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Answer: Do you know where the name "Palantir" comes from? What did you expect?

@GossiTheDog if you work for Palantir, you are a bad human and wrong,

@GossiTheDog "Can it be right to support a customer [ICE] who you think is wrong?”

NO. Next question.

Still love that name. The seeing stones in the Tolkien universe, all either lost, or corrupted by the Dark Lord. Too on the nose for fiction.

@GossiTheDog John Grant, Palantir’s “Ethics Education Program Lead,”....

Nobody shitposts as successful as reality itself

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@GossiTheDog So of you're surprised by this sort of thing, it's time to read @pluralistic 's Attack surface https://bookwyrm.social/book/616657/s/attack-surface

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“Can it be right to support a customer [ICE] who you think is wrong?”

more like

"how can you work for a company enabling human beings to be sent to a gulag?"

the answer should be really obvious. you don't.

@GossiTheDog I guess it depends on what you mean by Americans.

@GossiTheDog ex of mine was a data analyst researching “predictive policing” software sold by Palantir to the London Met Police. He wanted to work for them and even, gosh, 10 years ago now I told him directly that they’re an evil company that kills people for money

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> ‘The primary focus of that sprint was providing immigration agents with “improved awareness about the criminality and location of individuals who have already received a final order of removal,” the wiki says.’

This sounds rule-of-law-y enough to lull the average dev into thinking they’re *helping* the problem. Y’know, maybe if ICE has better data on which people are criminals and who has already gotten their due process, maybe they’ll just focus on those people, right?

If anyone reads this and thinks “maybe that’s reasonable, actually”…

No, not right. ICE already proved they don’t care about due process or criminality. All they care about is who and where; their one goal is to put bodies on planes right now, and to do it with a just-thick-enough justification that they don’t have to stop. You do not “help” by collaborating with such an organization. This is baldface neo-Nazi policy, And we all know you do not appease or collaborate with Nazis. The details are going to sound reasonable because that’s how they lie to you to get your consent for them to continue.

@GossiTheDog I think if someone made the choice to work for Palantir we already know what side they're on (and so should their friends and families).

@GossiTheDog What a shame they're still in business. What a crock that American government has enriched their founders and embraced them and hundreds of companies worldwide to tackle projects of negative merit.

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This is a perfect example of what we’ve lost by eliminating philosophy & morality/ethics studies from our educational system & culture. ‘Corporate complicity’ is a real concern here, just as it is for those whose employment supports weapons of war, migrant family separation, unconstitutional arrest methods & the arrests themselves — and a hundred other ways we violate human rights & lives.

‘Morality’ isn’t just being nice, not cheating on parking meters & taxes. Real morality has a backbone that requires assent to solid principles based on ethics — and making difficult choices supported by that backbone. (“Do I work for Palantir or not?” “Am I complicit if I work for CBP?”)

Enormous wealth & obscene power, & the application of those two in concert, have eroded our collective morality; the spineless Republican Party, the Billionaire Boyz & mega-corporations are prime examples.

#StopTrumpNow
#StopElonMusk
#ImpeachTrump
#uspol

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IBM helped the Nazis round up Jews

It’s what people do with what they have

@GossiTheDog @hacks4pancakes "Yes! Yes, we're the fscking baddies! Next question."

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@GossiTheDog I knew somebody who worked at a startup that would automatically reject job applicants who had Palantir on their resume. “You don’t share our company’s values.”

@GossiTheDog Here's a quick FAQ for people who know people that are, or are married to people who are employed by Palantir:

Question: When is the next family gathering?
Answer: You're no longer invited.

@GossiTheDog And these are the people that #NHS voluntarily hands over the medical records of most UK residents to? Oh, no, no red flags here, nonewhatsoever. Shameful.

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You hate to see a 21st century tech company -- like Palantir -- imitate a 20th century tech company in aiding and abetting crimes against humanity.
I'm referring, of course to IBM supplying the punch-card machines Nazi Germany used to round up "undesirables."
Use your favorite search engine, if you don't believe me.
#Palantir #IBM #CrimesAgainstHumanity