Start calling it what it is:

A #Countermander.

Reframe it. Change the image to give it contrast.

"It is countering Republican attacks on fair districting"

So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out

Power without accountability: The Palantir manifesto The problems with our tech philosopher kings

New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally.
It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...

The fact that every major police union endorsed Donald Trump is under appreciated in our political discourse.

The Shadow Docket Memos Are Damning. So Naturally, The Right Is Talking About The Leak. - Above the Law New York Times reporting reveals the birth of the modern emergency docket was sloppier, more ideologically driven, and less legally rigorous than anyone admitted. The right's response is to demand we ...

No, because as my colleague pointed out today, they are going to flood the zone with leak takes to crowd out any engagement with the substance

Another way to look at this is that billionaires have joined a war on professional administrative class of public servants precisely because of their proximity to formal mechanisms of accountability. Civil servants are sworn to uphold the constitution, report wrongdoing to officials, follow the rules. They are in most respects more accountable than our politicians to ethical and legal requirements, and more difficult to buy off. This makes government slower and more irritating for sure, and puts those officials at odds with the Musks, Andreessens, and Karps of the world, whose vision and interests benefits from reduced oversight and accountability.

I think the Palantir attacks on bureaucrats here is ideological - like the similarly despised professors, they are a potential source of criticism.
But it is also practical. The administrative class is tasked with imposing accountability, which Palantir - like the Trump administration - dislikes.

You absolutely SHOULD NOT go around telling people that data centers are full of gold, silver, palladium, copper, and that the data centers are almost entirely unstaffed.

Unbelievable corruption right in front of our faces.

“You gotta learn AI or get left behind!” is a bit galling given that the entire purpose of AI seems to be to steal our work and fuck our brains and shit up the planet, which is to say, its GOAL is to leave us all behind. That, in order to make its owners rich.

Just found this sick website - tools.rmv.fyi

Lots of completely free tools - no logins, no registration, no data collection, just good ol' indie web! the way things were and can still be!!

One of them is a colourblindness sim as shown in the video, why not test out a pic of your game?

US tech firms successfully lobbied EU to keep datacentre emissions secret Legally questionable confidentiality clause adopted almost word for word from demands of Microsoft and trade groups

I dunno about y'all but I'm fairly sure we were sold out. Everybody involved needs to be held accountable for this, and the data centers need to be held not just to the same, but to higher environmental standards.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

And so ends this lesson from the New York Times;
Be transparent like Mamdani and the Times will pick over your life with a fine tooth comb.
Stonewall like Trump FOR OVER A DECADE and the Times will shrug and "Oh, well! What'cha-gonna-do"

Not once in the 80s, 90s or 00s do I recall a politician urging the public to embrace email, mobile phones, texting, two factor authentication, online banking, air fryers, or to replace all their cassette collection with a CD collection.

So forgive me if I smell a rat.

American higher Ed is a golden goose that’s delivered medical, tech, and science innovations, bolstered soft power internationally, and is one of the largest employers in every state.

This admin is doing everything it can to kill it.

"keep thinking about how I wrote in my dissertation about how every time a new form of public/social space emerges it’s immediately popular with kids and teenagers who see it as a chance at freedom and then adults colonise it and kick them out. this happened with malls in the 80s and diners in the 50s and pool halls in the 20s. my dad was doing research on this trend in like 1975. and I was like “yeah so this is going to happen to the internet” and then five years later every government suddenly decided to ban kids from everywhere online. I hate being right especially when I don’t even get paid for it"

how adults colonize every third space and remove young people — including the Internet

link: dragon-in-a-fez.tumblr.com/post/8134647...

One of the ways news media often fail us is by giving us the microscopic rather than the telescopic view. Everything I mention in this essay is well-documented, but the dots are mostly not connected to make visible this death by a thousand cuts our country is undergoing.

a criminal conviction isn’t required to say someone does not have the moral character to run for office and i don’t understand why this needs to be said over and over and over again.

No shade to the OP for admitting this, but it shocks me that people my age don’t know this.

You fundamentally cannot understand how the world functions, how power works, if you don’t know history.

Mr. Smithers’ office tells the New York Times that Smithers advised against Mr. Burns’ Middle East venture, which critics say has hit a snag. But Smithers is hard at work rescuing the situation, and ensures the Times that Mr. Burns has been masterful. The bad parts are all due to… let’s say Lenny.

Let's spin up the broken record.

If we're serious about CO₂ removal, we can't rely on one tech company to make it happen. It has to be a governmental effort at all levels.

If we don't start playing to win instead of playing not to lose, we are toast.

Because Anthropic's, Mythos, too, is just more fucking hype

"Moon joy" is real, but it has an important lesson for us too: Public service and public life is a gift and something to treasure—the uncommon chance to do something for a cause bigger than yourself.
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-pure-j...

The party that claims to be bravely defending “Western Civilization” from its supposed imminent destruction by barbarian hordes, has empowered a guy who eats roadkill to shut down research on one of the most significant scientific breakthroughs in decades.

why does this happen? Patriarchy. It’s the patriarchy trying to assert its control again in a situation where it is losing control. Because there are a whole bunch of dudes out there who have achieved nothing and have nothing in their lives except the idea that women are supposed to look up to them

Kennedy is a eugenicist.
His words and choices to date provide ample evidence of his deep hatred for disabled ‘weaker’ people. All his ‘policy’ is driven by one goal: make the population ‘fitter’ by ‘weeding out the unfit.’
Speak of him as the open, rank eugenicist he is.

This is why these forms of sexual harassment and abuse at scale work to reinforce men’s dominance. If the woman’s “best” option is to quit, then this pattern of behavior can and IS used to keep women out of certain industries and positions of power and spheres of influence.

After Trump's latest genocidal utterances, I'm posting this again from Anaïs Nin’s diary from 1939-1944:

“America is in even greater danger because of its cult of toughness, its hatred of sensitivity, and someday it may have to pay a price for this, because atrophy of feeling creates criminals”.

THE TRUMP REGIME HAS ALREADY COMMITTED WAR CRIMES. A CEASFIRE WON'T ERASE THAT.

A ceasefire won’t erase the #WarCrimes already committed by the Trump regime during this illegal war.

And Trump has flip flopped before.

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