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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/67955108

Palantir and Nuclear Company will jointly create the nuclear operating system (NOS), which will simplify construction, allowing the firm to build plants faster and at lower cost.

The deal follows U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive orders that aimed to boost U.S. nuclear energy production amid a boom in demand from data centers and AI.

The orders, signed in May, direct the nation’s independent nuclear regulatory commission to cut down on regulations and fast-track new licenses for reactors and power plants.

 

Palantir and Nuclear Company will jointly create the nuclear operating system (NOS), which will simplify construction, allowing the firm to build plants faster and at lower cost.

The deal follows U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive orders that aimed to boost U.S. nuclear energy production amid a boom in demand from data centers and AI.

The orders, signed in May, direct the nation’s independent nuclear regulatory commission to cut down on regulations and fast-track new licenses for reactors and power plants.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

It is insane how common it's become.

It's hard to even explain to people that there was a time when it used to be a very shocking thing to hear about.

"Back in my day, parents didn't have to send their kids off to school every morning pretending everything was normal, but internally struggling with anxiety they might never see them again."

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Don't forget Columbine. People always leave that out, but as far as historical milestones that shaped how awful American society has become, it was a big one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Palantir had a contract with New Orleans starting around ~2012 to create their predictive policing tech that scans surveillance cameras for very vague details and still misidentifies people.

It's very similar to Lavender, the tech they use to identify members of Hamas and attack with drones. This results in misidentified targets ~10% of the time, according to the IDF (likely it's a much higher misidentification rate than 10%).

Palantir picked Louisiana over somewhere like San Francisco bc they knew it would be a lot easier to violate rights and privacy here and get away with it.

Whatever they decide in New Orleans on Thursday during this Council meeting that nobody cares about, will likely be the first of its kind on the books legal basis to track civilians in the U.S. and allow the federal government to take control over that ability whenever they want. This could also set a precedent for use in other states.

Guess who's running the entire country right now, and just gave high ranking army contracts to Palantir employees for "no reason" while they are also receiving a multimillion dollar federal contract to create an insane database on every American and giant data centers are being built all across the country.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/61850217

Roe created the State Policy Network in 1992. to influence policy at the state level, allegedly after being urged to do so by Ronald Reagan. SPN currently has a network of think tanks in all 50 states.

TIL that Krieble funded the first of its kind Russian corporation for cooperation between Russia and U.S. businesses in 1991

 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/67597336

Hi Wisconsin, New Orleanian here.

This past May, Washington Post revealed the police in my city were secretly using the first of its kind facial recognition technology to track citizens in real time.

I'm posting here because I also learned that recently, Milwaukee police have been expressing interest in using facial recognition tech, despite protests from citizens.

New Orleans has been less than transparent about handling all of this, and NOPD has stopped using the tech since WaPo exposed they were violating a city ordinance. However, NOPD has now proposed an updated ordinance which would allow them to legally continue using the realtime tracking and facial recognition tech despite warnings from the ACLU that the ordinance will leave the city vulnerable to the federal government.

"If the federal government wants to use the data from New Orleans facial recognition system to identify and deport undocumented persons in the city, they just have to get a federal warrant to come in and get that data,” Marlow said. “And they’re going to use it for that purpose, regardless of what the local law says.”

“What the New Orleans City Council needs to understand, and they need to understand it right now, is that if they set up a system of this level of power in their city, and they don’t have lockdown control in all instances over the technology and its data, they are placing every resident of New Orleans and every visitor of New Orleans at risk,” Marlow continued. “Not only [is New Orleans] creating the possibility that the federal government could come in and commandeer this equipment and its data to go after people in New Orleans, they’re inviting it.”

The City Council meeting regarding the proposed ordinance is schedule for this Thursday, June 26 at 10:00a.m. CDT.

There is also a Livestream link if you or anyone you know is interested in watching the meeting

Whether you choose to watch or not, I hope you will stay vigilant about what AI and surveillance policy your local law enforcement might be considering and how it relates to your own civil liberties. I find it very odd that in addition to the concerns over police use of facial recognition tech, New Orleans and Wisconsin also share a concerning link to the Peter Thiel owned company Palantir.

