2026-04-19 18:10:38
Palantir posts a 22-point summary of Alex Karp's book, advocating for hard power, AI weapons and deterrence, and denouncing pluralism, and "regressive" cultures (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/19/pala
Palantir posts a 22-point summary of Alex Karp's book, advocating for hard power, AI weapons and deterrence, and denouncing pluralism, and "regressive" cultures (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/19/pala
Yeah, this is fine and normal. Please, give Palantir access to all your citizens’ data.
#palantir
Palantir is evil and supports evil. Why am I not surprised that these talking points are echoed by the current US administration?
Palantir manifesto described as ‘ramblings of a supervillain’ amid UK contract fears | Palantir | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/tech…
'One of The Scariest Things I Have Seen': Alarms Sound Over 'Technofascist' Palantir Manifesto | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/palantir-technofascist-manifesto-criticism
Techdirt piece suggesting that Palantir has gone so far into Trumpist ideology, that they may have become untenable for any government that seeks to show itself as distinct from Trumpism.
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/20/palantir-goes-mask-off-for-…
It is nice that Palantir explicitly confirms it's evil character with statements like this. It should make it easier to boycot the company and it's products.
Just an excerpt added as image, link for full text:
https://twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398573453312
The single patient record (SPR) will be a national digital record that brings together patients’ health and social care data into a single system, but there's a long history of failed attempts to centralise health data (care.data, GPDPR) - and let's hope #palantir aren't involved.
Es ist kaum zu fassen wie wenig Transparenz für das Besitzen von Aktien, Lobbyspenden u.v.m. an Politiker:innen und Parteien existieren, aber zeitgleich die Massenüberwachung des gläsernen Bürgers voranschreitet.
Von Superreichen Repräsentant:innen des Staates wird von Datenschutz und Privatsphäre gesprochen, während zeitgleich an jeder öffentlichen Ecke Kameras stehen, Staatstrojaner gerechtfertigt werden, Palantir von Polizei und Co. genutzt werden soll, Klarnamenpflicht und Persona…
RE: https://syzito.xyz/@OccuWorld/116429883958535292
“Your AI technology from Palantir kills Palestinians.”
Alex Karp, Palantir CEO: “Mostly terrorists, that’s true.”
Fuck you, Alex. I hope someone wipes that smug smile off your face one day, you …
Leaked DOD letter: Pentagon will adopt Palantir's Maven AI system as an official program of record to streamline its adoption across all arms of the US military (David Jeans/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/pentago…
Greater Manchester still says no to NHS data platform with Palantir at its heart
https://www.theregister.com/public-sector/2026/05/13/greater-manchester-still-says-no-to-nhs-data-platform-with-palant…
A new analysis finds that tech giant Palantir Technologies paid no federal income taxes last year,
despite raking in hundreds of millions in taxpayer money to build out a mass network to surveil Americans
in partnership with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Palantir, which has landed multiple massive contracts under the Trump administration,
made $1.6 billion in net income last year.
It grew so much last year that it joined the list of the 20 most valua…
“It is uncomfortable to label yourself a sell-out, and so a billionaire anti-fascist write[s] a manifesto about how, yes, they are still defending democracy, and no, they are not working for a fascist. ”
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-wants-power-without-accountability
Palantir, aka Neonazism Inc., ladies and gentlemen.
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2whlowi5jjjqrdrrj4lxh2lx/post/3mjtot35nxk2n
I assume the next step here is St. Heinlein?
https://twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398573453312
https://techrepublicbook.com/
I've seen a bunch of "the CA age verification law is the best way to do a bad thing and so we shouldn't oppose compliance" takes, which others are rightly pointing out is a bad stance because it's blindingly obvious that compliance now sets the stage for compliance later and the clearly set up later is mandatory verification of age data. Even if you think that, for example, California's current "progressive" government won't go there, we're all currently seeing just how easy it is for a new government to pick up the oppressive tools the "good" government was using "restraint" with and put them to worse ends.
On the other hand, I'll freely admit that distros *do* need a way to shield themselves from liability right now. The clear (to me; IANAL) correct solution is to say on your website "don't download this OS if you're in a jurisdiction where it's not legal for us to provide it."). Assuming this does put you in the clear liability-wise, it has several positive effects:
- Stops zero people from downloading it.
