hamartia 3,205 Posted Wednesday at 06:42 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 06:42 PM He looks like if you asked AI to make Jack Antonoff "I lied. I lied!" (Germanotta, 2025) 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roughhouse Dandy 13,848 Posted Wednesday at 07:23 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 07:23 PM 49 minutes ago, gagzus said: That’s just in the US though, a country where hate speech is (stupidly) protected by the first amendment because nuance has never been applied to the Amendment Rights as time went on. (The right to bare arms for instance, originally existed when guns shot single bullets and not when things like AK47s for instance existed) It’s absolutely not gonna stand internationally I don’t think. And those are obvious smears; I mean when it becomes something so damaging and not able to be distinguished from real. Here in the UK for instance, you can still be punished for a lot of the stuff the First Amendment protects in the states. It’s why we made the whole age and access restriction thing happen here with social media before Meta had been forced to do so in the states with a lawsuit (which I believe actually affects it worldwide now). Yeah, sorry. I'm very USA centric and it's not lookin too great for us This is my Hannah Montana™️ lipgloss. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bxr 2,847 Posted Wednesday at 08:41 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 08:41 PM (edited) 2 hours ago, Roughhouse Dandy said: Yeah, sorry. I'm very USA centric and it's not lookin too great for us The bittersweet symphony of a de facto technocratic global economy, led by the American tech sector … alas, that said, the silver lining is the sheer impact of influence well-networked individuals hold in relation to policy and practical (platform) reform … That said, again, in context of forum-relevance, Polansky, as (lead?) developer for a youth-focused mental health advocacy digital platform (the BTW Foundation app) is in a crucial position to galvanize necessary infrastructure development as far as digital consumer—particularly children and young digital natives—advocacy … Spoiler [ Source ] Even more so, on an international scale; if only because of his “really, really great experience” working directly with the founding partners of the Founders Fund: Peter Thiel (Palantir, international surveillance database), Sean Parker (Stability.AI (Stability Diffusion)—precedent platform for CSAM legislation), Luke Nosek (Founder, Gigafund; SpaceX‘s (Musk) first institutional investor, current company Board member), and Ken Howery (U.S. Ambassador to Denmark, 2019-2021; U.S. Amabassador to Sweden, 2025-Present) Spoiler Spoiler What Does Palantir Actually Do? (Caroline Haskins via Wired) Palantir is arguably one of the most notorious corporations in contemporary America. Cofounded by libertarian tech billionaire Peter Thiel, the software firm's work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the US Department of Defense, and the Israeli military has sparked numerous protests in multiple countries. Palantir has been so infamous for so long that, for some people, its name has become a cultural shorthand for dystopian surveillance. But a number of former Palantir employees tell WIRED they believe the public still largely misunderstands what the company actually does and how its software works. Some people think it's a data broker that buys information from private companies and resells it to the government. Others think it’s a data miner, constantly scanning the internet for unique insights it can collect and market to customers. Still others think it maintains a giant, centralized database of information collected from all of its clients. In reality, Palantir does none of these things, but the misconceptions continue to persist. Palantir has tried to correct the record itself in a series of blog posts with titles like “Palantir Is Not a Data Company” and “Palantir Is Still Not a Data Company.” In the latter, Palantir explains that “misconceptions can arise because our products are complicated,” but nonetheless, “it is absolutely possible” to accurately describe them to “people who are curious.” The problem, however, is that even ex-employees struggle to provide a clear description of the company. “It's really hard to explain what Palantir works on or what it does,” says Linda Xia, who was an engineer at Palantir from 2022 to 2024. “Even as someone who worked there, it's hard to figure out, how do you give a cohesive explanation?” Xia was one of 13 former Palantir staffers who signed an open letter published in May arguing that the company risks being complicit in authoritarianism by continuing to cooperate with the Trump administration. She and other former Palantir staffers who spoke to WIRED for this story argue that, in order to grapple with Palantir and its role in the world, let alone hold the company accountable, you need to first understand what it really is. [ Source ] [ https://stability.ai/ ] [ https://www.gigafund.com/ ] [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Howery ] OuterBio is understandably top of mind for Polansky at present, but having worked with the critical support of these power brokers and tech magnates—with such strong and affable rapport—for almost two decades; one would hope Polansky would champion a human cause that is so obviously fundamental to the social public good—that said, again, admittedly, the public good, in this case, does appear to benefit at the expense of his private network‘s capital gain … alas Again, as always, I’m new and novice here just learning and gleaning as we go along … ETA: Source attribution Edited Wednesday at 09:51 PM by bxr Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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