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🚨NEW — $PLTR cofounder Peter Thiel explains Palantir🔮👀 “It’s this round orb. Originally built by the elves. This very powerful device that enables you to make sense of things in far away places, maybe in different times. “It was this company we started in 2003… it was sort of... a libertarian deep state-adjacent company to help the CIA find terrorists in ways that wouldn’t violate civil liberties as much as they would if they were just relying on Luddite, low-tech, highly intrusive airport security machines, and making everyone take off their shoes. Stuff like that. “The founding vision was a James Bond type company.. “Roughly half the revenues are government related, which is a very difficult place to work but I also think an important one. “The glass half empty version is you should never work with the government because it’s endlessly frustrating. The glass half full, or 1/10th full version is there is so much room for improvement. 👀 “I always define technology as doing more with less. The Palantir version would be, can we have more security with less intrusion into civil liberties. “It’s important to prevent these attacks from happening because after they happen, civil liberties always go out the window. Via Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubinshow more

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NEW: Joe Lonsdale sets the record straight on Palantir: "What Palantir is doing is bringing two things: One, it's bringing competence ...Two, it's bringing a framework of civil liberties where we watch the watchers... I don't trust government... but I do want government to be competent enough to keep our nation safe and to defeat our adversaries and to stop wasting money." Will Cain: There is some concern Palantir is playing a large role in the security, state, foreign affairs and surveillance in America. And I think there's a fair amount of concern, maybe even some skepticism from some who would share other political points of view with you about the role of Palantir. What would you tell them about surveillance and this private company? Joe Lonsdale: So Palantir, first of all, it's doubling in the commercial markets...So it's a bigger commercial company for a lot of its value. It's not just a government company. When we did start to work in the government, you have to see what was there before. There are no audit trails in the watchers. They're abusing data. They were using it incompetently. What Palantir is doing is bringing two things: One, it's bringing competence to do these things well. And then two, it's bringing a framework of civil liberties where we watch the watchers and everyone around them can see what they've done. They can't hide their work. Because I don't trust government. I'm a civil libertarian, but I do want government to be competent enough to keep our nation safe and to defeat our adversaries and to stop wasting money. Will: We're all concerned about government and government oversight, but we also want to guard against a company that has too much power. So how do we ensure that with for example, a company like Palantir, is that through trusting someone like you or Peter Thiel? Is it the trust of your dedication to civil liberties? Joe: So I founded Palantir, but I'm not in charge of that anymore. Other people are in charge; people I admire. What I would say is Palantir is empowering our government leaders. So Palantir itself doesn't take in data to Palantir. Palantir itself doesn't make these decisions. What Palantir does is it lets the people running ICE, the people running the FBI, the people running the Department of War do things more efficiently. And it's up to them to be in charge. It's up to the president himself to be in charge. That's who we have to trust. via Will Cain & The Will Cain Show $PLTR #PLTR

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🇺🇸 EX-CIA OFFICER JOHN KIRIAKOU: CIA’S SECRET BABY PALANTIR GREW INTO A TRILLION-DOLLAR MONSTER "The CIA, in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, created something called In-Q-Tel, which is a cutesy play on 'Intel,' with the 'Q' from the James Bond movies in the middle. I hope they didn’t pay somebody to come up with that. It’s like the famous story that the tourism board of Scotland spent $150,000 hiring a consulting firm to come up with a tourism slogan, and for $150,000 they came up with “Visit Scotland.” It’s true. Google it. In-Q-Tel’s very first investment wasn’t a lot, I think it was a million and a half, to Palantir, in like ’03, something like that? ’02. Now, Palantir is a trillion-dollar company that makes most of its money contracting with the CIA. It’s a publicly traded company, and every week in Barron’s it’s like: 'Buy Palantir, buy Palantir, buy Palantir.'" Source: John Kiriakou, Julian Dorey

🇺🇸 EX-CIA OFFICER JOHN KIRIAKOU: CIA’S SECRET BABY PALANTIR GREW INTO A TRILLION-DOLLAR MONSTER "The CIA, in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, created something called In-Q-Tel, which is a cutesy play on 'Intel,' with the 'Q' from the James Bond movies in the middle. I hope they didn’t pay somebody to come up with that. It’s like the famous story that the tourism board of Scotland spent $150,000 hiring a consulting firm to come up with a tourism slogan, and for $150,000 they came up with “Visit Scotland.” It’s true. Google it. In-Q-Tel’s very first investment wasn’t a lot, I think it was a million and a half, to Palantir, in like ’03, something like that? ’02. Now, Palantir is a trillion-dollar company that makes most of its money contracting with the CIA. It’s a publicly traded company, and every week in Barron’s it’s like: 'Buy Palantir, buy Palantir, buy Palantir.'" Source: John Kiriakou, Julian Dorey

