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Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans
- jgalt212 1y agoNot great, Bob!
- cempaka 1y agoIt's pretty funny to think back on all the vaguely liberal devs I used to meet in the Bay Area with 'Defend the Shire' shirts.
- duxup 1y agoThe party that railed big tech and big government is in fact their biggest fan. It doesn’t matter what the GOP claims, they don’t have any ideology or ideas that you can count on.
- aspenmayer 1y agoEvery accusation is an admission.
- consumer451 1y agoThis seems like a flippant comment, but as someone who has total "middle child mentality," and just wants everyone to get along, there are just so many times that this has turned out to be true that it has begun to heavily polarize me. I hate that.
- duxup 1y agoAgreed, it is a surprisingly consistent pattern. I worked at a company acquired by another company. There were two tech support departments and the other department loved to make accusations about our department faking numbers and cases. So finally after years of insinuations and accusations another department was asked to look into it. The team throwing around the accusations were the theam faking numbers and closing cases without resolving them and so on. It was bizarre.
- aspenmayer 1y agoI was hoping people might feel reflexive and self-aware, so my usage was ironic, yet also earnest. ‘Every accusation is an admission (“including this one”/“except this one”).’
- disposition2 1y agoThis administration might be one of the better examples of the importance of knowing when to ask, “should I do something” vs “can I do something”. And it seems like a lot of the guardrails / historically unwritten rules, that have recently gone the way of the dodo, helped ensure the “should” was considered along with the “can”. Interesting times to live in
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- mdhb 1y agohttps://archive.is/4DyVk https://archive.is/4DyVk
- aspenmayer 1y agohttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/trump-palantir-data-americans.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LE8.i7Uw.TD-rYlsJsx9a&smid=url-share https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/trump-palantir...
- hamburga 1y agoHow long until Palantir gets a contract to do the same work for Russia?
- ytpete 1y agoIs there any way we would know if they already did?
- toomuchtodo 1y agoSomeone inside would have to leak it. https://whistlebloweraid.org/ https://whistlebloweraid.org/
- mathattack 1y agoIt boggles my mind that this doesn't already exist.
- lexh 1y agoWhy is this flagged? Seems to fit the submission criterion of "anything that good hackers would find interesting" and "gratifies intellectual curiosity" pretty cleanly... e.g. government technology contracts and data analysis, privacy and surveillance, a major tech company and its business practices, the intersection of technology and public policy, etc.
- hamburga 1y agoThere are a lot of people here who reflexively flag anything remotely close to US politics.
- consumer451 1y agoIf this post was flagged only by users, wouldn't I see the "vouch" link/button, as a user who has that power? I do not see that link on this post. Genuine question. I have always wondered about this.
- bathtub365 1y agoI’ve only seen the vouch link show up for things that are [flagged][dead]
- sillyfluke 1y agoYeah, I vaguely remember dang saying that they might consider allowing users to unflag posts, but I think he did confirm that currently flagging cannot be undone by non-moderator users. Currently the site errs on the side of flagging for that reason. I think there was a tweet from pg saying that they were talking about the possibility of giving unflagging rights to karma users with dang, but I'm going completely off memory here.
- anigbrowl 1y agoGood point. I don't see it either, whereas I normally do.
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- zhengiszen 1y agoEverything is going smoothly
- zhengiszen 1y agoI could not post it but see this article and how well it aged : https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-palantir-peter-thiel/ https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-palantir-peter-thiel...
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- axiologist 1y agoGiven sufficient criminal energy to do so, everything can and will be weaponized. DOGE was just the first step suitably preparing the terrain for further scrutiny. And once the work is completed, it will never go away again, regardless of the government's political inclinations.