benjamin conner

[benjamin conner @connerben]

The Guitar Gods - Jeff Beck: "Apache" / "Sleepwalk" https://t.co/hqaLFeNcqI via @YouTube

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

Epstein's sexual crimes are a matter of "national security"--? whaat? some curious business here.

[Ewan Morrison @MrEwanMorrison]

“A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.”

Kurt Vonnegut, born on this day in 1922. His greatest book is his 1969 anti-war novel Slaughterhouse-Five, which drew on his real-life experience surviving the Allied firebombing of Dresden as a prisoner of war.

[Gregory L Little, Ed.D. @DrGregLittle2]

The oldest sites in the Americas are likely underwater.

[benjamin conner @connerben]

July 15, 2026...

"And it makes me think that we have to be really thoughtful about what the other policy processes that are going to secure us because ultimately a lot of critical infrastructure today is secured by the threat of FBI prosecuting them. It's not secured by the fact that the infrastructure is secure. It's secured by the fact that they're afraid that, you know, DoD or DOJ or State Department is going to sanction another country."
-Jay Gazlay

The Future of AI-Driven Cyber Defense https://t.co/4mdXunqL72 via @YouTube

[benjamin conner @connerben]

'He goes on to argue that even Palantir's founders don't quite understand the Palantiri seeing stones in The Lord of the Rings . Tolkien's orbs, he points out, didn't actually give their holders honest insights. "The Palantiri distort the truth," he says. And those who look into them, he adds, "only see what they want to see."'
-Andy Greenberg, Forbes

[benjamin conner @connerben]

The need for ostentatious secrecy is of vital importance on the primitive level, for the shared secret serves as a cement binding the tribe together.
-Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1963)

[Francisco Ribeiro @fraveris]

Arthur Poulin, American
Big Sur, California
California poppies and blue lupines

[benjamin conner @connerben]

1977...

Ryo Fukui / My Foolish Heart https://t.co/D3xddFQoXX via @YouTube

[benjamin conner @connerben]

September 1, 2018...

"I want to write realistic spy fiction; I don't want to write shoot 'em up James Bond car chases which I don't think are realistic; I want to write about what's really happening, and increasingly that does involve technology: a quantum computer, if it could be built, is as revolutionary as the atom bomb"
-David Ignatius

David Ignatius on "The Quantum Spy" at the 2018 National Book Festival https://t.co/itmPAlXZKd via @YouTube

[benjamin conner @connerben]

@AnaKrivolapova Cormier's books are soo intense. This was the first one I read of his

[benjamin conner @connerben]

October 14, 2026...

"The memo’s sharpest warning is about mortgages. If cover is restricted or withdrawn at scale, the authors see an economic shock that could precede a financial crash, much as sub-prime lending did before 2008. In the US, mortgage contracts generally require hazard insurance, so losing coverage can put homeowners at risk of losing their homes."

Insurers pressed to “manage down” climate numbers, insiders warn, as US non-renewals top two million https://t.co/TkD0DtK96J

[Melody the designer 🪡🧵🌸 @Creativemelody1]

DUNE'S VERSION OF WORLD WAR II

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

"no one thought of this beforehand! the war was just to deflect the media from the Epstein files...."

[Edward Ongweso Jr @bigblackjacobin]

great piece but can someone leak the actual transcripts of Peter Thiel's lectures so we can read the source material too! https://t.co/waDnnfRp6T

[benjamin conner @connerben]

Alex Karp & Elon Musk were both guests on the same Charlie Rose show back in 2009. How about that?

August 11, 2009...

Alex Karp; Elon Musk https://t.co/GYH7gCLkzE via @CharlieRoseShow

[benjamin conner @connerben]

@notvproblematic You mean this guy?

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

“Overregulation” means people didn’t want him to poison the water

[Anthony Pesec @anthonypesec]

Elon Musk is Elizabeth Holmes with testosterone shots and hairplugs