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🚨 $PLTR cofounder Peter Thiel: Palantir was created for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, if people at USAID should be charged with fraud, and how him and Karp got blocked at the NSA 👀🔮 “There are a lot of ways that something like Palantir ends up being a constraint on government action. A lot of the abuses, the most extreme overreach happens in contexts where people thought there would be no accountability ever inside the government. “Something like the Guantanamo stuff in Bush 43— nobody knew what was going on. If nobody knows, it can go really crazy. Then of course, at some point, people know, and the inmates take over the asylum. “There probably were a lot of deep state excesses that happen where, if Palantir had been used, there would have been more of a record of what people were doing. The NSA has not worked with Palantir. There’s all these different suspicions… Ifyou had this outside software system where you actually tracked how often this stuff was used, there would’ve been much more risk this stuff would’ve gotten exposed, there would have been a track record… “We somehow got blocked at NSA very early on. The explanation Alex [Karp] and I are sympathetic to was, the people at NSA believed that whatever power the software gave them, it also limited their power, because there would be more accountability. “At some point, you have a line item track record, where you know exactly where the money is going. “Something like this is what Oliver North was charged with in the 1980s, that he engaged in fraud because he had mischaracterized various payments. If we want to be aggressive, so many of the people working at USAID could be charged with fraud like Oliver North was charged with fraud. Via The Rubin Report Peter Thiel

🚨 $PLTR cofounder Peter Thiel: Palantir was created for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, if people at USAID should be charged with fraud, and how him and Karp got blocked at the NSA 👀🔮 “There are a lot of ways that something like Palantir ends up being a constraint on government action. A lot of the abuses, the most extreme overreach happens in contexts where people thought there would be no accountability ever inside the government. “Something like the Guantanamo stuff in Bush 43— nobody knew what was going on. If nobody knows, it can go really crazy. Then of course, at some point, people know, and the inmates take over the asylum. “There probably were a lot of deep state excesses that happen where, if Palantir had been used, there would have been more of a record of what people were doing. The NSA has not worked with Palantir. There’s all these different suspicions… Ifyou had this outside software system where you actually tracked how often this stuff was used, there would’ve been much more risk this stuff would’ve gotten exposed, there would have been a track record… “We somehow got blocked at NSA very early on. The explanation Alex [Karp] and I are sympathetic to was, the people at NSA believed that whatever power the software gave them, it also limited their power, because there would be more accountability. “At some point, you have a line item track record, where you know exactly where the money is going. “Something like this is what Oliver North was charged with in the 1980s, that he engaged in fraud because he had mischaracterized various payments. If we want to be aggressive, so many of the people working at USAID could be charged with fraud like Oliver North was charged with fraud. Via The Rubin Report Peter Thiel

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Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale on why he and Peter Thiel intentionally named the company after a Lord of the Rings artifact that everyone remembers as dangerous "When we're creating this, we said, this is a dangerous thing to create. But we believe it's a worthy thing to create" "It took a lot of courage. There's a lot of different things we could have worked on. We could have made a lot of money doing a lot of other things" "We had to eliminate up to 10,000 terrorists that might not have gotten eliminated" "We worked with all sorts of amazing groups in the government alongside them with the technology. And we helped protect civil liberties and make sure the government watchers are being watched" "Of course, you create this technology. If it gets into the wrong hands and they turn off the audit trails, who knows what bad could be done with it. So there's good and bad here"

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What is the biggest misconception about Palantir? Emil Michael (Under Secretary of War Emil Michael + Department of War CTO), Under Secretary of War for Research & Engineering, & Department of War CTO, explains: "I mean, Palantir is a software company that innovated.. they were sort of the first big data company, if you will.. and in some ways had AI capabilities that delivered useful software to the government. And it's been amazing to watch how people use their product in the department for all sorts of things. We didn't know where our stuff was. We were spending trillions of dollars over the years. Where are our munitions? Where are these things? How do we understand where they are in their lifecycle? How do we repair them? All the things that were really just basic stuff. The protesters want to talk about, you know, some of the other stuff they do that they think is more controversial. But I think they're really a nuts-and-bolts software company with forward deployed engineers that are smart, that sit with a warfighter and solve everyday problems you would in any organization, as much as they do the other stuff." "Why do you think people think they're evil?" "People are crazy. I don't know. If helping the American government do lawful things makes you evil, I mean, you know, who's not on that list? I mean, we all support our—we live here, right? We support our elected government regardless of the party. So I think it sort of hearkens back to, like, a long—it was probably before your time—but there was a sort of a solicitation on who would sell the first cloud software to the government. And Google bailed because their employees were like, “No, you can't.” So imagine.. they wouldn't sell cloud to the government, but they'd sell it to companies in foreign countries. It's crazy. I think those days are over, and the number or percentage of people that will say that about a Palantir or a Google or any one other company has shrunk so much that hopefully it doesn't matter."

What is the biggest misconception about Palantir? Emil Michael (Under Secretary of War Emil Michael + Department of War CTO), Under Secretary of War for Research & Engineering, & Department of War CTO, explains: "I mean, Palantir is a software company that innovated.. they were sort of the first big data company, if you will.. and in some ways had AI capabilities that delivered useful software to the government. And it's been amazing to watch how people use their product in the department for all sorts of things. We didn't know where our stuff was. We were spending trillions of dollars over the years. Where are our munitions? Where are these things? How do we understand where they are in their lifecycle? How do we repair them? All the things that were really just basic stuff. The protesters want to talk about, you know, some of the other stuff they do that they think is more controversial. But I think they're really a nuts-and-bolts software company with forward deployed engineers that are smart, that sit with a warfighter and solve everyday problems you would in any organization, as much as they do the other stuff." "Why do you think people think they're evil?" "People are crazy. I don't know. If helping the American government do lawful things makes you evil, I mean, you know, who's not on that list? I mean, we all support our—we live here, right? We support our elected government regardless of the party. So I think it sort of hearkens back to, like, a long—it was probably before your time—but there was a sort of a solicitation on who would sell the first cloud software to the government. And Google bailed because their employees were like, “No, you can't.” So imagine.. they wouldn't sell cloud to the government, but they'd sell it to companies in foreign countries. It's crazy. I think those days are over, and the number or percentage of people that will say that about a Palantir or a Google or any one other company has shrunk so much that hopefully it doesn't matter."

