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It's crazy that anybody who has read books could learn about the company "Palantir," know where the name comes from, and join it thinking it's anything other th
by Kapura 9mo ago
It's crazy that anybody who has read books could learn about the company "Palantir," know where the name comes from, and join it thinking it's anything other than evil.
The thing is, I know palantir engineers are well paid. Money warps people's brains. It's much easier enable evil if you can go back to a home you own in Silicon Valley.
- ceejayoz 9mo ago> know where the name comes from This is a wild point to me, yeah. The Palantir is literally a cautionary tale on the risks of thinking you can use the enemy's tools without being corrupted by it.
- CodeMage 9mo agoI've lost count of people who have read Tolkien's work and never dug deeper than "cool fantasy story" level. I was no different when I read the Lord of the Rings as a teenager. Unlike C. S. Lewis, Tolkien does not shove his message down your throat.
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- miltonlost 9mo agoWe have technofascists trying to bring AI into the military and saying it's Star Trek. Star Trek! One of the most clearly socialist, "woke" tv series! Media literacy is not a conservative value while illiteracy and ignorance is. https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/01/pentagons-arsenal-of-freedom-tour-borrows-name-from-star-trek-episode-about-killer-ai/ https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/01/pentagons-arsenal-of...
- oldjim798 9mo agoI think they know exactly what they were doing with the naming. They were and are absolutely ok with the evil connotations and uses
- nutjob2 9mo agoSilicon Valley started with hippies and will end with fascists.
- lsenrgkawer 9mo agoNo one ever joined palantir thinking they were a good person. You join palantir because you've done enough drugs to believe that "good" and "evil" don't exist and you've "evolved" beyond that. You know, sociopaths.