- Makes it clear that your project will not collaborate with fascists/oppressive regime enjoyers.
- Means that when the next law makes verifying user ages mandatory (and/or explicitly requires using Palantir-adjacent services to do so) you've already got a strategy in place and there's no need for a "debate" in your "community" about compliance.
- Gets users more practice with "the law is malicious/needlessly bureaucratic/oppressive; let's ignore it" which to be honest people in general clearly desperately need at this point.
- Is the most effective political move if you want to resist the way things are going. Forcing the other side to explain why "California bans Linux" is good rhetorical strategy. Make *them* try to explain "well it's actually not so harmful since we let users set it themselves" and answer your follow-up "but what if next year the requirements change; I just refuse to go along with this slippery slope stuff and I'm not bothered if that means you want to *ban* me."
#AgeVerification
Cybersecurity is now a burning topic in capitals around the globe, so stay ahead of the curve by checking out today's Metacurity for the most crucial developments, including
--Anthropic watch: Congress scrambles, Europe recoils, and Anthropic's halo grows brighter,
--Leak exposes members of Peter Thiel's secretive power network,
--Cybercrime now accounts for a third of crimes in parts of Asia,
--France picks local rival to replace Palantir at spy agency,
The E-Trade presidency: Trump trades stocks while America burns (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer)
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/trump-stock-trades-palantir-nvidia-20260517.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260517/p58#a260517p58
Hallo Herr #Dobrindt:
Der französische Inlandsgeheimdienst beendet seine Zusammenarbeit mit dem umstrittenen US-Tech-Unternehmen Palantir. „Wir können im digitalen Bereich keine neuen strategischen Abhängigkeiten akzeptieren“, sagte Premierminister Sebastien Lecornu
Senator Lynn Ruane invited to Palantir secret society meeting, but declined.
https://www.rte.ie/news/primetime/2026/0618/1579209-senator-among-six-irish-on-invite-list-of-secretive-dialog-group/
There'…
Bin ja gespannt, ob Palantir das weiterzieht.
#Palantir gegen die Republik: Das Urteil https://www.republik.ch/2026/06/13/palantir-gegen-die-republik-das-urteil
Palantir was initially funded by
In-Q-Tel, the non-profit venture capital arm of the CIA,
and has been working with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which has been criticised by civil liberties groups.
It works with several other UK government organisations,
including the army.
The Israeli army reportedly used Palantir for AI-based targeting in the war in Gaza,
which is a main reason Amnesty International campaigned against Palantir within the…
«"Blackbox" Palantir — Was macht das rasant wachsende KI-Unternehmen genau? Warum die rasant wachsende KI-Firma als umstritten gilt:
Ein Professor für IT-Sicherheitsrecht erklärt, warum die Datenfirma nicht nur in Fachkreisen kontrovers diskutiert wird»
Palantir ist mehr als nur kritisch zu betrachten, denn Palentir handeln mit ihrem Datenhunger sehr undurchsichtig.
🔊
Jegliche Form von Verständnis gegenüber der kommenden Autoritarisierung des Staates wird ausgeblendet, alle Grundlagen, jegliches „wehret den Anfängen” ignoriert, sobald als Rechtfertigung der Kampf gegen Antisemitismus herbeigezogen wird.
Merz? Der gerade alle Demokratieprojekte, selbst die, die Holocaust-Erinnerungsarbeit leisten, kürzt und abschafft? Der soll wirklich ein Interesse haben den Antisemitismus zu bekämpfen, und der Einsatz von Palantir, die Einschränkungen der Versammlu…
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Palantir scheitert weitgehend mit Gegendarstellungen gegen "Republik"-Recherche
Mela is listening to a podcast: Himmelfahrt, Peter Magyar, Sigmar Gabriel, Gerhard Schröder, Fritten, Palantir, KI-Studie, Polen und Plastik – Die Wochendämmerung - Der stabile Wochenrückblick – Katrin Rönicke und Holger Klein (hauseins) - https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1287979850…
As much as I think Palantir is the Darth Vader of Silicon Valley, the CSO of Coinbase was formerly the CISO at Palantir, and that dude is wickedly fierce when it comes to cybersecurity.