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Whitney Webb just exposed the truth about Palantir’s origins. It was created to privatize mass surveillance. “Don’t tell me this is a conspiracy theory.” “Alex Karp admitted that the CIA was always the intended client of Palantir.” Webb and Mark Goodwin just broke down the truth about Palantir’s origins: After 9/11, DARPA launched the Information Awareness Office to develop a government mass surveillance apparatus. Reagan-era National Security Advisor John Poindexter led the new IAO. After massive public scrutiny and backlash, Congress defunded it. But the program never really shut down. It was moved into the private sector with the help of Peter Thiel and Alex Karp. Webb: “Peter Thiel comes, fresh off of selling PayPal … he’s got all this money, and he’s like: I’m gonna make this company called Palantir.” “Palantir … had really started off as the anti-fraud algorithm at PayPal.” “When PayPal was being created, Max Levchin sort of gave it away.” Goodwin revealed that Max Levchin essentially admitted in an interview at the time: “When I was developing all the anti-fraud stuff at PayPal, I was working with every three and four letter agency that I could.” “Meaning the CIA, and the DOD, and DARPA.” “They form PayPal in the late ‘90s.” “They make a bunch of money, and it’s Thiel and Levchin, admittedly working with the CIA and NSA, while developing this anti-fraud stuff.” “He takes that anti-fraud algorithm, which was built with the CIA in the private sector, and then rebrands it as Palantir.” Webb: “As they’re setting it up, they go through Richard Perle, who was involved with the Bush-era Department of Defense, and I believe the Office of Special Plans.” “He’s approached by Peter Thiel and Alex Karp.” “They’re basically like: we want to talk to John Poindexter, because what he was trying to do is what we want to do.” “They go and meet with Poindexter, who becomes named basically the godfather of modern surveillance because of this.” “He advises them on how to create Palantir.” “And then Palantir gets in bed pretty much right away with the CIA.” “They were their first and only client for their first six years.” Whitney Webb markgoodw.in

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Asmongold proposes a "New Civil Rights Act" to strip voting rights from almost everyone "If it was up to me, this would be called the New Civil Rights Act. And it would be taking away the right to vote from almost everybody." "It is a violation of my civil rights that a person who thinks the earth is flat can vote. My civil rights are being violated because they're able to vote." "If I can't vote, what's the argument for paying taxes? Simple. Because if you don't, we put you in jail. And you can earn the right to vote, but you don't spawn in with it." "Dummies don't deserve to be represented. They only deserve to be taken care of and corralled into the places that make their lives as easy as possible."

Asmongold proposes a "New Civil Rights Act" to strip voting rights from almost everyone "If it was up to me, this would be called the New Civil Rights Act. And it would be taking away the right to vote from almost everybody." "It is a violation of my civil rights that a person who thinks the earth is flat can vote. My civil rights are being violated because they're able to vote." "If I can't vote, what's the argument for paying taxes? Simple. Because if you don't, we put you in jail. And you can earn the right to vote, but you don't spawn in with it." "Dummies don't deserve to be represented. They only deserve to be taken care of and corralled into the places that make their lives as easy as possible."

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Q: Why is company culture important? In the clip below, a16z cofounder Ben Horowitz argues that culture drives how people in your company behave on a daily basis—and particularly, how they behave when you’re not looking. Is that phone call so important I need to return it today or can it wait until tomorrow? Can I ask for a raise before my annual review? Is the quality of this document good enough or should I keep working on it? Do I have to be on time for that meeting? Should I stay at the Four Seasons or the Red Roof Inn? Should I go home at 5 p.m. or 8 p.m.? Should we discuss the color of this new product for five minutes or thirty hours? If I know something is badly broken in the company, should I say something? Whom should I tell? Is winning more important than ethics? None of these things are in your mission statement or OKRs, but they determine many important things for your company, such as how people experience your company, what you’re like to do business with, what your company is like to work at, etc. And as Ben describes, what drives the culture is all of the little behaviors and cues people take on: “this is what I have to do to succeed in this company.” Culture can feel abstract and secondary when you pit it against a concrete result that’s right in front of you, but it’s a strategic investment in the company doing things the right way when you are not looking. It’s the set of assumptions your employees use to resolve the problems they face every day. It’s how they behave when no one is looking. If you don’t methodically set your culture, then two-thirds of it will end up being accidental, and the rest will be a mistake. If you’re looking for a more in-depth guide to culture and how to build a great one, I’d recommend Ben’s book: What You Do Is Who You Are.

