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This is what happens when neoliberal meritocratic technocracy hollows out democracy and leaves social media to fill the vacuum with outrage, distortion, and division.
July 23, 2025 at 7:41 AM
This is what happens when neoliberal meritocratic technocracy hollows out democracy and leaves social media to fill the vacuum with outrage, distortion, and division.
When you find out that you don't own the Means of Production...
this is boggling.
Not a single international cargo ship at the Port of Seattle. The port is dead. The last ship from China will dock at a West coast port on the 29th, and the last Chinese ship will dock on the East coast around May 10th. After that, there will be no more shipments arriving from China. We’re screwed.
April 27, 2025 at 9:15 AM
When you find out that you don't own the Means of Production...
We need to boot Palantir out of all UK systems.
You don’t have to be particularly sharp to decipher the code here.
But if you need someone to say it, this is a major technology company and a sizable defense and intelligence contractor publicly declaring, with only the thinnest patina of deniability, that its cause is white nationalism.
But if you need someone to say it, this is a major technology company and a sizable defense and intelligence contractor publicly declaring, with only the thinnest patina of deniability, that its cause is white nationalism.
![Palantir @PalantirTech • 26m
Dropping at select colleges today.
[Embedded image of a billboard ad:]
A moment of reckoning has
arrived for the West.
Our culture has fallen into shallow consumerism while abandoning national purpose. Too few in Silicon Valley have asked what ought to be built - and why.
We did.
We built Palantir to ensure America's future, not to tinker at the margins. On the factory floor, in the operating room, across the battlefield - we build to dominate.
Join us.
[signed by the Palantir founder]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:on5oeywiqx32fh2zau473wz6/bafkreibnnhk4kfvgsvqnrjitt27efuetj44x5opwvjayzgrr55eqa5eive@jpeg)
April 14, 2025 at 5:59 PM
We need to boot Palantir out of all UK systems.
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Trump: "We're gonna tariff our pharmaceuticals ... we're going to be announcing very shortly a major tariff on pharmaceuticals."
April 9, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Trump: "We're gonna tariff our pharmaceuticals ... we're going to be announcing very shortly a major tariff on pharmaceuticals."
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I am begging people to understand that the "solution" here - increasingly fragile tech stacks - introduces massive resiliency challenges.
We should be discussing single points of failure more than we do. And this stuff will get worse unless we start rejecting these ideas.
We should be discussing single points of failure more than we do. And this stuff will get worse unless we start rejecting these ideas.
April 8, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I am begging people to understand that the "solution" here - increasingly fragile tech stacks - introduces massive resiliency challenges.
We should be discussing single points of failure more than we do. And this stuff will get worse unless we start rejecting these ideas.
We should be discussing single points of failure more than we do. And this stuff will get worse unless we start rejecting these ideas.
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For some other time: issues where people, including me, have disagreed w Larry Summers.
For our exact moment in history: admiration and respect to him for making the points below so plainly and forcefully. Each person who speaks up makes a difference.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...
For our exact moment in history: admiration and respect to him for making the points below so plainly and forcefully. Each person who speaks up makes a difference.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...
April 3, 2025 at 7:28 PM
For some other time: issues where people, including me, have disagreed w Larry Summers.
For our exact moment in history: admiration and respect to him for making the points below so plainly and forcefully. Each person who speaks up makes a difference.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...
For our exact moment in history: admiration and respect to him for making the points below so plainly and forcefully. Each person who speaks up makes a difference.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...
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You think the arbitrary arrest of political dissenters cannot happen in the UK? It already does. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House
Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.
www.quaker.org.uk
March 29, 2025 at 7:39 AM
You think the arbitrary arrest of political dissenters cannot happen in the UK? It already does. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
I'm not quite sure how to couch this...
March 26, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I'm not quite sure how to couch this...
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ministers have hailed a “landmark” announcement of £2bn of government funding to build new social and affordable homes in the 2026-27 financial year
but the figure is lower than the average state spending for the sector over the past five years (£2.4bn)
www.ft.com/content/c4a3...
but the figure is lower than the average state spending for the sector over the past five years (£2.4bn)
www.ft.com/content/c4a3...
‘Boost’ of £2bn for affordable homes marks a reduction, industry says
Government settlement announced for 2026-27 is lower than the average for previous five years
www.ft.com
March 25, 2025 at 7:46 AM
ministers have hailed a “landmark” announcement of £2bn of government funding to build new social and affordable homes in the 2026-27 financial year
but the figure is lower than the average state spending for the sector over the past five years (£2.4bn)
www.ft.com/content/c4a3...
but the figure is lower than the average state spending for the sector over the past five years (£2.4bn)
www.ft.com/content/c4a3...
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Absolutely chilling stuff
French researcher, going to a conference in Houston, was forbidden entry to US; his work and personal electronics were both confiscated.
Why? Because a “random search” of his cell phone revealed a negative personal opinion on Trump and the Trump administration. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
Why? Because a “random search” of his cell phone revealed a negative personal opinion on Trump and the Trump administration. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
Etats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump »
Le ministre de la recherche a dit sa « préoccupation », mercredi, après cette décision des autorités américaines. Le chercheur du CNRS aurait subi un contrôle aléatoire à son arrivée, avant que son or...
www.lemonde.fr
March 19, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Absolutely chilling stuff