Re:Palantir has no place in UK public services
by tombert on Sunday January 25, 2026 @03:31AM
(#46751956)
I mean, isn't this kind of the point of Palantir? Like don't they want to be known as a technological Big Brother? If they weren't Silicon Valley Big Brother, then why would a government even want to use their service?
It feels like they want to have their cake and eat it too; they hate the negative press calling them creepy, but also depend on that press to do their marketing because if they weren't creepy then they wouldn't have a product.
Re:Palantir has no place in UK public services
by gyanchawdhary on Sunday January 25, 2026 @03:27AM
(#46751932)
imn a software engineer/entrepreneur .. and i’m british, and that article is about UK public services ... so this isn’t distant or abstract for me .. aslo, SV isnt some monolith I’m disconnected from .. even without living there .. its companies (especially those ones that can be seen from this original poster (imbecile ?) view point as evil have materially shaped my career and opportunities in ways that wouldn’t have existed otherwise .. btw .. you can be skeptical of Palantir or US tech influence without collapsing everything into an us verus them narrative or assuming disagreement maps cleanly to geography ..
Re:Palantir has no place in UK public services
by tombert on Sunday January 25, 2026 @03:55AM
(#46752098)
I didn't reduce it to "us vs. them", I said that they and their CEO are creepy. You took that personally because you parasocially love Daddy Alex.
Re:Palantir has no place in UK public services
by hackable_sand on Sunday January 25, 2026 @05:54AM
(#46752908)
"entrepreneur" LOL
Re:Palantir has no place in UK public services
by datsci_est_2015 on Sunday January 25, 2026 @07:23AM
(#46753492)
Yeah sometimes I question the time and effort I give to some comments on this forum, especially when it comes to more nuanced non-programming topics. I’ve seen what some people have to say about programming and it’s appalling… extend that to something on which they’re not even formally educated? Yeesh
Re:Palantir has no place in UK public services
by gyanchawdhary on Sunday January 25, 2026 @08:51AM
(#46754069)
lol. Losing must suck.
Re:Palantir has no place in UK public services
by datsci_est_2015 on Sunday January 25, 2026 @04:44PM
(#46758646)
“Losing” tells me your brain probably isn’t even fully developed. It’s even worse…
Re:Palantir has no place in UK public services
by gyanchawdhary on Sunday January 25, 2026 @08:58AM
(#46754125)
hackable_sand poor lol
Re:Palantir has no place in UK public services
by popalchemist on Sunday January 25, 2026 @06:50PM
(#46759948)
Okay, that rationale was suitable for other eras, however in THIS MOMENT, the "us vs them" is actually an accurate description of CLASS WARFARE BEING WAGED BY THE TECHNOCRAT/PLUTOCRAT CLASS. Wake up.
Furthermore, what is NOT evil about a company who enables the mass surveillance of citizens by the government so that the government can target them for kidnapping, home invasion, and murder (no exaggeration - it's what's happening, see the front page article today about Palintir's enabling of it) as political retribution for dissenting against fascism?
It's evil. We can say it. Don't gatekeep it.
I'd definitely be having these thoughts a bit more often if I was someone in another country that found out my govt is using their services, even more so with the recent migrate-off-us-tech momentum.