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by clanky 9mo ago
I was shocked (and a little spooked) that this was allowed to remain unflagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46515191
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by clanky 9mo ago
> seems more like conspiracy theory This is a very good demonstration of the epistemic purpose of this term and the uses it is put to.
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by clanky 9mo ago
It's funny, David Brin used to flog the idea of "sousveillance," meaning that mass surveillance was inevitable and couldn't be reformed but we could use it to hold the elite accountable. What a joke.
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by clanky 9mo ago
> The world may by some people's estimation be better without the deceased in it The world would be better without those people in it.
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by clanky 9mo ago
Or how about the fact that somehow this vast surveillance apparatus seems to function perfectly when it is being used against ordinary people, fails constantly when it is needed to protect them, and somehow never catches a single person i
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by clanky 9mo ago
Absurdly naive post.
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by clanky 9mo ago
This is also a discussion about Palantir more broadly, but of course Lonsdale is tarred by that association, that's not my doing. If he finds Epstein association distasteful then as someone with ample means and no need to fear retaliat
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Russia sends submarine to escort tanker the US tried to seize off Venezuela(reuters.com)
8 points by clanky 9mo ago|4 comments
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by clanky 9mo ago
There are many documented links with Peter Thiel, the much more influential founder of Palantir. Epstein and Maxwell had their hands all over the Silicon Valley spooktech sector of which Palantir is an integral part.
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by clanky 9mo ago
Yes and it's just another empty and meaningless idpol elevation of style over substance.
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by clanky 9mo ago
OnlyFans "art visas" for all
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by clanky 9mo ago
Capitalizing the 'W' in white is so funny, just the perfect encapsulation of how this just one more form of idpol brainrot.
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by clanky 9mo ago
Hasn't Palantir been gathering and storing data on U.S. citizens since the earliest days of the company?
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by clanky 9mo ago
Musk and Trump were calling Kamala Harris a communist during the election.
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by clanky 9mo ago
If it's about the War on Terror and related crimes, why have they also (since their inception) gathered such vast troves of data and profiles on U.S. citizens?
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by clanky 9mo ago
I'm not really inclined to do too much Monday morning quarterbacking of the USSR's defeat of Nazi Germany. I'm especially not inclined to give it the time of day when it's coming from Westerners who never say a peep ab
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by clanky 9mo ago
In principle I agree with you but the "pressure" you mentioned means my view on this is sort of like Bjarne Stroustrup's take on programming languages: there are political systems that people complain about suppressing dissen
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by clanky 9mo ago
Although the idea is obviously completely untenable by this point, many people probably still have their heads in the sand with the idea that Palantir exists to "Defend the Shire" and take out far-flung 'bad hombres' hal
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by clanky 9mo ago
Stalin did the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact to (successfully!) buy time and breathing room for the inevitable Nazi assault after his numerous entreaties to Western/Allied powers were rebuffed.
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by clanky 9mo ago
Yes, the "spontaneous lab experiment that proved wildly successful" mythology around many of these companies is just elaborate camouflage.
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by clanky 9mo ago
What good being defended from evil were you alluding to, and who is mounting that defense?
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by clanky 9mo ago
Communists were probably just one of the domestic counterinsurgency concerns that drove its founding.
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by clanky 9mo ago
The quoted tweet he is enthusiastically co-signing says communists should be blown up and their graves desecrated.
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by clanky 9mo ago
He's discussing motivations at the time of its founding. I suppose one could argue that perhaps Peter Thiel's heart has grown two sizes since that day?
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Co-founder Joe Lonsdale: Palantir was founded to kill communists(twitter.com)
98 points by clanky 9mo ago|159 comments
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Justice Department Drops Claim That Venezuela's 'Cartel de Los Soles' Exists(nytimes.com)
11 points by clanky 9mo ago|0 comments
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by clanky 9mo ago
"Let us finally imagine, for a change, an association of free men, working with the means of production held in common ...."
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by clanky 9mo ago
It's odd that Iran was able to continue launching waves of ballistic missiles and drones at Israel after they had supposedly lost so much control over their skies that it would have been possible to hover a Chinook over Tehran for 5 mi
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by clanky 9mo ago
Not to mention the bunkers being built by various Silicon Valley billionaires, who by rights should be considered appendages of the U.S. state.
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by clanky 9mo ago
The numbers of hours that they work relative to the average wage laborer bears absolutely no relationship to whether they are the beneficiaries of an exploitative socio-economic arrangement. But they all certainly work much less than the la

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