Tracking Palantir
jmcrookston@mastodon.social
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Ghostty is leaving GitHub. I'm GitHub user 1299, joined Feb 2008.Ah, I thought you were saying the author had said where they were going, because that's what the earlier person asked. You were saying the broader question of what the author was doing was in the article.
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Ghostty is leaving GitHub. I'm GitHub user 1299, joined Feb 2008.Where? I didn't see it. The article says he will announce in the coming weeks where he is going.
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Hey Mastodon!@emilylowan thanks but nah
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Camera shows #SumatraOrangutan using a canopy bridge to cross a road in #IndonesiaThis reminds me of that old joke ... "why did the Sumatran orangutan cross the canopy bridge?"
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I wish we had an energy secretary who specialized in anything other than word salad.The ten* people who end up working in them will be thankful for their jobs.
Meanwhile all the electricity and water gets sucked out of the local environment.
*I'm joking of course.
It might be twenty.
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Orbán associates rush to move wealth out of Hungary after election defeat@eunews capture it all
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A lot of people angry and outraged about the jerks attending the White House Correspondents' Dinner. -
The man had not reached the metal detectors and had 2 more flights of stairs before he would reach the ballroom."man who murders fishermen for sport feigns outrage that a person carrying weapons came nowhere near him"
Maybe that
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The man had not reached the metal detectors and had 2 more flights of stairs before he would reach the ballroom.Reminder
- where are the Epstein files and what was Trump's role?
- how are the Strait of Hormuz and consequent inflation going, because of Trump's absolutely unnecessary and illegal war?
- of Trump's illegal ICE deportations?
- how much has he and his family stolen from hard-working United States citizens?
- of Trump's support for the murderous Russia regime or for far-right Netanyahu -
The man had not reached the metal detectors and had 2 more flights of stairs before he would reach the ballroom.Accurate news:
Convicted felon, sexual assaulter, 6 time bankrupt, and incompetent President, was in absolutely no danger at all while having dinner from a man carrying weapons but who was apprehended some distance outside the security cordon.
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Palantir thread 🧵He's not wrong that what's better than humanities degrees from elite schools, is to have Peter Thiel as a best bud.

Can't argue with the billions.
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The man had not reached the metal detectors and had 2 more flights of stairs before he would reach the ballroom.(info from Daniel Brunner, retired FBI special agent, interviewed on CBC News network. The "meh" is mine.)
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The man had not reached the metal detectors and had 2 more flights of stairs before he would reach the ballroom.The man had not reached the metal detectors and had 2 more flights of stairs before he would reach the ballroom.
So, meh.
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Every "founder mode" essay is a man realising he's difficult to work for and deciding to publish an 8,000 word manifesto about why that actually makes him a Very Special BoyI would like to see proof of these claims
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Palantir thread 🧵"Karp, who himself holds humanities degrees from the elite liberal arts institutions of Haverford College and Stanford Law, will presumably be alright. With a net worth of $15.5 billion — well within the top 0.1 percent of global wealth owners — the Palantir CEO has enough money and power to live like a feudal lord (and that’s before AI even takes over.)"
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Palantir thread 🧵Palantir's billionaire CEO has humanities degrees but says they're useless for you and that you:d better have other skills
_CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant_
https://futurism.com/future-society/palantir-ai-labor-hands"In the age of AI, Karp said at a forum, a strong formal education in any of the humanities will soon spell certain doom
“You went to an elite school, and you studied philosophy; hopefully you have some other skill,” adding that AI “will destroy humanities jobs.”..."
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Palantir thread 🧵Hiring people in the UK to establish themselves there.
_The Palantir pipeline: how Peter Thiel's surveillance firm hired more than 30 senior UK officials _
https://www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-revolving-doors-peter-thiel-transparency-corruption-riskCertainly a national security risk to the UK government.
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Palantir thread 🧵and again
"...and claimed that wealthy elites are unfairly persecuted."
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Palantir thread 🧵"...and claimed that wealthy elites are unfairly persecuted."