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SocraticGadfly's avatar

We should also take note that Peter Thiel:

A. Is NOT a ketamine-addicted ADD toddler, unlike Elmo Musk, but is generally organized, focused and on point;

B. Has a vindictive temper, per the Gawker lawsuit.

We know that Trump playing with this could be problematic.

The reverse side, Thiel extracting yet more data from the government for his own private, perverse ends, could be even more problematic

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The Society of Problem Solvers's avatar

He also is homies with Epstein and took $40 million from Jeffery

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FlaMac's avatar

Gadfly … check!

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Tedder130's avatar

I remember Poindexter's plan, which eventually turned the NSA into a vast Hoover of private data. As an aside, it also required the immense computing resources of a modern data center. These hog energy and water to perform, and I always thought this data collection was a silly way to consume resources while collecting unusable data.

Then I learned how Palantir software assisted Zionist Israel in murdering Palestinians. Of course, there are (were) only about two million Palestinians, but granted the resources, a Palantir-assisted state could do the same for Americans, as in the end, murder is the surest means to neutralize dissidents.

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Meredith Hobbs's avatar

The core of what Palantir does is combine various data sets to profile people -- with an extremely high inaccuracy rate, as far as any actual wrongdoing, much less crimes. Disgusting that Obama admin allowed this shady outfit to get its nose under the tent of the US govt.

Lavender, the "AI program" Palantir collaborated on w/ Israel, was used to ID supposed Hamas fighters and then kill the people IDed by bombing their homes while sleeping. In reality, IDF used the software to bomb entire families that had any young men in residence. The biblical King Herod used similar tactics in Palestine with similar murderous inaccuracy.

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Angel Rivera's avatar

Great piece on Palantir I'm going backwards reading this piece and now I'm going to read the second one and then the most recent one you wrote. Thanks for the information.

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Gilgamech's avatar

Only people who opposed renewal of the PATRIOT Act get to complain about this. It is just doing what that Act enabled and provided for.

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KH's avatar

Left or right - we should all be against mass state surveillance. The USA likely needs palantir for defense - for projection - but those powers must not be allowed to be turned on citizens. The patriot act has unleaded unending consequences for the liberty of the people.

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chris cummings's avatar

😡

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Neil Anand's avatar

👩‍⚕️➡️🔴

Palantir’s algorithm turns doctors into dots—and suspicion into science.

🧙‍♂️ Behind the digital curtain lies a flawed system that denies context, choice & justice.

📉 Correlation ≠ guilt.

⚖️ Real justice requires alternate possibilities.

https://doctorsofcourage.org/the-wizard-of-oz-behind-palantirs-healthcare-fraud-algorithm/

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Jackie C.'s avatar

If something is "good" for IsraHell chances are that it's REALLY bad for the civilized world.

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The Society of Problem Solvers's avatar

It’s worse.

The evidence this time is right to Epstein. We must drop our made up labels (they use our labels to manipulate us) and unify as one people against our biggest problem, corrupted systems, by building new ones that are hard to corrupt (transparent and decentralized), 100% controlled by the people, and that use collective intelligence systems to steer them. The easiest way we can fix this mess is by building parallel systems, migrate to them, then use them to fix the corrupted ones. Like so: https://open.substack.com/pub/joshketry/p/how-to-fix-corrupt-government-in?r=7oa9d&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

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Susan raynard's avatar

I WANT OUT!

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VSBobby's avatar

Already proven to be complete lies. I’m not even gonna to listen to this one.

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SocraticGadfly's avatar

Says a MAHA nutter, conspiracy theorist, wingnut "patriot" and general wingnut. Bye! (Having learned from both Shitter and Hucksterman, I'm a lot quicker with the block here.)

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Maryann Mehegan's avatar

We're in a ghastly era.

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V3's avatar

God what ludicrous bullshit

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The Society of Problem Solvers's avatar

It’s worse.

The evidence this time is right to Epstein. We must drop our made up labels (they use our labels to manipulate us) and unify as one people against our biggest problem, corrupted systems, by building new ones that are hard to corrupt (transparent and decentralized), 100% controlled by the people, and that use collective intelligence systems to steer them. The easiest way we can fix this mess is by building parallel systems, migrate to them, then use them to fix the corrupted ones. Like so: https://open.substack.com/pub/joshketry/p/how-to-fix-corrupt-government-in?r=7oa9d&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

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Mark Scott's avatar

Awesome article. I love Palantir even more now and Alex Karp, son of a Jewish father, helping Israel vanquish its evil, barbaric, Islamist religious zealot enemies, makes this even more delicious. That a gay, non- Jewish, business tycoon, Trump supporter Peter Thiel, a transformational technology titan, with more brains in his little finger than the corrupt, illegitimate, cowardly, anti-Semite SB that wrote this hit piece, made Palantir possible, makes this even sweeter. I don’t think it’s big brother that has the authors panties in a twist but the fact that technology created by a secular Jew is being used to help protect the little Jewish state fight off its evil neighbors, aided by the most pro/Israel president ever in US History. So, keep writing you angry little troll and realize this irrelevant piece of trash you’ve written has zero impact on the fact that Israel will be here long after the savages that want to destroy Israel are turned to glass with American AI technology and a US president that knows good from evil.

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Jens's avatar

You write as if the U.S. will forever be the worlds superpower!

It won’t, the U.S. is already in decline and Trumps tenure will undoubtedly accelerate that decline. That’s a fact, whether you like it or not. Israel is wholly dependent upon the U.S. Surely you understand that China will not cosset, fund and protect Israel. There will be very big changes in the Middle East in the future and Israel will definitely not fare well.

Israel has created deadly enemies with its land thefts, aggressive militarism, massacres, self entitlement and greed. Now it blatantly commits genocide in front of the whole world.

There will be bloody consequences for Israel one day. Israelis should have been thinking about their descendants before they acted with such barbarism and hate.

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