I’ve said it before but palantir’s competition — the people bidding on the same contracts — are Accenture consultants with azure accounts, Deloitte nerds with databricks data lakes, CACI contractors with a python script and a dream

www.wired.com/story/alex-k...

Many, many amazing sentences in here

The framing as the only option is also insane. A way to win? Sure, of course. The way to win? Stfu, obviously not

Committing my daily act of self harm by turning on a tap and allowing my brain to drain into a bucket*

*reading the free press editorial

This is a terrible take for a few reasons. But main one is just the lack of data to back up a claim like this. We have data on educational attainment for people accused of violent acts and we know that, on average, more education reduces a person’s likelihood of committing violence

In the same way that Hemingway was an advocate for sobriety

I like focus friend — but the bean does feel like the captive in the allegory of the cave

“Now, suppose there were honors and awards among the captives, which they granted as prizes to one another …”

Their direct competitor is a team of Accenture consultants standing up pipelines in Azure Data Factory. That’s literally who Palantir is competing with for these contracts

Going on tiktok to complain about the corporate grind of your authoritarian-backed fraudulent scheme

Would love to hear this tape lol

The comms of this admin is scary, dumb, infuriating, childish. But it mostly just makes me sad. The explicit propaganda. The fear mongering.

They are not seeking to communicate a rational worldview other than domination that says they have power and we do not.

We do have power. Don’t forget it.