JUST IN: Ford reportedly fired an 11-year employee for "stealing" a $1.95 cookie โ later confirmed he had paid, offered his job back, & he refused to return.
They're actually using this photo to do โWhite People Bad.โ
An image of literally nothing happening.
An image of the safest train ride of a Black girl's life.
They're unironically trying to meme this as their own Iryna Zarutska.
There's no victimhood fantasy they won't feign.
400 White men can simply walk through the streets together and our enemies scream in terror. If only you knew how little effort and how small of a number it would actually take to get it all back.
250 years, and your empire has been reduced to a single island the size of Michigan, with a GDP barely higher than Mississippi, the poorest of our fifty states.
Enjoy your warm beer in that unairconditioned old pub.
Donโt talk too much shit online though, you might get arrested.
250 years ago our greatest grandfathers beat the dogshit out of the most powerful military on the planet over a 3% tax and now we canโt deport 100 million immigrants that hate us because women and gays think it would be mean
You should be fired for posts like this.
You might not like Whitney Webbโs work (i canโt imagine ๐คโฆ)
But to be the representative for the platform that claims to be the public square- the place for journalism- and then to post this in response to one of the most influential journalists of the decade is crazy work.
I mean we all know X isnโt actually about free speech or empowering regular people at all, but still, you shouldnโt make it so fucking obvious. Real poor form Nikita.
But thanks for the strong endorsement of Whitneyโs work. Weโll be sure to read it and spread it far and wide for you.
Wendell Berry sums up our current health predicament perfectly...
โPeople are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.โ
Palantir's CEO just exposed Sam Altman and Dario Amodei for robbing every Fortune 500 company.
Within two minutes, Alex Karp took the entire frontier AI industry apart on national television.
His exact words:
"Every single enterprise in this country, these people are LIVID. They are paying for tokens that create no value. These people are stealing the weights and alpha of my business."
He literally said the entire frontier AI business model is intellectual property extraction dressed up as a subscription.
Then he also destroyed the pricing model with a single question that Silicon Valley still refuses to answer:
"If it was so valuable, let's say I can make you $1 billion tomorrow. Wouldn't I say I'll make you $1 billion and I want 30 percent? Why are they charging for tokens if it's so valuable?"
That question breaks the industry.
If OpenAI and Anthropic's models truly delivered the productivity gains the labs claim, they would take equity or a share of the profit they generate. They would not sell access by the million tokens.
Token pricing is itself the CONFESSION that the product cannot produce reliable value at scale. If it did, they would price for the value. But they price for the compute because that is what they are actually selling.
Karp went even further...
He called the entire arrangement "a wealth tax that does not help the poor. It just punishes."
American businesses are transferring the alpha of their operations, meaning the workflows, the customer data, the strategy memos, the internal models that make them competitive, directly into the training pipelines of a handful of Silicon Valley labs. Once those labs retrain, the customer's own edge becomes the next enterprise product sold back to their competitors.
And the part the AI industry does not want anyone thinking about:
Every enterprise running its confidential documents, its customer conversations, and its financial models through a frontier model is potentially teaching that model HOW to replace them.
The vendor collects the token fee AND the compounding intelligence about that customer's business. That is the mechanism. And that is why Karp used the word "stealing."
He claims this is why every executive he meets is furious in private and silent in public. Nobody wants to be the CEO who called out the labs and then discovered their next competitor was built on their own leaked workflows.
The entire AI industry has been priced for perfection on one assumption:
That frontier labs produce durable, defensible value that justifies infinite compute spend.
But Karp just told us that the customers do not believe that assumption anymore. They believe they are being taxed without benefit, watched without consent, and copied without recourse.
The moment enterprises stop believing, the whole valuation stack shakes.
@ArmedNHangerous Bro im white lmao You think im gonna shoot a black man?! Take my shit, take my, phone, take my wallet, take my car... My ass is not sitting in front of a judge explaining that tyshawn was robbing me mean while the mom shows the only one time he went to church is a suit. Im good
We've been quiet recently because Mark Goodwin and I have been working to write the most comprehensive investigation into Polymarket's origins and ambitions to date.
We found that Polymarket's "official" origin story, that Shayne Coplan founded the company alone in 2020 and then built "the company in his bathroom", is a lie. Polymarket really started years earlier as another company called TokenBnk that was deeply tied to Israeli interests, specifically a crypto company founded by Benjamin Netanyahu's niece and nephew. Coplan has actively tried to obfuscate this company from his story and it's not the only thing either.
In Part 1 of this two-part series, we unravel the real history of Polymarket, directly connecting the company to Peter Thiel's efforts to resurrect controversial DARPA programs from its now defunct Information Awareness Office. Polymarket appears to have been chosen by Thiel and his associates to succeed in resurrecting DARPA's Policy Analysis Market where another Thiel-linked company, Augur, had previously failed.
Stay tuned for Part 2, where we explore the current influence of prediction markets and Polymarket, including how an insidious effort to have prediction markets replace representative democracy as a governance model is already being slowly implemented by the White House.
Read Part 1 here: https://t.co/xTmU5RzoZz