NEW: Palantir’s revolving door. A new investigation by THE NERVE has found Palantir has recruited more than 30 senior officials from UK govt, a strategy transparency experts say poses an ‘acute risk’ of corruption. 1/ Link ⬇️

We were all sold the story that Large Language Models were finally the path to human level artificial intelligence (AGI). It was a constant hard sell, day after day for nearly three years. They told us building bigger data centres and bigger, faster models would make AGI

LA is a walkable city if you are pure of heart

West LA CicLAVia today! I can almost guarantee that ice cream shop & other businesses in this area had more sales today than usual! The people crave open streets

In case it wasn't 100% clear to everyone that all core Silicon Valley (a16z, YC, Sequoia, Altman, Dario, Musk, Thiel, Karp, Sacks, Srinivasan, Lonsdale, Buterin, Ravikant, Friedman, Armstrong, Masad) thinks about is creating the Network State

Palantir, a CIA front company, now has its tentacles in the food supply, our healthcare data, our growing autonomous weapons industry, the military, the entire US intelligence community, border patrol, Space Force and so on. Seemingly, Palantir is soon to become the testrun for

Israel's war cost just passed $135 billion. Debt jumped from 60% to 70% of GDP. Defense spending up 130%. And who is paying for it? The US taxpayer. The Bank of Israel released the data themselves. Since October 2023: · Over 400 billion shekels ($135 billion) · Economic gains

The situation with oil is worse than you think. The oil wells of Iran, Iraq, Kuwait and the UAE are not like a garden hose. They are mature, low-pressure reservoirs that require precise gas injection to maintain flow. Once that flow stops, water encroachment -- what engineers

Today is International Jazz Day.

#BreakingNews: A May Day march is currently underway in Los Angeles.

While everyone watched Iran, Washington quietly finalized Nord Stream’s replacement: Poseidon. 4 gas deals in 4 months 🇸🇾🇮🇱🇬🇷🇨🇾 $3 trillion dollars I spent weeks on these maps and this investigation to expose the US agenda in Iran and globally. richardmedhurst.substack.com/p/how-the-us-p…

1/ The world faces a catastrophic cliff-edge shortage of oil due to the Strait of Hormuz blockade in the next four weeks, analysts warn. This will cause a deep recession, fuel rationing, the shutdown of entire industries, and oil prices potentially as high as $370 per barrel. ⬇️

I’m Californian before I’m American

Do not underestimate the significance of this: China has issued an injunction against US sanctions on five teapot refineries that have been taking Iranian oil— entierly dismissing America's *authority* all together. Yet another watershed moment in the humiliating, accelerating

🔸 It Ain't Over Yet From what I have been able to piece together so far, the US Navy boldly ordered a pair of patrol boats to cross the yellow line (see image below) and penetrate the Gulf of Oman as far as they could until they drew Iranian fire. That happened somewhere near

The first library built during the genocide.

Front row view of the D Line Ext! Free rides from 4am Fri May 8 thru 3am Mon May 11 on Metro 🚇🚍🚲🚐 Community celebrations 12:30pm-4pm Fri at new stations + Wilshire/Western

In all my years covering this stuff, I have NEVER seen Americans so explicitly labeled terrorists like they are in the newly released national counterterrorism strategy 👇 kenklippenstein.com/p/insane-pre-c…

One of the earliest full-scale protest records in jazz. Abbey Lincoln live with Max Roach, Clifford Jordan, Coleridge Perkinson, and Eddie Khan. "Driva' Man" from Roach and Oscar Brown Jr.'s We Insist! Freedom Now Suite, 1964.