Espion de la couronne

[Espion de la couronne @SevaanUp]

@WARDOGS Will this decision be reversed once you fix your anti cheat? This makes the game unplayable for a foreigner living in china. I'm sure this is a hard decision to make based on the current dev road map but if this does not change when anti chest is better then I'd like a refund..

[Espion de la couronne @SevaanUp]

@BlackphilipR6 @Brammflakes I understand yes, one other aspect though is that this is very much a community and team based game. Some players have friends in different regions and region locking may affect many groups ability to play together. Not just china. But for ex EU with NA

[Espion de la couronne @SevaanUp]

@BlackphilipR6 @Brammflakes I perfectly understand that , my point is that I would like to continue having access to european servers to play with people from back home

[Espion de la couronne @SevaanUp]

@adj_cs @Brammflakes But some of us are in china and not chinese. I understand that represents are finite percentage and of course I'm speaking for my own benefit. But I already have very little opportunity to play with people from back home I would like to be able to enjoy this at least

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

My father's company was convicted on 17 counts of criminal tax fraud in 2022. Our own CFO pleaded guilty and testified against us. My brother and I were found personally liable for civil fraud in 2024, inflating asset values on loan applications for a decade. The court assessed us $4 million each. We paid $25 million to settle fraud claims from 3,700 students at a university we named after ourselves. Our own staff called it a "fraudulent scheme."

Our crypto token lost retail investors 90% of their money. We collected hundreds of millions in fees. Our DeFi company is currently being sued for fraud and extortion by its own largest investor, who alleges we secretly rewrote the rules to seize his tokens without a vote.

My brother flew to China this week beside $870 billion. His mining rigs come from there. Tariffs dropped 115 points the day he boarded Air Force One. We earn Hunter Biden's entire five-year scandal every thirty hours.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am the personal financial advisor to the 47th President of the United States.

I have made him $4.05 billion in one term.

Let me say that again. Four point zero five. Billion. One term. The presidency of the United States, upon proper management, outperforms every asset class in recorded financial history, including venture capital, petroleum futures, and the sovereign wealth fund in Abu Dhabi that manages $1.7 trillion and employs nine hundred analysts. I benchmarked it. We beat them with a staff of four and a leather binder.

I keep a binder in the residence. I call it The Number. The Number was $3.4 billion in August. The Number is $4.05 billion now. The Number has never gone down. I update it every Friday at 6 AM, before the briefing, like a surgeon checking vitals on a patient who can only get healthier. The cover is leather. The tabs are color-coded by sector: Crypto, Finance, Hospitality, Media, Other. "Other" includes a Boeing 747-8 valued at $400 million, gifted to him by the Emir of Qatar while he was sitting President. There is no asset class for that. I invented one. I call it EAGLE-7.

Crypto is seventy-five percent of the portfolio. $3.02 billion. I want you to sit with that figure. Three billion from digital tokens and stablecoins. From a man who in 2021 called Bitcoin "a scam against the dollar." His words.

The flagship holding is Trump Media's bitcoin stockpile. He holds 42% of the company. The company sold shares to institutional investors. Used their capital to purchase bitcoin. His personal stake from that maneuver alone: $1.15 billion. He drafts national cryptocurrency regulation from the Resolute Desk. Signs executive orders on digital asset policy. Handpicks the SEC chair who will enforce them. His bitcoin goes up when he does these things. The investors' stock goes down.

That's a conflict of interest.

I'm kidding. I've never used those words in that order. That's the investment thesis.

Then there is Alt5 Sigma. I need you to understand Alt5 Sigma. Alt5 Sigma was previously known as Appliance Recycling Centers of America. Founded in 1991. In Minnesota. It recycled dishwashers. Then it became a biotech. Then a digital payments company. Then Zach Witkoff, son of the President's special envoy, became chairman, and it became the primary vehicle for purchasing World Liberty Financial tokens. In 1991 it recycled dishwashers in Minnesota. In 2025 it funneled $562 million to the President's family through a Rwandan subsidiary convicted of money laundering. The CEO was removed. The CFO was fired. The auditor was replaced. Twice. The stock went from $8 to $2. We received $562 million from it. I put it in the binder.

