Activists Are Protesting Against Palantir Across the Country This Week

Re:Activists Are Protesting Against Palantir Across the Coun... by jp555 on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @08:33AM (#24553704)

When I see "VICE" it triggers a kind of synesthesia and I smell garbage.

How far things have come from when I used to spend part of my weekend hunting for a copy of their free magazine in the shops along Queen St West...

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Re:Activists Are Protesting Against Palantir Across the Coun... by mlang23 on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @04:45AM (#24552298)

You mean quality journalism like this: https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/jmkbm7/getting-wasted-on-...

"This story is over 5 years old."

I wonder when this infantile news outlet finally bites the dust.

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Re:Activists Are Protesting Against Palantir Across the Coun... by read_if_gay_ on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @04:49AM (#24552322)

I loved Vice for doing ridiculous fringe shit like that though. Nobody else would do it. It only went downhill when they suddenly started to pretend they’re serious now.

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Re:Activists Are Protesting Against Palantir Across the Coun... by stagehn on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @06:02AM (#24552748)

It went downhill when they were captured by woke college graduates in the late 2010s (similar to many left leaning news organizations)

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Re:Activists Are Protesting Against Palantir Across the Coun... by k___ on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @08:00AM (#24553468)

You mean when they were bought by NewsCorp???

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/aug/17/rupert-murdoch....

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Re:Activists Are Protesting Against Palantir Across the Coun... by notmurdoch on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @09:10AM (#24553984)

This is blatant misinformation. The article you linked says Murdoch bought a 5% share seven years ago, and Murdoch isn't News Corp, and 5% is not a buyout. According to Wikipedia[0], today his share is so small they don't even list a percentile, and Soros (the Right's bogeyman, to counterbalance yours) owns 10%, with the actual majority stake split between larger, uncontroversial owners. News Corp owns 0% of Vice Media. Fake news.

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_Media

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Re:Activists Are Protesting Against Palantir Across the Coun... by gameswithgo on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @08:47AM (#24553796)

fortunately right leaning news organizations headed by older people like fox and breitbart are always serious and high quality journalism

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Re:Activists Are Protesting Against Palantir Across the Coun... by yters on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @08:51AM (#24553832)

isn't vice headed by an alt right guy?

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Re:Activists Are Protesting Against Palantir Across the Coun... by zaphod12 on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @08:57AM (#24553878)

It was...but they parted ways several years ago.

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Re:Activists Are Protesting Against Palantir Across the Coun... by 9HZZRfNlpR on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @08:56AM (#24553874)

It was founded only I think, but there was some beef with the other founder and he was bought out.

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Re:Activists Are Protesting Against Palantir Across the Coun... by holler on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @04:47AM (#24552311)

the Vice Guide to Travel episodes were pretty good, especially Liberia & North Korea.

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Re:Activists Are Protesting Against Palantir Across the Coun... by postsantum on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @09:08AM (#24553976)

The Hermit Kingdom was incredible - how lucky you have to to be to be invited to party with Kim and leave in one piece?

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Re:Activists Are Protesting Against Palantir Across the Coun... by secondcoming on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @06:02AM (#24552746)

Simon Ostrovsky's documentation of the Russian invasion of Ukraine was great too.

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Re:Activists Are Protesting Against Palantir Across the Coun... by golergka on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @07:45AM (#24553364)

This kind of article is exactly what made Vice awesome back in the day.

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Re:Activists Are Protesting Against Palantir Across the Coun... by mlang23 on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @04:48AM (#24552319)

Or this wonderful gem from the german VICE division: https://www.vice.com/de/article/mg7yv4/fruehstueck-aus-der-s...

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Re:Activists Are Protesting Against Palantir Across the Coun... by sebmellen on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @05:54AM (#24552694)

> HAUSGEMACHTER JOGHURT AUS LOKALER PRODUKTION

> Die Idee kam uns, als meine Freundin Cecilia und ich die probiotischen Eigenschaften der Vagina diskutierten.

Meine Güte.

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Re:Activists Are Protesting Against Palantir Across the Coun... by tpush on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @05:53AM (#24552688)

I thought that article was both hilarious and informative.

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Re:Activists Are Protesting Against Palantir Across the Coun... by orbifold on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @06:59AM (#24553051)

Those seem like fun people to be around.

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Re:Activists Are Protesting Against Palantir Across the Coun... by redwood on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @07:01AM (#24553065)

Doesn't help that their founder is a white supremicist

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Re:Activists Are Protesting Against Palantir Across the Coun... by jackric on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @07:26AM (#24553242)

Gavin McInnes? He hasn't been involved for 12 years how would that affect today's quality of writing?

Or unless you're just trying to crowbar in a signal of your virtue?

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Re:Activists Are Protesting Against Palantir Across the Coun... by geofft on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @07:40AM (#24553333)

It's relevant specifically because old Vice was more influenced by him than it is today, and the claim is that Vice was better in the past.

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Re:Activists Are Protesting Against Palantir Across the Coun... by jackric on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @07:50AM (#24553393)

"Doesn't help that their founder is a white supremicist"

If this person thinks the writing was better in the past, they're unlikely to call the departing influence a "white supremicist".

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Re:Activists Are Protesting Against Palantir Across the Coun... by mercurysmessage on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @08:57AM (#24553880)

"Or unless you're just trying to crowbar in a signal of your virtue?"

What is the point of saying this?

White supremacists are bad, why do you take issue with someone saying that?

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Re:Activists Are Protesting Against Palantir Across the Coun... by jackric on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @10:35AM (#24554850)

Because it looks like using poor logic as a hook to express a rewardable ingroup opinion, and not anything interesting about why the writing quality has declined.

White supremacists are bad, and wrong.

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Re:Activists Are Protesting Against Palantir Across the Coun... by mercurysmessage on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @01:31PM (#24557405)

What rewardable ingroup opinion? What ingroup? Every single person with a head on their shoulders should be against white supremacism.

Your reply reads the same as every reply from a far right peron. Calling everything "virtue signalling" as if people can't care about each other.

I think OP's point was that the writing was never great, I'm not sure what Mcinness's relation to Vice would be now.

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Re:Activists Are Protesting Against Palantir Across the Coun... by jackric on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @04:07PM (#24559208)

Bringing in a virtuous point in irrelevant occasions is virtue signalling. By the way I can't stand people who litter, and I picked up 3 pieces of litter already today.

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