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It's easy to succumb to outrage fatigue. But this was four days ago. 2,000 killed. 1.2 million displaced. Entire villages demolished. A 40km 'buffer zone' (10% of Lebanon's territory) annexed. It's barely raised a resigned shrug, but it meets the criteria for war crime. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars.
There's just gotta be a line somewhere.
Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.
Gil Duran tweet: TLDR: Fascism in response to Palantir's long fascists screed on X.
"Your Account is Suspended" Message on X
The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X.
I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!).
So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.
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. 🧵
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Update: Kash Patel has filed this morning a defamation lawsuit against the Atlantic and staff writer Sarah Fitzpatrick in federal court in D.C. www.courtlistener.com/docket/73213...
5 mins later I'm up here ( previous photo taken on the beach in the background).
A folding bike can take you places. Today it's Falmouth which is absolutely lovely (and very windy).
I did a night dive on a reef in which a mass coral spawning was kicking off. Swimming through clouds of eggs and sperm...
ICYMI @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
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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Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed.
We must get rid of Palantir altogether.
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Risking lbw there.
Anthropic has said the system is 'too powerful to release'. Another way of looking at it, is that organisations had better pay up and get access to it before they find themselves on the receiving end of it. Anthropic have developed a tool that organisations *must* pay to use - unless... END
If (admittedly big if) Mythos really can rapidly develop novel exploits with very little human skill required to use it, then you have a tool that any organisation *must* deploy. Because if it doesn't then it will be vulnerable to anyone else pointing Mythos at it systems. 8/9
Secrecy is key. Contracts are riddled with NDAs & constraints. But the assumption is that if *I've* found something, then someone else *could*. The client then pays up to fix the vulnerability. Mythos doesn't just potentially turbo charge this but can be seen as a type of scaled-up extortion 7/9
(although there were some dodgy dealings with most likely Russian mafia that I can't talk about that involved supposedly 'white hat' hackers talking to 'black hats') 6/9
Because the entire information security consultancy gig is based around you finding exploits before anyone else does, and then getting someone to pay you to fix it. It's not as if you would actually exploit the discovered weaknesses 5/9
You would them try and match some particular exploit to what you find. Mythos does this *and* some. I'm sure it's very capable. And it's still the case that many IT systems have very poor security. But what's really interesting here is how Anthropic will make money 4/9
So many in fact that you didn't need much understanding of what you were actually doing. "Script kiddies" was the term given to those not sufficiently versed in the minutiae of linux/UNIX/NT... You aim some programmes at some system/nw/perimeter, press a button and see what comes back 3/9
There's lots of excitable reporting about the abilities of Anthropic's Mythos to find vulnerabilities in IT systems, and then *crucially* to develop exploits based on them. This automates what I used to do. Back then there were many scripts & tools that could be used create exploits 2/9
It's a long time ago now, but I used to work in information security. I was a so-called 'ethical hacker'. Let me tell you how it worked and what this latest news about Anthropic's 'super hacker' means (IMHO) 1/9
But surely all the carbon capture schemes we have in the UK means we aren't reliant on fossil fuels for this gas? /s
"henchmen" excellent work from the subs at the Mirror 👍
Wasn't he the supposed to be the Trump whisper? If that was the case, then they must have known that one of the reasons he had Trump's ear was because he was blowing into it at the same time as he was cosying up to Epstein.
Heat pump orders up 2x in a month. Solar panel inquiries up 250%. EV leases up 85%.
The Iran crisis has made energy security feel personal.
I understand why: I have solar panels, a heat pump & EV on a flexible tariff. When gas prices spike, my bills barely move.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
I hear you. All I can say in response is organise mobilize and create new communities and use new channels. @fisherdanar.bsky.social has a plan!
