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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. Also, happy April Foolās in advance.)
Linking this article just for the Palantir CEO quote at the end https://www.wired.com/story/doge-hackathon-irs-data-palantir/
Holy smokes
there was a reddit ama with an ukrainian dude who was in charge of procurement of certain drones for ukrainian army. among these were uavs from anduril, and uaf decided not to buy them, chiefly because these drones donāt work and cost something like 20-50x more than equivalent ukrainian designs that do work. the reason why they donāt work is russian jamming, about which anduril people presumably were informed, yet somehow they still were complete assholes (to foreigners only) through entire process. which also means that ukrainian elint captured how russian jamming works, gave that data to anduril who proceeded to do fuck all with it, possibly leaking this intel in some signal chat
the reason why these were on the table to begin with is that (part of) american weapons aid is provided in form of money to be spent at american manufacturers, itās not pallets of cash like fox news would like you to believe. (private donations to places like united24 do work this way, but also for example denmark does provide money with no strings attached, at least not these). (yea iām effectiving my weaponized altruism, cranking up these numbers of dead russians per thousand euros). reasons for that are slight wage discrepancy between poltava and berkeley, compounded by scale (how many drones does anduril make per year, 20? ukrainians make low millions, probably with thousands to hundreds of thousands per type). most of costs in drone development is driven by software. doesnāt help that thielās people are swamped in vc money, therefore they donāt have to work efficiently, neither have their drones, or even they donāt need to work at all. ukrainians donāt have the luxury to blow millions into ai swarming that doesnāt work and instead put that effort into signal processing to avoid jamming, which does work, which they can check pretty quickly too.
this is the disruption theyāre cooking. invest in eastern europe or something
@sailor_sega_saturn getting this in now: āI never thought *my* hed would get cut off,ā sobs CEO of Cuttinā Off Heds, Inc.
Maximilien Robespierre
Iāve already depicted you as the virgin Robespierreā¦ and thatās the limit of my knowledge wrt figures in the french revolution.
@bitofhope Indeed.
@sailor_sega_saturn @BlueMonday1984 This has always been how he, and Palantir, think about the world. Itās a terrible company, full of terrible people, selling horrifying products to terrible countries and companies.
@sailor_sega_saturn @BlueMonday1984 Peter Thiel could be one of those who are going to lose their head in that revolutionā¦
@sailor_sega_saturn I hate how these death cult douchebros appropriate Tolkien to name their companies selling fascism in bulk to the government.
@sailor_sega_saturn @BlueMonday1984 At least one of the DOGE team has a recent criminal past, which should, in a sensible world, bar him from accessing such data: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen-on-musks-doge-team-graduated-from-the-com/
Of course itās the dweebiest looking one.
Thats the same place the 764 people came out of.
@sailor_sega_saturn @BlueMonday1984 He is a Nazi with lots of cash.
their thesis might be right, their guess as to the subjects of the sentence howeverā¦
@sailor_sega_saturn @BlueMonday1984
I hear that the rich and powerful are concerned about guillotine and that makes me feel happy. They should fear us.
@sailor_sega_saturn @BlueMonday1984 we should make sure he is at the head of the lineā¦
@hub @sailor_sega_saturn @BlueMonday1984 Is it too early for head jokes?
@sailor_sega_saturn Yeah, letās start right with those who say such things!
@BlueMonday1984
@sailor_sega_saturn @BlueMonday1984 heās not wrong about that
@sailor_sega_saturn @BlueMonday1984
Better them than us.
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