I logged it in the binder on a Thursday. I used Garamond. It felt appropriate for a company whose journey from kitchen appliances to international money laundering spanned exactly thirty-four years.

The stablecoin is where the architecture gets beautiful. USD1. $136 million in projected interest over the remaining term. I will show you the math because the math is the point. $3 billion in circulation. Times 4% annual return. Times three years remaining in office. Times the family's 38% share. The UAE purchased $2 billion of USD1. Then Binance promoted it. Pumped circulation from $2 billion to $5 billion. Binance's founder had pleaded guilty to money laundering violations.

He received a presidential pardon in October.

I pardon you. You promote my stablecoin. My stablecoin generates $136 million. The pardon cost nothing. The coin cost nothing. The oath of office cost nothing. The entire apparatus of federal clemency was converted into a revenue instrument and nobody filed a complaint.

That's yield.

TRUMPcoin. $385 million. A memecoin with the President's face on it, launched days before inauguration. Every person who bought TRUMPcoin at launch and held it has lost 90 cents of every dollar. Every person who bought it made the President $385 million richer on the way in. That's the product. The product is not a coin. The product is belief. We are very long belief.

His sons received a 13% equity stake in American Bitcoin. A New Yorker investigation determined they contributed, and I quote, "nothing else of obvious value." I would characterize their contribution differently. They contributed the single most valuable commodity in American commerce, worth more per ounce than lithium, more per gram than fentanyl, more per syllable than any word in the English language. Proximity to the man who pardons people.

That's due diligence.

Hospitality. $271 million. Mar-a-Lago now generates $50 million a year. It generated $10 million when he took office. Initiation fee: $1 million. You are paying $1 million to eat dinner in the same room as the man who controls the Department of Justice. I set that price. It is undervalued.

Saudi Arabia. The Crown Prince visited the White House. Then Dar Al Arkan signed licensing deals estimated at $10 billion. Hotels in the Maldives. Golf clubs in Riyadh. A tower in Jeddah. He sat next to the man who ordered a journalist dismembered and said, quote, "He knew nothing about it." Then he signed the hotel deal. I have the term sheet. Our fee is 2-10% of revenue. We do not ask what happened to the journalist. That is not in our mandate. $106 million is in our mandate.

That's client retention.

Finance: $340 million, predominantly Persian Gulf sovereign wealth fund arrangements structured through intermediaries whose names I am not going to say in this format. Media: $116 million. Legal fee fundraising and branded merchandise: $128 million. The Qatari jet: $150 million. I have already mentioned the jet. I mention it again because a sitting foreign head of state gifted the sitting American President a $400 million flying palace with gold-plated fixtures and a master suite, and not a single member of Congress has asked a follow-up question. Not one. Not in committee. Not in writing. Not on camera. Five hundred and thirty-five legislators. Zero questions.

Now. I am required by my own conscience, which is vestigial at this point, to disclose downstream performance.

Every public-facing investment vehicle associated with this portfolio has collapsed for outside investors. I will read them.

TRUMPcoin. Down 90%.
American Bitcoin. Down 80%.
Trump NFTs. Down 80%.
Trump Media stock. Down 60% since inauguration.
Alt5 Sigma. Down 75%.

The family's positions were structured to extract value before these declines materialized. The retail investors' positions were structured to supply the value being extracted. There were approximately 600,000 retail wallets holding TRUMPcoin at peak. Retirees. Day traders. People who believed the branding. Their aggregate losses capitalized the portfolio. Their savings became his tab in the binder.

That's liquidity.

I want to address the competitive landscape. I am a financial professional. I benchmark everything.

In 2016, the President stood at a podium and called Hillary Clinton "the most corrupt enterprise in political history." He said she "turned the State Department into her personal hedge fund." The accusation that ended her career was $153 million in speaking fees. Combined. With her husband. Over fifteen years. Goldman Sachs paid her $225,000 per speech. He said the word "crooked" so many times it became her legal name.

$153 million. Fifteen years. Two people.

I made him $4.05 billion. In one term. By himself.

A 26-to-1 ratio. I wrote it on the whiteboard in the residence.

