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Software @ Palantir. Christ is King. Who Dares Wins.

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Last week during AIPCon I had the pleasure of sitting down with @amitisinvesting to talk about the thing we both can't shut up about: Palantir.
$PLTR WE GOT THE KEVIN INTERVIEW FOLKS. Kevin Mark is one of the coolest people on the planet and he just so happens to work at Palantir. He sat down with me at Palantir's latest AIPCon to discuss the culture of Palantir, why he can't imagine working anywhere else, and how he
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Those looking to escape the woke mind virus are welcome to find purpose at Palantir.
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White and Asian men are not able to apply for Apple's new "Entrepreneur Camp"
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@danluu This can be seen even by their iOS apps receiving improvements before their Android counterparts.
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Typical desk at Palantir during hack week.
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iVerify and Palantir recently discovered a system-level app installed on millions of Pixel phones that, if enabled, can be trivially exploited to take full control of your device. Google and Verizon are removing the dangerous app in response to our work.
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Vice Admiral Frank Whitworth discussing how the @NGA_GEOINT employs Maven Smart System to keep America safe. 🇺🇸
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Shyam announced our Code Breakers internship just the other day. You should look into it.
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Shyam Sankar
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For college coders interested in Defense Tech, I’m launching the Code Breakers internship program this fall. Start your clearance process as soon as you accept your offer. You'll see your code used highside in real world operations.
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“But the primary risk to society is not fake information. It’s a society that’s willing to believe the fake information because they’re wondering: Why doesn’t my school work? Why doesn’t my border work? Why have I been taught things in school that don’t work? Why do I know
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I think about this Alex Karp clip often:
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You love to see it.
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Behold, the Silicon Valley God Complex that Dr. Karp has been outspoken against for the better half of a decade.
@woke8yearold
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This is actually mind blowing. Google maps doesn’t have a scenic route option because of DEI. And people wonder why Google is getting crushed and all their products are garbage
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The best is yet to come.
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And finally, we are raising our FY 2024 revenue guidance to $2,742 - $2,750m, a $63m increase compared to our prior guidance and $45m above the midpoint of analyst estimates of $2,699 - $2,703m.
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For some time, our kids have been thoroughly brainwashed into believing that unnecessary schooling, going tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars into debt, and worst of all, becoming a “well rounded person” is some kind of Western rite-of-passage. A type of socially
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Palantir’s Frontend Infrastructure team is hiring! If you’re a force multiplier to the devs around you and serious about saving our Western way of life, this engineering role is for you. DM me if you’re interested. More info here:
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It's game time. We're taking the culture back. For far too long we've let the inmates run the asylum because good men sat idly by and did nothing. That pathetic exercise ends this decade.
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Let's goooooo #SCSPAIExpo2024
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Dr. Karp earlier today: “I think the central risk to Palantir, America, and the world is a regressive way of thinking that is corrupting and corroding our institutions that calls itself progressive, but actually — and is called woke — but is actually a form of a thin pagan
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It's happening.
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When we were hobbitlings... @PalantirTech 's original office @garrytan and Aki soaking up Dr. Karp's philosophy The original Palantir swag: "Cowardice Kills" @Elianoayounes bring it back.
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@Austen @h_sligting Was watching this video the other night and if you skip to 17:28 he quite literally makes the argument that rural Americans are too stupid to pick what’s actually in their best interests and so they must be governed by their betters. Gross stuff.
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Forward Deployed Engineering. You might say.
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home depot swes are gonna have a blue collar experience
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The magic of the Palantir internship is that we present our interns with a radically more compelling vision for their futures. The experience is so visceral that it rewires the reward centers of their brains. The “five year plan” (to become an automaton) that felt satisfying in
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Just finished up Freedom’s Forge. Feeling robbed I didn’t read this in high school. Can’t recommend it enough to the $PLTR community. Let me know what you think.
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“Let us end the famine of the last supper with a first breakfast.” @ssankar at #SCSPAIExpo2024
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Finally found a few moments to update with Dr. Karp's public appearances over the last two months. Feel free to send things my way if it's missing something.
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We don't deserve this. God is good.
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Mechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster!
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Sad to see. Switzerland has gifted System Integrators a monopoly on government software procurement. Unintended consequences abound. They must’ve missed this First Breakfast article from @ssankar , @Madeline_Zimm , and Greg Little:
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Kenneth Reitz
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Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source
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Chart actually reflects current steak dinner offerings and steak dinner strategy.
@FanaHOVA
Alessio Fanelli
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It has to be illegal to say that IBM has a better foundation model offering than OpenAI right? @FTC hello?
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Deeply appreciative of @amitisinvesting and the entire Palantir retail investor community for helping us get our message out there through opportunities like this and so many others.
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After Santa builds out his route in AIP, global mission execution is powered by Palantir Gotham’s real time geoanalysis suite. Each Christmas Eve I have the privilege of hosting Palantir Tracks Santa: our internal Santa-tracking service layered on top of the Gotham platform.
