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The concept is used by Palantir the corporation to refer to the fact that they are placing the world under malevolent surveillance. And they’re clearly proud of that malevolence. Yucky.

I use my great grandfather’s bottle opener. It’s magnetic and sticks to my fridge, and it’s over 100 years old. Works great!

But it does highlight that any random brute could put on a mask and do this with no authorization whatsoever. It’s a fundamental human-rights and rule-of-law breakdown to fail to present a warrant. I agree that a warrant doesn’t ethically make the arrests anything short of monstrous, though. That kind of legalist can suck eggs.

Thank goodness that last pic is edited, the bird didn’t fall did it? (not ironic, I got worried about the bird and want a happy ending here)

I’m deleting Palantir, I think. I want Peter Thiel and his toxic ideology gone, and deleting Palantir’s data and software would meaningfully set back the timeline of unlawful surveillance of the American public by our current administration.

Just putting a reasonably-up-to-date real-world value estimate next to any price in parentheses would be a big step forward though.

The mathmeticians already escaped to ArXiv. It’s open.

I want to see the full phylogenetic tree including the pepe and wojak genera

I’ve got the Pokemon Quartz pokedex. It’s pretty cursed.

The East was hit even harder in many ways:

“in 1331 an outbreak erupted in the Yuan Empire and may have hastened the end of Mongol rule over China. Three years later, the disease killed over 90 percent of the Hebei Province’s population with deaths totaling over 5 million people.” Source

Let’s see him get sworn in in jail and have to pardon himself.

Votes are literally a formal way to say what your priorities are

Theorycrafting this - Tundra would be a nice name. So would Mesa, Fen, and Delta.

I feel like ATC is one of those pattern-recognition constraint-satisfaction problem jobs where a (non-generative!) algorithm can probably do a pretty good job.

I like to listen to the Muckrake podcast for analysis of recent events.

“My ad preferences” are no ads

With the deprecation of UBlock Origin, it’s time.

This post has a very pleasant and prosocial energy. Thanks for your enthusiasm! I agree, the topiary is great!

Even though my vaxxes are up to date, I caught the new variant recently. It was pretty nasty - a lot like strep throat.