If it is partly due to exposure to reptile venom - take a day or three with no such exposure, while the body restores, and recharges the immune system. You know it will not have changed in any material way when you come back to translating the pennants flying from the flagship.
Jean de La Bruyère 17th-century French writer and philosopher (1645–1696) On DP (imo) and the Pond... "There are a great many obscene minds, yet more railing and satirical, but very few fastidious ones. A Dorothy Parker must have good manners, be very polite, and even have a great deal of originality to be able to jest gracefully and be felicitous in his remarks about trifles; to jest in such a manner and to make something out of nothing is to create." 4 https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jean_de_La_Bruyère
Thanks for continuing to create (and hopefully Succession planned) Loonoond. Best wishes Dorothy. And thanks to Mrs Parker too.
On cutting scribblers down to size... "Lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller." Aphorism 95
Skull, Dug, A Re aka Palantir Technology > Oracle Ellission's > Paramount Skydive > UK Telegraph...has a new hire named "Baron Tom Watson of Wyre Forest"!
Yes, UK Newscorpse NoW phone hacking Tom Watson, then a mere UK politician
"Meet the real AI “rogue agent”: Lord Tom Watson The former Labour leader is out of control. The world needs a containment strategy now Carole Cadwalladr "Pulitzer-nominated investigative journalist. Exposed Facebook/Cambridge Analytica. Spoke about in a TED talk. Got sued. Survived (just)." Sep 27, 2026
"Watson is now Baron Tom Watson of Wyre Forest, a lifetime position in which he gets a daily allowance, subsidised bars, his pick of any number of directorships and the opportunity to play an active and important role in the UK legislature. And, as of last week, he’s also Palantir’s latest hire. Step forward: UK Senior Vice President at Palantir Technologies." ... "Watson “got” the story is because he’d played a key role in the parliamentary committee that held Rupert Murdoch to account over the phone hacking scandal. Watson was there leading the questioning on the day that Murdoch went to parliament which he described as “the most humble day of my life.” ... "Bari Weiss’s Free Press was bought by Paramount Skydance, owned by David - son of Larry - Ellison, the tech bro billionaire behind Oracle. Weiss was promptly installed as the editor-in-chief of US network, CBS, which Paramount also acquired. Next in the line of fire is CNN and HBO whose parent company, Warner Bros, is on the cusp of being bought by Paramount. Meanwhile, in Britain, Döpfner has bought the Daily Telegraph. ... "Why Britain? Why now? Why this whole dog-and-pony show with the special suck-a-broligarch’s-dick award? What does Döpfner need Thiel for? What does Thiel need Döpfner for? What kind of quid pro quo is this? Palantir’s relationship with the UK state - its second most important customer - is at a potential tipping point. (As is Britain’s relationship with Israel, another joint Döpfner-Thiel concern. Döpfner tells his employees if they don’t agree with his stance “We shall all be Zionists!”, they should get jobs elsewhere.) But what’s most compelling is how this is happening at a particular moment in which Palantir’s relationship with the British government finally looks like it might be hitting the skids. For an insight into how threatened Palantir is by the new Andy Burnham government, I present you with exhibit A: [Cambridge Analytica] "Here’s me with the #pinkhairdatawhistleblower (second left) and the then deputy leader of the Labour party at the Labour conference in 2018. He’s the guy standing up making an impassioned point in front of the screen saying: “The Cambridge Analytica Files: data, scandal and democracy.” ... "Nerve published a comprehensive piece on the “Palantir pipeline” in which we found more than 30 senior government officials who’d been poached by Palantir from the highest levels of the NHS, Ministry of Defence and security services. Watson’s name featured in the article and after mulling it for a bit, I decided to message him. ... "He saw the thread of connective tissue between press baron Murdoch, data baron Robert Mercer and Silicon Valley baron, Mark Zuckerberg. It’s all about power. For years, Murdoch’s influence over UK, US and Australian politics was almost unassailable. Now, that influence has passed to Silicon Valley and Watson is sucking from its teat even as the broligarchs square the circle and buy up what remains of legacy media. Anyway, here’s a snippet of his introductory video. Most nauseating of all is his claim that he’s going to tackle “propaganda” about the company. Or as we know it, “journalism”. ... https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/meet-the-real-ai-rogue-agent-lord
Tom Watson and the "Silicunt Valley" Gang. Pt 2... "... and while Döpfner’s purchase, yet another blow to Britain’s beleaguered print media, is depressing, it’s also curious.
