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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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> officials in Denmark and the Netherlands have similarly expressed a desire to uncouple from the US-based software group oh that is clever writing

I wonder which Danish official they are talking about. Lots of voices against it, but not from officials. The danish state is going full steam ahead. Just yesterday the Greenlandic police was integrated with Grotham from Palantir.

Is that for real? After all the Trump wanting to take over Greenland stint? I I should not be surprised if Iran would integrate with Palantir as well.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Alex Karp's transformation from progressive to MAGA is fascinating; more so knowing that his father was jewish and his mother was black. I can understand a zeal to "protect the country", but FFS, to be the brains of the secret police is a bit much. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/opinion/alex-karp-palanti...

Some Jews in Germany thought that the EK medal from WW1 would safe them from the Nazis.

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post #6

Anyone who has read The Lord of The Rings has exactly zero reasons to trust Palantir.

Well it’s kind of the same with Rand. That’s their thing, they read these books as preteens and the nuance is lost on them

I thought RAND was just a contraction of Research And Development?

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> officials in Denmark and the Netherlands have similarly expressed a desire to uncouple from the US-based software group oh that is clever writing

I wonder which Danish official they are talking about. Lots of voices against it, but not from officials. The danish state is going full steam ahead. Just yesterday the Greenlandic police was integrated with Grotham from Palantir.

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post #4

> officials in Denmark and the Netherlands have similarly expressed a desire to uncouple from the US-based software group oh that is clever writing

I wonder which Danish official they are talking about. Lots of voices against it, but not from officials. The danish state is going full steam ahead. Just yesterday the Greenlandic police was integrated with Grotham from Palantir.

Maybe being Danish they're cautious and want to test it on polar bears first, you know, before widespread adoption.

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post #64
post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well it’s kind of the same with Rand. That’s their thing, they read these books as preteens and the nuance is lost on them

I thought RAND was just a contraction of Research And Development?

I suppose this is about Ayn Rand. I haven't read her books, but from what I hear they aren't very nuanced though.

Re: Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine

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post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Alex Karp's transformation from progressive to MAGA is fascinating; more so knowing that his father was jewish and his mother was black. I can understand a zeal to "protect the country", but FFS, to be the brains of the secret police is a bit much. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/opinion/alex-karp-palanti...

It’s easy to explain once you realize the real ideology of these people is money. Even if they have other internal beliefs they’ll get buried under the desire to make more money.

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He literally considers Saruman the good guy, Mordor the good place, and Gandalf the bad guy (holding back technological progress) Discussed previously e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45901389

Wait seriously? I'm pretty sure Tolkien would be furious at the mere idea. He could not have written more thoroughly black and white morality if he tried...

It’s based on a retelling of the story that isn’t as black and white and more based around the idea that technology and progress are good.

I haven’t read it but the premise is quite cool. Of course having Thiel as a fan kinda ruins it but I still wanted to read it sometime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Ringbearer

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