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I like the Tim Burton Batman the most because he'll just give you the full-on Joker standing in an apartment in the afternoon
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MissGooch
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@OsoBlanc0 what if u could sustain the feeling of a beloved dying pet across multiple issues?
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I read WE3 exactly one time and it was too tough a hang — I was emotionally spent
Adam Talking Superman@TalkingSuperman
Peak character design.
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I just finished reading palantir’s manifesto & I need you to understand what you’re actually looking at because this is the MOST important document the tech world has produced this year
most people came away thinking «wow what a thoughtful essay about patriotism and technology »…I came away thinking this is the most elegant justification for corporate capture of the state apparatus ever written & I want to walk you through why
krp opens with «silicon valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible » & frames the entire document as a call to civic duty, but read between the lines and what he’s actually saying is that the engineering elite should be embedded inside the defense and intelligence apparatus of the nation, he’s describing exactly what palantir has already done and dressing it up as patriotism
«the question is not whether AI weapons will be built, it is who will build them and for what purpose »sounds like a warning but it’s actually a sales pitch, he’s telling every gov on earth that the choice is binary either you buy from us or your adversaries will build it without you, this is the oldest arms dealer rhetoric in history wrapped in SV vocabulary
« hard power in this century will be built on software »is the key sentence of the entire manifesto because this is where karp reveals the real thesis, he’s saying whoever controls the software layer of national defense controls the nation itself & if you’ve been following my threads you know that palantir’s gotham and foundry platforms are already plugged into the intelligence feeds the satellite data, financial transactions & communications of dozens of govts worldwide through a single ontological knowledge graph that creates a technological dependency so deep that migrating away would mean rebuilding the entire institutional memory of the organization from scratch
this is vendor lockin at the scale of nation states and I’m personally convinced it was designed this way from the beginning
«we should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act » is karp defending palantir’s expansion into every domain the gov used to handle itself, policing immigration, military targeting intelligence analysis public health, everywhere the state retreats palantir advances and what was once a government function becomes a private service that the government can no longer perform without plantir’s permission
and here’s what I think makes it even more concerning, these systems are increasingly autonomous meaning the AI layer is making targeting recommendations threat assessments & resource allocation decisions that humans inside gov are rubber stamping without fully understanding the underlying logic
a bureaucrat inside the pentagon / DGSI sees a recommendation from the system & approves it because the system has been right 97% of the time and questioning it would require technical expertise that no one in the room has, this is algorithmic governance wearing the mask of human decision making
«the atomic age is ending, a new era of deterrence built on ai is set to begin »is the MOST chilling sentence in the document because karp is explicitly saying that ai based deterrence will replace nuclear deterrence as the organizing principle of global power, and whoever builds that ai deterrence layer owns the 21st century the same way whoever built the bomb owned the 20th & he’s telling you plainly that palantir intends to be that builder
«national service should be a universal duty » & « we should only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk »sounds noble until you realize that he is proposing a system where citizens serve the state & the state is operationally dependent on palantir, the public bears the risk and palantir captures the value, soldiers fight wars planned by algorithms they can’t audit built by a company they can’t vote out
Palantir@PalantirTech
Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software. 5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed. 6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost. 7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way. 8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive. 9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret. 10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed. 11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice. 12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin. 13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet. 14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war. 15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia. 16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn. 17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives. 18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within. 19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all. 20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim. 21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what? Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska techrepublicbook.com
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@0ddette its based on this article
cosmopolitan.com/politics/a2848…
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I’m actually excited to find out what the true meme origin is.
DiscussingFilm@DiscussingFilm
Jessica Chastain says Apple will finally release her new political thriller series ‘THE SAVANT’ this year. • Originally was going to premiere in September 2025 but was postponed after the assassination of Charlie Kirk. • The series follows an undercover investigator who infiltrates hate groups online to detect & prevent domestic extremists before they act. (Source variety.com/2026/tv/column…)
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@slurcat @Howlingmutant0 there's a rich vein of maritime imagery to mine
u wouldn't expect it but this shanty drops the hard R in less than 40 seconds
youtu.be/s8cEqtl6G9c?si…
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@Howlingmutant0 You go back and ferry that boat right now. I am emotionally attached to that narrative.
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Guys I left that job a few months ago, I hate to dispel the martyr narrative here
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@OsoBlanc0 this man is giving heavy thoughts to CRACKER in 2026
this band is one notch below Candlebox in the grunge rock one hit wonders hierarchy
SPONGE outranks them
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If you think paying quadruple for diet soda is a marker of status, that's a good sign that you've overestimated your station in life 🤣
Seasonal Clickfarm Worker@ClickingSeason
No, it’s good. Keeps out the riff raff. The mere existence of Diet Coke in a building makes the vibe of the place more trashy. Making Pepsi drinkers feel unwelcome is the point.
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Hollywood movies in the 70s were noticeably lacking in style. Critics in those days liked movies that looked awful. Because Serious Films should look miserable and ugly.
Style started to reappear in Hollywood movies with AMERICAN GIGOLO and CAT PEOPLE. And THE HUNGER.
