Palantirs were so easily corruptible.

How is it that Scifi/Fantasy gave us all these warnings and evil doers these days take their playbook from the villains and we ignorantly follow.

Yay let’s build Skynet while we’re at it.

Let’s make AI that uses humans as batteries!

Thiel is the villain!

The message isn’t “do the stuff /I/ think is right.” The message is do the stuff we know has evidence for being right but could be even better than we know so far.

I had global warming conversation with a MAGA and they brought up focusing on more obvious environmental health. I’d take that deal.

Not to brag. But I have a brooding robin on my porch and she is very quietly chilling with her eggs.

Disappeared? How about ABDUCTED. They didn’t magically go away. They were violently taken.

The emotional rollercoaster distracts us from human rights abuses.

Small businesses imploding.

Even countries that bend the knee, will be looking for a long term exit strategy.

It’ll be used to justify environmental destruction/abuse.

Only the unethical will survive.

Destroys middle class.

It was his plan all along. He didn’t back down. He sucked us into his dark vortex, where he controls the gas lights.

To go through it all again in a few months.

It is brilliant! When the world economy crashes, the rich (Elon’s kids) will consolidate the scraps and rebuild with absolute control.

It’s so sad. But some people made money because of 2008 crash and they want to do it again.

I worked for Target and saw how internally dedicated to DEI they are. I’m like they’re just hiding from all the backlash. Target is MAGAs biggest target when it comes to DEI; it has affected their profits. I saw the “DEI rollback” as performative. But now I see how important that performance is.

You fucked up

Available through Barnes and Noble. I think they have an audio version available.

This is why I’m not flying in the US anymore. Seriously thinking about traveling through Canada to get to the other coast.