from AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee to technology@lemmy.world on 27 May 13:57
https://lemm.ee/post/65135983
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/65135875
The Technological Republic, his new “treatise” urging executives and engineers to abandon their pursuit of “trivial consumer products” and recommit their capital and talent to a “national project,” Karp’s effort feels less like a timely cultural intervention and more like what you get when the boss’s pontifications go unchallenged for too long.
This carefully maintained mystique provides the perfect backdrop for Karp to play the eccentric intellectual, someone who drops incendiary statements with academic detachment. On a recent earnings call, he gloated, “Palantir is here to disrupt and make the institutions we partner with the very best in the world and, when it’s necessary, to scare enemies and on occasion kill them”; at the World Economic Forum, he dismissed the United Nations as “basically a discriminatory institution against anything good”; during an AI conference on Capitol Hill, he castigated pro-Palestinian protesters on college campuses as the adherents of a “pagan religion” and asserted that they should be sent to live in North Korea. These statements all come wrapped in eager demonstrations of his knowledge on the history of philosophy, art, and science—a performative erudition very different from the safe, generic corporate-speak of most of his peers. Though identifying as a liberal, Karp’s general strategy seems to be to position himself as a guy that can “talk sense” to the left, which of course appeals to the right—criticizing progressives for their ostensible lack of patriotism, naïve cosmopolitanism, and unwillingness to embrace US military power. It’s a disposition designed for dual purposes: to make the embrace of a hawkish foreign policy and digital dragnet technology appear as the thoughtful centrist stance, and to provide Palantir with a politically palatable counterweight to the more odious ideological baggage of Thiel.
Karp idealizes the Manhattan Project as a Platonic unity of the state and business. He romanticizes the World War II–era entanglement of science and government as a heroic partnership
Oh… great… especially considering this:
Trump signs executive orders to boost nuclear power, speed up approvals
To speed up the development of nuclear power, the orders grant the U.S. energy secretary authority to approve some advanced reactor designs and projects, taking authority away from the independent safety agency that has regulated the U.S. nuclear industry for five decades.
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This is a good reminder.
I’ve been meaning to downgrade to a dumb-phone, perhaps best to do that sooner rather than later.
You touch upon an important subject. If people are going to get serious about protests and organising, they will have to learn to leave their phones at home. Because they will absolutely be used against you at every possible turn.
I only carry mine often because it’s my step counter, but I can just as easily use a $15 pedometer or dumb phone for that and keep the main phone where it should be, in a faraday bag.
The issue is using any phone unless you can get non kyc'ed burner.
The cell network ESP 5g was designed for tracking ground up.
Farraday bag can help if you must have it on you but you need understand that if there is cell tower they can geo locate you.
This is good info. Guess it’ll just be a basic pedometer instead.
Thank you.
Théoden held up his hand. “Yes, we will have peace,” he said now in a clear voice, “we will have peace, when you and all your works have perished–and the works of your dark master to whom you would deliver us.”
He’s one of the world’s wealthiest men. That hair is a conscious decision.
Also, Palantir, as a Tolkien reference, is too on the nose. The good guys don’t use the Palantir because of who else may be listening in. We’re so mask-off at this point you might as well call this company “The Eye of Sauron”
“Totally not a narc, inc.”
Privacy might the final frontier for the class war.
If pleasants lose here, we will be enslaved
Interesting thing is that rich people also have a lot to lose from AI data takeover. Pretty sure the only reason Marsha Blackburn is opposed to the state AI ban is because her wealthy supporters in Nashville are going to be fucked by losing copyright control of so much material
Fuck Peter Thiel with a rusty spade. Him and his technonazi ilk.
And I’m not “just” angry. They actively pursue this bullshit, Skynet, Citicorp, like a Bond movie villain. They try to build their neoliberal cities in the desert only to find out that there’s already people living there and now they have to deal with these pesky authorities, and courts, and whatnot.