#AlexKarp, CEO of #Palantir:

[bigtittybimbo@kolektiva.social]

@benroyce Palantir was founded by former senior CIA members, they know the US gov is backing them to the hilt, so it's not surprising really.

[amalia22@mastodon.social]

@benroyce Because they all are.

[ldmay65@universeodon.com]

@benroyce
Um, is he just sitting in his underwear? Creep. Definitely an under shirt. Hair a disaster. So respectful him to roll out of bed to talk to their investors. /s
Why are these guys all so creepy??

[dawilson999@sfba.social]

@benroyce This isn’t remotely funny. It is horrifying.

[eruwero@ieji.de]

@benroyce @Hippie yes. How the fuck can someone read/watch a story with one of the clearest distinctions between good and evil and what they take away from it is that they want to do exactly what the evil guys did? WTF? And they don't even try to hide it and people seem to be fine with it. WTF?!

[kilroy_was_here@dobbs.town]

@benroyce They're the biggest losers in all the world trying to feel cool.

[lespocky@machteburch.social]

@benroyce Stopped reading at "disrupt". 🤢

[ox1de@cyberplace.social]

@benroyce little do they know murder goes both ways. These techbros live in a bubble that won’t protect them. They’re very naive, it’s like they think re-spawning is an option

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@lespocky

why? you don't love c-suite jargon combined with murderous psychopathy?

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@FourT4 😆

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@SilverOwl

#AlexKarp's doctoral thesis in social theory from Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany in 2002 was called

"Aggression in der Lebenswelt: Die Erweiterung des Parsonsschen Konzepts der Aggression durch die Beschreibung des Zusammenhangs von Jargon, Aggression und Kultur"

("Aggression in the Lifeworld: The Extension of Parsons' Concept of Aggression by Describing the Connection Between Jargon, Aggression, and Culture")

to combat it, right?

nope

to refine it, become it

#Palantir

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@FediThing

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[regguy@mstdn.social]

@benroyce That is a disturbing video. He is most definitely hopped up on something chemical.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@Midi3e

what do you mean. that's what he says in the video

this is real video from an investor meeting

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@inj4n

cheerful psychopathy. like you see in a horror movie and then you laugh because it's so absurd. but it's not. it's real

#AlexKarp #Palantir

[paninid@mastodon.world]

@benroyce

I would love to see a body language expert break down this video.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@paninid

look up #AlexKarp's background. it's unsettling

he has a Ph.D. in neoclassical social theory. his doctoral thesis was on aggression

so he's like a medical doctor who has studied a malignant disease... but to perfect it, extend it, worsen it

it's almost as if you're looking at a guy who is acting like this and saying these things as a distillation of a mode of behavior they know on an intimate academic level: psychopathy as an intellectual fetish, in order to become it!

#Palantir

[michellebacon@mstdn.social]

@benroyce They look like 1960s Star Trek villains in athleisure vests. Same cheap set.

[jamesbazan@mastodon.coffee]

@benroyce @SilverOwl a paragraph in Section IV of that dissertation:

"... according to Adorno, there is a causal relationship between alogical argumentation and relief-provided that the argumentation is carried out at the expense of outsiders. ...the contradictions in [Martin Walser's Nobel speech disparaging Holocaust commemoration] changes little in its real significance... It retains its factualness because it relieves. That is its purpose; that is its cultural meaning."

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@michellebacon

i thought:

is this video #AI?

it's too glib, too cheerful

maybe it's absurd fictional satire a la "American Psycho"?

nope, it's real:

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/01/nx-s1-5372776/palantir-tech-contracts-trump

#AlexKarp #Palantir