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Earlier today, I was asked to comment on the current state of disaster preparedness in the United States.
That was already a fraught question, even prior present chaos, but then I saw today's headlines. đź«
"Top Disaster Response Official Claims He Teleported to a Waffle House"
“Karp’s message is loud and clear: My technology will take political capital away from one of your greatest enemies—liberal women with degrees—and give one of your favorite demographics to patronize—working-class men—more political power to transfer to you.”
These fucking women-hating weirdo assholes.
I used to think my nemesis was the finance bro. My mistake. It's the Tech Bro. Specifically, this kind.
https://newrepublic.com/post/207693/palantir-ceo-karp-disrupting-democratic-power
What’s at stake is whether “protecting children” becomes a legal pretext for embedding government control over the internet to enforce specific moral and religious judgments—judgments that deny marginalized people access to speech, community, history, and truth—into law.
Daniel Swain
Mike Sheward
The Onion
No Gods No Masters
Steve Carter
Ashton
Street Art Utopia
Diligence Jones
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Tim Berners-Lee