Then there was the Biden family. "The Biden Crime Family," he called them. He held rallies about it. He got impeached over investigating it. The Republican House spent two years and $3.5 million in taxpayer funds to uncover, per their own final report, approximately $24 million in Biden family income over five years. Hunter Biden's Burisma salary was $1 million a year, later reduced to $500,000. The Chinese payments were $664,000. The House Oversight Committee called it "influence peddling at the highest level."

$24 million. Five years. Ten family members.

My client made that in two days. I have the math. $4.05 billion divided by 365 days is $11.1 million per day. The entire Biden investigation, the impeachment, the hearings, the Fox News segments, the "CRIME FAMILY" hats, all of it, for an amount my client earns before his Wednesday morning briefing.

The ratio is 168 to 1. I put it on the whiteboard next to the Clinton number. The President saw it. He laughed. He did not ask me to take it down.

"Drain the swamp," he said in 2016. I drained it. Into the binder. The swamp is now a portfolio. It is the highest-performing portfolio in the history of public office, and the man who built it ran for President on the promise that he would stop people from doing exactly what I help him do every single day.

That's positioning.

When the New Yorker published the full accounting, $4.05 billion across five sectors, and asked the President whether he saw a conflict of interest between the office and the fortune, between the pardons and the profits, between setting crypto policy and holding $3 billion in crypto, he told the New York Times six words.

"I found out that nobody cared."

He was right. He has been right about that singular fact since the beginning. Nobody cared when he launched the coin. Nobody cared when he pardoned the convicted money launderer who pumped his stablecoin. Nobody cared when a dishwasher recycling outfit in Minnesota became a $562 million pipeline to his family through a subsidiary that had been convicted on three continents. Nobody cared when 600,000 wallets evaporated so the leather binder in the residence could gain another tab.

He found out nobody cared. Then he monetized the finding at a rate of $11.1 million per day, every day he has held office, including Sundays, including holidays, including the morning he sat next to the Crown Prince and said the murdered journalist had it coming.

$4.05 billion. One presidential term. Zero indictments. Zero congressional hearings. Zero audits. Zero consequences of any kind for any person at any level of the operation.

The chart goes up. It only counts his money.

There is another chart. It has 600,000 wallets on it. Retirement accounts. People who believed a dishwasher recycling company in Minnesota was a sound vehicle for their savings.

We do not publish that one. I filed it under EAGLE-7.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am the Director of Christian Donor Engagement for the State of Israel, at what we internally call the Strategic Partnerships Desk. 

My job is to maintain the revenue relationship between the State of Israel and approximately 10 million American evangelical Christians who believe that donating to us is a prerequisite for salvation. We classify their belief system as a "giving motivation vector." The theology department classifies it differently, but the theology department does not have a budget.

I am very good at my job. My annual performance review says "exceeds expectations in faith-sector revenue maintenance." Last year I received a commendation for "zero donor attrition during a period of elevated interfaith incidents." The incidents were attacks on Christians. The attrition was zero.

The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews has raised $3.6 billion since 1983. Ninety-two percent of those donors are Christians. In 2023 alone, the Fellowship brought in $271 million, more than AIPAC and the Anti-Defamation League combined. We did not ask for this money. We simply made ourselves available to receive it. Availability is a form of outreach.

I have a framed photo of Pastor John Hagee's $1.5 million check on the wall behind my desk. Next to it is the Ministry's "Zero Tolerance" poster about religious violence. They have coexisted for four years. Neither has been moved. We call this "values alignment." The values in question are denominated in dollars.

On April 28, a man wearing a kippah and tzitzit shoved a French nun from behind in the Old City. She hit her head on a stone block. He walked away. Then he came back and kicked her while she lay on the ground. The CCTV footage was excellent. Very clear. We released it ourselves. Transparency is part of the brand promise. We have a KPI for it. The target is "proactive disclosure within six hours." We hit it.

The Foreign Ministry released a statement within hours. "This shameful act stands in direct contradiction to the values of respect, coexistence, and religious freedom upon which Israel is founded." I helped draft that sentence. It is designed to express maximum concern while committing to zero structural change. We call this "empathy-forward crisis comms."

