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Anton Hur
@AntonHur
Translator, author. TOWARD ETERNITY (@HarperViaBooks, 2024). Rep: @thesafae @rcwlitagency. He/they
Katılım Haziran 2010
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I cannot express the extent to which this company needs to be aggressively dismantled, its assets seized and its data storage destroyed completely. It is a deeply evil organisation run by deeply evil people.
Yet they are still deepening their access in the NHS! Get them 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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Zack Polanski, "It's not enough to just be hopeful... It's about having hope and a plan"
"I also disagree that left wing policies are popular"
"Didn't you - Jeremy Corbyn - get 3,000,000 more votes than Keir Starmer got?"
Jeremy Corbyn, "The highest vote this century for Labour, it was 2017"
Zack Polanski, "That's 3,000,000 more people who wanted to move wealth away from private capital, to nationalise our water services, nationalise our public services, and that's very popular in this country"
"Broadband is a good example of how the media jumped on saying it's not possible, not pragmatic. And that's their number one weapon, to always make people think that better isn't possible, and that change isn't possible"
"And we know why. The multimillionaires and billionaires who pump money into wars, or oil and gas, or into arms companies, or into gambling companies"
"Once they've bought up the assets, they buy the media, then they buy our democracy"
"I guess we're here tonight to say that they're taken our power, they've taken our democracy, they're taken our media"
"But collectively, we are going to take it back"
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Horrific, systemic abuse that has, for years now, been extensively documented by Palestinians and condemned by human rights groups but completely ignored by western media outlets.
Euro-Med Monitor@EuroMedHR
In a new extensive report, Euro-Med Monitor documented dozens of testimonies from Palestinians in #Gaza who reported systematic sexual violence, including rape, in Israeli prisons and detention centres. 🧵Thread featuring some of the testimonies
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Factory owners capitulate!
Victory through workers’ unity!
If those who do not work must starve
Then capitalists must starve!
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“What else is as pretty as a rabbit in Tonghwahyeon?”
“Mama’s hands.”
— Park Seolyeon
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Join us for a poignant conversation with Korean science fiction star Kim Cho-yeop as she discusses her English debut, "If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light".
Kim is joined by her English translator @AntonHur in this episode of Author Talks.
RSVP: koreasociety.org/arts-culture/a…
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Last year I warned #Hyundai and other corporations that Israel uses their machinery in apparent unlawful conduct, and that failure to disengage from Israel’s genocidal occupation could entail criminal liability for both corporations and their executives.
docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/59/23
Younis Tirawi | يونس@ytirawi
In recent days, amid the escalation between Lebanon and Israel, the IDF have stepped up a campaign of large-scale demolitions targeting homes of displaced families in Gaza, w focus in the south This campaign included destruction of several schools, among them a UN school (today)
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The whole of Korean Twitter seems to be lashing at Israel today, backing their President
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The Israeli military is razing the last remaining schools in Gaza to the ground.
Younis Tirawi | يونس@ytirawi
In recent days, amid the escalation between Lebanon and Israel, the IDF have stepped up a campaign of large-scale demolitions targeting homes of displaced families in Gaza, w focus in the south This campaign included destruction of several schools, among them a UN school (today)
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The High Court ruled the ban unlawful.
Therefore, you are intentionally wrongly arresting hundreds of protestors for holding signs to protect a foreign genocidal regime.
Metropolitan Police@metpoliceuk
🧵 Updates on the Defend our Juries activity will be shared on this thread. Palestine Action remains a proscribed organisation and any expression of support for it constitutes a criminal offence. news.met.police.uk/pressreleases/…
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the washington post op-ed page gets more horrifying every week
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The greed is insane. Apple is worth nearly $4 trillion but can't tolerate a single store with unionized workers because they're so against workers getting what they deserve.
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS
Apple is closing down the first of its US stores to unionize. Apple says that because of the collective bargaining agreement with these workers, they "couldn’t offer to transfer them to nearby locations.” The union is outraged, and exploring options to hold Apple accountable.
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다음 주인 4월 15일
2024년 가자지구의 폭격된 차에 홀로 갇혀 죽어가야 했던 6살 소녀 힌드 라잡의 목소리가 담긴 영화 <힌드의 목소리>가 국내 개봉합니다.
작년 베니스 국제영화제에서 22분간 기립 박수를 받고 은사자상도 수상했습니다.
해와에서도 개봉이 어려웠던 영화니 많은 관심 부탁드립니다
이재명@Jaemyung_Lee
이게 사실인지, 사실이라면 어떤 조치가 있었는지 알아봐야겠습니다. 우리가 문제삼는 위안부 강제, 유태인 학살이나 전시 살해는 다를 바가 없습니다.
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South Korea’s President @Jaemyung_Lee has been a great force to Korean-Vietnamese post-war reconciliation. Recently, he acknowledged South Korea’s role in the Vietnam War with honesty and empathy for its victims. In these times, my respect for him can only grow.
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@IsraelinKorea 너희는 전부 테러리스트고, 특히 유대인도 아닌 주제에 찬동하는 개신교 한국인 부역자들은 일제 반민족행위자 이상의 인간 쓰레기들이다.
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