Former Wisconsin Congressman Mike Gallagher was named Palantir's defense business chief in August of 2024.

From ~2012-2018, the city of New Orleans secretly partnered with Palantir and allowed the company to test it's controversial predictive policing tech.

After this secret contract was exposed, predictive policing and eventually facial recognition technology were banned in New Orleans in 2020. In 2022, the mayor requested the ban be lifted and replaced with an ordinance that would allow some very concerning surveillance practices by law enforcement, and allow facial recognition in certain circumstances as long as it followed the procedure outlined in the ordinance.

This is the same ordinance that WaPo proved NOPD was violating in May of this year, and the same ordinance New Orleans city council will vote to amend this Thursday, June 26, 2025.

Although the city has allegedly not worked with Palantir since the official contract was dissolved in 2018, Project Nola, the private surveillance company NOPD was receiving the facial recognition and real time tracking information from, was established in 2015 by a former New Orleans police officer. During this time, Palantir was still using surveillance tools throughout the city to create and test their new predictive policing tech.

It's important to note that in addition to owning Palantir, Peter Thiel also happens to fund the facial recognition software company Clearview AI. Clearview has been providing facial recognition software to federal agencies such as ICE and multiple local law enforcement agencies around the country since ~2020.

 

I've been putting this off, but with lemme.ee coming to an end in a few days, I decided to move over to sh.itjust.works and give it a try.

Given that the majority of people have realized that DOGE was created as an official way to steal tax dollars and remove oversight, I'm guessing fewer government officials will keep clinging to the DOGE identity (not Louisiana of course).

This community was also always meant to be a place to share and discuss any corruption happening at smaller levels of government anywhere across the world. I'm also giving the community a broader name, so hopefully more people will begin sharing things they notice happening at their local level.

There's a very good chance if you follow the money and power influencing corruption even at local level, it shares something in common with what's happening on a broader scale.

For instance, this post I recently made in a Wisconsin community regarding local police use of facial recognition technology in both Milwaukee, Wisconsin and over 800 miles away in my own city of New Orleans.

This is all very concerning stuff, and you would think it would be receiving more attention. For some reason, (can't speak for Wisconsin, but can confirm in Louisiana) it seems to be intentionally underreported/ignored/buried by local news and hasn't received much attention from outside news sources either, despite the precedence the decision made by New Orleans city council (this Thursday, June 26th) could set for use of very invasive AI powered government surveillance throughout the country.

So anyway, T.L.D.R. please subscribe and post your own local fuckery and corruption to Local Level Fuckery and Corruption

 

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Monday came out against a bipartisan war powers resolution to prevent U.S. intervention in Iran, a show of support for President Trump as dozens of lawmakers question the weekend strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.

Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), a libertarian and progressive pair, introduced a war powers resolution last week that would direct Trump to “terminate the use” of U.S. armed forces from Iran unless Congress authorizes such involvement. Massie said Monday the effort has 57 cosponsors, and he vowed to bring a vote on the legislation.

Asked Monday if he would allow the bipartisan measure to come to the floor for a vote, Johnson demurred, suggesting it was a political endeavor, and noted presidents in both parties had authorized military strikes without congressional approval.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

UCS definitely has good intentions.

I just don't have faith in the Trump OSTP to actually look at the evidence or even bother reading a letter to consider their next steps.

They've been planning this for a long time. If they can't capitalize on it, they will be getting rid of it.

 

The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) has until the end of June to develop new guidance for federal agencies. Federal agencies will use this guidance to create new policies that align with the Trump administration’s dubious definitions of scientific integrity and “gold standard science.”

The goals of scientific integrity policies are to (1) protect the scientific process from inappropriate (like political or corporate) influence, (2) make federal research and evidence accessible without compromising people’s personal data, (3) allow federal scientists to communicate their research without interference, and (4) to use the best available science in decision and policy making.

I mean, I think we all know what the choice will be, right?