The donation processing system experienced zero interruption. Our CRM flagged zero churn risk. The Q2 pipeline held. I shared this with leadership as a resilience metric. We were praised for "donor relationship durability under external stress conditions." The stress condition was a nun being kicked on the ground.

I want to be clear: we take every incident seriously. We arrested the man. We ran the standard stakeholder comms playbook. We used the words "zero tolerance." We have used the words "zero tolerance" after every incident for three years running. The Rossing Center published a report documenting a "recent surge in overt animosity towards Christianity." We classified the report as "acknowledged — no action required." The surge continued. The revenue continued. We acknowledged both.

The spitting has a seasonality to it. Ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students subscribe to an interpretation of the Bible's injunction to "abhor" idol worshipers. They spit on Christian clergy. They spit on pilgrims. They spit near the entrance of the Saint James Monastery. They spit on processions carrying wooden crosses through the Old City. We categorize this as "individual expressions of religious sentiment." Not institutional. Not systemic. Recurring, yes. Predictable, yes. Documented on video repeatedly, yes. But not systemic.

Peaks around Easter. We built that into the forecasting model. We are proud of the model. It has a 92% predictive accuracy on incident timing. The internal memo calls it "seasonal brand friction." The recommended mitigation is a pre-Easter goodwill op. A joint tree-planting, a shared prayer breakfast. Something photogenic. Something the donors can screenshot and text their pastors. We budget $45,000 per goodwill op. The ROI on preventing a single donor inquiry about the spitting is roughly 600x.

In March, Israeli police prevented the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre for a private Mass on Palm Sunday. The Latin Patriarchate called it "the first time in centuries" this had occurred. We cited safety concerns during the Iran conflict. The restriction permitted small gatherings. A private Mass is a small gathering. We classified this as "routine access optimization." The Patriarch classified it as an act of desecration. Both assessments were filed. Ours was filed in the operational log. His was filed in the wastebasket.

The restriction was not about gathering size. But no one from our key donor segment filed a complaint. The evangelicals do not venerate the Latin Patriarch. They do not celebrate Palm Sunday. They are not Catholic. They are not Orthodox. They are not Armenian. They are a different kind of Christian. The kind that wires money. We have an internal taxonomy for this. "Revenue-adjacent denominations" are monitored closely. "Revenue-neutral denominations" are not. The Latin Patriarchate is revenue-neutral. The complaint was revenue-neutral. We treated it accordingly.

At the briefing, I pull up the segmentation slide.

In donor segmentation, we call them "Tier 1 — High-LTV Faith Partners." In the hallway, we call them the ATM.

In April, an Israeli soldier took a sledgehammer to a statue of Jesus Christ in a Maronite village in southern Lebanon. The video circled the globe. Netanyahu condemned it. The IDF condemned it. The soldiers received 30 days in military detention and removal from combat duty. Thirty days. We installed a replacement statue. We called it "restorative engagement." The original statue took centuries of devotion. The replacement took a procurement order. The communications team scheduled the replacement installation for maximum media coverage. They called the photo op "narrative recovery." The statue's face was slightly different from the original. Nobody in procurement noticed. Nobody in procurement was asked to notice.

Thirty days for sledgehammering the central figure of a religion whose American adherents have given us $3.6 billion. I flagged the sentencing duration in my quarterly risk summary. I used the phrase "disproportionate leniency relative to donor-base sensitivity." My supervisor crossed it out and wrote "resolved."

I ran the numbers. That works out to roughly $120 million per day of detention. I put this in a memo titled "Cost-Per-Incident Analysis: Lebanon Statue Event." Our risk team flagged it as a "potential donor sentiment event." I built a recovery forecast. Sentiment recovered in nine days. The sledgehammer footage is still circulating. The donations are circulating faster. My forecast was accurate to within two days. I was praised for the accuracy.

Christians United for Israel has 10 million members. More than the entire American Jewish population. We track this ratio. It is favorable. Their founder, John Hagee, has donated $130 million to Israeli and Jewish charities since the 1980s. One Georgia megachurch has contributed $28 million in five years, with a fresh $15 million pledge on the books. We classify this as "concentrated faith-sector penetration." After October 7, CUFI alone raised $3 million by urging its members to "support Israel right now as she fights the barbarians at her gates." I reviewed these numbers at the last all-hands. The team applauded. We called it "organic inbound." As if $130 million arrives by accident.

