Ah crap, saw the Palantir manifesto
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#Via Eliot Higgins / eliothiggins
6:22 AM · Apr 19, 2026"Points 9, 18 and 19 go after accountability directly. Scrutiny of public figures is reframed as cultural sickness driving talent away from public life. The problem becomes people scrutinising, not people being scrutinised.
Healthy accountability is triggered by evidence, points upward at power & is public. Disordered accountability protects insiders & aims punishment outward. The document argues for second while calling it the first."
#Via Mike Masnick
@mmasnick
10:01 AM · Apr 19, 2026"I've had some friends suggest that there was plausible deniability for people who used to work at Palantir who thought at the time it was just another tech company. I always found that hard to believe as it was always creepy and cultish. But after this... anyone still working there..."
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#Via Mike Masnick
@mmasnick
10:01 AM · Apr 19, 2026"I've had some friends suggest that there was plausible deniability for people who used to work at Palantir who thought at the time it was just another tech company. I always found that hard to believe as it was always creepy and cultish. But after this... anyone still working there..."
#Via Ian Boudreau
@ianboudreau
10:06 AM · Apr 19, 2026"Palantir is a quasi-fundamentalist subversive right-wing movement with a stock symbol."
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#Via Ian Boudreau
@ianboudreau
10:06 AM · Apr 19, 2026"Palantir is a quasi-fundamentalist subversive right-wing movement with a stock symbol."
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#Via StephC / scomea
9:25 AM · Apr 19, 2026"They know they have crossed the Rubicon where they can no longer afford to lose control of the US without facing prosecution. We're in their end game."
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#Via StephC / scomea
9:25 AM · Apr 19, 2026"They know they have crossed the Rubicon where they can no longer afford to lose control of the US without facing prosecution. We're in their end game."
#Via onion person / junlper.beer
12:12 PM · Apr 19, 2026"palantir should be viewed as the enemy of modern society"
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#Via onion person / junlper.beer
12:12 PM · Apr 19, 2026"palantir should be viewed as the enemy of modern society"
#Via Dr. Damien P. Williams
@Wolven
11:08 AM · Apr 19, 2026"I really wish more people had paid attention when several observers tried to warn about the technofascist and eugenicist tendencies of thiel and karp and that group, for rolling up on two decades, now.
And i *Really* wish the media & political actors would take the threat of them seriously, today."
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I can't get past this one, freedom through authoritarianism:
4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software. -
#Via Dr. Damien P. Williams
@Wolven
11:08 AM · Apr 19, 2026"I really wish more people had paid attention when several observers tried to warn about the technofascist and eugenicist tendencies of thiel and karp and that group, for rolling up on two decades, now.
And i *Really* wish the media & political actors would take the threat of them seriously, today."
#Via Killswitch / iamkillswitch
11:13 AM · Apr 19, 2026"Palantir is trending. There's the techno arm of global fascism and probably behind every single surveillance bill whether it's disguised as child safety or not."
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#Via Killswitch / iamkillswitch
11:13 AM · Apr 19, 2026"Palantir is trending. There's the techno arm of global fascism and probably behind every single surveillance bill whether it's disguised as child safety or not."
#Via Kat Tenbarge
@kattenbarge
11:12 AM · Apr 19, 2026"At a time when mass surveillance and autonomous weapons companies like Palantir are openly announcing their plans for violent world domination, it is crucial that our attempts at 'big tech reform' don’t actually give them more power—ie via government mandated age verification/identity software."
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#Via Killswitch / iamkillswitch
11:13 AM · Apr 19, 2026"Palantir is trending. There's the techno arm of global fascism and probably behind every single surveillance bill whether it's disguised as child safety or not."
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#Via Wandering Hoo / wanderlib
11:21 AM · Apr 19, 2026"9, 18, and 20 scare the shit out of me..."
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@wronglang How dare we hold them to account for anything
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#Via Leah McElrath
@leahmcelrath
8:38 AM · Apr 19, 2026"Palantir released what it describes as a vision for 'The Technological Republic' in which it argues AGAINST democratic and cultural pluralism and FOR militaristic supremacy enforced by a technocratic elite who produce AI weaponry.
These points stand out:"
@_L1vY_ @leahmcelrath Link, please? I'm finding articles about it but not the manifesto itself.
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@wronglang How dare we hold them to account for anything
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@_L1vY_ @leahmcelrath Link, please? I'm finding articles about it but not the manifesto itself.
@msbellows There's a link to the thread reader in the very next post.
(If you want to go directly to X to see the actual post you probably can via the thread reader, but I'm not posting X links here!)
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@msbellows There's a link to the thread reader in the very next post.
(If you want to go directly to X to see the actual post you probably can via the thread reader, but I'm not posting X links here!)
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#Via Leah McElrath
@leahmcelrath
8:38 AM · Apr 19, 2026"Palantir released what it describes as a vision for 'The Technological Republic' in which it argues AGAINST democratic and cultural pluralism and FOR militaristic supremacy enforced by a technocratic elite who produce AI weaponry.
These points stand out:"
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@msbellows You are not alone in that!
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