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[โ€“] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

palantir are pretty fucking evil, but you're unlikely to have heard of them unless you're social justice minded or have worked in tech.

Thiel is a vampire, in the metaphorical sociological sense and the literal one. Fucking creep.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why is palantir bad ? Do you have some sources ?

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

They market themselves as a "big data" company, what they actually do is use "big data" in a way not unlike what Philip K Dick predicted in minority report. Instead of clarvoiant tank people it's extremely racist algorithms though.

They have been involved in a bunch of racist "crime preventing" pre policing stuff. I believe at the moment they're mostly used to round up migrants in the usa for whatever the fuck their border farce does over there.