The barbarians at the gates of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre were Israeli police. We classify this under "access management," not "hostility." Different line item. Different KPI.

Up to half of Israel's tourists are now Christian. The Tourism Ministry actively markets "faith-based and evangelical packages." The Foreign Ministry paid $86,000 to host a dozen MAGA-aligned American influencers under 30 on a government-funded tour. We call this "earned media seeding." The influencers posted 340 pieces of content. We measured "positive sentiment penetration" at 97%. We did not measure how many of the same influencers saw the sledgehammer video. Different department. Different dashboard. The cost-per-acquisition on evangelical pilgrim conversion to recurring donor is the best in our portfolio. Every pilgrim who touches the Western Wall goes home and opens a wallet. The ROI on invested pilgrimage consistently outperforms.

Ron Dermer, former Israeli ambassador to the United States and close adviser to the Prime Minister, called evangelicals "the backbone of Israel's support in the United States." He said this publicly. We said it privately years earlier. We just used different language. "High-retention donor base with faith-driven loyalty metrics." Same observation, better packaging. We prefer packaging. The Ambassador's version made it sound like gratitude. Ours makes it sound like what it is: a dependency we manage.

An Israeli journalist at the Seventh Eye was less careful with his packaging. "Israeli propagandists see these evangelical folks as easy targets for pro-Israeli influence," he said, "and often view them as fools, because it seems that they give away their money with almost no strings attached." Our media monitoring team flagged the article. The recommended action was "no comment, no amplification, no correction." The reasoning: correcting it would confirm the observation. Ignoring it would let it decay. We chose decay. It is our most effective communications strategy.

I printed that quote. I keep it in my desk drawer. Occasionally I take it out and read it before a stakeholder engagement call. Not because I agree with his phrasing. "Easy targets" is pejorative. I prefer "theologically motivated stakeholders with asymmetric giving patterns." We have seven different terms for them, depending on the audience. In the quarterly deck, they appear under "revenue-positive faith communities." In the budget justification, they are "strategic allies." In the grant applications, they are "interfaith partners." In the hallway after the budget meeting, they are something else. I will not write it here. I have said it. Everyone has said it. We say it the way you say the name of someone who pays for dinner every time and never notices the bill.

Last July, Ambassador Huckabee wrote us a letter. Huckabee is an evangelical pastor. A Baptist minister. A man who has visited Israel roughly 100 times. A man who once laid a brick in a West Bank settlement as a symbol of support. He is, by every metric we track, a Tier 1 stakeholder. His lifetime contribution footprint exceeds $2 billion in mobilized giving. And he was angry. He said Christian organizations felt they were "being treated as adversaries." He said the Interior Ministry was blocking visa renewals for evangelical clergy. The Baptist Convention of Israel, the Christian Missionary Alliance, the Assemblies of God. All "under investigation." We call this "inbound compliance screening." The congregations being screened call it something else.

The visa questionnaire now asks evangelical clergy to disclose their "theological positions on eschatology." Fourteen pages. Enhanced vetting. We are running background checks on the people who fund us for the crime of believing we will eventually convert. They believe this because their scripture says so. They give us billions while believing this. We investigate them for believing it. We take the billions. The compliance team calls it "proactive risk mitigation on inbound faith actors." The finance team calls it "killing the golden goose, slowly, on purpose." I raised this concern at the interagency meeting. I said we were creating "friction in the donor pipeline." The Interior Ministry representative said the word "pipeline" was inappropriate for a conversation about people of faith. Then he approved the fourteen-page questionnaire.

Huckabee threatened to warn American Christians that "their generous donations to organizations in Israel are being met with hostility." He threatened to tell tourists to "reconsider travel until this situation is resolved." I ran the exposure model. If Huckabee followed through, the projected annual revenue loss was $340 million. I put that number in a memo. The memo was titled "Stakeholder Retention Risk: Huckabee Scenario." It was the most widely read document in the Ministry that week.

