#3 NerfHerder says, "The real WWIII will be humans and countries vs. AI entities and corporations."
Behold the future ...
Palantir published a mini manifesto over the weekend based on a book by its CEO that made the company's position clear on a range of topics, from reinstating the military draft to Silicon Valley's moral duty to help the U.S. defend itself.
NEW: Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They're the Bad Guys Interviews with current and former Palantir employees, along with internal Slack messages obtained by @wired.com, suggest a workforce in turmoil. read @makenakelly.bsky.social:
-- Leah Feiger (@leahfeiger.bsky.social) Apr 23, 2026 at 12:07 PM
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Another view of Palantir ...
Palantir employees are talking about company's "descent into fascism"
arstechnica.com
... It took just a few months of President Donald Trump's second term for Palantir employees to question their company's commitments to civil liberties.
Last fall, Palantir seemed to become the technological backbone of Trump's immigration enforcement machinery, providing software identifying, tracking, and helping deport immigrants on behalf of the Department of Homeland Security, when current and former employees started ringing the alarm.
Around that time, two former employees reconnected by phone. Right as they picked up the call, one of them asked, "Are you tracking Palantir's descent into fascism?"
"That was their greeting," the other former employee says. "There's this feeling not of Oh, this is unpopular and hard,' but This feels wrong.'"
Palantir was founded -- with initial venture capital investment from the CIA -- at a moment of national consensus following the September 11, 2001, attacks, when many saw fighting terrorism abroad as the most critical mission facing the US. The company, which was cofounded by tech billionaire Peter Thiel, sells software that acts as a high-powered data aggregation and analysis tool powering everything from private businesses to the US military's targeting systems.
For the past 20 years, employees could accept the intense external criticism and awkward conversations with family and friends about working for a company named after J. R. R. Tolkien's corrupting all-seeing orb. But 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 these 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. ...
Slavery is private service.
#19 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-04-25 11:02 AM | Reply | Flag:
The US govt retains its sole monopoly on slavery.
Meet The New Boss.
Same As The Old Boss.
(Some Whites will look you dead in the eye and say the new boss isn't racist, but that's another story.)
Convict Leasing
Convict leasing was a system of forced penal labor that was practiced in the Southern United States, where private individuals and corporations could lease labor from the state in the form of incarcerated people, nearly all of whom were Black.
The state of Louisiana leased out convicted people as early as 1844.[1] The system expanded throughout most of the South with the emancipation of enslaved people at the end of the American Civil War in 1865.[2] The practice peaked about 1880 and persisted in various forms until gradually phased out following Francis Biddle's "Circular No. 3591" of December 12, 1941. Whilst not having been explicitly abolished, the practice became politically untenable. As a result other forms of prison labour remain legal in the United States, under the Thirteenth Amendment's penal exemption clause.
The system was highly lucrative for both the lessees and state governments.[2] For example, in 1898, 73 percent of Alabama's annual state revenue came from convict leasing,[3] whilst contractors were able to lease people at costs as low as $9 a month.[4][5] Corruption, lack of accountability, and violence resulted in "one of the harshest and most exploitative labor systems known in American history".[6] African Americans, mostly adult males, due to "vigorous and selective enforcement of laws and discriminatory sentencing", comprised the vast majority, though not all, of the convicted people leased.[7]
en.wikipedia.org
@#21 ... The company, which was cofounded by tech billionaire Peter Thiel, sells software that acts as a high-powered data aggregation and analysis tool powering everything from private businesses to the US military's targeting systems. ...
if that is correct...
Is it really a surprise that Mr Thiel was involved in founding the company>
Mr Thiel who apparently ...
JD Vance And Peter Thiel: What To Know About The Relationship Between Trump's VP Pick And The Billionaire (2024)
www.forbes.com
... JD Vance, former President Donald Trump's running mate, has had a long, collaborative relationship with GOP donor and Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel, one that has aided Vance from his time in venture capital to his role as an Ohio senator. ...
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