Palantir found a niche in the Pentagon during the GWOT, by making it easier to justify killing people halfway around the world, though tenuous relationships (an

Palantir found a niche in the Pentagon during the GWOT, by making it easier to justify killing people halfway around the world, though tenuous relationships (and concomitant pretty pictures) to Al Qaeda. Despite a decade+ of flopping around in the market, it has failed to find success outside its niche. Its cofounders nevertheless continue to evangelize their dark enlightenment ideals — Jefferson? really? a man with every advantage who died a pauper and a hypocrite — and we're all poorer for it.