The Interior Minister responded that he was "particularly surprised by the manner in which your concerns were raised." We were not surprised by the hostility. We were surprised that anyone mentioned it out loud. The unwritten rule of the donor relationship is simple: you give, we take, nobody describes the arrangement accurately. Huckabee broke protocol. He put the transactional part in writing. We call this a "relationship management failure." The failure was not the hostility. The failure was the letter.

Here is where the arrangement reaches its final form.

The evangelical theology holds that supporting Israel accelerates the return of the Messiah, at which point all Jews who have not accepted Christ will perish. We are aware of this. It is in the briefing materials. We classify it under "donor end-state assumptions" and move on. The end-state assumption is our annihilation. We move on because the quarterly numbers are due. Pastor Hagee preaches that "when gentiles start doing practical things to bless the Jewish people, God goes way out of his way to bring special blessings to you." CUFI offers donors a commemorative Bible bookmark engraved with Genesis 12:3 for any donation amount.

$3.6 billion buys you a Bible bookmark and a policy of zero tolerance that tolerates everything.

We vandalize their graves. Thirty-plus tombstones toppled, crosses smashed. We categorized this as "isolated property incidents." We spit on their priests. "Individual expression." We block their patriarch from the church built over the tomb of their God. "Access management." We sledgehammer their savior's likeness on camera and give the soldier thirty days. "Conduct unbecoming." We interrogate their ministers about the end of the world as a condition of entry. "Enhanced vetting." Each category has its own line in the incident database. Each incident has its own euphemism. The database has never triggered an automatic review. It is not designed to.

And every quarter, the wire transfers post. The ACH clears. The pledge fulfillment rate holds at 94%. The board receives it under "faith community engagement outcomes." The metric does not decline. It has never declined. The database of euphemisms grows. The revenue grows faster.

I keep a spreadsheet. Internally we call it the "Incident-to-Revenue Lag Analysis." It tracks the time between each documented anti-Christian incident and the resumption of normal donation flows. The average lag is eleven days. After the nun, it was six. The trend line is improving. "Improving" means the lag is shrinking. The lag shrinking means the donors are forgiving faster. We call this "relationship resilience." It is the metric I am most proud of.

The donor engagement manual has a chapter called "Managing Optics Between Disbursement Cycles." I wrote it. Page 14 specifies the approved statement template. "Israel remains firmly committed to safeguarding freedom of religion and freedom of worship for all faiths." You have read this sentence. You have read it after every incident. It is the same sentence. We change the date and the location. Sometimes we change the word "shameful" to "deplorable." Sometimes we change it back. The sentiment team calls this "responsive messaging." I call it a mail merge.

Florida pastor Mario Bramnick stood in Jerusalem this March and told a Christian media conference: "I literally feel God is giving Israel a blank check." My team clipped that quote within minutes. It is now on the first slide of our Q3 fundraising deck, attributed as "unsolicited donor testimony."

He is correct. God is not the one cashing it.

Some of these Christians are shipping red heifers from Texas at a cost of $500,000 because they believe we need to sacrifice them to rebuild the Temple and trigger the apocalypse. We categorize this under "faith-motivated logistics partnerships." Some are funding the relocation of Jews from Ethiopia and Ukraine because they believe the "ingathering" is a prophetic precondition for the Second Coming. We call this "aliyah acceleration via external stakeholder investment." Some are paying for settlement construction in the West Bank because they read it in Isaiah. We file this under "community development co-funding." One televangelist's family solicits donations with the promise that "the Lord will restore your dollar x 100." Our analytics team calculated the actual return. It is not 100x. It is a Bible bookmark.

Their end-times theology requires our existence. Our budget requires their theology. The arrangement is symbiotic in the way a tapeworm is symbiotic. Nobody examines it too carefully. The quarterly review calls it a "mature strategic partnership." In stakeholder management, "mature" means nobody asks uncomfortable questions anymore. We have reached maturity.

The nun is recovering. The bruise on her forehead was photographed and posted on social media by the Israeli Police. Below the photograph, the police statement: "We treat any attack on members of the clergy with the utmost seriousness." I reviewed the statement before it went out. My only edit was to add "with the utmost." The original draft said "seriously." I felt "seriously" undersold our commitment. "The utmost" is a better word for the donors. It implies a ceiling. We have never been asked to define where the ceiling is.

