It is nine thirty aye em and eye am awake and pissed off. "Stop reading the news w your morning coffee, Ouro" I am thirty or forty years old; is it a bad habit or is it a whole mode?

It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.

Mrs. Harris needs every American voter to know it's actually pronounced "Kamalamadingdong"

I spent 6 months working for a Swiss NGO researching the tactics used by Big Oil and how similar they are to Big Tobacco’s tactics, and I can tell you that the ones used by ‘Big AI’ are virtually identical.

People, about a dozen dead or missing scientists vaguely attached to government UFO research: This is a scandal, an outrage, a conspiracy even! People, about 10,000 scientists missing from the government due to a scandalous fascist conspiracy: Idk has Joe Rogan said anything about it? No, he hasn't

Newsweek yesterday: Chinese Scientists Have Been Dying Mysterious Deaths Too The WSWS two days ago: The US government is killing Chinese scientists

The thing that annoys me about AIsts is they constantly issue loud and full-chested existential threats against the rest of society and then turn into whiny smol bean victims and claim their targets are the ones who are “anti-AI extremists” whenever they get the tiniest pushback. MAGA-ass mentality.

One interesting way this manifests is pro-AI people recently pivoting to the discursive argument of “having <5 years to learn AI or become stuck in the ‘permanent uderclass’”, and not understanding that most people interpret this as being a *threat* and respond to being threatened accordingly.

It *would* be Macomb. Them mfs so nasty. www.wxyz.com/news/macomb-...

I want the discussion of “declining trust in universities” to incorporate some acknowledgment of the increasing number of censorship policies being enacted in higher education.

Every system that was regulated, either explicitly or implicitly, by the fact that they were effortful for humans (letters of recommendation, government filings, essays, or, as this paper finds, lawsuits) will break under a wave of AI.

How it started vs. how it's going. We are not powerless to impact the course of events. Far from it. crimethinc.com/busdriver

Booker scolding people about people about not voting for the moment like his senate record isn’t public. newjerseyglobe.com/congress/sen...

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

Zeynab Faraj, the Lebanese journalist who survived yesterday’s Israeli strike that killed her colleague Amal Khalil, is interviewed in hospital www.instagram.com/reel/DXeAK5A... What Israel does to journalists

Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil is confirmed to have been killed by the IDF. Al Akhbar, her outlet, as well as LBCI and Al Jadeed, have confirmed it. The IDF, the world’s leading killer of journalists, was blocking rescue operations.

as a former staffer, this isn't just unprecedented, it's star trek evil mirror universe shit

We’re never gonna be able to undo the damage caused by this administration barring an ecosocialist revolution that will also never happen because libs will fight against it as hard as the rightwing will, despite it being our only chance for long-term survival.

ICE in Chicago this morning at Elston and Kennicott—a masked agent tells a witness (on the sidewalk) not to get in front of his car. Feds are continuing kidnappings across the city & burbs after increased activity this month. No flashy CBP caravans, just a steady stream of covert ICE arrests.

The police are always asserting that ackshually it's impossible to be responsible for killing people if the inanimate thing you're controlling is what did the killing. Very surprising headlines if you test that assertion at a police station, though. Funny how that works.

“The company, which already offers financial services to teens, said this week that it is expanding its youth-focused services in an effort to build a relationship with Gen Alpha and the upcoming generation of adolescents in the U.S.”

It's not just an environmental disaster. This is also the input water into the hundreds of desalination plants along the Persian Gulf, the drinking water supply of millions in several countries

With the numerous layoffs at a certain corporation, I have bumped this up on my to read list. Consuming media uncritically is greatly contributing to the rise of fascism. We're giving power to the 1% every time we interact with one of their properties.

"what is love?" "does it have to bounce or is that more of a suggestion?" "that's a lot more lines than I thought there'd be" "what about your other hand?" "is that a knuckle?"

Yes, Israel is destroying Lebanon's breadbasket. This is why I have been saying that Israel's goal is to destroy Lebanon itself.

Israel is expanding its genocide

the thing about our current moment is that yes, the anti-AI and anti-big tech people are getting very reactive nowadays - but have you seen what they’re *reacting* to?

Wait until you hear how he got the job.

One of the more insane facts about palantir is Louis Mosley the grandson of wannabe British hitler Oswald Mosley, is the head of palantir's UK branch. youtu.be/IOekgrWfJxE?...

Browsing this company's website and the only way I can describe what I'm seeing is imagine a school shooter was a management consultant

Right now where you live healthcare for trans kids is either being made literally illegal by your state or made functionally illegal by the unlawful threats of the federal government and a care infrastructure glad to sacrifice trans kids on the altar of appeasement. www.npr.org/2026/04/17/n...

one of the most insane aspects of all of this is that "a wide ranging government crackddown after a handful of newspaper cranks said insane things based on misunderstood cherrypicked papers" is considered illegitimate in every field of endeavor except this one

If you’ve read the thread posted by palantir on X and are shocked, please read this piece that @tlecaque.bsky.social and I wrote 9 months ago. Palantir has not been shy about its fascist agenda, and neither has Karp, who has been rambling about Western Supremacy in text & video form for a while now

palantir really is just a corporatized mass shooter, complete with the manifesto and race hate

Turns out racism is curable. Go figure

It’s interesting how socialists should always be managing their politics and criticism in reference to what Democratic leaders find acceptable because they might be deemed ungettable voters when 1/3+ of the country already consistently opt out of standard bourgeois electoral politics (voting D or R)

Keaton Siebenaler of Joplin killed a 2-year-old girl

Artist Tyree Guyton’s open-air installation, the Heidelberg Project, in Detroit’s McDougall Hunt neighborhood. So much to see!

NEW: Justice Dept demands Wayne County, Michigan turn over all ballots, ballot receipts & envelopes from 2024 election "This request is as absurd as it is baseless,” said Michigan Atty General Dana Nessel State says letter cites allegations that are “incorrect and not credible"

"Even if only 1% of Boston’s population is cycling because of bike lanes that represents thousands upon thousands of people not contributing to traffic." @carfreeboston.org delivers a must-read dismantling of recent car brained coverage by Boston media outlets.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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...

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. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

Amazing that in the national divorce the libs are getting the NFL, butter and cooking oil, being attracted to adult women, standup comedy, Bud Light, and now also Catholicism

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