The Transitional Vectoring Edition

The situation remains normalizing, all facshed up. At least some of the folks working at Palantir are starting to understand what their work is doing to their world. According to reports in Wired Magazine and 404Media, employees of the meta-surveillance giant are not told how their products are extensively used by ICE to target and round-up real people. Listeners will be relieved to know that the CEOs of Apple, Anthropic, and OpenAI have all condemned ICE violence while couching their critiques with sycophantic praise for Trump. Meanwhile, TikTok users have reported they are unable to write the word "Epstein" or express criticism of US Leader Donald Trump. TikTok was recently forced to sell controlling interest of US operations to a group of investors loyal to Trump. TikTok introduced new terms of service allowing it to be even more brazen with personal privacy, ostensibly on behalf of Trump, than the former owner, ByteDance, was on behalf of the People's Republic of China. Same form-fields, bigger pile. It's hard to take the tech part seriously except it makes up the world we work in and it can be deadly serious, depending on who uses it for work.

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