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem called it "part of a troubling pattern of rising hostility toward the Christian community." They used the word "pattern." We do not use the word "pattern." We use "recurring isolated incidents." Patterns imply structure. Structure implies responsibility. "Recurring isolated incidents" implies weather. Nobody is responsible for weather.

The figure is $271 million a year. We do not call it a motive. We call it a "strategic imperative." Same thing. Better filing category.

That's interfaith dialogue.

[Mandy @rabbimandyx]

Hi @Grok, is Israel spraying chemical agents over green areas in Lebanon and Syria to eradicate plant life? Be concise.

[Hend Amry @LibyaLiberty]

Jewish troops will be looking for Muslims hidden in the attics of Christians. Let that sink in.

[GFed @GfedGoCrazy]

April fools doesn’t hit the same living in a misinformation epidemic

[The Notorious J.O.V. @whotfisjovana]

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[99% Johnny Graz @jvgraz]

Mostly because of you cunts.

[Espion de la couronne @SevaanUp]

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[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am the CEO of Palantir Technologies.

The company is worth a quarter of a trillion dollars. I did not misspeak. Two hundred and forty-nine billion. The stock is up 320% in the past 12 months. The product is surveillance. I do not use that word at conferences. At conferences, I say "data integration," "operational intelligence," or "decision advantage." These mean the same thing. Surveillance is the honest version. I save the honest version for rooms where honesty is a competitive advantage.

I gave a speech on March 3 at the Andreessen Horowitz American Dynamism Summit. "American Dynamism" is the fund's label for military technology. The name makes it sound like a fitness supplement. The fund's thesis is that defending the nation is a market opportunity. I agree with the thesis. The thesis made me a billionaire. Agreement is the product. I sell it at scale.

Here is what I said, verbatim, to a room of six hundred people whose combined net worth exceeds the GDP of Portugal:

"If Silicon Valley believes we are going to take away everyone's white-collar job and you're gonna screw the military — if you don't think that's gonna lead to nationalization of our technology, you're retarded."

I used that word. The word is on the clip. The clip has eleven million views. My communications team asked me not to repeat it, which is how I know they are still employed. They will not be reprimanded. The clip is performing well. The stock went up. The word cost me nothing. The nothing is the point.

Let me explain what I meant by nationalization.

I meant it.

I am telling the technology industry that if they refuse to cooperate with the United States military, the government will seize their technology. I am telling them this at a venture capital conference, on a stage designed to look like a living room. The living room had throw pillows. The throw pillows cost more than the median American's monthly rent. I sat on one. It was comfortable. Comfort is the setting in which I discuss compulsion.

The audience laughed. I want to be precise about that. They laughed. I was not joking. Nationalization is the seizure of private assets by the state. I am a private asset. I am telling an audience of billionaires that the state should seize technology from companies that do not cooperate with the military, and the billionaires are laughing, because they believe I am only talking about the other companies.

I am talking about the other companies.

Three weeks before my speech, the Pentagon designated Anthropic a "supply chain risk." Anthropic is an AI company. They had red lines. The red lines said: if our AI is used for lethal autonomous weapons, we stop. If capability outpaces safety, we stop. The Pentagon assessed the red lines as a threat to the supply chain. The company that wanted to verify the safety feature worked was designated the risk. The company that agreed the safety feature could be decorative got the contract.

The company that got the contract was OpenAI.

OpenAI signed a deal with the same Pentagon. The terms are not public. The timing was hours after Anthropic was blacklisted. The speed was noted. The speed was the point. The lesson was the speed: the market for military AI does not pause for ethics. It pauses for nothing. It accelerates through objections. I know this because I built the runway.

Two hundred thousand people joined a campaign called #QuitGPT. They signed a petition asking OpenAI to honor its original charter, the one that said the company existed to benefit humanity. The charter is on their website. The contract is also on their website. The charter and the Pentagon contract occupy the same domain. This is not a contradiction. This is a business model. The charter is the marketing. The contract is the product.

