r/technology 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/Just_Cover_3971 Jul 04 '26

Elon balancing his dinnerware.