Tim Cook donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration.
He fawned over Trump and gifted him a 24-karat gold plaque (as Apple lobbied for tariff exemptions).
Apple donated to Trump’s White House ballroom.
And it removed ICE tracking apps from its stores following a demand from the DOJ.
Remember this.
‘Simply stop giving millionaires water for literally free’ is one of the most insane sounding but actually serious policy solutions out there
The problem is this post-Moses trend in treating the "community" as if it's monolithic and knows more about transportation planning than the experts. We as a society can say "more transit good, road expansion bad" and ask locals to weigh in on where staircases go, not "should this even happen?"
1. In a landmark ruling, the Montana Supreme Court has declared that the constitution, one of the most progressive in the nation, entirely protects transgender people.
The ruling is even insulated from SCOTUS decisions, due to how state constitutions work.
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Hey everybody! I am taking the helm of this classic American institution with @theonion.com and want to know what you fine folks would like to see from us.
so they had the press secretary fire the labor secretary via tweet but the labor secretary is now like fuck off Oddjob, I'm staying and has lawyered up, just another day in the golden age of America
a picture is, it turns out, worth a lot more than a thousand words
In 1964, Groucho went to East Berlin with a group that included his radio show director Robert Dwan and his 16-year-old daughter Judith Dwan Hallet. They visited the village of Dornum, where his mother Minnie had been born. and discovered that all the Jewish graves there had been obliterated by the Nazis. Groucho hired a car with a chauffeur, and told the driver to take the group to the bunker where Adolf Hitler was said to have committed suicide. Wearing his trademark beret he climbed the debris and then launched himself, unsmiling, into a frenetic Charleston dance routine. The dance on Hitler's supposed grave lasted a couple of minutes. "Nobody applauded," Hallet recalled. "Nobody laughed."
Hey, it's Hitler's birthday.
I feel like the abolition of parking requirements is a really instructive example of why developers often aren't all that useful for identifying pro-growth reform. 🧵
Baudrillard wrote that the shock of 9/11 was not that it was unthinkable, but that it was the ultimate object of the American fantasy and the shock was having the fantasy realized it. This is how I feel on seeing the post "Mr. Met is an antisemite," towards which we have always been headed.
many americans demonstrated repeatedly that the thing that would get them to participate in politics was to be told by a television celebrity that they could be rich and it was good to abuse the weak
In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.
#oopsie
Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop
www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthrop...
>unarmed pleasure vessel inexplicably capable of running a blockade
What did he know?
We gotta managed retreat
I just don’t think “you’ll get nothing and like it” is a winner against “I will jail everyone that you hate”
Of course the roots of the “shadow docket” are in service to the fossil fuel billionaires who captured the Court. 🧵
A democratic administration can and should use this as a straightforward basis to debar palantir as a contractor for straightforwardly stating an intention to not abide by federal civil rights laws
Tweet from Mark Ames @MarkAmesExiled qoute tweeting @DropSiteNews Mark's post reads: Reagan's response to the 1983 Marines barracks bombing in Beirut was to invade Granada to cover for the humiliating withdrawl. the original Drop Site tweet reads: NEWS: The Trump administration has quietly directed Pentagon officials and other U.S. government agencies to step up preparations for possible military operations against Cuba, according to two sources familiar with the situation and a third person briefed on it, Zeteo reported on Tuesday. The directive came direction from the White House, according to the report by Asawin Suebsaeng and Andrew Perez. Trump has publicly threatened Cuba on multiple occasions in recent weeks, including Monday when he said "we may stop by Cuba after we're finished with this" – a reference to the ongoing U.S. -Israeli war on Iran.
All eyes on Cuba:
jingoistic death cult in a corporate trench coat
44% of Americans are very worried about climate change — among the highest levels since 1989 — and 63% believe the US government is not taking enough environmental action, the highest since @Gallup.com started polling the question in 1992.
not the vicar of christ with another absolute banger of a post
At the very least the last time something like this happened, tech companies were falling over themselves to fund bootcamps and schools for learning to code.
But really nothing this time, not even aggressive lobbying the EA's favorite, UBI.
‘My Work Doesn’t Define Me,’ Says Man Who Will Spend 90,000 Hours Of Lifetime At Office
‘My Work Doesn’t Define Me,’ Says Man Who Will Spend 90,000 Hours Of Lifetime At Office theonion.com/my-work-doesnt-define-me...
That whole Palantir thing makes more sense when you position it as marketing to business elites, all of whom are stewing in the same rotten information environment that Palantir is
It is funny to me that points two and three are “we must rebel against the tyranny of the apps” and “free email is not enough”.
But once those issues are solved Palantir can get into less important things like reinstating the draft and ethnically cleansing the nation
I’m sure Palantir considers:
building gaudy monstrosities to yourself,
putting your face on coinage,
offering pardons to your paramilitaries & cronies,
launching wars without reason / explanation,
purging security forces of civil servants, &
bribing yourself with the treasury
to be “The West”
The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin.
The age of men is over. The time of the Orc has come.
People of all ages and abilities ride bicycles along Mumbai’s Coastal Road cycle path, a 7.5 km continuous, protected piece of infrastructure along the Arabian Sea.
People of all ages and abilities ride bicycles along Mumbai’s Coastal Road cycle path, a 7.5 km continuous, protected piece of infrastructure along the Arabian Sea.
People of all ages and abilities ride bicycles along Mumbai’s Coastal Road cycle path, a 7.5 km continuous, protected piece of infrastructure along the Arabian Sea.
People of all ages and abilities ride bicycles along Mumbai’s Coastal Road cycle path, a 7.5 km continuous, protected piece of infrastructure along the Arabian Sea.
In a sprawling metropolis of 26-million where commutes often involve long periods of sedentary, stressful, solo travel—sometimes exceeding two hours each way—this kind of continuous, protected environment promises to improve physical, mental and social health, even if only in a recreational setting.
I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.