I run a surveillance company. We have contracts with the Department of Defense worth more than a billion dollars. We have contracts with ICE. We have contracts with intelligence agencies whose names I am not permitted to say at venture capital conferences, even ones with throw pillows. Our software has been used to track undocumented immigrants. Our software has been used for things I am not permitted to describe in this format. The revenue from the things I cannot describe exceeds the revenue from the things I can.

The ACLU called our ICE contracts a system for tracking and deporting families. They were correct. The contracts continued. The families continued to be tracked. The ACLU issued a statement. We issued a statement. The statements were different. The tracking was the same.

The company is named Palantir. The palantíri are the seeing stones from Tolkien. In the novels, Sauron captured one and used it to corrupt everyone who looked into the others. I named a surveillance company after a surveillance device from a novel about the corruption of power. I have a doctorate in social theory. I have read the books.

Here is the thing I want you to understand.

I am not threatening anyone. A threat implies uncertainty. There is no uncertainty. The technology industry will cooperate with the military. The companies that cooperate first will be the richest. The companies that cooperate last will be acquired by the companies that cooperated first. The companies that refuse will be designated supply chain risks, and their technology will be obtained through procurement channels that do not require consent. I am describing a process. The process has already started. Anthropic is proof. OpenAI is proof. I am not a warning. I am a narrator. The narration is the product.

The revenue was $3.12 billion last year. Up thirty-three percent. The analysts say we are overvalued. The analysts have said this for four consecutive years. Each year the stock doubles. Each year, the analysts adjust their models. The models were wrong four times. I was wrong zero times. The market rewards prediction. My prediction is that every AI company will work for the military within three years. The prediction is on the clip, next to the slur.

The audience gave me a standing ovation. The ovation lasted nine seconds. I timed it. I time everything. The water was San Pellegrino. The throw pillows were from Restoration Hardware. The future of American technology was decided between the sparkling water, the nine seconds of applause, and a word I am not supposed to repeat.

I am the CEO of Palantir Technologies. I am worth more than the combined annual budgets of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. I named my company after a corrupting surveillance device from a fantasy novel. I told six hundred billionaires that the government should nationalize their competitors. They applauded. I used a slur. Eleven million people watched. The stock is up.

The philosopher does not threaten. The philosopher describes.

What I described is already happening.

[🥂 @MishimaFudanshi]

I don't think there's any other society in the world where people are willing to do the government's work just out of pure cruelty

[Adam the pissed off veteran™️ @BritCajun80]

As someone who’s a US veteran but half British, I’ve got some shit to say.
During my 10 years in the Navy and Army I’ve spent a lot of time working close with NATO operatives from all over Europe.
The British soldiers used to always make fun of me because I had a US flag on my shoulder, always being told (you’re In the wrong uniform).

Until 2009 when I was in Afghanistan operating medevac flights from Bagram to Ramstein and we had about 60 UK soldiers being flown back, missing limbs, almost fatal wounds and even a few deaths.
That was when I realized that It didn’t matter of which flag was on our uniforms, we were all brothers and sisters fighting in the common enemy.

457 British soldiers lives were lost fighting a war we asked them to jump into and you know what, they did without fuckin hesitation!!

That’s what you call a true ally. A true hero. And real brother in arms.

So to that fat orange piece of shit who said that they were standing “a little back off the front lines” I want to remind all of his boot licking cult members that I have a friend who’s a former royal marine, that lost his left arm and right leg for being “a little back off the front lines” and even though he’s living his life with his family, he made the ultimate sacrifice. When I spoke to him today he wasn’t just angry, he felt betrayed. I reassured him that you don’t know how grateful we are. So to all who are laughing at this……….

Go FUCK YOURSELVES!!!

I couldn’t be more proud to serve my country during the hell that we went through in both Iraq and Afghanistan, but I couldn’t be more prouder than serving along side my NATO forces.

Because if they weren’t there, I would probably be dead today!!!

FUCK TRUMP ALL THE WAY TO HELL AND HIS BOOTLICKING ASSHOLE SIDEKICKS

MAY THEY ROT IN PISS!!!!!

[Numidian 🇩🇿 @EruiKarim]

Je crois que dans peu de temps les marocains vont nous annoncer être le peuple élu et que l’Afrique leur a été promis y’a 3000 ans