Q: Why is company culture important? In the clip below, a16z cofounder Ben Horowitz argues that culture drives how people in your company behave on a daily basis—and particularly, how they behave when you’re not looking. Is that phone call so important I need to return it today or can it wait until tomorrow? Can I ask for a raise before my annual review? Is the quality of this document good enough or should I keep working on it? Do I have to be on time for that meeting? Should I stay at the Four Seasons or the Red Roof Inn? Should I go home at 5 p.m. or 8 p.m.? Should we discuss the color of this new product for five minutes or thirty hours? If I know something is badly broken in the company, should I say something? Whom should I tell? Is winning more important than ethics? None of these things are in your mission statement or OKRs, but they determine many important things for your company, such as how people experience your company, what you’re like to do business with, what your company is like to work at, etc. And as Ben describes, what drives the culture is all of the little behaviors and cues people take on: “this is what I have to do to succeed in this company.” Culture can feel abstract and secondary when you pit it against a concrete result that’s right in front of you, but it’s a strategic investment in the company doing things the right way when you are not looking. It’s the set of assumptions your employees use to resolve the problems they face every day. It’s how they behave when no one is looking. If you don’t methodically set your culture, then two-thirds of it will end up being accidental, and the rest will be a mistake. If you’re looking for a more in-depth guide to culture and how to build a great one, I’d recommend Ben’s book: What You Do Is Who You Are.

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Mark Zuckerberg reveals what ‘The Social Network’ got completely wrong about how he started Facebook “I only saw it once but I took our whole company to see it, I figured everyone at the company was gonna see it anyway so we might as well just take everyone to go see it” “It was weird man, cause they got all these very specific details of like what I was wearing, the specific things correct, but then the whole narrative arc around my motivations and all this stuff were like completely wrong” “the whole arc is like I’m somehow motivated by trying to find a girlfriend, it’s like I was dating Priscilla before I started Facebook” “It’s an unfortunate part of the internet how people make up a lot of the founding mythology, people cast it as if Facemash, that prank thing that I made, was the precursor to Facebook, I guess because they have face in the name, but Facemash was a prank, completely separate from Facebook” “To this day, 21 years later, largely because of the movie, people are like oh yeah you started this as a service to rate the attractiveness of people” “it’s like no, I was just a kid doing a random different thing, Facebook is a completely different and much more interesting and ambitious project than that”

Mark Zuckerberg reveals what ‘The Social Network’ got completely wrong about how he started Facebook “I only saw it once but I took our whole company to see it, I figured everyone at the company was gonna see it anyway so we might as well just take everyone to go see it” “It was weird man, cause they got all these very specific details of like what I was wearing, the specific things correct, but then the whole narrative arc around my motivations and all this stuff were like completely wrong” “the whole arc is like I’m somehow motivated by trying to find a girlfriend, it’s like I was dating Priscilla before I started Facebook” “It’s an unfortunate part of the internet how people make up a lot of the founding mythology, people cast it as if Facemash, that prank thing that I made, was the precursor to Facebook, I guess because they have face in the name, but Facemash was a prank, completely separate from Facebook” “To this day, 21 years later, largely because of the movie, people are like oh yeah you started this as a service to rate the attractiveness of people” “it’s like no, I was just a kid doing a random different thing, Facebook is a completely different and much more interesting and ambitious project than that”

Third

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Chanhyuk: Company doesn’t matter, but it’s about the people you work with. “There’s also something like this. Even though we say we created a “company,” we just used that word because it’s easier for people to understand. But in the end, it’s not really about the company, it’s about the people. Like, who you work with. And what kind of experiences you share with them, that’s what really matters the most. So with these people, whether we go, volunteering or travel somewhere, we always move together as one group. Because if not and later on, when I write and release a song, if we hadn’t shared those experiences, I’d have to explain everything. Like, “I went somewhere and had this kind of experience…” But since we’ve all lived it together, I can just say, “Hey, I wrote this kind of song this time,” and they’ll be like, “Oh, yeah, I get it. I know exactly what that is.” It just makes everything so much faster, right?”

Chanhyuk: Company doesn’t matter, but it’s about the people you work with. “There’s also something like this. Even though we say we created a “company,” we just used that word because it’s easier for people to understand. But in the end, it’s not really about the company, it’s about the people. Like, who you work with. And what kind of experiences you share with them, that’s what really matters the most. So with these people, whether we go, volunteering or travel somewhere, we always move together as one group. Because if not and later on, when I write and release a song, if we hadn’t shared those experiences, I’d have to explain everything. Like, “I went somewhere and had this kind of experience…” But since we’ve all lived it together, I can just say, “Hey, I wrote this kind of song this time,” and they’ll be like, “Oh, yeah, I get it. I know exactly what that is.” It just makes everything so much faster, right?”

