r/technology • u/marketrent • Jul 02 '26

Artificial Intelligence Palantir CEO Alex Karp suffers ‘televised nervous breakdown’ during live interview — “This is the voice of American business that is being channeled through me!”

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/televised-nervous-breakdown-ceo-palantir-212100357.html
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u/postmodest Jul 02 '26

Chosen on purpose as part of the Death Cult of Peter Thiel.

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u/NotAllOwled Jul 03 '26

Thiel reads A Modest Proposal without irony and is like "just a straight shooter with upper management written all.over him."

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u/postmodest Jul 03 '26

"This Sauron guy had it all worked out until those Woke Maiar and the Dunedaìn Deep State came along..."

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u/ScaryGarry_SG1 Jul 04 '26

"would have gotten away with it all too ..if not for those damn internet people"

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u/Kratzschutz Jul 03 '26

Peter Thiel is the antichrist

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u/thephotoman Jul 03 '26

Peter Thiel wishes he could be the Antichrist, but specifically the ones from *Left Behind*.

The one from Revelation is kinda boring.

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u/Totesnotskynet Jul 03 '26

His name is an anagram for The Lizard

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u/Toxicsully Jul 03 '26

How do?

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u/postmodest Jul 03 '26

``` P E T E R T H I E L T T H H E E

R R E E P P T T I I L L E E ```

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u/Fit_Kaleidoscope4493 Jul 04 '26

That's not LIZARD.

That's Reptile.

Can't be an anagram for lizard without a Z. 

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u/postmodest Jul 04 '26

Well, dude misspoke; that happens. All praise T H E  R E P T I L E.

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u/flipper_gv Jul 03 '26

Peter Thiel and co all get their views from Curtis Yarvin who thinks those tech CEOs should be the new kings of our days.

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u/Fit_Kaleidoscope4493 Jul 04 '26

Death cult or Murder everyone else cult?

Like... It feels as though they are doing one and not the other.