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Baal Leaks Early Revision of Collaborative Palantir Manifesto

🗓Monday, April 20, 2026

Baal, the profane demon of sacrifice and unholy ritual, has leaked an internal-only early revision of the trending Palantir "manifesto" after noting his unease with the overall content and tone of the document he and the surveillance company collaboratively authored.

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👓 Bay Area Sightings

  • Peter Thiel was spotted with blood-stained fangs hunched over a pale corpse at dusk in Dolores Park. Save some for the rest of us, Pete!
  • Roy Lee left an upper-decker in lieu of payment at Copra (for the sixth time). Fellow diners that encounter Lee out to dinner are encouraged avoid his series C pitches.
  • The silhouette of Corey Quinn was identified atop Salesforce Tower. Eyewitnesses reported hearing screams of warning about managed NAT gateways audible from street level.
  • A portrait of Theo Browne was found with a luxurious, well-manicured mustache in an alleyway behind an Apple store. A Dorian Gray situation has not been ruled out.
  • An unidentified software engineer was found staggering down Market Street dressed in a lobster costume jibbering to himself as "The OpenClaw BDFL". He has since been elected to the San Francisco housing oversight committee.
  • Dax Raad was sighted hawking a new scalp care product for "bashfully confident baldies" outside of my apartment building.
  • Mitchell Hashimoto has independently funded a new software development academy called "The HashiCademy for OSS Contributors Who Can't Read Good". The lowest 10% of students are ritually sacrificed to a flaming Vouch effigy.

📰 Classifieds

  • Amazon is hiring any anthropod with a measurable pulse to continue leave the AWS status page unmaintained.
  • Anduril is hiring a bio-ethicist to study the karmic implications of targeted shrimp torture.
  • Alphabet is hiring a sadist product manager to orchestrate retiring popular, well-liked services.
  • Anthropic is hiring a facial training coach to help teach Dario Amodei how to smile in a more human-like manner.
  • Apple is hiring a human interface deconstructionist to excise the last remaining evidence of thoughtful design from its user interfaces.

🔥 Hot & Trending

  • A new OpenClaw skill on GitHub promises a 87% boost in engagement for automated X posts about writing new OpenClaw skills.
  • yamlless is a new open source library that proactively deletes all .yaml files on developer workstations. GitHub SREs clamoring for the library have been unable to fix Actions bugs for three days.
  • The go-relevancy package is a new Go library providing many translation functions attempting to facilitate rewrites targeting Go rather than Rust.
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