Just occured to me that functionally that seems to be their role. Conspiratorially, super troubling. Viewed this way, it’s essentially the NSA without political oversight (what little the NSA had to begin with).
the palantir AI famously is being used in israel for giving targets of palastine and iranian targets for bombings. its also being used in ukraine apparently.
most recently thiel (Karp is just his puppet) is trying to get most governments, US, and EU to use for LEO to sureveillance political dissidents under the guise of age verification and children protection.
They started out with the CIA as their first and only client.
Yes
Also, plausable deniability and no public transparency (because copyright)…
Worse, the NSA is (theoretically) below the government in the pecking order
Palantir are trying to elevate themselves above governments
That’s a bad thing because ostensibly democracy allows us to influence the government, there’s very little we can do to influence palantir
This post makes that case.
https://ope1.substack.com/p/peter-thiels-panopticon-when-cia
Palantir has Intel on every country and every world leader. They are more powerful than the governments that they have contracts with.
we could try setting their data centers on fire. that would most certainly influence them.
You can try, but datacenters usually have robust fire suppression and are extremely difficult to gain unauthorized access to.
Everyone was so in love with the idea of a new world order and an illuminati that Thiel and friends decided to become it.
thiel has been quite obssesed with mass surveillance, hes literally like Memnarch from mtg lore, who spys on th whole plane using scrying pools and myrs.
They name everything after the lord of the ring, can’t be unseen
I think they have a software suite named Gotham, so they do not just anger fans of one franchise 😅
into mount doom with the whole thing
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Future is going to be awful for everyone except the owner class.
The past was the same.
There is an easy solution that you are ignoring :3
Become the owner class? :p
Not what i had in mind… ╾━╤デ╦︻(✦ ‿ ✦)
Palantir is a data analysis company. Data analysis is just one part of what the NSA does. Other important functions of the NSA include cyber warfare, cryptography, and data collection. I have not read that Palantir does any of that.
I’m not much of a fan of the NSA or anything, but that comparison seems unfair to the NSA. I imagine Palantir is more like a souped-up bullshit-ridden profit-driven Stasi.