Why Britain? Why now? Why this whole dog-and-pony show with the special suck-a-broligarch’s-dick award? What does Döpfner need Thiel for? What does Thiel need Döpfner for? What kind of quid pro quo is this?
Palantir’s relationship with the UK state - its second most important customer - is at a potential tipping point. (As is Britain’s relationship with Israel, another joint Döpfner-Thiel concern. Döpfner tells his employees if they don’t agree with his stance “We shall all be Zionists!”, they should get jobs elsewhere.)
"I could go on. And on. My old newspaper, the Observer, is currently serving up AI propaganda on behalf of the UAE. As I wrote in a Twitter thread earlier, some will say there’s nothing wrong with a slave state known for its human rights violations sponsoring tech coverage at Britain’s oldest liberal paper. I’m just not sure Observer readers are among them. But nobody’s asking them. And it’s just yet another depressing data point on the whole tech bro-media baron convergence. I leave you with the brilliant Cody Dahler who does very funny three-minute explainers of the news on Instagram. I moderated a panel earlier for the Nerve at the inaugural Kings Cross Vision Festival, on “Fighting Hate With Humour” with Deborah Frances-White who hosts the extraordinary Guilty Feminist podcast, a one-woman movement bringing feminism to the masses.
"We showed Cody’s AI Special in which - dammit - he coins the phrase, Silicunt Valley. I am so jealous. Anyhow, watch and enjoy! https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/meet-the-real-ai-rogue-agent-lord
Get well soon Dot. Hope all is OK.
ReplyDeleteTa Kez, hopefully it's just a brief detour ....and in that spirit there's a reading offered for the next day ...
DeleteIf it is partly due to exposure to reptile venom - take a day or three with no such exposure, while the body restores, and recharges the immune system. You know it will not have changed in any material way when you come back to translating the pennants flying from the flagship.
ReplyDeleteJean de La Bruyère
ReplyDelete17th-century French writer and philosopher (1645–1696)
On DP (imo) and the Pond...
"There are a great many obscene minds, yet more railing and satirical, but very few fastidious ones. A Dorothy Parker must have good manners, be very polite, and even have a great deal of originality to be able to jest gracefully and be felicitous in his remarks about trifles; to jest in such a manner and to make something out of nothing is to create."
4
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jean_de_La_Bruyère
Thanks for continuing to create (and hopefully Succession planned) Loonoond.
Best wishes Dorothy.
And thanks to Mrs Parker too.
On cutting scribblers down to size...
"Lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller."
Aphorism 95
The Price of Capture. Tom Watson edition.
ReplyDeleteSkull, Dug, A Re aka Palantir Technology > Oracle Ellission's > Paramount Skydive > UK Telegraph...has a new hire named "Baron Tom Watson of Wyre Forest"!
Yes, UK Newscorpse NoW phone hacking Tom Watson, then a mere UK politician
"Meet the real AI “rogue agent”: Lord Tom Watson
The former Labour leader is out of control. The world needs a containment strategy now
Carole Cadwalladr
"Pulitzer-nominated investigative journalist. Exposed Facebook/Cambridge Analytica. Spoke about in a TED talk. Got sued. Survived (just)."
Sep 27, 2026
"Watson is now Baron Tom Watson of Wyre Forest, a lifetime position in which he gets a daily allowance, subsidised bars, his pick of any number of directorships and the opportunity to play an active and important role in the UK legislature. And, as of last week, he’s also Palantir’s latest hire. Step forward: UK Senior Vice President at Palantir Technologies."
...
"Watson “got” the story is because he’d played a key role in the parliamentary committee that held Rupert Murdoch to account over the phone hacking scandal. Watson was there leading the questioning on the day that Murdoch went to parliament which he described as “the most humble day of my life.”
