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The Anti-Palantir Manifesto
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You might have missed the Epstein files. Rings a bell?
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#33The fear of an imminent surveillance state just rings so hollow to me. It used to appeal to me as an existential threat, but then real world experience made me realize how implausible this is, not due to technological limitations but political will. We already have surveillance states. Walk into any chain drug store in the country and you'll be met with cameras tracking your every movement, deodorant under lock and k…
Ever wonder why they let those criminals seemingly get away with it?
Think one extra step ahead.
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#34> 19. America created the first global surveillance state, but it will not be the last. Too many have forgotten, or perhaps taken for granted, the revelations of Wikileaks and Snowden. States across the world from China to Russia are creating even more powerful global surveillance systems and propaganda machines. Leveraging private defense contracts in countries across the world, Palantir seeks to make itself the ope…
How hot does the water need to be before you raise the alarm? I think there is value in pointing out trend lines and voicing opposition even if there are other countries that have more authoritarian views on speech. This is not a competition, what matters is the experience of the people in the country today not the fact that if they moved to Russia it would be worse. What is important is that the US state has both ga…
The alarm's been raised for a while now.
You have to hold elected and appointed leaders to account.
That means going to a voting site on each and every election day (I don't care if it's for dog catcher and only dog catcher) and voting even if candidates aren't perfect. It means making it clear that the three boxes of liberty will be used by the people to make sure that their rights are protected.
In the US, we still have some ability to do what I mentioned. There just doesn't seem to be any will to do it.
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#36The fear of an imminent surveillance state just rings so hollow to me. It used to appeal to me as an existential threat, but then real world experience made me realize how implausible this is, not due to technological limitations but political will. We already have surveillance states. Walk into any chain drug store in the country and you'll be met with cameras tracking your every movement, deodorant under lock and k…
All of your arguments are broad, baseless, and trivially disprovable. There absolutely is political will to enable a police state, and history absolutely rhymes.
> trivially disprovable
Then disprove it.
Here's some data around catch and release:
Among persons admitted to state prison in 2014 across 34 states, 77% had five or more prior arrests in their criminal history, including the arrest that resulted in their prison sentence.
About half of persons admitted in 2014 were released by the end of 2015. Among these released persons, over half (59%) were arrested at least once within 2 years, including 16% for a violent offense. Forty-two percent were arrested for a public order offense within 2 years of release, making it the most common arrest offense for the 2014 admission cohort.
The number of prisoners that have had 15 or more prior arrests is over 26%
https://mleverything.substack.com/p/acceptance-of-crime-is-a...
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
I found it to have just enough substance to make me take a look at what Nym VPN is, because I'd rather not give money to Mullvad any more, but the VPN looks like something for shilling crypto.
Nym is pretty complicated and although they offer some kind of traditional VPN service as well IIRC, their main product is actually the only large scale operational "mixnet", which you can think of as kinda similar to Tor but a lot more resistant to certain types of deanonymization attacks (specifically it's designed to be safe against passive global adversaries, ie an attacker who can monitor every packet on the int…
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Haha I think we have a different idea of which 1% is making life miserable
I don't remember Elon Musk breaking into my garage and stealing my bike. But you never know, they never caught the guy.
Instead of your bike he stole everyones 401k and hurt every being on the planet through his rocket launch emissions.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
I found it to have just enough substance to make me take a look at what Nym VPN is, because I'd rather not give money to Mullvad any more, but the VPN looks like something for shilling crypto.
> because I'd rather not give money to Mullvad any more ?????? Why?
Front page HN 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48717469
One of the two Mullvad founders and shareholders provides 70% of a Swedish far-right political party's funding.