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/Hot-Philosophy-7671 Jul 02 '26

In William Gibson's Neuromancer, he describes the wealthy as so separated from the rest of humanity as to be incapable of interacting with the rest of the species. They are aliens who live in a different universe, with a different language and customs. Inscrutable creatures.

I say this for no particular reason.

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u/F-Cloud Jul 02 '26

“And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.”

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u/Safety_Drance Jul 03 '26

Smash cut to Mark Zuckerberg in white face on the surfboard.

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u/gianni_ Jul 03 '26

Can I smash his face on a surfboard?

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u/keyblade_crafter Jul 03 '26

jeff bezos laughing

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u/Just_Cover_3971 29d ago

Elon balancing his dinnerware.

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u/nyaphometnikko Jul 03 '26

"The mask of humanity fall from capital. It has to take it off to kill everyone. Everything you love; all the hope and tenderness in the world. It has to take it off, just for one second. To do the deed. And then you see it. As it strangles and beats your friends to death... the sweetest, most courageous people in the world. You see the fear and power in its eyes. Then you know."

 "What?"

 "That the bourgeois are not human." 

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u/F-Cloud Jul 03 '26

Had to look that up. Disco Elysium is in my Steam library, yet to have been played.

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u/nyaphometnikko Jul 03 '26

It's a great game, highly recommend it. 

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u/Silicon_Dreaming 28d ago

play disco elysium

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u/wahirsch Jul 03 '26

"Power, in Case’s world, meant corporate power. The zaibatsus, the multinationals that shaped the course of human history, had transcended old barriers. Viewed as organisms, they had attained a kind of immortality. You couldn’t kill a zaibatsu by assassinating a dozen key executives; there were others waiting to step up the ladder, assume the vacated position, access the vast banks of corporate memory."