akmerch ⚔️

194,144 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten

Peter Thiel gave a speech in a Hilton in 2010 that holds the keys to unlocking the source of many of America’s most severe problems. Key quote: “The task in this world… where politics has become so broken… is to find a way to escape from it. It’s not a way to fix it.” Palantir is currently tightening its grip around all of our data. Elon Musk is diverting untold billions into a Mars fantasy. All of the anarchist, antidemocratic ideas of the PayPal Mafia and the “Dark Enlightenment”—to use technology as an “escape”—were already well in process 15 years ago. —The internet as “alternate virtual reality” so you don’t have to “constantly convince people.” This is why he funded Satoshi (Bitcoin), MAGA3X (Pizzagate, Q), and pushed Musk to buy Twitter —PayPal (now blockchain/crypto/BTC) was to “overturn the monetary system” —“Escape” now more often referred to as “exit” —“Autonomous countries” now known as the “network state” JD Vance is a full member of the cult of the broligarchs. Unfortunately, this has been a very thorough coup and they have backup. It’s worth really absorbing what the living Antichrist, Peter Thiel, is saying here: “I don't think despair is the only answer. And I don't think, and it's because I don't think politics is the only way to go. And my thinking on this, you know, started to take a turn towards a more optimistic perspective in the mid to late '90s when I got involved in the tech boom in Silicon Valley. I ended up being the co-founder of a company called PayPal where -- and the initial founding vision was that we were going to use technology to change the whole world and basically overturn on the monetary system of the world. And, you know, we can debate on how much it succeeded or how little it succeeded. And there were parts of it that I think have worked, and parts of it were, you know, the jury is still out. But the basic idea was that we could never win an election on getting certain things. Because we were in such a small minority. But maybe you could actually unilaterally change the world without having to constantly convince people and beg people and plead with people who are never going to agree with you through a technological means. And this is where I think technology is this incredible alternative to politics. And, you know, there are a number of different technologies we can outline, but the task in this world where politics has become so broken and so dysfunctional is to find a way to escape from it. It's not a way to fix it. It is a way to escape. And there are, you know, a number of different options. I think the promising one of the 1990s and this last decade has been to escape onto the Internet and to sort of create an alternate virtual reality. Questions, of course, is still how does it intersect with the real world? There are, I think, escaping to outer space is a promise, although I think the space technology is not quite there. So I think that's sort of for the second half of the 21st century. I think we can try to, you know, create autonomous countries on oceans, underwater, all sorts of other spaces. But I think technology is the vehicle for how we should be looking to escape and move beyond politics as we find it today.”

Peter Thiel gave a speech in a Hilton in 2010 that holds the keys to unlocking the source of many of America’s most severe problems. Key quote: “The task in this world… where politics has become so broken… is to find a way to escape from it. It’s not a way to fix it.” Palantir is currently tightening its grip around all of our data. Elon Musk is diverting untold billions into a Mars fantasy. All of the anarchist, antidemocratic ideas of the PayPal Mafia and the “Dark Enlightenment”—to use technology as an “escape”—were already well in process 15 years ago. —The internet as “alternate virtual reality” so you don’t have to “constantly convince people.” This is why he funded Satoshi (Bitcoin), MAGA3X (Pizzagate, Q), and pushed Musk to buy Twitter —PayPal (now blockchain/crypto/BTC) was to “overturn the monetary system” —“Escape” now more often referred to as “exit” —“Autonomous countries” now known as the “network state” JD Vance is a full member of the cult of the broligarchs. Unfortunately, this has been a very thorough coup and they have backup. It’s worth really absorbing what the living Antichrist, Peter Thiel, is saying here: “I don't think despair is the only answer. And I don't think, and it's because I don't think politics is the only way to go. And my thinking on this, you know, started to take a turn towards a more optimistic perspective in the mid to late '90s when I got involved in the tech boom in Silicon Valley. I ended up being the co-founder of a company called PayPal where -- and the initial founding vision was that we were going to use technology to change the whole world and basically overturn on the monetary system of the world. And, you know, we can debate on how much it succeeded or how little it succeeded. And there were parts of it that I think have worked, and parts of it were, you know, the jury is still out. But the basic idea was that we could never win an election on getting certain things. Because we were in such a small minority. But maybe you could actually unilaterally change the world without having to constantly convince people and beg people and plead with people who are never going to agree with you through a technological means. And this is where I think technology is this incredible alternative to politics. And, you know, there are a number of different technologies we can outline, but the task in this world where politics has become so broken and so dysfunctional is to find a way to escape from it. It's not a way to fix it. It is a way to escape. And there are, you know, a number of different options. I think the promising one of the 1990s and this last decade has been to escape onto the Internet and to sort of create an alternate virtual reality. Questions, of course, is still how does it intersect with the real world? There are, I think, escaping to outer space is a promise, although I think the space technology is not quite there. So I think that's sort of for the second half of the 21st century. I think we can try to, you know, create autonomous countries on oceans, underwater, all sorts of other spaces. But I think technology is the vehicle for how we should be looking to escape and move beyond politics as we find it today.”

Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸

156,800 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

This is going to blow your mind 🚨 Elon Musk tells Joe Rogan during his interview, the government payment system called ‘PAM’ processes $5 trillion dollars a year, that’s a BILLION DOLLARS AN HOUR It’s setup in a way to process “Basically UNTRACEABLE BLANK CHECKS — This is the kind of thing that if it was done as a public company, the company would be immediately delisted and the executive team would be thrown in prison.” - Just with a basic search of the Social Security database there were 20 million dead people marked as alive — Some of them were getting money - Elon Musk “was trying to get an answer right before the show” but was unable to exact figures - Elon Musk says “Most of the fraud is not coming from social security payments directly, but because they're marked as alive in the social security database, they can then get disability unemployment, sort of fake medical payments and other things because they're marked as alive in the social security database (BUT THE’RE DEAD) - The systems between Social Security, payments systems, government databases, medical payments, these systems don’t communicate between each other, “They don't talk to each other, they talk to each other very poorly in a very limited way. So the way that the system gets exploited is by taking advantage of the the poor communication between the various databases in the government” Here’s where it gets REALLY crazy There is a government payment that’s processed $5 TRILLION DOLLARS a year, that’s A BILLION DOLLARS AN HOUR “To give you an example of like what's happening in say Treasury, which is improving rapidly the main payments computer's called PAM, Payment Accounts Database or something like that. But everyone calls a PAM that's responsible for almost $5 trillion of payments a year, roughly a billion dollars an hour. When we came there, we're looking at this payment. The payments have no, you could put a payment through with no payment categorization code and no description on the payment, like basically untraceable blank checks.” “This is the kind of thing that if it was done as a public company, the company would be immediately delisted and the executive team would be thrown in prison.”

This is going to blow your mind 🚨 Elon Musk tells Joe Rogan during his interview, the government payment system called ‘PAM’ processes $5 trillion dollars a year, that’s a BILLION DOLLARS AN HOUR It’s setup in a way to process “Basically UNTRACEABLE BLANK CHECKS — This is the kind of thing that if it was done as a public company, the company would be immediately delisted and the executive team would be thrown in prison.” - Just with a basic search of the Social Security database there were 20 million dead people marked as alive — Some of them were getting money - Elon Musk “was trying to get an answer right before the show” but was unable to exact figures - Elon Musk says “Most of the fraud is not coming from social security payments directly, but because they're marked as alive in the social security database, they can then get disability unemployment, sort of fake medical payments and other things because they're marked as alive in the social security database (BUT THE’RE DEAD) - The systems between Social Security, payments systems, government databases, medical payments, these systems don’t communicate between each other, “They don't talk to each other, they talk to each other very poorly in a very limited way. So the way that the system gets exploited is by taking advantage of the the poor communication between the various databases in the government” Here’s where it gets REALLY crazy There is a government payment that’s processed $5 TRILLION DOLLARS a year, that’s A BILLION DOLLARS AN HOUR “To give you an example of like what's happening in say Treasury, which is improving rapidly the main payments computer's called PAM, Payment Accounts Database or something like that. But everyone calls a PAM that's responsible for almost $5 trillion of payments a year, roughly a billion dollars an hour. When we came there, we're looking at this payment. The payments have no, you could put a payment through with no payment categorization code and no description on the payment, like basically untraceable blank checks.” “This is the kind of thing that if it was done as a public company, the company would be immediately delisted and the executive team would be thrown in prison.”

Wall Street Apes

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The Rapid Growth of SpaceX, Starlink, Starshield & Armada: “I am very grateful that SpaceX is an American company.” "Data centers in space is coming, & it makes sense" “5 years ago they hadn’t even launched Starlink—now it’s in 150 countries & it’s continuing to grow every week.” “It’s an unfair advantage that we have with Starshield.” “If the world can get access to SpaceX, I think that’s a good thing.” Dan Wright (Dan Wright), CEO of Armada Elon (Elon Musk) builds long-term advantage, then unleashes it at massive scale: SpaceX, Starlink, Tesla, Neuralink, xAI.. . . . "We started the company working with SpaceX & they’ve continued to be a great partner for us. What that means is that as SpaceX rolls out throughout the world—& most people don’t know 5 years ago they hadn’t even launched Starlink —it’s in 150 countries & it’s continuing to grow every week. We are the first mover when it comes to the infrastructure, & that partnership works really well because we complement the connectivity with the infrastructure & the AI. We always are at the edge. It’s funny, I get messages from our team all the time & it’s like the most crazy places you can imagine. And the edge is gonna continue to get redefined. I get calls literally—I was on the call with somebody and they’re like, “Hey, can we get one of these in Antarctica?” I’m like, “Well yeah, Starlink’s live in Antarctica. No reason why we can’t do that.” Obviously data center in space is the new hotness. Everybody’s talking about it." "Yeah, what’s the deal with that—so are you gonna get these in space?" :They are modular. I mean the edge is continuing—this is actually a debate that we have in terms of how soon it’s going to happen—but it’s definitely going to happen. Data centers in space is coming, and it makes sense, right? If you think about what SpaceX is talking about with Starship going to the moon—you’re going to need compute, especially as you start to think about Optimus robots building bases on the moon, later Mars. You’re going to need large amounts of compute. Not to mention a lot of the things that we do here on Earth, you’re gonna want to do there in space. And it’s a lot more efficient to do it, especially in hostile environments, if you can automate more of that—things like mining, for example. And so you’re gonna see data centers in space, and I’m sure we’re definitely gonna be a part of it. "What do you think about SpaceX’s rumored IPO for 2026?" "I mean, I think SpaceX is an incredible company and they have a ton of value. So I don’t have any insider information here—but I would say, hey, if the world can get access to SpaceX, I think that’s a good thing. Starlink is really amazing in the sense that it just continues to get better so fast. They’re rolling out in new countries every week in major markets. Just as a real recent example, just this last week they launched in South Korea—big market and an important ally for the US, so that’s a big deal. They’re also expanding the types of services that are available. It started as a consumer product, then they brought it to enterprise. Initially that was used more as a backup, and now it’s being used more as a primary—and that is because the service keeps getting better and better as more satellites go up into the sky. Each generation of satellite is also better, not to mention the terminals on the ground. There’s now multiple types of terminals, including the more recent minis that people really like—“Hey, I can put it in a backpack if I go on a hike or if I’m traveling. I can put it on the ski rack of my car.” Perfect internet all the time. All that does for us is it gives us more use cases that we can unlock. Now that you have connectivity on the oil rig, or on a farm, or a ranch—wherever you are—we can apply the AI to those situations on the ground without latency, and then send the metadata back to some other location that they want it. Part of the full-stack approach. And also with Starshield—that’s a huge advantage when you think about some of the conflicts that are going on. People talk to me a lot about this race with China and the geopolitical conflicts around the world. I am very grateful that SpaceX is an American company. I feel like it’s an unfair advantage that we have with Starshield available to the DoD. We want to be the first mover with the infrastructure and the AI to help solve problems at the edge, and the work we’re doing with the Navy is a good example of that."

