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Bill “Wild Man Bill” Wildman retweeted
Practically everything he found was price-gouging from contractors or outsourcing. The mindbending part of DOGE was that it was going to increase public spending by cutting public staff. Building state capacity saves money.
Bill “Wild Man Bill” Wildman retweeted
That thing that AI bros said would never happen, happened again.
Bill “Wild Man Bill” Wildman retweeted
La Sombrita
- $300k development cost
- little shade
- no weather protection
The Bus Bus Stop
- $25k development cost
- tons of shade
- snow, wind, rain protection
- 100% recycled material
Bill “Wild Man Bill” Wildman retweeted
Meanwhile the US has basically torpedoed all MRNA vaccine development and has drastically cut cancer research.
Getting hope from one story where it’s not even clear the dog benefited versus reality: maybe a whole generation of progress loss on that very front.
Bill “Wild Man Bill” Wildman retweeted
We were told NIH funding cuts were about eliminating DEI.
But the data now shows grants are down across nearly every field of medicine: cancer, diabetes, mental health, brain disorders.
With the greatest cuts hitting Alzheimer’s research, down more than 50%.
Bill “Wild Man Bill” Wildman retweeted
ça fait des années que c’est un secret de polichinelle dans le monde de la tech, ceux qui ont suivi mes threads sur le sujet savent que Palantir n’a jamais été un simple prestataire du gouvernement américain mais une infrastructure parallèle conçue dès le départ pour s’enraciner si profondément dans l’appareil de renseignement et de défense que la retirer reviendrait à essayer d’arracher le système nerveux d’un corps vivant
pour comprendre comment ça marche techniquement il faut saisir ce que Palantir vend réellement, Gotham & Foundry sont des plateformes d’intégration de données qui se branchent sur absolument toutes les sources d’infos d’une organisation, bases de données internes, flux de renseignement, communications, données satellites, transaactions financières, réseaux sociaux…tout rentre dans un seul graphe de connaissances ontologique, une fois que tu as connecté 5 ans de données d’une agence de renseignement ou d’un ministère de la défense dans l’architecture Palantir tu crées une dépendance technologique quasi irréversible parce que migrer ce graphe vers un autre système reviendrait à reconstruire la mémoire institutionnelle entière de l’organisation depuis 0
et Palantir c’est juste le cas le + visible car le même schéma se reproduit partout dans l’écosystème Deftech en ce moment, des boîte qui construisent des systèmes d’IA pour la surveillance, le ciblage & le renseignement prédictif placent discrètement d’anciens employés dans les agences agences de régulation et les départements de défense, la porte tournante entre la Silicon Valley et le Pentagone est littéralement devenu un tapis roulant & la frontière entre infrastructure tech privée et pouvoir étatique se dissout + vite que quiconque veut bien l’admettre
je suis convaincu que le basculement de pouvoir le plus important de cette décennie se fait dans le silence total, c’est le moment où les entreprises qui construisent les outils de gouvernance deviennent indiscernables de la gouvernance ellemême & quand le grand public comprendra ce qui s’est passé l’intégration sera trop profonde pour être inversée
I am an ex-Palantir executive, and it is factually correct that @PalantirTech intended to take over the US government while heavily funding the effort. Many of my ex-colleagues are now installed inside the USG apparatus. There is a reason the C-suite of $PLTR has me blocked. The enemy is within, and we are currently an occupied nation. 🇺🇸 We basically have a terrorist entity deeply embedding itself into the USG.
Bill “Wild Man Bill” Wildman retweeted
Meanwhile, we have the "American Future" PAC, funded by sportsbook DraftKings, telling us how Jaime bravely led the fight against ICE. DraftKings is spending $1.2 mil in Illinois in a pretty transparent bid to repeal gambling taxes: inthesetimes.com/article/deb…
Bill “Wild Man Bill” Wildman retweeted
Karp answers a protestor yelling, "you are killing my family!" by smirking and saying the primary cause of death for Palestinians is idiocy and terrorism. This is someone for whom Palestinians have been completely dehumanized.
Bill “Wild Man Bill” Wildman retweeted
A good thing to come out of this case would be if thousands of people read the books and zines that were called dangerous by the feds in the Prairieland case.
Don't you want to read the forbidden texts? Don't you want to know why the state is so scared of these words?
This quote from the zine If We Go We Go on Fire, presented as evidence in court last week, is especially apt after yesterday’s verdict.
ALT Through our ability to help one another articulate our suffering, we help one another to act. And in helping one another to act we help to demonstrate to those around us that something different, something other than what currently is, is possible. When we unabashedly grieve, fully, publicly, without reservation, we invite other to do the same. Every act of resistance sows the seeds of its own replication. When we resist as part of daily life, we sow the reproduction of a daily life of resistance.
Bill “Wild Man Bill” Wildman retweeted
There's this odd notion among some on the Left that mentioning the Iran War's blowback risk to the homeland is saber rattling for intensifying the war.
I think it's the opposite - the more the public learns about that risk, the more pressure there will be to end the war.
Bill “Wild Man Bill” Wildman retweeted
It can be and should be done in so many American cities
The city’s transition away from the car, though fantastically chaotic, has become a global role model, says Simon Kuper: ft.trib.al/PENku7n
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>That modest one-bedroom apartment you wanted to leave your family to help them get on the property ladder? The mayor will take half of it.
This is wrong. The bill contains a $1.75 million primary residence exemption and the 50% marginal rate doesn’t kick in until $30 million
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The Biden DOJ went after Live Nation with an antitrust case in conjunction with 40 states. Live Nation donated $500K to Trump’s inaugural fund and unsurprisingly, his DOJ lets them off with a small fine so they can continue screwing the public.
Kid Rock voted for this.
Bill “Wild Man Bill” Wildman retweeted
Here's Susan Collins expressing her support for a war that has killed hundreds, displaced millions, cost billions, and accomplished nothing, while sounding alarmingly open to a bloody ground invasion.
25 years since sending me and my friends to war, and she has learned nothing.
Maine @SenatorCollins expresses support today for Iran War: "I hope that this military operation will be both brief and successful....If there are troops on the ground, I believe that the administration has to come back and get an authorization for the use of military forces.”
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Is there an org pushing Dems on tax cuts? Hochul is trying to eliminate a tax on tips, Booker proposing no tax on first 72k, Van Hollen trying to eliminate taxes on first 46k, Porter eliminating state income tax on first 100k and now this. What is behind this insane trend?
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Good reminder that Israel could not, and cannot, do this on its own.
End the war now.
(Reuters) - Israel informed the U.S. this week that it is running critically low on ballistic missile interceptors as the conflict with Iran continues, Semafor reported on Saturday, citing U.S. officials familiar with the matter.
Reuters could not immediately verify the report.
The U.S. has been aware of Israel's low capacity for months, the report said, adding that it is not running low on interceptors of its own.