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Part 2 of SAURON, INCORPORATED: A Corporate History of Palantir is LIVE! We discuss Palantir CEO Alex Karp and his jaw-dropping personal reversal from critical theory leftist intellectual (really!) to billionaire CEO of a technofascist military-industrial startup. And Tai Chi, for some reason.

Shadow Ticket rocks, by the way.

Happy 4th my fellow Burgers:
w burger, w jazz, L racism, L heart disease rates, L highest greenhouse emitter, w sick rollercoaster parks, L fascist serial rapist reality tv president, w polio vaccine, L RFK jr banning vaccine research, w right to revolution, L corndogs, L CIA still exists, w Costco

Corvallis showed up for #NoKings

One of the very very best books I have read in a very very long time. Incredible historical analysis of violence, way better than people like Girard or even Benjamin.

Only 2000s kids will remember this

For it is life, dear brother, that imitateth Art....

Shout out to the political cartoonists - some of the only journalists/artists left who still have the courage to denounce Trump. This one from Custodio www.cartooningforpeace.org/en/dessinate...

The first six episodes of my American Terror series about the history of the neoconservatives is available for FREE on Patreon right now:
www.patreon.com/collection/1...

April brain update out now. Go watch Union if you haven't seen it already and please read Erich Fromm as soon as possible.

Now that Zizek has written this sentence the Hegelian-Marxist-Lacanian trialectic is complete, the real is the rational, and the rational has become real. Access to the real begins at $30/year but premium packages are also available if you want the truth bad enough.

it's called the Condor Legion. Goring admitted during his Nuremberg trial that he supported the intervention in order to test the Luftwaffe's capability.

"All definite knowledge—so I should contend—belongs to science; all dogma as to what surpasses definite knowledge belongs to theology. But between theology and science there is a No Man’s Land, exposed to attack from both sides; this No Man’s Land is philosophy."
-Russell, History of Western Phil.

"Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted...Mankind [has] divided itself between those who believe in human omnipotence...and those for whom powerlessness has become the major experience of their lives."
-H. Arendt, 1950