Alex Bell

Senior Recruiter @ Larian Studios

[InAllKindsOfWeather.com @AllKindsWeather]

Did Alexi Lalas just say “wanker” on national TV 😂😂😂

[Alex Bell @_Alex__Bell]

@Cromwelp jfc 😂😂

[Alex Bell @_Alex__Bell]

@Sneezers449603 @geoffkeighley So they can hire people who want to work on it

[Hats and Kits @Caplover83]

@EflSimpsons

[Pitchfork @pitchfork]

This album is a real piece of shit

https://t.co/xbOFdTF24n

[Frank @FrankFWJH]

He’s 300x the man Farage ever be lol

[Alex Bell @_Alex__Bell]

Not me heading back to the Petard shop looking for a hoisting again

[Ryanair @Ryanair]

Brits in Tenerife be like

[Alex Bell @_Alex__Bell]

@Cromwelp Takes the cake tbh

[lukas 🌼 @invincinibility]

say some gangster is dissin' your fly girl
you just give em one of these

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

Piers Morgan asked Russell Brand which passages were relevant to him when he brought a Bible into court.

[carla★ @inmys1eep]

showing this at coachella is so important

[Leeds United @LUFC]

🤩 WE'RE GOING TO WEMBLEY!!

[marty, @martycomma]

"Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest"

[Alex Bell @_Alex__Bell]

Still one of my absolute heroes/a feat I would like to achieve one year

[Alex Bell @_Alex__Bell]

@Travel_Up hello, receiving this on the Middle-Eastern routes disruption form.

Our scheduled flight (now cancelled by Qatar Airways) was 16th March.

1. Now Qatar has cancelled, will refunds be automatic?

2. If not, and we need to use the form - any eta on fix? Thank you🙏

[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.

[MSZ @ThisIsMS2]

Svolazi in the dressing room trying to cheer everyone up after the loss to Wolves

[Joakim Achrén @joakim_a]

Just read @ballmatthew new The State of Video Gaming in 2026 report. Top ten takeaways for me:

1. Game industry revenue hit $195.6 billion in 2025. That's a new all-time high. Operating profits have declined since 2019.

2. Almost all of the growth went to three parties: Chinese publishers, platform holders like Apple, Google, and Sony, and Roblox. Everyone else is fighting over a market that barely moved.

3. There isn't one video gaming industry. There are many. A Western AAA studio, a Roblox developer, and a Chinese mobile publisher are in completely different businesses, with different growth rates and different competitors.

4. Roblox had 150 million daily users in Q3 2025. Its quarterly engagement is now equal to Steam, PlayStation, and Fortnite combined. It monetizes at $0.05 per hour. PlayStation monetizes at $0.44. Roblox is winning on volume.

5. Mobile game advertising generated $67 billion in gross revenue in 2025. Most industry analysis doesn't count it. Including ads, the non-China market grew $35 billion since 2021. Excluding ads, it grew $6.8 billion. The two numbers describe completely different industries.

6. US gamer participation is down 2.5 to 4 percentage points since the pandemic. Most of the eight major Western markets are flat or declining in players and spend.

7. The Rest of World is growing at 11.7% annually. The Mature Market 8 is growing at 1.4%. Capturing that gap requires designing for low-end devices, building economics around $5 to $50 per year per player, and making games for local cultures, not Western ones.

8. Of $136 billion in non-China content sales, platform stores took $33.7 billion in fees. That's iOS, Android, console, and Steam combined. D2C channels bypass most of those fees. Roblox has saved $422 million in platform fees since Q1 2022 by routing spend through its own channels.

9. Online sports betting hit $17 billion in US gross revenue in 2025. That's 35x what it was in 2019. iGaming globally generated $54 billion. TikTok averages 102 million daily hours in the US alone. These aren't passive entertainment alternatives. They're interactive, real-time, and built for engagement in ways most games aren't.

10. In 2025, 35.5% of all game content investment was outsourced. That's a record. And 74% of that growth is upstream: art, engineering, game design, not QA or localization. Hollow Knight: Silksong has 3 internal credits and 94 external ones. That's the new normal.

Early access version: https://t.co/gLaPEqg5zS

[alistair green @mralistairgreen]

Silly I know but one likes to imagine her majesty up in hea’n looking a little cross because she spent 12m to settle a charge against her paedo son only to see him arrested for misconduct in public office. Im sure Paddington will cheer her up with a yummy marmalade sandwich 💞🇬🇧