'Members of the audience laughed when he mocked fresh graduates of Columbia University, which had some of the earliest encampment protests in the country. He said they’d have a hard time on the job market and described their views as a “pagan religion infecting our universities” and “an infection inside of our society”. (He’s made these comments before.)
“The peace activists are war activists,” Karp insisted. “We are the peace activists.”'
'As the moderator asked general questions about the panelists’ views on the future of war, Schmidt and Cohen answered cautiously. But Karp, who’s known as a provocateur, aggressively condoned violence, often peering into the audience with hungry eyes, palpably desperate for claps, boos or shock.'
The Far Right’s Campaign to Explode the Population >>
"The threat, we are told here this weekend, is existential, #biological, epoch-defining. Economies will fail, #civilizations will fall, and it will all happen because people aren’t having enough #babies.
“The entire global #financial system, the value of your money, and every #asset you might buy with money is defined by leverage, which means its value depends on growth...." >>
>> ...away from the corrupting influences of #public#school and #sex ed. (#Christian couples, he adds, have “the best, most orgasmic sex,” citing no research or surveys to support this.) To protect these households, we must abolish no-fault #divorce, declares Brit Benjamin...Until relatively recently, Benjamin was married to Patri Friedman — grandson of economist Milton Friedman — the founder of the #Seasteading Institute, a Peter #Thiel-backed effort to build new #libertarian enclaves at sea.>
Na Prost Mahlzeit.... Peter Thiel, der ultra-sympathische neoliberale Techbro und Trump-Fan, der mit Palantir eines der uebelsten Ueberwachungsstartups geschaffen hat, soll ein FBI-Informant sein.
This anarcho-cap billionaire #TechBro traitor, who funded the far-right & R senatorial candidates, assisted the govt. Did he get anything in exchange for his work?
"#Thiel began providing information as a CHS, to Buma, an FBI agent who specializes in investigating pol corruption & foreign-influence campaigns -Source said: any assistance he might have provided to the FBI should be understood as part of Thiel's gradual distancing of himself from #TFG..."
nobody will say what exactly that fascist fuck Thiel and his fauxialist biz partners did within Homeland Security & ICE during Trump's illegitimate 4 years.
why the fuck would anybody want that eugenics-loving goon anywhere near UK's NHS?
"Palantir’s Reputation Stalks Its Bid for the UK’s National Health Data | WIRED
Have we talked about this astroturfed Q-laced Hillbilly Elegy in song form?
The song, allegedly by an unknown Oliver Anthony, has very suspiciously rocketed in views, while being a convenient answer to Jason Aldean > Tyler Childers. It was also fluffed by Matt Walsh and Joe Rogan, if that tells you anything.
This article seems to think itsa record industry op, but I'm much more on the #Thiel train.
Da es kein aus dem Ausland eingekauftes Filmchen ist, hätte ich erwartet, dass ein Bezug zur EU oder D hergestellt wird. Wer weiß schon, dass Palantir dank Hessen-Innenminister Peter Beuth durch #HessenData Zugriff auf interne Polizeidatenbanken hat? https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies#Hessen-Data
With the Apollo app for Reddit shutting down soon, I’m going to need to start relying on Mastodon for all of my cute animal photo, gif, and story needs. #Apollo#Reddit#Animals#SmallTalk
"In God we trust"-- not a bad idea, however in this case, I trust in money, i.e., #stocks. Would you risk loosing 45% of your personal wealth within a short time-frame?
At what point while dreaming up utopic futures where robots perform all the menial hard labor for no money leaving humanity to pursue meaningful lives of leisure writing music and making art did my parents generation fuck up and instead create the opposite
...regimes are increasing in number and in surveillance capabilities. Just take a look at the freedom of the press index as a proxy or the use of #Thiel's military app #Palantir to spy on reporters critical of the government, e.g. in #LatinAmerica or #SouthEastAsia.
And you needn't even go that far. Just take the #US: right-wing ultra-#FreeSpeech advocate #Musk...
During an interview on ABC’s “This Week,” Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) compared the bill to “hostage negotiations.”
“The #Republicans are demanding #hostage negotiations where they will crash the full faith and credit of the United States,” #Coons added. “It would put our country in a slump and harm us globally.”
I think I have identified at least one, I think, whose actions regarding strategic M&A all seem to move in the direction of surveillance/authoritarianism, #PeterThiel.
"It’s increasingly looking like this may be one of the most hilariously inappropriate applications of AI that we’ve seen yet." I am riveted by the extensive documentation of how ChatGPT-powered Bing is now completely unhinged. @simon has chronicled it beautifully here: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/15/bing/
@ShadSterling
...surpass the capabilities of the insurgents in #IRobot within the next twelve months.
And in combination with with the command and control room structure product announced this week by #Thiel's #Palantir we can expect the first robots wars within this decade: