Post by @benroyce@mastodon.social

"Regulating #AI hastens the #Antichrist, says #Palantir’s Peter #Thiel

#Tech #billionaire claims in a lecture about #religion that the #devil promises #peace and #safety by strangling #technological #progress with #regulation"

Oh fuck you you fucking wackjob

But of course, he has vast power, we do not

While we struggle with terrible conflicts today, this asshole sets up the next, more horrible one

https://www.thetimes.com/business-money/technology/article/palantir-founder-peter-thiel-antichrist-lectures-religion-qzmpth35t

#safety #peace #tech #technological #devil #billionaire #regulation #religion #progress #ai #thiel #antichrist #palantir

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Belinea

@Belineaa@mastodon.social last yr.

@benroyce anticrist. As an Argumente. For Technology.

Can we go back to 2020 it was such a chill and smooth year. With clever arguments. Miss it.

Pēteris Krišjānis

@peteriskrisjanis@toot.lv last yr.

@benroyce I will call it a full blown bullllllllllshit

Matthew Loxton

@mloxton@med-mastodon.com last yr.

@benroyce
The fuck?

Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩

@benroyce@mastodon.social last yr.

@mloxton

what else can one say

Matthew Loxton

@mloxton@med-mastodon.com 12 mo. ago

@benroyce
That the man is a blithering fool?

Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩

@benroyce@mastodon.social 12 mo. ago

@mloxton

"The fuck" has a certain je ne sais quoi

aburka 🫣

@aburka@hachyderm.io last yr.

@benroyce "anything that might devalue my portfolio hastens the antichrist"

Howard Chu @ Symas

@hyc@mastodon.social last yr.

@benroyce sounds like he has Regulation Derangement Syndrome

Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩

@benroyce@mastodon.social last yr.

@hyc

so do many right wingers

so they will listen to thiel

TanekRune

@TanekRune@mstdn.ca last yr.

@benroyce
That is extra weird to me, as my most religious grandparent is convinced that technology is the devil. I'm not sure he would win at convincing her otherwise.

John

@mrkeen@mastodon.social last yr.

@benroyce Stop trying to regulate the Antichrist.

Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩

@benroyce@mastodon.social last yr.

@mrkeen 😂

TIM

@Nobodyknows789@mastodon.social last yr.

@benroyce There is a point where faith becomes delusion!

Nicole Parsons

@Npars01@mstdn.social last yr.

@benroyce

Peter Thiel & Doug Leone wants a WW3 to enrich himself.

https://tech.eu/2025/08/21/stark-raises-62m-for-weaponised-drone-systems-backed-by-sequoia-and-peter-thiel/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-02/thiel-backed-drone-maker-quantum-to-seek-3-billion-valuation

https://siliconcanals.com/quantum-systems-to-invest-e50m-in-uk-expansion/

The GOP does nothing but donor maintenance for billionaires. They think a war will ensure a 3rd term for Trump's fascist movement.

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Quantum Systems, a German drone maker backed by Peter Thiel, will seek to raise money at a valuation of as much as €3 billion ($3.5 billion) this year.

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Stark, a German defence tech startup focused on weaponised drone systems, has raised $62 million in fresh funding, with Sequoia Capital leading the round. The investment reportedly values the company at $500 million, making it one of Europe’s fastest-scaling startups in the military technology sector. The funding round brings Stark’s total capital raised to $100 million since its founding in 2024. The company has also attracted backing from influential figures including Peter Thiel, the American-German…

Schroedinger

@SteveClough@metalhead.club last yr.

@benroyce Idiot.

Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩

@benroyce@mastodon.social last yr.

@SteveClough

one extremely dangerous idiot

Schroedinger

@SteveClough@metalhead.club last yr.

@benroyce Oh yes, powerful, dangerous. But also, an idiot.

DoomsdaysCW

@DoomsdaysCW@kolektiva.social last yr.

@benroyce I was thinking today (before I saw this post) that maybe #AI is the #Antichrist!!!

DoomsdaysCW

@DoomsdaysCW@kolektiva.social last yr.

@benroyce Also, I seem to remember some "Rapture" literature which indicated that the "Mark of the Beast" would be some sort of bar-code. Hmmmm...

#Antichrist

@stevewfolds

@stevewfolds@mastodon.world last yr.

@DoomsdaysCW @benroyce My doctor’s clinic puts bar codes on all the blood draw samples.

A man is retired.

@Photo55@mastodon.social last yr.

@benroyce gone emeritus.

clarebee

@clarebee@mastodon.green last yr.

@benroyce For once, grateful for a pay wall. The sinking feeling I get on just reading the headline - it's a poisonous kind of insanity we're swimming in.

Rupert

@rupert@mastodon.nz last yr.

@benroyce Literal vampire says what?