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Re:ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data by Der_Einzige on Sunday January 25, 2026 @09:26PM (#46761142)
It would be nice if the top people in open source land weren't disheveled and looking like sterotypes. It's pretty easy to paint him as a predator.
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Re:ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data by AndrewKemendo on Sunday January 25, 2026 @09:41PM (#46761235)
How is not just straight up bigotry? You’re unambiguously saying that his appearance is the relevant factor in his ideas

You’re doing literally what I described

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Re:ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data by llbbdd on Sunday January 25, 2026 @10:44PM (#46761644)
There's a popular video on YouTube of him eating skin peeled from his foot during a lecture at a college. Not AI, very old, repellant to normal people.
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Re:ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data by CyLith on Monday January 26, 2026 @02:11AM (#46762704)
I was in the room and personally witnessed that. It definitely changed my opinion of him and not in a good way.
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Re:ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data by llbbdd on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @03:29AM (#46777096)
I'm a bit awestruck. Was there any discussion about it among your peers? We might be a generation or two apart, I saw that video when I was not yet an adult and it might have been literally part of my introduction to the person that is Richard Stallman. It definitely wasn't a good first impression.
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Re:ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data by mindslight on Monday January 26, 2026 @01:29PM (#46769558)
Yeah, being unaffected by social pressure when philosophizing about what is moral and liberating is strongly related to being unaffected by social pressure regarding personal hygiene and social norms, unfortunately. Still I'd rather have the weirdos, especially this one particular weirdo, than not! Stallman has blazed the trail for us slightly-more-socially-aware types to follow, while we look/act just a little more reasonable.
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