 

Automation, public data repositories, standardized metadata forms, and interoperable data-sharing platforms are some of the major pushes being made in guidance for Federal agencies looking to apply the Trump administration’s “gold standard science” objectives, according to guidance issued today by the White House Office of Science and Technology (OSTP).

OSTP Director Michael Kratsios delivered the memo to Federal agencies on June 23 and said the guidance will assist agencies in applying an executive order from President Donald Trump on “Restoring Gold Standard Science” by ensuring “that science is no longer manipulated or misused to justify political ends.”

That memo included methods of approaching science-related initiatives – namely those related to national security and energy innovation, according to the document – that would foster cross disciplinary collaboration and withstand scrutiny.

“In an age of rapid technological progress and heightened public scrutiny, federally-funded and federally-performed science, and its use in Federal decision-making, must be beyond reproach,” reads the document.

To support this goal, OSTP said that agencies should encourage depositing raw data and code in publicly accessible repositories to facilitate reproducibility. Other data-related pushes include requiring grant applications to include data sharing plans, and standardizing metadata formats and data-sharing platforms across agencies.

When introducing the concept of gold standard science in May, Kratsios zeroed in on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) principles in scientific fields, claiming that inclusive efforts pushed by DEI pose an “existential threat to the real diversity of thought that forms the foundation of the scientific community.”

Kratsios said that the “first step to restoring trust in America’s scientific establishment, and rebuilding a strong foundation for breakthrough discoveries, is a return to Gold Standard Science.”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Do they even make dunkaroos anymore?

I remember they made them when I was a kid and then they were discontinued and then they returned, but I thought they got discontinued again.

Anyway, when I was in college I learned you can make a big ass batch of dunkaroo frosting super cheap

https://basicswithbails.com/popular/baking/homemade-dunkaroo-dip-funfetti-cake-batter-dip/

https://callascleaneats.com/viral-dunkaroo-dip-high-protein-low-carb/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's never evil if it's all just a game, at least not to the ones playing the game.

TIL that the cofounder of the Heritage Foundation, author of the original mandate for leadership (the very first in an annual series that was eventually became Project 2025) also wrote a 1987 op-ed in WaPo that said the Iran-Contra should have been all the proof we needed to know democracy is a failure that should be replaced with a shadowy group of government of experts.

The funny thing is, we know now that he (Paul Weyrich) was one of the main people working in the shadows under Reagan.

A CONSERVATIVE'S LAMENT

As conservatives, we have to help the nation face a stark choice: either modify our institutions of government to play the game of great power, or move back toward our historic, less active foreign policy.

Third, our current system institutionalizes amateurism. Unlike European parliamentary democracies, we have no "shadow cabinet," no group of experts who are groomed by their party for decades before they take high office. Our presidents can be peanut farmers or Hollywood actors. They can choose their top advisors either from among "professionals" who may not share their goals or supporters who often have no background or expertise in policy. Either way, they lose, and so does the country. The current crisis could not make the point better: our foreign policy was set by an admiral and a Marine lieutenant colonel, neither of whom had any background in the field. The resulting failure is not their fault. The system by which they were chosen is defective.

Sounds kind of familiar.

Guess what shadow group is in the White House right now? Almost makes you wonder if the plan was always to make America and democracy look incompetent via embarrassing debacles like the Iran Contra, and now they're just picking up right where they left off?

Another Paul Weyrich gem regarding voter suppression:

"I don't want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people. They never have been from the beginning of our country, and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You hurt me pretty bad, but I forgive you. I think if we both really try hard, we can still make it through this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

~~Ok..., I won't~~ 🆗👁️🙅‍♀️

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Ok, sorry to upset you. Just an attempt to cope with the inevitable and absurd destruction of the world due to the action of ~4 men in a pissing contest, with a little humor. Btw, the inside joke wasn't even supposed to be relevant, but I do feel like it adds a little lagniappe to the whole ambiance/vibe of wtf are we even doing at this point?

