Gaywallet@beehaw.org
on 30 May 2025 18:49
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Already not a fan of Palantir, this is pretty bad news
melroy@kbin.melroy.org
on 30 May 2025 23:29
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I think nobody is a fan of Palantir. In a truly democratic society people would never allow such a company to collect all your data.
GaetanLaberge@lemm.ee
on 30 May 2025 19:02
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Tyrans
paequ2@lemmy.today
on 30 May 2025 19:32
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Well, clearly this is gonna be something that every republican will oppose, right? Riiiight? The government tracking citizens with a database?? My conspiracy theory neighbor bitches about this all the time. He’s gonna oppose this, right???
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca
on 30 May 2025 20:54
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2006’es Alex Jones would have gone mental over this.
EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 30 May 2025 21:22
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Something something accusing their opposition of doing the thing that they either are currently doing, or 100% would be doing if they had the opportunity.
beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org
on 31 May 2025 04:08
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Hypocrisy is considered a strength. So they’re definitely not against it.
I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org
on 01 Jun 2025 20:40
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It will be used to track who owns a gun!
Maybe not, but the fact that it could, should get them to oppose it.
treadful@lemmy.zip
on 30 May 2025 19:59
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Maybe better to link the source article on this one.
Gaywallet@beehaw.org
on 30 May 2025 20:17
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In what world is that even a plausible outcome of this news? This feels non-sequitur by its pure absurdity. If they had a list of 1000 things they can do with this database, that would not even be on the list.
I understand you are talking about something which either interests you or is a cause you care about, but we’re talking about monumental governmental surveillance by a president many scholars are calling a fascist. This is not the time nor the place to discuss such matters and trying to have that conversation could easily be read as dismissing the plentiful and obvious concerns around privacy and safety of the American public.
I’ve seen that Dan guy with some astronomically stupid takes, always funny to see his actual doofus face next to them
Rustic_Fry@literature.cafe
on 31 May 2025 04:28
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Databases aren’t fireproof. This seems like a good reason to kick things off.
Radiant_sir_radiant@beehaw.org
on 31 May 2025 04:55
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Well the half-good news is, judging by Palantir’s track record of managing large public projects elsewhere, that project is bound to bankrupt the US once and for all so people can build something new. The bad news is, it’s probably only going to happen late within the first fifteen years of the ‘two-year’ contract.
gonzo-rand19@moist.catsweat.com
on 31 May 2025 10:19
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The sprawling bureaucracy needed to analyze and maintain such a database will be so costly in comparison to its actual value that it's already amusing to think about.
teawrecks@sopuli.xyz
on 31 May 2025 16:33
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Already not a fan of Palantir, this is pretty bad news
I think nobody is a fan of Palantir. In a truly democratic society people would never allow such a company to collect all your data.
Tyrans
Well, clearly this is gonna be something that every republican will oppose, right? Riiiight? The government tracking citizens with a database?? My conspiracy theory neighbor bitches about this all the time. He’s gonna oppose this, right???
2006’es Alex Jones would have gone mental over this.
Something something accusing their opposition of doing the thing that they either are currently doing, or 100% would be doing if they had the opportunity.
Hypocrisy is considered a strength. So they’re definitely not against it.
It will be used to track who owns a gun!
Maybe not, but the fact that it could, should get them to oppose it.
Maybe better to link the source article on this one.
nytimes.com/…/trump-palantir-data-americans.html
Here’s an archive link of that NY Times article: archive.is/tXBRJ
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In what world is that even a plausible outcome of this news? This feels non-sequitur by its pure absurdity. If they had a list of 1000 things they can do with this database, that would not even be on the list.
I understand you are talking about something which either interests you or is a cause you care about, but we’re talking about monumental governmental surveillance by a president many scholars are calling a fascist. This is not the time nor the place to discuss such matters and trying to have that conversation could easily be read as dismissing the plentiful and obvious concerns around privacy and safety of the American public.
I’ve seen that Dan guy with some astronomically stupid takes, always funny to see his actual doofus face next to them
Databases aren’t fireproof. This seems like a good reason to kick things off.
Well the half-good news is, judging by Palantir’s track record of managing large public projects elsewhere, that project is bound to bankrupt the US once and for all so people can build something new. The bad news is, it’s probably only going to happen late within the first fifteen years of the ‘two-year’ contract.
The sprawling bureaucracy needed to analyze and maintain such a database will be so costly in comparison to its actual value that it's already amusing to think about.
Afaik this is basically what the NSA’s Prism is.