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@Villvilje @MteTone Jeg gikk og gikk med barna. Nå er de i kanonføde-alder og «dessverre» ypperlig egnet.

@MteTone Jeg heier veldig på obersten! 💪🙌❤️👏Jeg går så mye jeg klarer.

Obersten har helt rett her. dagbladet.no/nyheter/nordme…

Well put and well suited to encourage, but I’m more of a «Know ye not, that He you seek recks little who or what, of quantity and kind - Himself the fount of being universal need no count, of all the drops o’erflowing from his urn, in what degree they issue or return?» man myself.

This always hits like a truck. God bless Father Mike!

@LiseSorensen_ Enig med deg.

Det er fascinerende hvordan menn skal fortelle meg hva jeg selv synes er attraktivt i en mann. Innlegget mitt er det for øvrig mange kvinner som har likt. Det er helt vanlig å ønske en mann som vil beskytte deg. Det bryter kanskje med virkelighetsoppfatningen til mange menn på venstresiden, men slik er det faktisk. Jeg vil overhodet ikke ha en mann som foreslår dialog hvis jeg blir overfalt på gata. Jeg vil ha en som faktisk er villig til å risikere seg selv for å beskytte meg.

@goddek Good one.

@kadmitriev Stop mocking my army. I can take it no longer :)

EU army is urgently preparing for self-reliance. First step: woke dancing without the US. 🕺🪩👇

@JackPosobiec 🎯

People who never studied the Jacobins, Bolsheviks, CCP, and Khmer Rouge are having trouble understanding the events of the last several years

@RaminNasibov Of all the things that didnt happen, this didnt happen the most :)

I saw a guy at coffeeshop today. No iPhone. No laptop. No tablet. Just sitting there. Drinking his coffee.

@ZubyMusic @Miss_Snuffy 🎯

@Miss_Snuffy Poor parenting and overall guidance.

Why do far too many 18-30 year olds lack a traditional moral core? Schools, the online world and our general culture teach them the wrong values.

@TateTheTalisman @Rich_Cooper 55 here, all natural, weights, some running/skiing, eating as much/little as an office clerk should.

@Rich_Cooper 36 here I believe. All natural. Sunlight - weights and a careful diet. Will look like this again this summer.

I see a lot of young men today on TRT, tren etc and pushing it on their peers. You don't need it. I was in my mid 30s here, and still natty. Pick up heavy shit, eat well, sleep and have fun.

@Cobratate Good one! 👏🏻

I am faster than you because I operate on principles. While you waste time with useless details, I am already moving forward. I fail and try again. This is my data. Principle: TRY AS FAST AS POSSIBLE While you read about antioxidants and amino acids, I eat meat and vegetables. While you study glycemic index and insulin resistance, I eat once a day. While you read about eccentric and concentric exercises and count your little reps, I train every single day to failure. While you stare at Bitcoin charts like a slave, I buy the dip. Etc. When you operate on principles, you can smoke cigars, drink from plastic bottles, and eat McDonald’s without a single fuck given. You also save endless TIME. You don’t need to understand the engineering of a car to drive it fast. Life is exactly the same. Stop being a slave to information. Operate on basic principles with ruthless tenacity. This is how you win.

@dogeofficialceo Yess!! Being mainly an introvert, no likes nor views is perfect!

Fuck the algorithm. Post for the love of the game.

@RT_com I wrote an «article» about Zhirinovsky in the early 90s as I tested out a «newspaper» template in Word on my Intel 386 pc. Time flies.

President Putin attends exhibition dedicated to the 80th anniversary of late Russian statesman Vladimir Zhirinovsky Muammar Gaddafi’s coat is on display there It is said that during a meeting in the desert, Gaddafi gave Zhirinovsky this coat to keep him warm

@jk_rowling @clharrington024 My children first read the series in Norwegian, their fathers tongue, then in English for obvious reasons, then in Hungarian (their mothers tongue).

@clharrington024 That’s such a lovely message and reminds me of the night I went to say goodnight to my nine year old son, who I found with Half Blood Prince face down on his duvet, and who said to me solemnly, ‘why did you kill Dumbledore?’

My 6th grade daughter is reading Harry Potter, she finished the 6th book very late the other night so I was already asleep. I awoke to a post it on the kitchen counter: “Mom, Dumbledore died! I’m so sad. Love, Charlotte” This small note made my heart explode. Reading great books is magical and moving and heartbreaking. Thanks @jk_rowling for writing this world for kids to love and live in. Parents, too many kids today haven’t read all the Harry Potter books. Start reading this series with them. I promise it will be one of your most cherished memories.

@DominicLord19 @ArmstrongEcon I agree. Martin, you once wrote this was the «genious» of the Nazis in regard to private ownership (making it look as if that was something they believed in).

