Palantir threatened to call police on a WIRED reporter and kicked out other journalists from a recent conference following reports of the data analytics firm’s work with the Trump administration.
  • DarkCloud@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1121·
    9 个月前

    Lots of people will be happier the day Peter Thiel dies… He’s disliked in the same range as Musk, without having anywhere near the public presence.

    • m-p{3}@piefed.caEnglish
      74·
      9 个月前

      Which makes him more dangerous than Musk IMO, as he’s wise enough to operate in the shadow.

    • PotatoLibre@feddit.itEnglish
      52·
      9 个月前

      That dude is pure evil.

      A narcissist who somehow made it trough and still have a relevamce.

    • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      34·
      9 个月前

      Musk is a narcissist who got very lucky in life. But still he is a human, bad human but relatable in the sense you understand his flaws.

      Thiel is something else. Sociopath I guess. Dude is not human and doesn’t function according to any understandable human psychology

      • malloc@lemmy.worldEnglish
        351·
        9 个月前

        Before settling in Foster City, California, in 1977, the Thiel family lived in South Africa and South West Africa (modern-day Namibia). Peter changed elementary schools seven times. He attended a German-language school in Swakopmund that required students to wear uniforms and utilized corporal punishment, such as striking students’ hands with a ruler. He said this experience instilled a distaste for uniformity and regimentation later reflected in his support for individualism and libertarianism.[20][21] The German community in Swakopmund that Thiel grew up in was known at the time for its continued glorification of Nazism.[22][23]

        Thiel and Muskrat cut from the same cloth of trustfund babies and apartheid benefactors, m8

    • malloc@lemmy.worldEnglish
      27·
      9 个月前

      Peter Thiel is one of the many money men that want to privatize everything, dismantle federal government, hand keys to “network states” (company towns but somehow worse).

      Goal is none or self regulation. Maximize profits. They want to shape the world into this hyper capitalistic society and surveillance state. Palantir is just one of those companies in a massive portfolio to fulfill this stupid dream shared by many industrialists.

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      9·
      9 个月前

      thiel dint like his boytoy last year voicing his concern for his anti-lgbtq+stance, so he got “Defenestrated”, there was a chance his bf(not hubby) was going to press sooner or later, and thiel does not like being outed as full on gay in the media(look at what happened gawker)

  • Etterra@discuss.onlineEnglish
    462·
    9 个月前

    It’s strangely appropriate that these bastards named themselves after the magical sphere that Sauron used to turn Sarumon evil in LotR.

    • GamingChairModel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      521·
      9 个月前

      Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale

      Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don’t Create The Torment Nexus

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldBannedEnglish
      1·
      9 个月前

      Sauron used conversations and scenes to turn Saruman charmed and deadly frightened. Over the palantir, which was a device to see the future, the past, the probable, close and far away. Thus also a communication device.

      So basically their name refers to knowing things which are not their fucking concern. Not what you said.

      EDIT: Still, the way communication of Saruman and Denethor with Sauron turned them both mad - is a good metaphor of how lots of awesome technology was misused to almost ruin humanity in the last 30 years. I wonder if it’s reversible.

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
    341·
    9 个月前

    Everyone hates Palantir, but the only difference between them and every other massive tech company, is they started off evil rather than having to work their way up to it.

  • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    9 个月前

    palintir has always worked for defense like for 10+years, its only recently they got thier grubby little hands under trump Law enforcement work.

  • Gammelfisch@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    9 个月前

    I would not be surprised if Palantir told Krasnov not to fuck around and disturb their live-fire Ukrainian laboratory.