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At #Palantir , we're always thinking about how our software can solve operational challenges. This holiday season, we considered the colossal task facing one person: Santa. We thought he might want to try AIP. See our demo for the team up north:
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In case it wasn't clear, this is what Dr. Karp is talking about.
BREAKING: The George Washington University Encampment projects flames onto the American flag with text that reads... "Gaza lights the spark that will set the empire ablaze"
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Imagine what our adversaries think as we print the blueprints for our own destruction. Degrowth must be ridiculed and ostracized at every opportunity. Give no quarter to evil.
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@amitisinvesting If you haven't already, be sure to check out @amitisinvesting 's interview with my fellow hobbit Sasha. It takes a (small, relentlessly executing) village to host events like these for our customers. But it takes Sasha's vision to make it AIPCon.
SASHA!!!! Sasha is the reason why AIPCon is as amazing as it is. Here's a deeper look into why the people who work at Palantir continue to work at Palantir. 00:00 - What does Sasha do at Palantir 02:25 - Journey of getting customers to tell their story 04:57 - Leveling up the
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Had the opportunity to sit in on an internal demo of our latest branching infrastructure. It's crazy.. The team is taking the "cheap branching" approach that git pioneered, and applying it to data types and state machines that everyone else thought fundamentally unbranchable.
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Customer: "How do you move so fast?" $PLTR: "Many small changes, it's the safest way as well" Did you know branching isn't just for your code, in @PalantirTech 's tooling you can branch data, pipelines, applications, Ontology and even your business. 🤯
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The Return of the King 👑
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Let's make it a trilogy. AIPCon returns tomorrow, March 7. After nearly 850 Bootcamps, our customers are ready to show what they've built with AIP, including 20+ new clients and partners: @Lennar , @GeneralMills , @Lowes , @OpenAI , @ConeHealth and more. Learn more:
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An industry in its death throes. Articles like these are a type of group therapy for those in legacy media, where they get to play dress-up as cultural authorities.
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A couple of *actually* influential people in AI are missing here… They must really love those steak dinners!
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@lauriewired Worth reading this thread with commentary on bionic from the creator of the competing musl libc.
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You’d think the “AI Safety” people would be all over this and wouldn’t take a knowledge cutoff as an acceptable excuse.
@BillboardChris
Billboard Chris 🇨🇦🇺🇸
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Meta AI says the Trump assassination attempt is a fictional event.
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But shortly thereafter their ears are filled with (usually) well-intentioned advice from people who simply do not, and perhaps cannot, understand what’s at stake. “Hedge your bets. Keep your options open. What you experienced wasn’t real. It’s just a job. Focus on graduating
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@GarciaCap Accurate depiction of Palantirians after an internal Shyam rallying cry
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Pain is a privilege.
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$PLTR CTO @ssankar at #AUSA2024 🔥🔮 “The only requirement is winning” “Innovation requires some degree of chaos. It cannot be managed through a process” “Excellence is not pain free. I don’t want to sound like a masochist but if you’re doing it right, it’s going to be painful”
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@amitisinvesting This is legit bad UX though. Should be some type of warning before you reach the limit. Answering machines did this 30 some years ago.
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Save the Shire.
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@cryps1s @PalantirTech It's been an honor, Dane. Excited to see you export Save the Shire security culture across American industry.
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This will line the pockets of those System Integrators, collecting billable hours for custom (read: proprietary) code to duct tape FOSS products together. They're not about to share that cash with your friendly neighborhood open source developer.
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I love Celsius, but there’s something about that first sip of Red Bull after a long drought.
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This is unironically worth every ounce of carbon it took to create. Most things are, actually.
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People will be like, “generative AI has no practical use case,” but I did just use it to replace every app icon on my home screen with images of Kermit, soooo
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🚨🚨🚨
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@wintrgrnbuffalo @WholeMarsBlog It’s new, I was going to do an official launch of it next week but why not right here right now: * We have removed the 500 USD credit and 30 day trial period. Now it is just free in perpetuity. We want folks to be able to enjoy the full power of Foundry and AIP, without
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I love how Apple tries to shame you into keeping this anti-human “feature” on with a popup when you turn it off. Our betters in The Valley truly know what’s best for us.
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"Environmental impact studies" strike again.
@SawyerMerritt
Sawyer Merritt
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NEWS: Jeff Bezos' rocket company Blue Origin has filed a comment to the FAA saying they should cap SpaceX's Starship launches from Cape Canaveral due to "impact on local environment". Blue Origin, founded in 2000 (~2 years before SpaceX), has not reached orbit yet.
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Big degrowth energy from Slack, let me build
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They're not sending their best
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America takes home another W. We are truly a blessed land.
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A global map of soil quality. What stands out?
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When you see an ad from your power company telling you to use less power, you know something is deeply wrong.
