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[Ricky Gervais @rickygervais]

My new series ALLEY CATS comes to Netflix on 7 August. I've never been so excited/worried about any show since The Office. There's nothing like it. And as with all my work, some people will hate it & some will fucking love it. But how can I make sure everyone watches it? Help!

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

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[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

Elon absolutely hates being called Sissy SpaceX™ so double check if you're still following me, and retweet for visibility

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

The game is rigged, fuck Elon and this platform. Nobody sees what I tweet, certainly not 460,000 people

[Deli Chen @victor207755822]

DeepSeek-V3: Dec 26, 2024
DeepSeek-V4: Apr 24, 2026
484 days later, we humbly share our labor of love.
As always, we stay true to long-termism and open source for all.
AGI belongs to everyone. ❤️🌍
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[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

If governments were actually doing their job, this Palantir document 👇 wouldn't be a manifesto they proudly boast about, but a clear sign of the urgent need to purge its software from the public institutions it has infiltrated.

What are they saying, essentially?

They basically promote a clash of civilization worldview in which there exists a "they" - the supposed enemies of Western civilization, whose cultures the document codes as inferior - and a "we" who must stop indulging in decadent restraint and invest massively in AI weapons and defense software (which conveniently makes Palantir's product catalog the civilizational cure).

Look at point 4 for instance. They write that "the limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software."

It all rests on a pretty massive assumption: that coexistence is impossible. Why would "free and democratic societies" (by which they obviously mean Western-style liberal-democracies) need to "prevail"? Why can't they simply coexist with other civilizations or political systems out there?

Nowhere in the document do they defend this assumption: it's simply asserted as the starting condition of the argument.

But it's the entire ballgame: if civilizations and political systems can coexist - as they largely have, imperfectly but recognizably, throughout history - then the entire case they make in the document evaporates.

In fact one can argue that, studying history, the big problem was not that civilizations couldn't coexist: it was that, from time to time, one of them decided that others were inferior, threatening, or standing in the way of its rightful expansion - and acted accordingly.

So many catastrophes and so much human suffering in history trace back not to the fact of plural civilizations, but to one of them deciding it could no longer tolerate the others.

The problem, in other words, has almost always been exactly the worldview Palantir is now selling. Their manifesto isn't warning against the cause of some of the worst periods in history: it's arguing for reviving them!

Or take point 15: they explicitly call for the re-armament of Germany and Japan, and an end to "Japanese pacifism". Basically undoing one of the foundational settlements of the post-WW2 order.

I mean, think about the insanity of this for a second: a private company - unelected, answerable only to its shareholders - is casually proposing to overturn the security architecture of two continents. A settlement that took a world war, and tens of millions of dead to establish.

Why do they propose this? There is obviously a commercial motivation: a remilitarized Germany and Japan are massive new defense-software markets.

But the more troubling answer is that point 15 fits into the ideological project the rest of the manifesto lays out - a civilizational contest requires a consolidated Western bloc, and pacifist members are a liability in such a contest.

So taking a step back we now have what's the most influential defense-software company in the world, with its code deeply embedded in all the machinery of Western states - intelligence agencies, militaries, police forces, welfare systems, border controls - openly outing itself as an ideological project.

They're effectively saying "our tools aren't meant to serve your foreign policy. They're meant to enforce ours."

Because, worryingly, that's what they CAN do. Palantir software is all about basically telling states: "these are your threats, these are the people and groups to watch, these are the patterns that matter, these are the targets that warrant action."

For instance the DGSI - the French intelligence services - use Palantir (see: https://t.co/3YJk88k4QY): do you honestly think the software is warning them about, say, the NSA tapping the phones of French government officials? About the weaponization of US extraterritorial law against French companies? Did it warn them about the AUKUS ambush that cost France a sixty-billion-euro submarine contract? Obviously not.

And that's exactly what the manifesto is saying. They've positioned themselves as advocates of Western civilizational unity, so their software can't undermine it. The ideological position and the product roadmap have to align, or the whole project falls apart.

This makes their software not only deeply dangerous for the world as a whole but also, almost by definition, for any country using it. When it comes to your security as a state, it is primordial you base yourself on truth as opposed to ideology. The entire point of an intelligence agency is to tell its government what is true, not what your so-called "allies'" defense contractors would like you to see.

A state that outsources its threat assessment to a company with an explicit ideological agenda is not gathering intelligence, it is essentially subscribing to propaganda.

The conclusion couldn't be more obvious. Every government still running Palantir software in its intelligence, security, or public-service infrastructure needs to start ripping it out, now! Lest they want to be embarked on the delusional and deeply destructive clash-of-civilizations crusade Palantir has now openly committed itself to.

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

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[Tehran Tadhg @TadhgHickey]

Some inside Iran don't see or believe the level of global support they have for their war against the Epstein Axis. Retweet if you stand with Iran & the Resistance 💛

[Richard Osman @richardosman]

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[Elaine Walsh @lengar]

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[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

During Shakespeare's time there were racist anti-immigration riots in London.

He wrote about it and of course it is excellent.

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

"Please get the truth out about our son," Alex Pretti's parents have said. Let's do that. Let's always do that.

[Charlie Hebdo @Charlie_Hebdo_]

ICE

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

Only one more week of January 2026 to go. (Keep being a hero!)

• Lewis Carroll •

[Cormac's Coast @cormac_mcginley]

Sound on 🔊

"Ag Súitú" - an Irish word for the sound made as the sea draws pebbles and stones up and down the shore.
County Clare, Ireland.

"Aillte" Episodes 1 and 2 of documentary now available for streaming on TG4.

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[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

WATCH: Native Americans are protesting after ICE detained 4 Oglala Sioux tribal members in Minneapolis.

Three are still unaccounted for.

Let that sink in.

The original Americans are getting treated like “illegal aliens” by masked federal agents.

[Ulverscroft Ltd @UlverscroftLtd]

We’re ending our Staff Picks series for the year with Jennifer’s choice: The Land of Lost Things by John Connolly.

A brilliant pick if you enjoy magical realism, emotional storytelling and beautifully crafted worlds.

Available to listen for free with @uLibraryDigital

[Sentinel Global Solutions @SentinelGlobal_]

The Green Line LUAS has now been suspended for almost two full days due to a “power outage.” No explanation. No clarity. No accountability.

From a risk-management perspective, here’s why a situation like this can persist in a national capital:

1. Incompetence: A critical asset shouldn’t be disabled for almost 48 hours because of a single-point failure.

2. Inadequate contingency planning: If the backup plan is “shut the whole thing down,” then there is no backup plan.

3. No genuine redundancy: Two main tram arteries and no engineered resilience? Unacceptable in 2025.

4. Operational complacency: When a system runs on autopilot for years, failure becomes a matter of when, not if.

5. Poor stakeholder communication: Silence erodes public trust faster than any outage ever could. "We are on it." doesn't cut it. PR disaster.

6. Failure to conduct scenario testing: Storm damage and grid instability are foreseeable, not “black swan” events.

7. Lack of crisis escalation discipline: When disruption exceeds a defined threshold, you activate crisis protocols. If you have them.

8. Weak governance oversight: A critical transport operator should be held to aviation-level standards of resilience.

9. Cultural issues: If internal culture tolerates slow response, unclear ownership, and fragmented decision-making, breakdowns last longer than they should.

10. Absence of consequence management: When there’s no internal pressure to learn, adapt, or improve, outages become recurring features: not rare events.

Dublin deserves better than two days of silence and immobility.

Critical infrastructure demands critical thinking.

[Rutger Bregman @rcbregman]

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1