DepressedBergman@DannyDrinksWine
Tony Scott on how much Hollywood hated "The Hunger" (1983) & how British filmmakers in Hollywood were criticised at that time: "Interviewer: A lot of people have satirized the homoerotic elements in 'Top Gun' (1986). Was any of that apparent while you were filming? Scott: No it wasn’t. Not at all. But with 'Top Gun', I had just done 'The Hunger' (1983), and Hollywood’s always trying to find the new kid on the block, and nobody’s seen a foot of film, and I was actually developing 'Man on Fire' (2004) 25 years ago, and they saw a cut of 'The Hunger', and all of a sudden my parking spot at Warner Brothers was painted out! It took me four more years to get another movie, which was 'Top Gun'. Don Simpson saw [The Hunger] channel-surfing at 3 a.m. – I think he was high. And he actually saw a Saab commercial that I shot which is a jet racing a car, then he saw The Hunger, and him and Jerry [Bruckheimer] called me. Hollywood just hated that movie. They called it, “Esoteric, artsy-fartsy,” and we’re going to do a sequel to 'The Hunger'. I’m not directing it, but we’re doing it. Interviewer: Do you have nostalgia for the way films were being made and the way the industry worked in the 80s? Scott: The 80s was a whole era. We were criticized, we being the Brits coming over, because we were out of advertising-- Alan parker, Hugh Hudson, Adrian Lyne, my brother-- we were criticized about style over content. Jerry Bruckheimer was very bored of the way American movies were very traditional and classically done. Jerry was always looking for difference. That's why I did six movies with Jerry. He always applauded the way I wanted to approach things. That period in the 80s was a period when I was constantly being criticized, and my press was horrible. I never read any press after The Hunger. Me, my brother, not Alan Parker, Alan Parker skated through. Adrian Lyne got slammed like I did." (Tony Scott's interview with Katey Rich, Cinemablend 2009)
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Whenever JBP shuffles off the mortal coil they are going to have to study his body like the Elephant Man, he’s always getting struck by some esoteric disease or injuring himself with medications
Mikhaila Peterson@MikhailaFuller
We figured out that dad has a psych med induced neurological injury, and has been suffering from akathisia. It’s been 6 years since any psych medications. Last summer his symptoms started, after a flare up likely induced by mold (CIRS) and stress. It was complicated by pneumonia and associated sepsis a month later. It’s been horrible. Neurological injuries from psych meds are far more common than people know. I made this video to explain what they are and what akathisia is because they’re not talked about enough, they’re misdiagnosed, nearly impossible to treat, and hidden by the pharmaceutical industry. I don’t plan on making another update about my dad, it stresses my family out, and myself, and there’s nothing more to say about it until things get better. I will be jumping up and down about psych med injury awareness from now on as it’s impacted my health as well, and is devastating. Prayers are appreciated still.
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I can watch movies that have subversive libtard messages if they're entertaining, because, as a white man, I have a baseline knowledge of the past. I don't need some online faggot telling me The Way Things Actually Are.
MEJE ✪@callmeMEJE
Ridley Scott spent $110 million on this. A Muslim general is the hero. The Christians are the villains. Cambridge called it 'Osama bin Laden's version of history.' Edward Norton wore a mask the whole movie. Refused a credit. Still the best performance. Kingdom of Heaven. 2005.
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@OsoBlanc0 covering their tracks for being vague covid skeptics during their last album
fortunately for them they aren't the first results when u search covid strokes
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@Lostflocker You’re not crazy. It was some dumbass French ass shit
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This was a bad movie, actually. I can’t believe it got better reviews than Alien 3. It’s a shame because a lot of the actors in it are some of my favorites but yeah it’s bad. And incredibly inferior to its predecessor.
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@OsoBlanc0 this book is the source of so much anti-Doors sentiment that persists to this day
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@Howlingmutant0 if twitter existed in 1999 the columbine guys would have made stuff like this instead of
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Wow he l put a NIN song to it this might be the gayest thing I’ve ever seen lmao it’s like something an angsty fifteen year old would do
Jake Chinatown@JakedChinatown
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to be clear: two gay men applied to adopt a baby boy and then raped him to death within 3 months of having him in their home
Blackpool Gazette@The_Gazette
South Shore Academy teacher Jamie Varley accused of murdering baby he was trying to adopt to go trial today trib.al/DeXh1LQ
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@breakingyoun @c1nnamonbunny trappy and her endless supply of knowledge beyond her years
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@c1nnamonbunny I can tell you're talking about an internet personality who ruined the character for you (although I have no idea what it is.) But the way you worded it makes it sound like you're talking about an ex, like when girls tweet "thinking about him"
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I know I’m permanently messed up because I can’t look at the one on the top right without thinking of him
𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑜𝑛 ⏾@gh0stfacegf
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@Howlingmutant0 don't miss Jake's new comedy special:
All Premise/NO Punchline
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That interesting, how about you draw those interesting conclusions maybe accompanied by a joke instead of just recognizing their theoretical existence Jake?
Jake Flores 🇵🇸🇲🇽@feraljokes
You could probably draw some interesting conclusions by interrogating why these nazis fixate on certain types of people and why they seem to worship others
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@breakingyoun "shoved into lockers/give a swirlie" are the most prominent current versions that are beyond the saturation point
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In the 00s it was words like "speargun" and "awesome" (a lot of this came from HIMYM, see attached), in the 10s it was words like "jorts" which seemed to make up 75% of Rob Delaney's horseshit. Clearly the words get less funny through the years x.com/hottrashbabe/s…
#1 girl kisser@hottrashbabe
insane how much of the early 2010s "le epic cultured gentleman" trend singlehandedly came from this
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One of my least favorite comedy things is the "funny word" which goes through phases. Like in the 00s the word "crossbow" was often a source of humor as if the word & concept is funny all on its own- now "nu-metal" is really funny to 20s dirtbag/weird twitter stragglers.
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@OsoBlanc0 the phasing in and out of RW Takesellers™ is so smooth u never notice they're gone: Chuck Johnson, Baked Alaska, Owen Benjamin, this guy etc
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