Palantir Is Going on Defense (www.wired.com)
from MCasq_qsaCJ_234@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.world on 07 Jun 21:05
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Arghblarg@lemmy.ca on 07 Jun 21:07 next collapse

Data analytics firm doesn’t like … data on itself being analyzed. huh.

DarkCloud@lemmy.world on 07 Jun 21:33 next collapse

Lots of people will be happier the day Peter Thiel dies… He’s disliked in the same range as Musk, without having anywhere near the public presence.

PotatoLibre@feddit.it on 07 Jun 22:13 next collapse

That dude is pure evil.

A narcissist who somehow made it trough and still have a relevamce.

flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz on 07 Jun 22:30 next collapse

Musk is a narcissist who got very lucky in life. But still he is a human, bad human but relatable in the sense you understand his flaws.

Thiel is something else. Sociopath I guess. Dude is not human and doesn’t function according to any understandable human psychology

malloc@lemmy.world on 07 Jun 23:28 collapse

Before settling in Foster City, California, in 1977, the Thiel family lived in South Africa and South West Africa (modern-day Namibia). Peter changed elementary schools seven times. He attended a German-language school in Swakopmund that required students to wear uniforms and utilized corporal punishment, such as striking students’ hands with a ruler. He said this experience instilled a distaste for uniformity and regimentation later reflected in his support for individualism and libertarianism.[20][21] The German community in Swakopmund that Thiel grew up in was known at the time for its continued glorification of Nazism.[22][23]

Thiel and Muskrat cut from the same cloth of trustfund babies and apartheid benefactors, m8

mp3@piefed.ca on 07 Jun 22:48 next collapse

Which makes him more dangerous than Musk IMO, as he's wise enough to operate in the shadow.

malloc@lemmy.world on 07 Jun 23:18 next collapse

Peter Thiel is one of the many money men that want to privatize everything, dismantle federal government, hand keys to “network states” (company towns but somehow worse).

Goal is none or self regulation. Maximize profits. They want to shape the world into this hyper capitalistic society and surveillance state. Palantir is just one of those companies in a massive portfolio to fulfill this stupid dream shared by many industrialists.

kautau@lemmy.world on 07 Jun 23:58 collapse

Yup. For those wanting to learn more

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment

Ledericas@lemm.ee on 08 Jun 05:55 next collapse

thiel dint like his boytoy last year voicing his concern for his anti-lgbtq+stance, so he got “Defenestrated”, there was a chance his bf(not hubby) was going to press sooner or later, and thiel does not like being outed as full on gay in the media(look at what happened gawker)

Bloomcole@lemmy.world on 08 Jun 09:39 collapse

Waiting for them to die is the best you can do since you all keep voting for 1 of the 2 parties that serve these oligarchs.

DarkCloud@lemmy.world on 08 Jun 13:46 collapse

I tend to vote for the Australian Greens party. They never seem to win the US elections though.

Bloomcole@lemmy.world on 08 Jun 14:30 collapse

Oh sorry, had mistaken you for American.
I’m sure they have at least the same odds of winning the US elections as the American Greens.

breezeblock@lemm.ee on 07 Jun 21:42 next collapse

Fascists

Mynameisallen@lemmy.zip on 07 Jun 22:08 next collapse

I always try to explain that he’s worse, because he’s far more effective IMO

interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml on 08 Jun 00:03 next collapse

Pull the cancer out by the root.

Etterra@discuss.online on 08 Jun 00:19 next collapse

It’s strangely appropriate that these bastards named themselves after the magical sphere that Sauron used to turn Sarumon evil in LotR.

GamingChairModel@lemmy.world on 08 Jun 00:42 next collapse

Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don’t Create The Torment Nexus

Dasus@lemmy.world on 08 Jun 01:23 next collapse

Sarumon, nice typo.

Popeball

rottingleaf@lemmy.world on 08 Jun 14:02 collapse

Sauron used conversations and scenes to turn Saruman charmed and deadly frightened. Over the palantir, which was a device to see the future, the past, the probable, close and far away. Thus also a communication device.

So basically their name refers to knowing things which are not their fucking concern. Not what you said.

EDIT: Still, the way communication of Saruman and Denethor with Sauron turned them both mad - is a good metaphor of how lots of awesome technology was misused to almost ruin humanity in the last 30 years. I wonder if it’s reversible.

Drusas@fedia.io on 08 Jun 02:05 next collapse

"Stop noticing that we work on a lot of evil projects."

K1nsey6@lemmy.world on 08 Jun 02:32 next collapse

Ed Snowden in only warned us about them 13 years ago.

Bloomcole@lemmy.world on 08 Jun 09:31 collapse

Yes but then they worked for Blue MAGA, so they were OK.
Unlike Snowden who had to run bcs Obama wanted him arrested.

propitiouspanda@lemmy.cafe on 08 Jun 13:57 collapse

Yeah, the hypocrisy on both sides is disgusting.

Really puts into perspective how few rational people are left in the world.

Bloomcole@lemmy.world on 08 Jun 15:41 collapse

Pointing that out gets you massive amounts of cowardly downvotes here.
Never replies or reasoning behind them OC bcs they know they have to argue against facts.
They get back into their defensive trenches. Other side bad so our side automatically good!

And then people are surprised that they ended up living in a banana republic.

Fingolfinz@lemmy.world on 08 Jun 05:16 next collapse

Anyone that works for that company at any level deserves the absolute worst

reiterationstation@lemm.ee on 08 Jun 06:31 collapse

Would be a shame if someone were to get a list of their names.

D_C@lemm.ee on 08 Jun 08:59 next collapse

Whoa, doxxing? Now, now, now.
…
Seriously, dox them all. NOW!

muusemuuse@lemm.ee on 09 Jun 02:18 collapse

Just convince Elon they are his competition and watch this work itself out.

Ledericas@lemm.ee on 08 Jun 05:54 next collapse

palintir has always worked for defense like for 10+years, its only recently they got thier grubby little hands under trump Law enforcement work.

Blackmist@feddit.uk on 08 Jun 09:45 next collapse

Everyone hates Palantir, but the only difference between them and every other massive tech company, is they started off evil rather than having to work their way up to it.

why0y@lemmy.ml on 08 Jun 13:53 next collapse

I don’t talk back about defense nowadays. Running your mouth just gets you sicker and sicker and on top might be a big hole in your foot.

If you think the Internet is a haven of free speech, you might not have read the memos.

I think Palantir is good for America. Aside from the whole eightys scifi hellscape thing.

Gammelfisch@lemmy.world on 08 Jun 13:59 collapse

I would not be surprised if Palantir told Krasnov not to fuck around and disturb their live-fire Ukrainian laboratory.