Hopefully everyone starts taking this community a little more seriously, and content improves with each one up that brings us closer to our impending doom. I hear the memes in the afterlife (if there is one) are to die for.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (7 children)

That part is just a very complicated and dumb inside joke

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago (18 children)

Pissing contest or most careless game of chicken ever? Both?

Idiocracy prepared me for this to happen, but it also failed me because it made me believe that it would be a lot less serious/more funny than it is.

 

Russia launched a mass missile and drone attack on Kyiv overnight on June 23, killing at least nine people and injuring 33 others, including four children, local officials reported.

Kyiv Independent journalists heard explosions and kamikaze drones flying overhead from around 1 a.m. Louder explosions from ballistic missiles were heard an hour later, with the attack lasting around 3.5 hours in total.

The heaviest damage occurred in the Shevchenkivskyi district of the city, when a five-story building partially collapsed after being hit by a ballistic missile, Ukraine's military reported. At least nine people died as a result, and more may be trapped under the rubble.

An 11-year-old girl was confirmed as the ninth victim of the strike, Tymur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv City Military Administration, said. Her mother's body was recovered earlier from the rubble.

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Hi Wisconsin, New Orleanian here.

This past May, Washington Post revealed the police in my city were secretly using the first of its kind facial recognition technology to track citizens in real time.

I'm posting here because I also learned that recently, Milwaukee police have been expressing interest in using facial recognition tech, despite protests from citizens.

New Orleans has been less than transparent about handling all of this, and NOPD has stopped using the tech since WaPo exposed they were violating a city ordinance. However, NOPD has now proposed an updated ordinance which would allow them to legally continue using the realtime tracking and facial recognition tech despite warnings from the ACLU that the ordinance will leave the city vulnerable to the federal government government.

"If the federal government wants to use the data from New Orleans facial recognition system to identify and deport undocumented persons in the city, they just have to get a federal warrant to come in and get that data,” Marlow said. “And they’re going to use it for that purpose, regardless of what the local law says.”

“What the New Orleans City Council needs to understand, and they need to understand it right now, is that if they set up a system of this level of power in their city, and they don’t have lockdown control in all instances over the technology and its data, they are placing every resident of New Orleans and every visitor of New Orleans at risk,” Marlow continued. “Not only [is New Orleans] creating the possibility that the federal government could come in and commandeer this equipment and its data to go after people in New Orleans, they’re inviting it.”

The City Council meeting regarding the proposed ordinance is schedule for this Thursday, June 26 at 10:00a.m. CDT.

There is also a Livestream link if you or anyone you know is interested in watching the meeting

Whether you choose to watch or not, I hope you will stay vigilant about what AI and surveillance policy your local law enforcement might be considering and how it relates to your own civil liberties. I find it very odd that in addition to the concerns over police use of facial recognition tech, New Orleans and Wisconsin also share a concerning link to the Peter Thiel owned company Palantir.

Former Wisconsin Congressman Mike Gallagher was named Palantir's defense business chief in August of 2024.

From ~2012-2018, the city of New Orleans secretly partnered with Palantir and allowed the company to test it's controversial predictive policing tech.

After this secret contract was exposed, predictive policing and eventually facial recognition technology were banned in New Orleans in 2020. In 2022, the mayor requested the ban be lifted and replaced with an ordinance that would allow some very concerning surveillance practices by law enforcement, and allow facial recognition in certain circumstances as long as it followed the procedure outlined in the ordinance.

This is the same ordinance that WaPo proved NOPD was violating in May of this year, and the same ordinance New Orleans city council will vote to amend this Thursday, June 26, 2025.

Although the city has allegedly not worked with Palantir since the official contract was dissolved in 2018, Project Nola, the private surveillance company NOPD was receiving the facial recognition and real time tracking information from, was established in 2015 by a former New Orleans police officer. During this time, Palantir was still using surveillance tools throughout the city to create and test their new predictive policing tech.

It's important to note that in addition to owning Palantir, Peter Thiel also happens to fund the facial recognition software company Clearview AI. Clearview has been providing facial recognition software to federal agencies such as ICE and multiple local law enforcement agencies around the country since ~2020.

 

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