The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Meet Palantir's Bloodthirsty, Zionist, Neo-Con Head Of Defense Business. Mike Gallagher Will Use Palantir To Crack Down On Anti-War Activists While Taking America To War. The Dissident Note To Readers:  This is my third article looking into Palentir. I would highly recommend reading  part one  and  part two  before reading this one. One of the biggest controversies in American politics right now, outside of Donald Trump’s fight with Elon Musk, is a far more substantive issue: Trump tapping Palantir to create a massive surveillance state. For context, Palantir was based on an idea created by former Ronald Regan official John Poindexter after 9/11 called “Total Information Awareness”. The  idea behind  “total information awareness” was to create a massive database on all information gathered on every American citizen. While the idea was eventually outlawed, it was effectively privatized with Palantir. John Poindexter and Iraq War architect Richard...

  Your call is important to us... The effectual truth of AI Matthew B. Crawford Over the last several years, I realized I was driving around town a lot to take care of little tasks that, in principle, could be done on the telephone, or on the web portal of some business or government entity. The frustrations of entering into that Kafkaesque world of chatbots that are “here to help,” or phone menus that seem imported from some generic template, are such that it is worth taking an hour to drive to the CVS pharmacy, or the DMV, or the UPS store, or some medical practice, and collar a human being. Usually they are able to solve my problem in short order. And increasingly, it seems, they are able to do so because they have some secret trap door that allows them to bypass the public-facing systems that I have to interact with. In the year of our Lord 2025, getting things done often requires finding, not the recent hire who just reads through the prompts on his screen and is trapped in th...

 We need to wait and see where will the Herd waste its energy next... Maybe going after ICE... that can also be fun!