The Rapid Growth of SpaceX, Starlink, Starshield & Armada: “I am very grateful that SpaceX is an American company.” "Data centers in space is coming, & it makes sense" “5 years ago they hadn’t even launched Starlink—now it’s in 150 countries & it’s continuing to grow every week.” “It’s an unfair advantage that we have with Starshield.” “If the world can get access to SpaceX, I think that’s a good thing.” Dan Wright (Dan Wright), CEO of Armada Elon (Elon Musk) builds long-term advantage, then unleashes it at massive scale: SpaceX, Starlink, Tesla, Neuralink, xAI.. . . . "We started the company working with SpaceX & they’ve continued to be a great partner for us. What that means is that as SpaceX rolls out throughout the world—& most people don’t know 5 years ago they hadn’t even launched Starlink —it’s in 150 countries & it’s continuing to grow every week. We are the first mover when it comes to the infrastructure, & that partnership works really well because we complement the connectivity with the infrastructure & the AI. We always are at the edge. It’s funny, I get messages from our team all the time & it’s like the most crazy places you can imagine. And the edge is gonna continue to get redefined. I get calls literally—I was on the call with somebody and they’re like, “Hey, can we get one of these in Antarctica?” I’m like, “Well yeah, Starlink’s live in Antarctica. No reason why we can’t do that.” Obviously data center in space is the new hotness. Everybody’s talking about it." "Yeah, what’s the deal with that—so are you gonna get these in space?" :They are modular. I mean the edge is continuing—this is actually a debate that we have in terms of how soon it’s going to happen—but it’s definitely going to happen. Data centers in space is coming, and it makes sense, right? If you think about what SpaceX is talking about with Starship going to the moon—you’re going to need compute, especially as you start to think about Optimus robots building bases on the moon, later Mars. You’re going to need large amounts of compute. Not to mention a lot of the things that we do here on Earth, you’re gonna want to do there in space. And it’s a lot more efficient to do it, especially in hostile environments, if you can automate more of that—things like mining, for example. And so you’re gonna see data centers in space, and I’m sure we’re definitely gonna be a part of it. "What do you think about SpaceX’s rumored IPO for 2026?" "I mean, I think SpaceX is an incredible company and they have a ton of value. So I don’t have any insider information here—but I would say, hey, if the world can get access to SpaceX, I think that’s a good thing. Starlink is really amazing in the sense that it just continues to get better so fast. They’re rolling out in new countries every week in major markets. Just as a real recent example, just this last week they launched in South Korea—big market and an important ally for the US, so that’s a big deal. They’re also expanding the types of services that are available. It started as a consumer product, then they brought it to enterprise. Initially that was used more as a backup, and now it’s being used more as a primary—and that is because the service keeps getting better and better as more satellites go up into the sky. Each generation of satellite is also better, not to mention the terminals on the ground. There’s now multiple types of terminals, including the more recent minis that people really like—“Hey, I can put it in a backpack if I go on a hike or if I’m traveling. I can put it on the ski rack of my car.” Perfect internet all the time. All that does for us is it gives us more use cases that we can unlock. Now that you have connectivity on the oil rig, or on a farm, or a ranch—wherever you are—we can apply the AI to those situations on the ground without latency, and then send the metadata back to some other location that they want it. Part of the full-stack approach. And also with Starshield—that’s a huge advantage when you think about some of the conflicts that are going on. People talk to me a lot about this race with China and the geopolitical conflicts around the world. I am very grateful that SpaceX is an American company. I feel like it’s an unfair advantage that we have with Starshield available to the DoD. We want to be the first mover with the infrastructure and the AI to help solve problems at the edge, and the work we’re doing with the Navy is a good example of that."

Molly O’Shea

30,317 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten

Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale’s lessons from Peter Thiel and how to win with focus 🧘‍♂️🔮 “You need to be courageous. A lot of people want to do incubators or a fund, never having built something, or say they want to help 5 different projects. It’s a type of cowardice. It’s a type of saying, I’m afraid to go all in.’ “Effort on any project is convex… If you spend 80% of your time focused on something, that’s maybe half as good as spending 90% of your time. It’s that last bit of effort. Being 99th percentile is worth so much more than being 90th percentile, because that means you’re number one. And being number one is worth a lot. “You have to break down the actual reasons for things. Usually the #1 reason should be much bigger than everything else. If you tell me, ‘I have 4 reasons for doing this business,’ that means you probably haven’t thought about it enough. “Anything I invest in, someone really amazing is making it their main thing. The CEO has to be all in. Via Chris Williamson

Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale’s lessons from Peter Thiel and how to win with focus 🧘‍♂️🔮 “You need to be courageous. A lot of people want to do incubators or a fund, never having built something, or say they want to help 5 different projects. It’s a type of cowardice. It’s a type of saying, I’m afraid to go all in.’ “Effort on any project is convex… If you spend 80% of your time focused on something, that’s maybe half as good as spending 90% of your time. It’s that last bit of effort. Being 99th percentile is worth so much more than being 90th percentile, because that means you’re number one. And being number one is worth a lot. “You have to break down the actual reasons for things. Usually the #1 reason should be much bigger than everything else. If you tell me, ‘I have 4 reasons for doing this business,’ that means you probably haven’t thought about it enough. “Anything I invest in, someone really amazing is making it their main thing. The CEO has to be all in. Via Chris Williamson

Jawwwn

158,444 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

Graham Stuart, MP for Beverley and Holderness delivers a great speech in the parliamentary inheritance tax on family farms debate: It is possible to challenge one’s Government. I said to my Whips then that the best service we could do the Government was to prevent them from doing something stupid, harmful and alienating to voters. I hope that Government Members can see that, because the Opposition cannot change this. People outside say to me, “Can we get this changed?” It is actually up to Labour MPs. They have the majority. Democracy is not about having a majority and doing what one likes. Democracy is about listening and doing what the now Prime Minister told the NFU when he said: “You deserve a Government that listens, that heeds early warnings”. There are one or two warnings about. Listen, change: if the Government change, four years on, no one will remember the U-turn. Whatever civil servants say—they are always very keen to stick with a policy—if it is wrong, stop doing it. And this is wrong. In the minute and 20 seconds I have left, let me say why it is so wrong. We have touched on the various elements, but I am not sure we have pulled it all together. We have a really peculiar group of businesspeople in this country; they are called farmers. They take a return on capital—the millions they have invested in their farms—that is typically less than 1%. There is nobody that I am aware of—no business I was ever involved in—that would remotely consider continuing in an industry that paid less than 1%. These farmers take a pittance and get up at 4 o’clock in the morning for the privilege. They look after the animals and it does not matter if they are ill; they cannot carry their employment rights and go, “I’m not well, I shouldn’t have to go out,” because the cows do not care: they have to go out and look after them, and then they get less than 1% return. Those farmers, the most beneficent public-minded businesspeople in the whole country, then provide excellent food at among the lowest prices in Europe. If ever there were a business that we would not want to go and mess with, it is these—I should not say it, because I will make enemies of them. We must understand how remarkable it is that there is a whole group of businesspeople who take practically nothing from their business, work all the hours God gives, and provide us with some of the finest food in the world at among the lowest prices in Europe. Why would we want to mess with that? Not only do they do that, but they brainwash their children from the earliest age so that they carry on doing it. These people are in indentured service to the nation, providing food while making very little profit. They do it willingly and, in fact, love it: it is their life. To go and mess with them out of some stupid, socialist spite is ridiculous and absurd, and Government Members know that—the hon. Member for North Northumberland certainly does, and he should lead his colleagues to tell the Chancellor to change course, just as we did in 2012 when George Osborne got it wrong.”

Graham Stuart, MP for Beverley and Holderness delivers a great speech in the parliamentary inheritance tax on family farms debate: It is possible to challenge one’s Government. I said to my Whips then that the best service we could do the Government was to prevent them from doing something stupid, harmful and alienating to voters. I hope that Government Members can see that, because the Opposition cannot change this. People outside say to me, “Can we get this changed?” It is actually up to Labour MPs. They have the majority. Democracy is not about having a majority and doing what one likes. Democracy is about listening and doing what the now Prime Minister told the NFU when he said: “You deserve a Government that listens, that heeds early warnings”. There are one or two warnings about. Listen, change: if the Government change, four years on, no one will remember the U-turn. Whatever civil servants say—they are always very keen to stick with a policy—if it is wrong, stop doing it. And this is wrong. In the minute and 20 seconds I have left, let me say why it is so wrong. We have touched on the various elements, but I am not sure we have pulled it all together. We have a really peculiar group of businesspeople in this country; they are called farmers. They take a return on capital—the millions they have invested in their farms—that is typically less than 1%. There is nobody that I am aware of—no business I was ever involved in—that would remotely consider continuing in an industry that paid less than 1%. These farmers take a pittance and get up at 4 o’clock in the morning for the privilege. They look after the animals and it does not matter if they are ill; they cannot carry their employment rights and go, “I’m not well, I shouldn’t have to go out,” because the cows do not care: they have to go out and look after them, and then they get less than 1% return. Those farmers, the most beneficent public-minded businesspeople in the whole country, then provide excellent food at among the lowest prices in Europe. If ever there were a business that we would not want to go and mess with, it is these—I should not say it, because I will make enemies of them. We must understand how remarkable it is that there is a whole group of businesspeople who take practically nothing from their business, work all the hours God gives, and provide us with some of the finest food in the world at among the lowest prices in Europe. Why would we want to mess with that? Not only do they do that, but they brainwash their children from the earliest age so that they carry on doing it. These people are in indentured service to the nation, providing food while making very little profit. They do it willingly and, in fact, love it: it is their life. To go and mess with them out of some stupid, socialist spite is ridiculous and absurd, and Government Members know that—the hon. Member for North Northumberland certainly does, and he should lead his colleagues to tell the Chancellor to change course, just as we did in 2012 when George Osborne got it wrong.”

No Farmers, No Food

115,996 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr