{"id":10439,"date":"2026-11-12T18:51:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T18:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=10439"},"modified":"2026-11-12T18:51:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T18:51:12","slug":"alex-baby-you-were-recorded-on-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=10439","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Palantir is \u2018progressive\u2019 now, is it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">I had other things to do today, but Alex Karp\u2019s pathetic attempt to pivot back to the left gave me no choice but to put them on hold.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Last week\u2019s elections were a bloodbath for the right, a problem for all the wannabe fash founders who had tied their political fortunes to a \u201cvibe shift\u201d that enabled a glorious 100-year Trumpenreich. That freed up a lot of assholes to say what they actually thought. Except Donald Trump\u2019s victory was, in fact, narrow, and two years of his corrupt policies have enraged Americans.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">\u201cI\u2019ve been a Democrat my whole life. I grew up in a far left environment. I know more about being a progressive than almost anybody on the planet, and I absolutely believe Palantir\u2014 all of our products are essentially progressive,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/playbook?\">Karp told <em>Politico<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Is that so, baby doll? Let\u2019s run it back.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Anyway, for any other tech bros who want to do a less clumsy pivot than Karp, I have a suggestion. First, go to rehab, ideally for 90 days. Then come out and apologize for whatever it was you said between, I don\u2019t know, 2020 and now. You feel very bad about what you\u2019ve said, but it was the cocaine (or the amphetamines, or hell, blame it on ketamine, since the average person has no idea what a ketamine high looks like) speaking. You have dried out and sobered up. It was a challenge, but it was rewarding. You are now chastened. You want to work for public accountability. You are sorry about the dumb things you said while you were high.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">This won\u2019t work for Karp, who\u2019s been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0A3sGymV6kY\">absolutely adamant that he does not do drugs<\/a>. But you, the savvy tech CEO and\/or VC, <em>you<\/em> can\u2019t skip the rehab part. You can\u2019t blame the drugs if you don\u2019t at least pretend to sober up.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/1032126\/alex-baby-you-were-recorded-on-video\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had other things to do today, but Alex Karp\u2019s pathetic attempt to pivot back to the left gave me no choice but to put them on hold. Last week\u2019s elections were a bloodbath for the right, a problem for all the wannabe fash founders who had tied their political fortunes to a \u201cvibe shift\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[31,74,75,34],"class_list":["post-10439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gadgets","tag-ai","tag-policy","tag-politics","tag-tech"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Oh, Palantir is \u2018progressive\u2019 now, is it? - Silvybrand Lifestyle Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Alex Karp appears to have totally forgotten all the things he said in public over the last three years. 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