Palantir sells governments a war room that costs millions a year.
So, a guy named Elie just rebuilt it, put it on GitHub, and gave it away.
It's called World Monitor.
Open it and you get a live 3D globe with 500+ news feeds pouring in across 15 categories, all summarized by AI as they land.
> Military movements.
> Economic shocks.
> Natural disasters.
> Cyber incidents.
> Flight paths.
> Shipping lanes.
+ 56 different map layers you can stack on top of each other.
It scores 31 countries on a stress index and updates the number as things happen.
It watches 29 stock exchanges, commodities, and crypto in one panel.
It runs local AI through Ollama, so you can use the whole thing without a single API key.
Native desktop app for Windows, macOS, and Linux. 25 languages. Works out of the box after one clone.
I buy from China specifically, 1688, Alibaba and sometimes Pinduoduo. Honestly, this is top level specifications identification. I like that he specified each product quality check individually and also still tell you what to look out for. This is spot on.
Ibn Khaldun could only write his theory of civilizational rise & fall bc he was watching Islamic civilization fall around him in real time.Iqbal could only write the Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam bc he was standing in the rubble of what that thought had becom. Rumi
In Calvino's Invisible Cities, when the traveller steps into a foreign, "unpossessed square," the unfamiliar streets construct a past that the traveller "did not know he had."
Where else have we heard of PAST as an emergent property of the PRESENT?
Is Seamus Perry the greatest living scholar of English poetry? I think quite possibly. Pleased to have him in this week's @NewStatesman on what was, in its day, actually one of Shakespeare's most popular works: the now little read poem Venus and Adonis. https://t.co/tMLp1iG9B4