What Palantir Sees
Palantir’s chief technology officer shares thoughts on the “kill chain,” working with ICE and the IDF, and the moral hazards of a company named for a fictional technology that becomes a tool of evil.
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Opinion | What Palantir Sees
San Francisco-based Zignal Labs is aiding ICE’s crackdown on free speech.
Its AI surveillance program monitors 8 billion social media posts a day. Clients include the Israeli military and the Pentagon.
Surveillance as a service, authoritarianism as a business model.
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No, crypto's main use case is crime, and illicit drug traffickers and makers have benefited greatly. Whole point of crypto is to evade laws and governments.
Whenever you hear a tech bro screeching about drug addiction in San Francisco, remember that crypto is supercharging the fentanyl trade and reflect on the quote historian Rick Perlstein attributed to Marc Andreessen in 2017:
“I’m glad there’s OxyContin and video games to keep those people quiet.”
A must-read on the silent censorship taking place in the US press.
So much of this is going on in American newsrooms right now, and not just to kowtow to Trump.
Example: Consider how little is being written about the extreme radicalization of Silicon Valley.
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Steve Bannon calls Trump a "vehicle of divine providence" and says he'll get a 3rd term.
All the recent talk of "Antichrist" and demons will increasingly make sense over time.
This is "memetic warfare"—building religious justification for the fascist coup.
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"We’ve never seen anything like this before.”
@jacobsilverman.com on the shocking scale of Trump’s crypto corruption
It’s a system where foreign actors know “it is in your direct political interest to buy Mr. Trump’s tokens or invest” in his crypto scams.
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Someone went there:
"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"
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It Kind of Seems Like Peter Th...
Some tech fascists are true believers, but Marc Benioff's MAGA conversion is also an audition for government contracts.
These craven men would bid to build the Death Star for Darth Vader.
Mr. “Dreamforce” begs to augment the Nightmare Force of fascism.
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