NEW: A DOGE recruiter told a Palantir alumni Slack group that AI agents could do the work of tens of thousands of government employees. He was met with 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 and custom emojis of a man licking a boot. wired.com/story/doge-rec…

SCOOP: A startup founder and early DOGE recruiter posted in a Palantir alumni Slack recruiting for a new DOGE-related project. The project's goal, he said, is to automate work that's currently performed by 70,000 federal workers. w/ Tori Elliott: wired.com/story/doge-rec…

Alex Karp's new letter to Palantir shareholders quotes the following ppl/things, in this order: -St. Augustine -The Book of Matthew -Michel Houellebecq ("the sardonic & uncomfortably insightful French author") -Michael Sandel (Harvard prof. quoted in his new book) -Richard Nixon

enjoying the new york times live blog on how many sea gulls there are at the papal conclave

decided to mess around and ask the various AI chat bots who they think is gonna be the next pope. at least for me, this is what they said lol ChatGPT: Cardinal Matteo Zuppi Grok: Cardinal Pietro Parolin DeepSeek: Cardinal Pietro Parolin Copilot: Cardinal Pietro Parolin

love when a PR flack opens their email with "As you may have seen,..." and then describe a story that you wrote lmao

pope yes

SCOOP: CBP says it plans to bring real-time facial recognition to outbound vehicle traffic lanes at US border crossings. This could be used to log every person who leaves the US by vehicle, and track the number of people self-deporting by vehicle. wired.com/story/cbp-face…

This week, I reported that CBP is asking tech companies for help w/ real-time facial rec on ppl *entering* the US by car Logging individuals *exiting* by car, never mind w/ facial rec, is unprecedented. It also happens to align w/ the admin wanting to track self-deportations

boat

“doo doo his tariffs”

hcjfsjjcskfkfb this happened to me too 😭😭😭

they should just alternate between HBO Max and Max every two years or so indefinitely. I think that’d be fun

SCOOP: A Silicon Valley venture capitalist claims he personally facilitated getting Starlink internet to the IDF within days of 10/7/23. This was days before the IDF targeted Gaza's telecom/internet, & 4 months before Israel permitted any Starlink use: wired.com/story/shaun-ma…

My father was a Nazi hunter, until he was killed in the Lockerbie bombing, when I was four. Now, a man will stand trial for the crime. What does it mean, after nearly forty years, to seek justice for the crimes of history? My new cover story for NYT Magazine: nytimes.com/2025/05/20/mag…

Listened to Original Sin yesterday—at one point Rep. Aguilar is quoted as saying Biden's advisors are "living the first lines of their obituaries right now. People don't give that up." When it's an elected rep, if line 1 also says you died in office....I mean that is your legacy

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