JJ Carolan

Unclean

[JJ Carolan @PopulusLiber]

@MichealMartinTD @JenMurnaneOConn The #bansturbator strikes again. #banallthethings

[JJ Carolan @PopulusLiber]

Justice #wc26

[JJ Carolan @PopulusLiber]

Best goal of the tournament overruled by nonsense #wc26

[JJ Carolan @PopulusLiber]

@rtenews

[JJ Carolan @PopulusLiber]

Football beats thuggery, thank fuck #wc26

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

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.

[JJ Carolan @PopulusLiber]

Yellow card for that #Mayo lad #wc26

[JJ Carolan @PopulusLiber]

Tyrone unlucky in the end but 2 awful decisions in that second half gave Kerry a cushion. Terrible officiating #gaa

[Bad Weather Stations @BadWxStations]

@RaySand17710097 Why is direct sunshine getting into the opened screen and hitting the glass thermometer? Screens are supposed to have their openings to the north for this very reason.

[Dan O'Brien @danobrien20]

Even under extreme climate change scenarios, deaths in Europe from cold weather will continue to outnumber heat-related deaths.

The chart below is sourced from @TheLancet and published in @EU_Commission paper linked here.

https://t.co/5G3qJwLBc5

[Bad Weather Stations @BadWxStations]

It's currently 31 °C in the middle of the huge asphalt carpark in Shannon Airport. A completely unrepresentative weather station that does not meet international standards, but one that will no doubt be quoted in the media later today.

METAR EINN 251230Z 15014KT CAVOK 31/21 Q1011 NOSIG=

#heatwave @rtenews

[Bad Weather Stations @BadWxStations]

A huge reason for the severity of European heatwaves, and one that never gets mentioned, is increased solar surface radiation (i.e., more sunshine). This has increased in recent decades due to cleaner air policies.

▪︎Fewer aerosols/particles = fewer cloud condensation nucleii (i.e., particles to seed cloud droplet-formation).
▪︎Less cloudiness = more sunshine, around 10% more now than 40 years ago.

#heatwave @rtenews @drivetimerte

[JJ Carolan @PopulusLiber]

@thejournal_ie

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@IrishTimes

[Peadar Tóibín TD @Toibin1]

Labour has an amendment in the new tobacco bill seeking to make it an offence to scab a fag,

on the same day, they seek to decriminalise heroin for personal use.

Intellectual fashion has killed critical thought in most of the Dáil.

[JJ Carolan @PopulusLiber]

@IrishTimes

[Ooana Trien ~ Eric Arthur Blaire’s Mistress @ooana]

Post 1 of 2:
Walter the dancing nurses and Jerusalema dance challenge videos are a textbook case of the media transformation you’re asking about. Not random cheerleading. This was coordinated mass behavioral guidance through performance.
These weren’t spontaneous TikToks. They were polished, globally synchronized productions showing “essential” workers joyfully dancing and uniting through rhythm while the public was locked down and told to comply. Hospitals supposedly overwhelmed had time for choreography. Patients were frequently absent or staged. The press didn’t investigate the coordination or the messaging. They amplified the videos as uplifting proof of resilience and unity.
How the transformation happened — the media orchestration pipeline:
It ran through a clear, observable system:
1. Academic/cultural seed layer — EU-funded research via the European Research Council (ERC Advanced Grant) at King’s College London. The Modern Moves project (2013–2018) studied Afro-diasporic rhythm cultures, dance as social cohesion and performativity, and how collective movement shapes societies.
Direct link: https://t.co/5sbv6avho1
2. Viral cultural hook — The Jerusalema song and dance challenge became the perfect vehicle. It exploded among health workers worldwide during COVID. I tracked the specific origin in 2023 — it traces back to that EU research lineage on dance/rhythm power, then scaled as a ready-made template for crisis messaging.
See: https://t.co/mhbf7VkmsZ
3. Marketing/PR scaling layer — These trends were adapted and rolled out through global marketing and media networks with deep health-sector ties. One key player was Wavemaker (the major global media agency under GroupM/WPP, with health/biotech venture arms like Wavemaker 360 that dramatically expanded during COVID). Institutional videos appeared in coordinated waves — produced content that visually modeled “correct” emotional responses: joy over fear, unity through participation.
I noted in 2023 how the pipeline moved from the EU-funded research node into these global PR/marketing structures.
See the sourcing discussion here: https://t.co/P4nJ7rN4US
4. Media amplification as behavioral guidance — Legacy press didn’t ask the hard questions. Instead they ran the content as heartwarming stories. This turned media into active cheerleaders and mass behavioral guides — providing social proof, emotional contagion, and modeling of compliance.
The full thread where I first laid this out in detail (May 2021):
https://t.co/yU6sMgDs4D

[JJ Carolan @PopulusLiber]

@CavanCoBoardGaa McCabe out

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@SmallerFishGAA @jack_madden2001 McCabe out

[JJ Carolan @PopulusLiber]

Huge delays at Hamburg airport security due to a security alert. Airside evacuated and boarded flights offloaded