Trump considers Palantir exec to lead CISA
https://therecord.media/trump-consider…
Palantir loses its legal bid to force Swiss magazine Republik to publish Palantir's responses to coverage of Switzerland's rejection of the company's services (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7ffcace7-9dc0-4e7e-9912-895ac073f979
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Palantir scheitert weitgehend mit Gegendarstellungen gegen "Republik"-Recherche
Grüne in BaWü: Bitte macht mit und unterstützt den Antrag im Antragsgrün!
https://www.keinebasisfuerpalantir.de/
Bitte gern auch außerhalb von Mastodon teilen, wenn ihr Grünen-Mitglieder aus Baden-Württemberg kennt. 💚
Nicht der erste, und sicher nicht der letzte sinnvolle Schritt der Franzosen für digitale Souveränität. Man kann nur neidisch sein.
https://orf.at/stories/3433501/
Palantir has released its terrifyingly honest (and pompous) plans for world domination
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/apr/29/palantir-has-relea…
Palantir has released its terrifyingly honest (and pompous) plans for world domination
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/apr/29/palantir-has-relea…
Petitie: geen Palantir in Europa
https://action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-03-palantir-petition-EN?akid=s7164139..LnvO1O
Palantir has been selected to build a new national firearms licensing database for police forces across England and Wales.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/gove
UK government still planning to entrust Trump oligarch Peter Thiel's Palantir with handling data of its National Health Service. Then UK ambassador Mandelson (now out because of his Epstein ties) helped facilitate the deal.
https://www.newstatesman.com/comment/2026/
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Digitale Souveränität: Verfassungsschutz kauft europäische Palantir-Alternative
Palantir, the controversial U.S. company working with ICE and the Israeli military, has access to our private data via NHS databases. We need the Government to trigger the break clause on their contract NOW. 🚨Can you sign and share? https://
Alex Karp says Palantir's enterprise customers are "unhappy" with how the frontier labs are operating, believing the labs only care about tokenmaxxing (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/10/palantir-karp-enterprise-ai.html
"Palantir extends reach into British state as it gets access to sensitive FCA data" 😱 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/22/palantir-extends-reach-into-british-state-as-it-gets-access-to-sensitive-fca…
ICE Agents Have List of 20 Million People on Their iPhones Thanks to Palantir (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/ice-agents-have-list-of-20-million-people-on-their-iphones-thanks-to-palantir/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260512/p36#a260512p36
I was going to boost something from thenerve.news, and could not find a mastodon share button. Wanted to give them a hint to add it. No way to contact them without an account. So, I'm not bothering. Their loss.
P.S; The palantir manifesto is out of this world. Read about it somewhere else.
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Digitale Souveränität: Verfassungsschutz kauft europäische Palantir-Alternative
Ein Jahr Digitalministerium: Wildberger schiebt den Stein Souveränität den Berg hoch, Höttges plant Fusion mit T-Mobile US, Palantir erklärt Krieg zur Softwarefrage. Wer hat den Mut hat, den Preis für DigitaleSouveränität zu zahlen? #Kuratiert #DigitaleSouveränität
«Mutmaßlicher US-Angriff auf Schule in Iran — Palantir-System rückt in den Fokus:
Nach dem tödlichen Luftangriff auf eine iranische Schule gerät Palantirs Maven in die Kritik.»
Ja Palantir ist künstlich aber sicher nicht intelligent. Auch deswegen ist es mehr als "nur" kritisch zu betrachten sondern als verantwortungslose unkontrollierbarer Waffe.
😒
Q&A with New York Assembly member and ex-Palantir staffer Alex Bores on running for Congress, Palantir, opposition from super PAC Leading the Future, and more (Katie Drummond/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-big-interview-podcast-new-…
Palantir's CEO; is this part of the plan to force women home?
This CEO warns that Democratic voters are most at risk from automation | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/14/palantir-ai-marco-rubio-afghanistan-katy-perry
What an energizing #CablesOfResistance workshop:
Jeff and Karl managed to have a fruitful conversation with a packed room. Lots of people contributed facts.
