They’re all just idiots, amazing

I thought Ham Rove WAS a nazi

Private equity employs practices that should be illegal

Why are so many bent on creating hell on earth when we could be trying to create heaven

Honestly lots of different things. A good start would be https://gizmodo.com/larry-ellisons-oracle-started-as-a-cia-project-1636592238

This is about how Oracle was initially a CIA project headed by Ellison.

“Exposed to” is not “charged with”

The headline should be “Palantir AI bombed a school full of children with no oversight”

The CIA via its VC fund InQTel is the architect of today’s information landscape. All of this is very much on purpose.

There are 2 kinds of reaction to this- understanding that admitting a failure and owning up to it is a sign of character; and the other one, where any admission of failure is a sign of weakness and the leader is no longer to be trusted. I’m in the first camp but a lot of this country (US) is in the second

Eliminating online privacy has always been framed as “protecting children” and it’s always been 100% about surveillance

Yeah that story is 11 years old now (jeez I remember when it came out)

Lol

Is this a concession of defeat to spaceX

yikes

The jury trial is one of the cornerstones of civilization

Uh oh

The thing that I found concerning is that this is specifically about taking the choice to use lethal force out of the hands of a human

Iirc tar is a solid at room temp, so we have to heat it

Haha yeah totally /s

Tar and feathers are not expensive, and it’s a hilarious thing to do to someone