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[–] 125 points 6 months ago (1 child)

Seems like Doge might have been setup to facilitate this. They are cross referencing data from the HHS database. Big Brother.

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  • [–] 95 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    The actual point of DOGE was to just backdoor and/or datadump as many government databases as possible and give them to Palantir. That’s it. That was the entire point. Everything else was simply theatrics.

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  • [–] 61 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Also firing all the agencies and agents investigating him.

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  • [–] 93 points 6 months ago* (3 children)

    oh awesome, Palantir, the same company profiting off the genocide in Gaza

    CEO Alex Karp has been a vocal supporter of Israel. In November 2023, he stated, "I am proud that we are supporting Israel in every way we can."

    After October 2023, Palantir has provided Israel with multiple AI-powered data analytics tools for military and intelligence purposes.

    In January 2024, Palantir held its board meeting in Israel and entered into a “strategic partnership” with Israel’s Ministry of Defense to help Israel's “war effort.”

    In October 2024, Norway's largest asset manager, Storebrand, divested its Palantir shares, worth $24 million, due to concerns that Palantir's work for Israel might implicate Storebrand in violations of international humanitarian law and human rights.

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  • [–] 46 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    The Palantir tools were used to analyze the data trove that Microsoft was hosting for Israel. It contained all of the cellular data (metadata and call recording/MMS contents/data traffic) for the entirety of Palestine.

    That tool's detection of 'terrorists' was used to justify a massive portion of the air strikes on Palestine. Their beta test resulted in a genocide.

    Palantir is complicit in war crimes and genocide, never forget that.

    Now the fascists are using the terrorist language to target their political opponents in the US and using the same tools of genocide.

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  • [–] 70 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Palantir is literally Evil Corp.

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  • [–] 69 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    The Nazis used IBM, the GOP use Palantir.

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  • [–] 51 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    Fucking hate how these shitheads take words from Tolkien's works and bastardise them. Palantir, Anduril.

    What's next, a social credit system named "Silmaril"? An organisation that harvests the organs of homeless called "Rivendell"?

    Just fucking stop.

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  • [–] 30 points 6 months ago

    Tolkein's idyllic structure for a society, the shire, is frequently analyzed through a lens of "is this anarchism?" and it's not all that uncommon to conclude "yes"

    all these fuckers read Tolkien and adopted the imagery of the villains. none of them realize that the message is that all the top level people are addicted to power. the people who actually get shit done, the hobbits, they are tempted by power because it's tempting, but ultimately value singing songs, making tea, and eating potatoes too much to want to possess the ultimate power in the universe. almost everyone who comes into contact with the one ring wants to possess it forever. Bilbo's first desire for it is to use it to help him escape a dangerous situation. Frodo is indifferent to it at first. Sam immediately hates it, feels guilt for letting Frodo carry it alone, and commits himself to destroying it.

    You're not supposed to read Tolkien and implement fascism. you're supposed to read Tolkien and learn to value pacifism

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I mean... Palantir showed Denethor false images of doom and despair fed by Sauron. It drove him to become a completely mad tyrant.

    I think Palantir is a very apt name. They just don't realise why.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I think that’s a Thiel thing. Tolkein was was one of his obsessions growing up. It doesn’t surprise me that he saw a plot device intended to be a warning as a really cool idea…

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    After listening to some of the Behind the Bastards on Thiel's Antichrist obsession, his names for things are more understandable. Not by being sensible, by his demonstrated tendency to read things and take interpretations from them that make no sense to anyone else.

    So yeah I'm sure he's got some nutso bananas reinterpretation of what a Palantir is, etc.

    He seems unwell, truly.

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    [–] 50 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    Meanwhile my dad: ‘you should really invest in this company Palantir’…

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  • [–] 69 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    My brother is a total Palintir supporter because he sees his stocks rising. I tell him he’s supporting evil but he says their CEO is a Democrat and has nothing to do with Thiel🙄. Like most Americans he’s ok with evil if it pays well.

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  • [–] 31 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    The CEO is insane. He apparently self-describes himself as a socialist but is the highest paid CEO on earth and fantasises about dumping cyanide-laced urine on people protesting state-backed brutality

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  • [–] 24 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    90 years ago: buy Hugo Boss and Mercedes

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    If you did and held for say 30-40 years you would have an amazing return on investment.

    Funny how a government can fail, but the corporations keep going

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  • [–] 41 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)

    Let's give credit where credit is due - This is what the GOP wants. They have complete ownership of ICE's terrorist activities and applaud what is being done.

    Republicans could reign this in in a couple of days if ICE didn't have their blessing. The same is true if our corporate/billionaire media began referring to what's happening as GOP, rather than ICE activity.

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    [–] 32 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    HOW is a Private Company like PALANTIR able to Get such SENSITIVE information Though?

    -People who Get Upset at Privacy because they have Nothing To Hide TM!

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    They are DOD employees now with clearance.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    Prior to that they were able to function just fine by using non-classified data brokers which have access to every bit of data that can be extracted from every smart phone that has a single app that's compromised by their spyware.

    Having access to even greater surveillance data (like the data that is gathered at TITANPOINTE and other oversea cable collection locations) just lets whoever is in charge more accurately target their political opponents.

    Like Snowden said in citizenfour, the collection capabilities of the NSA create a situation which would allow 'turnkey totalitarianism'. Well, they've turned the key.

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  • [–] 26 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    Every palantir executive and voting shareholder needs to be prosecuted and have their assets siezed to pay for the damage they’ve done to American democracy and the Palestinian people and infrastructure

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    [–] 24 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Is it possible that people could use flock or palantir stuff to track and collect info on ice agents? Their security is shit, yeah?

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    [–] 17 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    If we don't build these apps then someone far worse probably will. Therefore it's better if we make the apps that allow untrained monkeys to find and execute people on US soil because at least we'll do it right... ya know?

    Palantir 2026... probably.

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago

    We cannot forget that DOGE has also stolen data from agencies. Most worrisome being the IRS who has records of all of your interest paying accounts and investments. One only need to use your imagination a little to what can happen. It is gonna be BAD.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago

    That whole "look how quirky and cool Alex Karp is" pr nonsense was BS from the start.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    So how do we poison the dataset?

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 6 months ago

    I suspect they're depending on data brokers who collect name and location from 3rd party apps. Set up fakes of a bunch of their metrics sending data, and you can fill it with junk

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    [–] 7 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    There should be some sort of halal version of popular ETFs that get rid of certain universally excepted evil companies. I just invest in QQQM, VTI, VOO, etc and forget, but I have a friend who buys stocks weighted by NASDAQ except for Palantir manually. Too much of a headache for me lol.

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    [–] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    So who can be held responsible for when the app fucks up ?

    I wonder if KARP will still be for pubic executions when they surround him with dark eyes and bright torches. I wonder if KARP recognizes that whomever killed that health care CEO ... that was a public execution.

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