How Palantir is mapping the nation’s data

Re:How Palantir is mapping the nation’s data by AIorNot on Thursday September 11, 2025 @06:04PM (#45216591)

I mean look at the name of the company for pete's sake: Palantir? Sauron indeed..so much of the valley is enabling the surveillance state at all levels of society.

Silicon valley was supposed to do no evil, no wonder this generation hates tech bros

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Re:How Palantir is mapping the nation’s data by anthem2025 on Thursday September 11, 2025 @06:21PM (#45216708)

lol, Silicon Valley has always been evil.

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Re:How Palantir is mapping the nation’s data by themafia on Thursday September 11, 2025 @08:02PM (#45217364)

Silicon valley is a place.

Government contracting is an activity.

The two should be very far apart and yet somehow they're joined at the hip.

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Re:How Palantir is mapping the nation’s data by scottyah on Thursday September 11, 2025 @08:38PM (#45217535)

Government contracting is the only reason silicon valley exists. It'd just be another valley.

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Re:How Palantir is mapping the nation’s data by bruckie on Thursday September 11, 2025 @08:44PM (#45217571)

Always have been.

In large part, government contracting is what created Silicon Valley. https://steveblank.substack.com/p/if-i-told-you-id-have-to-k...

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Re:How Palantir is mapping the nation’s data by LastTrain on Thursday September 11, 2025 @06:48PM (#45216880)

/Almost/ always

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Re:How Palantir is mapping the nation’s data by coldtea on Thursday September 11, 2025 @07:10PM (#45217040)

I'll give you Xerox.

The rest ...

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Re:How Palantir is mapping the nation’s data by LastTrain on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @06:02PM (#45281914)

I was thinking back even farther: Whole Earth Catalog, The Well, Community Memory, etc.

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Re:How Palantir is mapping the nation’s data by hn_acc1 on Thursday September 11, 2025 @09:11PM (#45217703)

For certain values of "always". I feel many of the original tech startups were genuinely interested in research, pushing limits, etc. Intel/AMD weren't "evil" as far as I can tell - nor the EDA infrastructure.

The social media era (Fbook) is when it started feeling like "majority of new companies are evil". Of course, if Palantir is Sauron, Oracle is Morgoth..

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Re:How Palantir is mapping the nation’s data by chain030 on Friday September 12, 2025 @06:15AM (#45220612)

Yeah I think Thiel's fundamental basis for his investment in FB was not that it would generate a tonne of revenues from Ads - but rather - it could become a large scale surveillance tool. Which benefits his interests (it seems).

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