The post reads: “When I was a VC, I would always ask Founders one question: ‘Do you own a bedframe?’ If they answered yes, I’d stop the interview there. The most successful founders are so focused on scaling they don’t bother spending time on unnecessary things like bed frames. Every dollar spent on something for their personal life is a dollar that could be spent on Claude credits. However, the most successful founder I ever invested in (who made a 2,000x return for the VC) shocked me with his response: ‘Why would I own a bedframe when I don’t even own a mattress?’” The post includes the author’s profile picture and LinkedIn interface elements like a follow button and timestamp.

Jeg håper dette er satire men jeg er ikke sikker etter å ha sett på bro-internett.

Samtidig på kvinnedating-internett er "That's a lot of audacity for someone who doesn't have a headboard" til fæle menn i sine DMs

Forskning viser at én enkelt influenser – jeg – i årevis har dominert sosiale medier om antibiotikaresistens.

Norske myndigheter derimot har vært tilnærmet tause. Det får nå kritikk fra forskerne selv.

#dax18 med smitteverndirektøren og @unibergen.bsky.social: www.instagram.com/p/DXTccqGMTv-/ #nrk

(+) Forfatterflukt fra fransk forlag 130 forfattere bryter med forlaget Grasset i protest mot mediemogul Vincent Bollorés inngripen. Blant dem er Virginie Despentes og Vanessa Springora. – Et dramatisk brudd i fransk offentlighet, sier p...

130 forfattere bryter med forlaget Grasset i protest mot mediemogul Vincent Bollorés inngripen. Blant dem er Virginie Despentes og Vanessa Springora.

Dette kan sikkert fikses ved å dra til mars

Q: Did Anthropic have a meeting at the White House?

TRUMP: Who?

Q: Anthropic.

TRUMP: I have no idea. *walks away*

But, but Trump always hires the best. 🙄

Time for more "Joe Rogan is abandoning Trump" takes.

Ny forskning: Å gi statsborgerskap automatisk til barn av innvandrere i Tyskland ga stor reduksjon i ungdomskriminaliteten. docs.iza.org/dp18374.pdf

Forresten er «vi må slutte å gi folk fri på 1. mai» den perfekte tingen å si hvis du vil på Dagsnytt 18. Og det vil KrFU, mer enn noe annet.

Vil avskaffe offentlig fridag – Denne fridagen koster oss tre milliarder kroner, sier KrFU-leder Ingrid Olina Hovland.

Det er fagforeningene som sikrer at alle som kan får fri med lønn i jula, Kristi Himmelfart, pinsen og påsken. Det er fagforeningene som sikrer at folk som må jobbe på helligdager får ekstra betalt. Historieløst av KrFU å angripe 1. mai, og ta fri og lønn på kristne høytider for gitt

En av tingene jeg aldri kommer til å forstå er når representanter fra en gruppe som er på vei til å bli en liten minoritet (som de konservative kristne er) gjør noe så kontraproduktivt.

It's also worth being clear about who's doing the arguing. Palantir sells operational software to defence, intelligence, immigration & police agencies. These 22 points aren't philosophy floating in space, they're the public ideology of a company whose revenue depends on the politics it's advocating.

Neither configuration can coexist with functional VDA. Verification gets reduced to selective fact-display. Deliberation runs as theatre while the questions that matter are ruled out of order. Accountability gets pointed at critics while leadership is left untouched. This is VDA as simulation.

Using moral-epistemic stacks, what's happening here is a blend. Authoritarian features (national identity as moral authority, accountability that only flows outward) sit alongside technocratic ones (Silicon Valley expertise presented as natural authority over security).
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This is what verification looks like once national identity sits above method. Rigorous when it's pointed at adversaries, conveniently absent when it's pointed at us. Symmetric, evidence-led investigation of allied conduct, exactly what Bellingcat does, becomes the thing the worldview can't tolerate

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.

Point 21 is the giveaway, some cultures produce "wonders," others are "regressive and harmful." Once you accept that hierarchy, you've quietly been given permission to apply different standards of verification to different actors. The form of verification stays, but the democratic function doesn't.

Healthy accountability is triggered by evidence, points upward at power, and happens in public. Disordered accountability protects insiders and aims its punishment outward. What the document does is argue for the second while calling it the first.

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. 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. 19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all.

Points 9, 18 and 19 go after accountability directly. Scrutiny of public figures gets reframed as a kind of cultural sickness driving talent away from public life. The problem becomes the people doing the scrutinising, not the people being scrutinised.

The 'adversaries won't wait' statement doesn't reject deliberation outright, it just makes serious deliberation always feel premature. You can debate this or that war, but the underlying question, whether to build the systems at all, is treated as settled, & that's deliberation as performance.

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.

A diagram showing the VDA framework and the Arc of Democracy. At the top, three icons label the essential elements of democracy: Verification (tick), Deliberation (speech bubble), and Accountability (magnifying glass). Arrows descend from each through three horizontal bands representing the arc: Substantial (truth tested, voices included, power constrained), Performative (forms remain but substance is weak, rituals without consequence), and Simulated (appearance maintained but functions inverted: propaganda as verification, polarisation as deliberation, scapegoating as accountability). A vertical arrow on the left marks the arc's direction: improvements, decline, collapse. A column on the right maps counterpublics onto the same three states: functional counterpublics act in a substantial way, hollow counterpublics in a performative way, disordered counterpublics in a simulated way. The bands shift from grey through pink to red as democracy moves toward simulation.

I've set out the framework I'm using here in an earlier thread, on VDA, the Arc of Democracy, and the moral-epistemic stacks idea, what follows applies that framework to the Palantir document directly. skywriter.blue/@eliothiggin...

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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WELKER: Why is the US rewarding Russia by extended these sanctions waivers? Russia is working with Iran

MIKE WALTZ: That's oil that was going to market. Now, instead of just going to China, it can go to some of our other allies and partners.

W: It's a reversal of what Bessent said on Wednesday

Mike Waltz has a freudian slip and calls Operation Epic Fury "Operation Economic Fury"

STEFANIK: President Trump didn't call for genocide, Jake. You are putting those words in his mouth


TAPPER: 'Your entire civilization will die'?

STEFANIK: It's the terrorist regime, Jake. He's targeting the terrorist regime


TAPPER: You're changing his words!

Podcasters, presidents, and psychedelics: How Joe Rogan got Trump into ibogaine Billionaire Peter Thiel also stands to benefit from the executive order signed on Saturday.

Trump revived relations with Joe Rogan via an executive order promoting ibogaine and other psychedlcs for therapy. Another big winner: the billionaire Peter Thiel.

Peter Thiel, the founder of Palentir, is from South Africa.

The South African version of "western civilization" failed, abjectly. It collapsed in 1989.

Daily reminder that Palantir is owned by Peter Thiels bitch ass

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement