Not sure if Palantir is a household name. It's time to resuscitate + integrate a decade's worth of warnings about these folks — e.g.,... www.wired.com/story/how-pe... www.bloomberg.com/features/201... www.opendemocracy.net/en/palantir-... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... - ThreadSky

shannonmattern.bsky.social • 18 days ago

Not sure if Palantir is a household name. It's time to resuscitate + integrate a decade's worth of warnings about these folks — e.g.,...

https://www.wired.com/story/how-peter-thiels-secretive-data-company-pushed-into-policing/

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-palantir-peter-thiel/?terminal=true

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/palantir-nhs-federated-data-platform-peter-thiel-data-privacy/

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01972243.2022.2100851

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lz000.bsky.social•17 days ago

Why isn’t this illegal? Didn’t people get arrested for hacking?

shannonmattern.bsky.social•17 days ago

The voluminous tech journalism and scholarship about Palantir explains how + why their work is sanctioned: they sell their “solutions” to municipal and state governments and then hold that data captive, they have powerful friends, etc

shewrites.bsky.social•18 days ago

"...This is a revolution, some people are going to get their heads cut off.”

I have thoughts

paix120.bsky.social•17 days ago

Yes, Peter Theil is the scariest of them all, to me. Thanks for spreading this info.

bastardacademic.bsky.social•17 days ago

It's horrifying that so few people are aware of Palantir and what they do

junesim63.bsky.social•17 days ago

I have been warning for some years. Successive UK governments have given Palantir £ millions worth of contracts and they're now embedded in our NHS and defence. They're a toxic influence on our current govt which naively believes the hype.

jlphistory.bsky.social•17 days ago

What I hate about current events is talking about it sounds like you've really fallen into a conspiracy theory. "Planatir is hacking the government" is real, but it sounds like "birds aren't real" to folks who don't follow this stuff.

shannonmattern.bsky.social•17 days ago

In this case, there’s a whole decade+ of evidence-based investigations that substantiate the concern.

jlphistory.bsky.social•17 days ago

100%! I have learned so much because of people like you that I didn't know even a year ago. It's just so frustrating because it feels (to me) like you're screaming into the wind. It's such important work, I wish it was better known.

vaguepariah.bsky.social•17 days ago

They are terrifying and the idea that they are leading the IRS stuff going on doubly so.

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