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Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine

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Re: Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine

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Post by themafia »

GolfPopper wrote: post #39
timoth3y wrote: post #21

Palantir is clearly a mind-boggling on-the-nose, but terrible name to those familiar with the book. The Palantiri consistently provided their users technically accurate intelligence that lead to disastrous strategic decisions. Denethor committed suicide out of despair, after a palantir showed him the black fleet approaching, but he did not know that it was actually Aragorn who had captured the fleet and was coming wi…

> I honestly can't think of a worse name for a company that provides intel for strategic decision making. Yet the choice is very effective at telling those with eyes to see that the one who chose the name possesses only a surface-level understanding of what appears to be his favorite piece of literature.

Or he's broadcasting his intention to destroy world governments and institute a new global order under technocratic control. He's banking on a US General not understanding the deeper lore behind of the name.

Re: Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine

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Post by holistio »

BLKNSLVR wrote: post #33
timoth3y wrote: post #21

Palantir is clearly a mind-boggling on-the-nose, but terrible name to those familiar with the book. The Palantiri consistently provided their users technically accurate intelligence that lead to disastrous strategic decisions. Denethor committed suicide out of despair, after a palantir showed him the black fleet approaching, but he did not know that it was actually Aragorn who had captured the fleet and was coming wi…

I've pointed this out before, but there's an interview clip of Alex Karp saying that Trump won the election in a landslide[0]. If you look at the actual numbers, no one, with any idea of mathematics or statistics or even just basic analysis skills, would call Trump's election victory a landslide. It calls into question the fundamental raisin d'etre of Palantir. It makes Palantir look like a pure propaganda tool. Ther…

It's _raison_, but "raisin d'être" would make an excellent name for a haute cuisine dessert.

Re: Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine

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Post by themafia »

cluckindan wrote: post #35
sschueller wrote: post #2

https://archive.ph/lXw7j

Please don’t use these sites, they alter archived content and use visitor browsers as a ddos botnet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archive.today_guidan...

Then I'd have to ask of publishers please don't use subscription oriented paywalls. I'd be happy to pay for an article here and there. I do not want to understand your subscription model, compare benefits between "tiers" of subscriptions, or think about how to cancel when I eventually realize I'm not getting the value I hoped for.

This is the price of that dark pattern. These sites wouldn't exist if they acted like publishers instead of retailers.

Re: Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine

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Post by GolfPopper »

themafia wrote: post #41
GolfPopper wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I honestly can't think of a worse name for a company that provides intel for strategic decision making. Yet the choice is very effective at telling those with eyes to see that the one who chose the name possesses only a surface-level understanding of what appears to be his favorite piece of literature.

Or he's broadcasting his intention to destroy world governments and institute a new global order under technocratic control. He's banking on a US General not understanding the deeper lore behind of the name.

In folklore, supernatural monsters are often compelled to show their true selves in non-obvious ways.

Re: Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine

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Post by akerl_ »

buildsjets wrote: post #31
catlikesshrimp wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If Cannot resolve archive.ph host Access the .is domain https://archive.is/lXw7j internet archive cannot resolve either

Find a better network service provider, you are being censored by yours.

What makes you say that?

Re: Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine

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Post by DaedalusII »

Barrin92 wrote: post #34
goldenarm wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anduril is quite a positive name, it is a broken sword reforged later to save humankind. Quite a metaphor about western reindustrialization.

except of course that Tolkien, as a Catholic was quite adamant that he didn't write a story of Western chauvinism. The sword is not a metaphor for industrialization, which is quite literally the villain of the story, it's a symbol for restored kingship and hope.

tolkien largely copied the nibelungsenlied and accidentally inherited western chauvinism and many other ideas from that lore, including especially a great amount of racism

Re: Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine

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Post by LargoLasskhyfv »

teravor wrote: post #37
timoth3y wrote: post #21

Palantir is clearly a mind-boggling on-the-nose, but terrible name to those familiar with the book. The Palantiri consistently provided their users technically accurate intelligence that lead to disastrous strategic decisions. Denethor committed suicide out of despair, after a palantir showed him the black fleet approaching, but he did not know that it was actually Aragorn who had captured the fleet and was coming wi…

someone will name their company Ashnazg, probably an AI company

Already happened. Ashnazg Enterprises LLC https://ashnazg.com

No AI though, just fully stacked...

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