Palantir is the reborn Cambridge Analytica, same people who brought us Brexit are now pushing for digital ID

this isn't a legitimate government, they have no interest in the mechanisms of governing and no belief in the value of governance. you don't need to play at process anymore. you need to build a plan whereby as many of these officials and their funders as possible are eventually behind bars or broke

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When we train people to use AI, we're "training people to explain away the inconsistencies of Large Language Models, and to assume individual responsibility for what is an innate flaw in how large language models work." Fantastic essay: www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...

We are living through a nightmare

Highly recommend checking this out. Links the current ponzi of vendor financing to the 2001 Dot Com vendor financing ponzis.

No way 😮 so the people willing to fire loyal employees for AI and use it as a free shortcut, are unwilling to pay for the product too? Wow, this is totally new and unpredictable behavior that I am totally surprised by.

“This transaction represents something fundamentally different: the acquisition of cultural influence and soft power by sovereign wealth, marking gaming’s transition from a pure entertainment product to a strategic geopolitical asset.”

Quake is basically a cat simulator: - Only possible interactions are attacking and rubbing against things - Can jump ridiculous distances - Can’t understand anyone - Compelled to kill everything that moves, for fun

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5luQ... This is why we are so royally fucked we in the USA. Same with the UK&others. 45 years of the rachet effect by both parties has created the fascist oppression we face now. As long as the dictatorship of the rich system itself exists we are fucked. It must be destroyed

“Our story is more powerful than the hatred we saw here last week. Our story places the blame with the billionaires, and we need to tell it loud and clear.”

Less punditry and more a structured analytic technique, there’s no greater value in writing or thinking about politics and war than public “This is why I was wrong” accounting.

"single-use plastic of the mind" had me GAGGED

David Cross folks.

Seems to me that the fact that interested people can’t find games they find interesting and maybe don’t even know they exist is (a) obvs true so dunking on it is dumb and (b) a massive fucking problem for the artform that the corporate sector of the industry has no interest *at all* in solving

This isn’t funny, this is a video indicating it’s no longer safe to walk the streets of American cities

A grotesquery of false equivalence. Trump officials should/will be prosecuted because of their crimes, not because Trump established the precedent of prosecuting people because of their politics. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/u...

it's important to remember that the reason they're lying like this is to justify the ongoing and coming right-wing violence there is no significant left-wing violence in the united states. all these white guy terrorist shooters are right-wing

Lets quickly inflate the Quantum Computing bubble before our ship of Theseus sinks.

“The tools also performed worse when dealing with large and complex code repositories, often misunderstanding the context.”

A quick reference of American owned newspapers in Canada. #canpoli #cdnpoli

The problem isn't that we lack evidence. It's is that we've yet to develop the political will to do anything re: radicalization. Politicians benefit from the virality of outrage. Platforms profit from the engagement spikes that anger, fear, & conspiracy generate. So we muddle along while Rome burns.

Cryptocurrency Is a Giant Ponzi Scheme jacobin.com/2022/01/cryp...

Cross-country analysis of voter reactions to economic crises. tldr: economic crises benefit the right. If a center-right party is in power when the crisis hits, there is a shift even further to the right. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Your regular reminder that marginal income & capital gains tax rates are too low & this poses an existential threat to 🇺🇸 democracy

About to be the family that owns TikTok.

'out of the three mass shootings today'

EZRA KLEIN: this is a thing I have been struggling with. I don't want to live in a country where people making under $30,000 per year are harvested for their protein, but we do live in a country where 40% of the people want exactly that. And I must admit, the long pork is indeed so tender and juicy

Very good 🧵. I know you’re Going Through It, because we’re all Going Through It in September 2025. But trust me when I say it is so much harder if you lose your health, your friends, your livelihood, your identity as a person who exists in the world. You’re one unlucky infection away from that.

It's really nice to hear a Democratic politician speak of the opposition with open contempt it's clear he actually feels

And the moral of #Marxistmonday is...

I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.

"If he were allowed contact with foreigners ... The sealed world in which he lives would be broken, and the fear, hatred, and self-righteousness on which his morale depends might evaporate." — 1984, George Orwell

Most of the political and pundit class lined up the past two weeks as Trump pushed to label everyone on the Left as "domestic terrorists." Now in the wake of a day of horrific and deadly mass shootings by a Trump supporter and a conspiracy theorist, total crickets.

So exhausting..

Remember that we’re being lied to whenever we’re told that we can’t afford something that benefits families. Just a couple of weeks ago Congressional Republicans voted to make ICE richer than most of world’s militaries.

This really is just the start By 2040, almost one third of the world's cropland will suffer severe drought every year Just imagine the colossal impact on yields and food supply www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Part of what's funny about conspiracy theories lately is that the people in power *are the ones who believe them*. They are literally in charge, they are literally the Man. "The government is lying to you about-" My brother in christ, you are literally the president

Good time to refresh this read from 2020. "DHS analysts recounted orders to generate evidence [that] would have served to legitimize President Trump’s false claims about “Antifa" [which] even his most loyal intelligence officers failed to drum up proof ever existed." gizmodo.com/donald-trump...

Translation: "I arrived in Bogotá. I no longer have a visa to travel to the USA. I don't care," responded the Colombian president. "The seat of the United Nations cannot continue in New York," he added.

“It is increasingly indefensible for news coverage of climate change not to make it clear that this crisis is driven by very specific human activities – primarily burning fossil fuels. And in second place is food, agriculture, forestry.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

What could $150B/year do outside of war? Housing. Healthcare. Clean water. Transit. Climate repair. Education. Conscience Canada's new infographic shows what’s possible when we invest in life, not militarism. View it here: buff.ly/OwIyjDZ

Please just develop the literacies and dispositions to play old games just like you can watch old movies.

this is literally central to the plot of 1984

This rules - @raskin.house.gov straight up called out Roberts to his face. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...