Having attended MP @…'s pr…
Il contratto con Palantir della polizia metropolitana è stato bloccato dal Comune.
La polizia metropolitana di Londra non ha potuto firmare un contratto del valore massimo di 50 milioni di sterline con la societŠ tecnologica statunitense Palantir, dopo che il vicesindaco di Londra si è rifiutato di approvare l'accordo.
@…
🍻 Stammtisch München und Oberbayern 🥨
Der kommende Stammtisch ist am Montag den 13.04., wir Treffen uns und machen 🏴☠️Dinge.(#Palantir, Straßenfeste, DiDay,...).
🧡 Gäste sind herzlich willkommen und gerne gesehen, gib uns gerne vorher Bescheid!
📆 Montag, 13. April 2026, ab 19:00 Uhr
📍 Sappralott, Donnersbergerstraße 37, 80634 München
👉 Kalender:
Wow, die ZDF heute-show thematisierte eben:
#Überwachungsstaat, #Palantir und Peter #Thiel !
Beginnt ab Minute 23:
France plans €655M in AI investments through 2030 and a Mistral-powered chatbot for state services; its security service will replace Palantir with Chapsvision (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
French domestic spy agency ditches Palantir for local rival, PM says
https://www.reuters.com/technology/france-invest-655-mln-ai-set-up-common-chatbot-all-state-services-2026-06-16/
Trump Bought Corporations' Stock as His Administration Boosted Their Business (NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/money/donald-trump-stock-investments-palantir-axom-nvidia
http://www.memeorandum.com/260514/p153#a260514p153
Inside Palantir Foundation's Atlantic and Pacific Forum at Yale for invited students: State Dept. and Palantir staff share a vision of mixing AI and state power (Alex Bronzini-Vender/New York Magazine)
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/palantir-yale-confere…
How influencers boosting US-based AI and opposing Chinese AI are paid with money tied to Leading the Future, funded by execs from OpenAI, Palantir, a16z, others (Taylor Lorenz/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/super-pac-back
RE: https://mastodon.social/@tazgetroete/116571789123495062
Es interessiert mich nicht wer die Software gemacht hat, Palantir-artige Überwachungssoftware gehört verboten, nicht eingesetzt!
Daten-Firma Palantir erzielt 85 Prozent Umsatzplus
Palantir baute sich den Ruf auf, Muster in großen Datenmengen zu finden. Nach Militär und Behörden wollen nun auch US-Unternehmen davon profitieren.
https://www.
We call on European governments to:
Stop signing new contracts with Palantir.
Review and phase out existing contracts with the company.
Invest in transparent, publicly accountable European alternatives.
https://action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-03-
Die Bundesregierung plant Gesichtserkennung für Polizei und erwägt dabei US-Anbieter wie Clearview AI. Problem: Clearview-Gründer Ton-That pflegte enge Verbindungen zu Alt-Right und MAGA, der Mitinvestor Peter Thiel ist Palantir-Gründer. Wer Big Brother ruft, sollte schauen, welche Kappe er trägt, meint #Golem
Execs at Palantir, whose stock is up ~16x since its AI platform's 2023 debut, often decry other AI as slop, as competition from frontier AI labs stiffens (Heather Somerville/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/for-palantir-ai-is-…
Palantir Debuts Chic Chore Coat So the World Knows You're One of the Baddies
https://gizmodo.com/palantir-debuts-chic-chore-coat-so-the-world-knows-youre-one-of-the-baddies-2000750606
It takes a village to raise a fascism. @… https://ecoevo.social/@ml/116456227378920367
A year into Trump’s second term,
as Palantir deepens its relationship with an administration that many workers fear is wreaking havoc at home,
employees are finally raising concerns internally,
as the US’s war on immigrants,
war in Iran,
and even company-released manifestos has forced them to rethink the role they play in it all.
"I think there’s a bit of an identity crisis and a bit of a challenge.
We were supposed to be the ones who were preve…
Ein Softwarekonzern entdeckt plötzlich seine Liebe zur Weltordnung und erklärt Krieg zur rationalen Option
Wer KI-Waffen baut, soll sich nicht mit Moral aufhalten, sondern mit Effizienz und Loyalität gegenüber dem Staat
Am Ende klingt das weniger nach Analyse als nach Verkaufsargument für Behördenbudgets
Quelle: Golem über Palantirs Manifest „The Technological Republic“
#KI
Such madness.