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Press F class shares to pay respects
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I hate to say this but this looks to be a solid W for the @PalantirTech approach to AI.
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@Either_Square An industry in its death throes. Articles like these are a type of group therapy for those in legacy media, where they get to play dress-up as cultural authorities.
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Another L for “experts.”
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Sebastiaan de With
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Incredible stuff from The Washington Post here.
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Legacy Media still doesn't get it.
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@from_juba The difficult thing here is that this impacts "bare metal" systems in such that they fail to boot. If they can't boot, they can't self-apply a fix. Containers and VMs have a hypervisor that can apply patches offline.
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Fossil Future from @AlexEpstein has become my go-to resource for debunking antihuman energy degrowth activism. Fossil fuels aren't evil. They are the single greatest earthly gift to human civilization. Kudos to @BaronVonSchnuck for the recommendation.
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@Elianoayounes Price controls now!!
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@Elianoayounes Telling on yourself with this one, we need to get you out of the city
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I thank God for the gift of living at this exact moment, among these free people, in the United States of America. We are the most blessed country on this Earth. Happy Independence Day.
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Columbus saved us from this fate.
@s8mb
Sam Bowman
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What could the problem be?
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@amitisinvesting @cmwahlqu @Elianoayounes If I get to pick the flavor it’s gotta be Celsius. Red Bull has that builder antiquity though.
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@pmarca They deserve each other
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The juxtaposition in leadership between these two interviews. $PLTR: C3 “AI”:
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Tom Nash
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A must see interview of Alex Karp. This man makes most other CEOs look bad by just staying true to himself and not selling out. $PLTR
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As LLMs mature, I'm expecting ASICs to take over from GPUs just as they did for crypto. Will be interesting to see how NVIDIA responds to that.
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@Elianoayounes The word is yapping
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Banning TikTok is a tacit admission of our inability or unwillingness to present a more compelling narrative to the next generation of Americans.
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My first real job in tech was managing and writing custom plugins for a WordPress site. WP was a stalwart example of the democratizing power of open-source software. A shame to see it publicly self-destruct.
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Advanced Custom Fields
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We have been made aware that the Advanced Custom Fields plugin on the WordPress directory has been taken over by WordPress dot org. A plugin under active development has never been unilaterally and forcibly taken away from its creator without consent in the 21 year history of
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When bribery is more expensive than your bounty in Skyrim.
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@BrettKrieger12 Fact check: ✅ True
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@PalmerLuckey Cowardice kills
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Cue the credit card commercial where I’m excited to spend more money because I’ll get more rewards points
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“I would be very cautious against anything that is anti-meritocratic, and anything that results in the suppression of free speech. Those are two aspects of the woke mind virus that I think are very dangerous.”
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@GamingDao @em013L @arny_trezzi @cmwahlqu @Elianoayounes Would love to see what you come up with (notional data ofc)
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Tapping the sign:
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@GarciaCap @chadwahl Look, Palantir has over 3800 employees, all with their own unique views and opinions of the world, the company, software, etc. Nobody is ever forced to think a certain way. But I’ll just say this: the non believers don’t last long. If you don’t believe in the mission and idea
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Degrowth is vile. One of our most disgraced institutions wants you to believe that the revitalization of American industry is a bad thing. Their message is clear: Be fearful of the future. Don’t have kids. Do not build. Decelerate.
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@MabreyTed @amitisinvesting Mayo is a disgusting slop. A culinary Elmer's glue to bind bits of real food together.
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@petewilz Was having this conversation with another Palantirian the other day. My favorite theory is that this weird bifurcation is a visible artifact of some arcane infrastructure limitation.
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@amitisinvesting We're very blessed to live in a time and place where division of labor is real and have the luxury to pursue our calling. You've clearly found yours. It's been a privilege to see you lock in and execute when the lights come on.
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The irony, given the publication.
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YAML should be Schedule II’d.
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@petewilz I lack intellect
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The Disney-Channelification of American youth. If kids are going to be raised by mass media, bring back Modern Marvels, How It’s Made, Dogfights, MythBusters, etc.
@PalmerLuckey
Palmer Luckey
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You can't tell kids to follow their dreams when their dreams suck.
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@Elianoayounes Definitely depends on the texture of the fabric
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The enemy is real.
@Noahpinion
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼
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What the fuck
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@jawwwn_ @reidhoffman This is what character looks like.
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@from_juba Can confirm that the white hat goes hardest at the beach
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I sleep like a baby
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$PLTR Palantir does not seem so crazy now with those F class shares.
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There are few things more dangerous to the survival of the American experiment than Men Without Work. Highly recommend Nicholas Eberstadt’s book on exactly this.
@unusual_whales
unusual_whales
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"America's young men are falling even further behind," per WSJ. Men in their 20s and early 30s are much more likely than female peers to live with their parents, and many say they feel aimless and isolated, per WSJ.
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Division of labor is the coolest thing ever.
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It's a bad day to be a beer.
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