@ArmstrongEcon I would ‘t say it is communism. It is corporatism/nazism. It has come back in a diferent form. Embedded in the German mindset. Centralisation, command and control. When cornered, the animal reverts to type

The EU is hidden communism. This is the same thing with a different label, allowing private ownership but regulating and taxing everything while exercising complete and utter control over what you say, where you live, and what you eat.

@gothburz 👏🏻

I am the keynote at a conference called "Geopolitical Alpha: Navigating Event-Driven Opportunity." The slide behind me says "Case Study: Q1 Directional Conviction." 43 people in the room. Most of them already know what I am about to describe. None of them will use the word for it. I call it "the window." March 23. 6:49 AM. $580 million in oil futures. At 7:04, a social media post from the President mentioned "productive conversations" with Iran. Oil dropped 15%. 15 minutes between execution and catalyst. I advance the slide. The room is quiet. Not confused quiet. Admiring the quiet. April 7. 12:24 PM. 7,990 Brent crude contracts in a single minute. $950 million notional. Hours later, a ceasefire announcement. Oil dropped 12%. That is positioning. My compliance officer is named Rachel. She has a framed poster behind her desk that says "Culture of Integrity." She reviewed the March trade and confirmed execution preceded announcement. She checked a box. She reviewed the April trade and noted elevated volume. She checked a box. Rachel checks boxes. Rachel does not ask questions. Rachel's bonus is calculated from deal flow, not from the questions she doesn't ask. After the April 7 review she sent an email. Subject line: "No Further Questions at This Time." I printed it. It's next to my Bloomberg terminal. Visitors think it's a joke. That is positioning. I advance to the next slide. "Trade 3: Hormuz Resolution." April 18. 8:24 AM. 2 instruments. $325 million in S&P longs. $760 million in oil shorts. A billion-dollar directional bet that the Strait of Hormuz was about to reopen. At 8:45, Iran's foreign minister declared it "completely open." 21 minutes between my execution and an announcement that hadn't happened yet. At 8:24 someone in our energy desk Slack typed two words. "Hormuz — open." I saw it. The foreign minister said it 21 minutes later. I did not ask who typed it. I did not ask how they knew. I set a custom Bloomberg alert for the confirmation and walked to the coffee machine. 14 steps from my desk. I counted once. That is risk management. Combined return on Trade 3: $120 million. I spent 40 minutes formatting the P&L slide. The green was too bright. I changed it to forest. Presentation matters. The CFTC is requesting Tag 50 data. 2 congressional letters. Senator Warren. Representative Torres. Chairman Selig testified on April 16 that the agency is "reviewing anomalous trading patterns." That testimony was 9 days ago. I am presenting these trades at a conference today. Rachel is in the back row. She is checking her phone. On the other side of my April 18 trade, 3 pension funds in Ohio and Michigan held $340 million in oil longs through the announcement. Teachers. Firefighters. Municipal workers. Their managers didn't have a Slack channel with 2 words in it 21 minutes early. They were on the other side of the window. I don't have a slide for them. The conference does not have a category for the other side. Someone during Q&A asks how we identify catalysts. I say we monitor known event risk. He writes it down. In this room, "known event risk" means a thing that hasn't been announced yet but that we somehow know. He will use this phrase in his own deck next quarter. He will not ask what it means either. $580 million. $950 million. $1.085 billion. 3 trades. 26 days. Each window opened at exactly the right moment. Each time, I was already inside. That is positioning. I am the window. The room applauds.

@MarcusAure221 @mtmalinen Perhaps the West is actually better off not being kept idling / waiting for «a last hope» to lead the way. If things ever get going, leaders will emerge.

@mtmalinen The west will not take its decline easy... we are headed for major war(s)

Yes. We're cooked. Properly.

@Awwwchallllll In new books I underline and revisit now and then. In old books, I struggle but make an effort to memorize.

People who read a lot of books how do you actually retain what you read? I try reading but after 2–3 books, I forget most of it… even powerful lines fade. Like, how do you keep those insights with you and actually apply them later?

@gothburz The door I walked through took me into a room where they were looking for an intel-analyst in a weekend warrior «SF» unit. I felt my audience go cold as I dropped «ontology» on them :)

@gjesp_no That's a perfect real-world illustration of the piece's thesis. The word "ontology" got you rejected from one room and made another man $6.8 billion. Same word. Different rooms.

