Nosferatu Goes Digital: Thiel and the Vampire Network

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I was reading Carl Schmitt the other day and was struck by this quote of his from an essay published in 1927,

“The process of continuous neutralization of various domains of cultural life has reached its end because technology is at hand. Technology is no longer neutral ground in the sense of the process of neutralization; every strong politics will make use of it. For this reason, the present century can only be understood provisionally as the century of technology. How ultimately it should be understood will be revealed only when it is known which type of politics is strong enough to master the new technology and which type of genuine friend-enemy groupings can develop on this new ground.”​
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We're clearly in a moment where this can be felt particularly strongly, what with Musk, Zuckerberg and co. rushing to line up behind Trump and the politics of various tech companies and internet platforms being drastically reconfigured.
 
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I read it as an investment briefing that they're going to win a lot of defense contracts so jump on our stock now before they're announced. Handy as well as they have dipped in profit lately, as far as I can tell
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The fact the FT published this at all seems significant. It's so openly engaging with what's often billed as conspiracy theory.
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“Societies have always needed a warrior class that is enthused and excited about enacting violence on others in pursuit of good aims. You need people like me who are sick in that way and who don’t lose any sleep making tools of violence in order to preserve freedom.”
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A quote from Palmer Luckey ( 2024 )

Palmer Luckey: WARRIOR

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As he got up to leave, Gash tried to gift him a leather-bound collection of “The Lord of the Rings,” which is where Luckey got the name “Anduril.” But Luckey politely declined. “I cannot fit that on my motorcycle,” he said.
 
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Palmer Luckey on parenting:

“One, no school or college. Two, separate apartment in childhood. Three, move out at 16. Four, learn to drive all machines as early as possible. Five, leave the family fortune to one child. Six, children have to fly in economy while we are in business.” Luckey also believes strongly in (legally obtained) child labor (permits), that having fewer than 2.1 children would make him a traitor to the nation, and that children as young as 2 are fully capable of walking several miles without a stroller (“History shows it,” he says).
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on solving obesity:

he attempted to solve the obesity epidemic by making food out of petroleum products centrifuged out of the sewer system—a perfectly delicious and low-calorie idea, he maintains, which he only ditched because of the “marketing nightmare” of persuading people to eat remanufactured sewage
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Palmer the renaissance man:
In his spare time, when he is not providing U.S. Customs and Border Patrol with AI-powered long-range sensors, or Volodymyr Zelenskyy with drones to attack high-value Russian targets, or winning first place in the Texas Renaissance Festival’s costume contest with historically meticulous renderings of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn sewn and stitched by his wife, Nicole—who’s been at his side for 16 of his 31 years on earth—Luckey recently built a bypass for his peripheral nervous system to experiment with giving himself superhuman reflexes; vestibular implants to pipe sounds into his skull so that instead of having to call him and wait for him to pick up, Anduril employees could just pick up a designated Palmer Phone and talk straight into his head; and a virtual reality headset that—by tying three explosive charges to a narrow-band photosensor that can detect when the screen flashes red at a specific frequency (i.e., GAME OVER)—kills you in real life when you die in a video game.
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virtual reality headset that—by tying three explosive charges to a narrow-band photosensor that can detect when the screen flashes red at a specific frequency (i.e., GAME OVER)—kills you in real life when you die in a video game.

Is actually a brilliant idea tbf
 
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If one were to begin joining the dots in a cynical manner you could well believe that the Palantir NHS data contract

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NHS England must cancel its contract with Palantir

In November 2023, NHS England awarded Palantir a £330m contract to create a new data management system called the Federated Data Platform (FDP) that aims to provide “joined up” NHS services.1 Palantir is an American technology company that specialises in artificial intelligence powered military...
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Created relevant data models that lead us to


The data acquisition model in full effect
 
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Zuckerberg is perhaps the most normal looking of them nowadays, because he's been told to dress like a harmless stoner bro by a PR team (or by AI?)
 
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peter theils 3 possible futures for europe

1.sharia law. everyone has to wear a burka
2.the eye of sauron totalitarian AI survelliance
3.hyper environmentalism. compulsory e-scooter travel
 
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wg- said:
I read it as an investment briefing that they're going to win a lot of defense contracts so jump on our stock now before they're announced. Handy as well as they have dipped in profit lately, as far as I can tell
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I really Want to be more worldly like you. Obviously there's no substitute for living in the real world. Which I'm not going to do, but are there information sources I could plug into that would help me? Perhaps I should start investing and trading and so on?
 
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I have been recently been thinking of jacking everything in and buying into a little business in the balearics, instead, as it goes
 
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From a boring point of view, one thing about FT articles is that they should mostly be free of propaganda to a large extent as not being aimed at your average dickhead. So they're not trying to persuade anyone to believe anything daft, their audience just wants to make money. It should in theory be the most dry and analytical paper.

So if you have the head of a firm chatting all kinds of "the end of the old system" in the FT then what's he trying to do other than allude to a financial situation, or maybe at a push combat articles like this?

 
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I have been recently been thinking of jacking everything in and buying into a little business in the balearics, instead, as it goes
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Headlines two months from now:

"Clueless Englishman caught with million quid's worth of Ecstasy in what police call 'most disorganised drug network we've ever seen'."
 
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