Ah crap, saw the Palantir manifesto

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@Kierkegaanks It is so, so bad

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@_L1vY_ You can literally see the evil in their oily sheen

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@oldclumsy_nowmad

I also had a hard time figuring it out. It's at the bottom of the elia ayoub one in the url that begins with twitter-thread.

Before I found it, my guess was they made the first 20 points sound as innocuous and sweetly optimistic as they could before delivering points 21 and 22. They tried to do that, but….there are -a bunch- of whacked out points in that thing. Wow. They are just insane.

@_L1vY_

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@_L1vY_ @leahmcelrath some cultures gave us jazz, others gave us the Holocaust.

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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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@_L1vY_ @leahmcelrath @FantasticalEconomics having just re-watched "iron sky" last night, this Nazi shit hits particularly hard

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@_L1vY_

I gather the fascists would like amnesty.

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@craignicol @L1vY@mstdn.social @leahmcelrath And those same cultures that gave us the Holocaust also stole the jazz.

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@_L1vY_ @Kierkegaanks

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.

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They're saying they want (even more) no-accountability for the rich and powerful, and they hate it when their heinous crimes and misdeeds are made public despite their wealth and power.

So we know that part's working; keep it up!

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@_L1vY_ @leahmcelrath
Palantir corporate: Our new motto is “Be Evil.”

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@_L1vY_ I don't know why it still surprises me when an expert in one field is a complete bumbling idiot when they encounter any other topic, but here we are again: computer nerds trying to do policy and ethics and failing in a hundred ways people like me, who studied politics and morality, already discarded centuries ago.

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@L1vY@mstdn.social @leahmcelrath Yeah, follows their whole thing would be continuing the fairly fascistic recruitment ad we saw on a college's property into "25-point program" territory.

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@_L1vY_ yeah that was my take too, those points didn't scare me so much as they made me say

ha! Those greedy entitled jerks are nervous as hell.

The points that truly disgusted me were the "yes- we will build better rifles to kill!!!! That is good!!!" Talk about brainwashed people. Wow.

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@count_01 Behold, you are brilliant in a way that matters ️

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@BlueDot They want immunity, at least

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@Kierkegaanks I can almost hear the freaky soundtrack for "Annihilation" while reading any of these.

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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."

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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..."

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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."