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Palantir gets $10B contract from U.S. Army
- aspenmayer 1y agohttps://archive.is/GTQYs https://archive.is/GTQYs
- Hikikomori 1y agoROI in political investments is crazy.
- bionsystem 1y ago10B is a drop in the water considering current PLTR valuation, I really wonder how that is sustainable.
- bananapub 1y agostill amazing to see no opposition from any Republican to the actual takeover of the actual government by the worst rich people in the world.
- _def 1y agoAs usual people will only care when it's too late. The stories about the need to defend the homeland are too strong.
- jagged-chisel 1y agoThis is the GOP playbook! Cripple government institutions, privatize operations to their richest friends, gain positions with related organizations when the political careers dip.
- JohnTHaller 1y agoIt shouldn't be surprising at all. This is what the Republican party has been for decades.
- Ozzie_osman 1y agoThis quote from the CEO of Palantir (Alex Karp) haunts me. --- > “I actually am a progressive,” he said. “I want less war. You only stop war by having the best technology and by scaring the bejabers — I’m trying to be nice here — out of our adversaries. If they are not scared, they don’t wake up scared, they don’t go to bed scared, they don’t fear that the wrath of America will come down on them, they will attack us. They will attack us everywhere.” Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/17/style/alex-karp-palantir.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/17/style/alex-karp-palantir....
- okasaki 1y agoThe United States is the world's biggest terrorist.
- curiousObject 1y agoNo. They’re all terrorists. All states, all nexuses of control, can be defined as terrorists, if we broaden our definition of terrorist to include states and all their apparatuses. In particular, with reference to the state’s effective monopoly on legal violence. But, amongst those options, you should have the intelligence to choose the least bad. “The United States is the world's biggest terrorist”, is IMHO almost a meaningless claim. It is true, arguably, but in that case it is irrelevant. Based on this interpretation, the US is far from the worst powers in our world. In fact it is above the median.
- okasaki 1y agoReally? What's your ranking then and methodology? IMO one of the primary ways the US terrorizes is by bombing with impunity. According to its own record keeping, the US has dropped 337000 bombs in the last 20 years, or 46 bombs per day. Can you imagine living in one of the countries that the US keeps bombing? Every time you hear an airplane you have to think if you're about to die, or someone you know is about to die, or a school is about to be blown up, or a water treatment facility.
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- samaltmanfried 1y agoThe laundering of data on US citizens into the private sector, and overseas, through this company is truly horrifying. Especially how fast it happened, and how little say we had.
- runsWphotons 1y agohow does it work?
- evaXhill 1y agoWhile I do believe its important to replace legacy and bloated tech in the military to make it more efficient (esp less costly), I doubt the ROI will be able to make up for it/ will be hard to measure effectively considering how hard it is to conduct fully transparent audits. Even if they say that the new agreement would consolidate existing software contracts and lead to “significant cost efficiencies across mission-critical programs.” Also what happened to reducing the gov. deficit?? Very confusing
- neuroelectron 1y agoWhy would soldiers need analytics on American citizens?
- tupac_speedrap 1y agoIt makes sense to have information on your future adversaries. I mean ICE already act as Trump's brownshirts, it makes sense that they would expand their power base to other services.
- westpfelia 1y agoAmerican citizens are the bad guys. We need to survail them to subjugate them.
- rasz 1y agoTo protect the president during his third term.
- saubeidl 1y agoThe Gestapo, Stasi, Chinese Ministry of State Security and KGB were all just warm up for the levels of total surveillance this will bring. The glass citizen, completely see through to the regime, is being built.