I helped write the manifesto. I also read the dissertation. That's the part nobody mentions. Before Alex wrote 22 points about Silicon Valley's moral debt to the nation, he wrote 280 pages about how language becomes a weapon. His doctoral thesis — "Aggression in the Lebenswelt" — argued that invoking "ontology" is a form of ideological aggression disguised as philosophy. He said it at the Frankfurt School. Under Habermas. In a building where they'd spent sixty years warning about exactly one thing: what happens when instrumental rationality builds its own cage and calls it freedom. He understood. Then he named the product. Palantir's core product is called the Ontology. He named it himself. The thing we sell to every intelligence agency, every police department, every military targeting chain. The Ontology. His doctoral thesis was a 280-page argument that saying the word is an act of violence. That's not a contradiction. That's the manifesto. The real one. Everything else is typography. The published manifesto has 22 points. I helped write them. Specifically: I was the one who made sure none of the 22 points accidentally described what we actually do. It's harder than it sounds. You have to read every sentence twice. Once for what it says. Once for what Alex's old professors would recognize. "Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country." That's Point 1. The moral debt is $2.87 billion annually. We invoiced it. Fifty-five percent from government contracts. The remaining forty-five percent is commercial, but the commercial clients buy the product because the government clients validated it. The debt is circular. The Frankfurt School had a term for this. Alex knows the term. He cited it on page 114. "We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps." Point 2. Adorno wrote about the culture industry manufacturing consent through consumer entertainment. Alex read it. Underlined it. Then he ran the numbers. Defense contracts have a 94% renewal rate. DoorDash has a 34% driver retention rate. We chose the rebellion that compounds. Adorno would have called this instrumental rationality. We call it our business model. "Free email is not enough." Point 3. What IS enough is a $145 million sole-source ICE contract. The system is called ELITE. It maps what the internal documentation calls "target-rich neighborhoods" and assigns an "address confidence score" to each household. Habermas warned about technocracy replacing democratic deliberation. We replaced it with a gradient. Dark blue to light blue. The gradient doesn't mean anything. People trust gradients. "Hard power will be built on software." Point 4. We are the software. Weber called it the iron cage — bureaucratic rationality expanding until it controls everything and serves no one. Alex wrote about Weber's iron cage on page 87 of his dissertation. Then we built the cage. Then we wrote the code that runs inside it. Then we wrote the book explaining why the cage is necessary. We printed the book on cream stock, 70-pound weight. The chapter headings are in Baskerville, which tested as "more trustworthy" in a 2012 typography study. We take trust seriously. Weber would have called this legitimation. We call it branding. "The question is not whether AI weapons will be built." Point 5. The question is who invoices for them. We answered that question in 2003. With CIA seed money. From In-Q-Tel. Which we also don't mention in the manifesto. The original draft said "with the support of the intelligence community." We changed it to "with the support of those who understood the stakes." Same meaning. Better font weight. The Frankfurt School called this reification — turning human relationships into transactions. We call it a sole-source contract. There were 22 points. There could have been 23. Point 23 would have been: "The CEO who wrote this manifesto made $6.8 billion in the same year. His stock rose 200% after the last election. He told CNBC that bad times are incredibly good for us. Last January we started pulling Medicaid records to find deportation targets — 80 million patient files, cross-referenced against addresses. The system recommended which families to visit first." We cut Point 23 for length. His co-founder wrote "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible." That's Peter. Peter isn't in the manifesto. We had a style guide. The style guide was 14 pages long. Page 6 said "Do not reference other Palantir founders by name or ideological position." We called this the Thiel Provision. Someone in Legal laughed when we named it. She's gone now. One of the thirteen who left. They published an open letter. Called it "The Scouring of the Shire." Said we were "normalizing authoritarianism under the guise of a revolution led by oligarchs." Beautiful prose. Almost as good as ours. They signed their names, which was brave, given the NDAs. They left. Our stock went up. It always goes up. That's not a political position. That's a market signal. We don't take political positions. We take contracts. We named the company after Tolkien's surveillance stones. The palantiri. The seeing stones that Sauron corrupted. The ones Tolkien wrote as a warning about total knowledge. We read the warning. Nick read it twice. Then we filed a patent. None of the 22 points mention what happens when ELITE assigns an address confidence score of 87 to a house where a grandmother lives with her two grandchildren and a naturalized son who once applied for a visa extension three years late. But the binding is beautiful. The prose is elegant. The chapter headings are in Baskerville, which tests as trustworthy. Alex read Adorno on the iron cage. Then he built the cage. Then he wrote the book about the cage being necessary. Then the book hit number one. Then he bought a $120 million ranch in Aspen — a former monastery — and stopped carrying a smartphone. The CEO of a surveillance company doesn't carry a phone. You understand. Privacy is a feature. It's just not in our product line. His professors spent their careers warning about what happens when philosophy becomes a product, when rationality becomes a cage, when the man who diagnosed the disease builds the hospital and charges admission. He understood all of it. That's what makes it work. And not a single point accidentally describes what we do. That was my job. That's moral architecture. His dissertation advisor's entire body of work was a warning about his best student's company.

@KarolineGosling Its nasty, I find.

Do any men even find women twerking attractive? To me it looks like she is having some form of allergic reaction or BBL malfunction. With things like this, I wonder if men are even attracted to things like this or if they were just convinced they are by social media and hype?