Saturday Morning Coffee

Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ Steve Rose • The Guardian In April, Gil Durán was permanently banned from Elon Musk’s X for posting just two words. Durán was responding to a post from the tech company Palantir outlining its 22‑point “technological manifesto”, which praised American “hard power”, western culture and AI weapons, denounced inclusivity and called for compulsory national service. Durán responded: “TLDR: Fascism” (TLDR is short for “too long, didn’t read”). The tech oligarchs — broligarchs — are a danger to us all. They have waaaay too much money and in cases are pusing an extreme right-wing agenda. Space Karen and his friend Peter Thiel are particularly extreme in their beliefs. We simply don’t need them in charge of anything to do with how we live our lives. Curtis Yarvin is ready to employ volunrary euthanasia — Nazi’s called it Lebensunwertes Leben — to deal with what he calls unproductive citizens. Yeah, it’s a Nazi thing. Get lost, all of you.🖕🏼 Kasta…

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