...
"Bari Weiss’s Free Press was bought by Paramount Skydance, owned by David - son of Larry - Ellison, the tech bro billionaire behind Oracle. Weiss was promptly installed as the editor-in-chief of US network, CBS, which Paramount also acquired. Next in the line of fire is CNN and HBO whose parent company, Warner Bros, is on the cusp of being bought by Paramount. Meanwhile, in Britain, Döpfner has bought the Daily Telegraph.
...
"Why Britain? Why now? Why this whole dog-and-pony show with the special suck-a-broligarch’s-dick award? What does Döpfner need Thiel for? What does Thiel need Döpfner for? What kind of quid pro quo is this?
Palantir’s relationship with the UK state - its second most important customer - is at a potential tipping point. (As is Britain’s relationship with Israel, another joint Döpfner-Thiel concern. Döpfner tells his employees if they don’t agree with his stance “We shall all be Zionists!”, they should get jobs elsewhere.)
But what’s most compelling is how this is happening at a particular moment in which Palantir’s relationship with the British government finally looks like it might be hitting the skids. For an insight into how threatened Palantir is by the new Andy Burnham government, I present you with exhibit A:
[Cambridge Analytica]
"Here’s me with the #pinkhairdatawhistleblower (second left) and the then deputy leader of the Labour party at the Labour conference in 2018. He’s the guy standing up making an impassioned point in front of the screen saying: “The Cambridge Analytica Files: data, scandal and democracy.”
...
"Nerve published a comprehensive piece on the “Palantir pipeline” in which we found more than 30 senior government officials who’d been poached by Palantir from the highest levels of the NHS, Ministry of Defence and security services. Watson’s name featured in the article and after mulling it for a bit, I decided to message him.
...
"He saw the thread of connective tissue between press baron Murdoch, data baron Robert Mercer and Silicon Valley baron, Mark Zuckerberg. It’s all about power. For years, Murdoch’s influence over UK, US and Australian politics was almost unassailable. Now, that influence has passed to Silicon Valley and Watson is sucking from its teat even as the broligarchs square the circle and buy up what remains of legacy media.
Anyway, here’s a snippet of his introductory video. Most nauseating of all is his claim that he’s going to tackle “propaganda” about the company. Or as we know it, “journalism”.
...
https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/meet-the-real-ai-rogue-agent-lord
Tom Watson and the "Silicunt Valley" Gang.
DeletePt 2...
"... and while Döpfner’s purchase, yet another blow to Britain’s beleaguered print media, is depressing, it’s also curious.
Why Britain? Why now? Why this whole dog-and-pony show with the special suck-a-broligarch’s-dick award? What does Döpfner need Thiel for? What does Thiel need Döpfner for? What kind of quid pro quo is this?
Palantir’s relationship with the UK state - its second most important customer - is at a potential tipping point. (As is Britain’s relationship with Israel, another joint Döpfner-Thiel concern. Döpfner tells his employees if they don’t agree with his stance “We shall all be Zionists!”, they should get jobs elsewhere.)
"I could go on. And on. My old newspaper, the Observer, is currently serving up AI propaganda on behalf of the UAE. As I wrote in a Twitter thread earlier, some will say there’s nothing wrong with a slave state known for its human rights violations sponsoring tech coverage at Britain’s oldest liberal paper. I’m just not sure Observer readers are among them. But nobody’s asking them. And it’s just yet another depressing data point on the whole tech bro-media baron convergence.
I leave you with the brilliant Cody Dahler who does very funny three-minute explainers of the news on Instagram. I moderated a panel earlier for the Nerve at the inaugural Kings Cross Vision Festival, on “Fighting Hate With Humour” with Deborah Frances-White who hosts the extraordinary Guilty Feminist podcast, a one-woman movement bringing feminism to the masses.
"We showed Cody’s AI Special in which - dammit - he coins the phrase, Silicunt Valley. I am so jealous. Anyhow, watch and enjoy!
https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/meet-the-real-ai-rogue-agent-lord