Palantir is to be granted access to a trove of highly sensitive UK financial regulation data, in a deal that has prompted fresh concerns about the US AI company’s deepening reach into the British state.
https://www.theg…
Die ARD Arena eröffnet am 27. April ihre Türen um mit Markus Söder zu diskutieren. Ich habe mich mit folgender Frage beworben:
Herr Söder, Sie haben mit Palantir eine Software eines US-Rüstungskonzerns in den Dienst der bayerischen Polizei gestellt, die nicht nur laut Verfassungsrechtlern tief in die Grundrechte eingreift, sondern mit hoher Wahrscheinlichkeit auch die Daten Missbraucht und der Trump-Regierung zur Verfügung stellt.
Warum ist Ihnen die automatisierte R…
Palantir employees are talking about company's "descent into fascism" - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/palantir-employees-are-talking-about-companys-descent-into-fascism/
Palantir reports Q1 revenue up 85% YoY to $1.63B, vs. $1.54B est., US government revenue up 84% to $687M, and US commercial revenue up 133% to $595M (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/palantir-tops-…
Krach in London wegen Palantir
Der Londoner Bürgermeisters Sadiq Khan stoppt einen geplanten Vertrag zwischen der Londoner Metropolitan Police und dem US-Softwareunternehmen Palantir.
https://www.heise.de/news/…
"Organizations can set up alerts for “concerning behavior,” like exfiltrating datasets, and search the session logs of individual users. They also allow organizations to see which users have viewed specific sets of information."
https://www.wired.com/story/palant…
RE: https://eupolicy.social/@ilumium/116362146726772749
Watch as MEPs start knocking back drinks with folks from Palantir at their favourite pubs around the parliament in the coming days. (Like they already do with lobbyists from Google, Microsoft, etc.)…
Mutmaßlicher US-Angriff auf Schule in Iran: Palantir-System rückt in den Fokus
Nach dem tödlichen Luftangriff auf eine iranische Schule gerät Palantirs Maven in die Kritik.
https://www.
Palantir Slack logs and staff interviews reveal internal debates over the company's ICE and DOD contracts during Trump's second term, its manifesto, and more (Makena Kelly/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20
Inside Palantir's recent developer conference, where it doubled down on a vision of AI built for battlefield advantage as its commercial business soars (Steven Levy/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-developer-conference-ai-war-alex-karp/
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Großstadt blockiert Überwachungssoftware Palantir
https://www.
In a report, UK lawmakers call on the government to end a £330M NHS deal with Palantir and disclose more details of a military contract with the company (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-02/palantir-s-3…
Palantir: US-Verteidigungsministerium macht Maven Smart System zum Standard
Das US-Verteidigungsministerium macht Palantirs KI-System Maven zum festen Bestandteil der US-Militärstruktur.
https://w…
How influencers boosting US-based AI and opposing Chinese AI are paid with money tied to Leading the Future, funded by execs from OpenAI, Palantir, a16z, others (Taylor Lorenz/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/super-pac-back
Palantir won a three-month, £30K /week trial to access the UK FCA's intelligence data to tackle financial crime, a source says raising concerns inside the FCA (Robert Booth/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202
London Mayor Sadiq Khan blocks the Met police's £50M Palantir deal to automate intelligence analysis, citing a "clear and serious breach" of procurement rules (Robert Booth/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/m
Trump hails Palantir's "great war fighting capabilities", days after short seller Michael Burry said the company will lose to AI startups; PLTR is down ~25% YTD (Joe Miller/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8ab0fc62-b6ec-4b31-a8d7-cb076c9b0fb4…
A profile of Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf, a Palantir alum and self-identified Democrat, as Anduril's defense tech shakes up the US military-industrial complex (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/05/06/anduril-ceo-brian-s…
How Palantir became a flashpoint on the US campaign trail due to its ICE work, ahead of the midterms; six lawmakers publicly refuse any further Palantir funds (Joe Miller/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/5d6f924d-2e7e-4a5e-ae20-d4f8e29a7d17