Ah crap, saw the Palantir manifesto
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@_L1vY_ crush democracy to save profits from the antichrist?
@Kierkegaanks It is so, so bad
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@Kierkegaanks It is so, so bad
@_L1vY_ You can literally see the evil in their oily sheen
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@oldclumsy_nowmad The post directly below that one
I also had a hard time figuring it out. It's at the bottom of the elia ayoub one in the url that begins with twitter-thread.
Before I found it, my guess was they made the first 20 points sound as innocuous and sweetly optimistic as they could before delivering points 21 and 22. They tried to do that, but….there are -a bunch- of whacked out points in that thing. Wow. They are just insane.
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#Via Leah McElrath
@leahmcelrath
8:38 AM · Apr 19, 2026"Palantir released what it describes as a vision for 'The Technological Republic' in which it argues AGAINST democratic and cultural pluralism and FOR militaristic supremacy enforced by a technocratic elite who produce AI weaponry.
These points stand out:"
@_L1vY_ @leahmcelrath some cultures gave us jazz, others gave us the Holocaust.
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#Via Nabard Faiz / nabardfaiz
11:13 AM · Apr 19, 2026"Dieses Palantir-Pamphlet markiert den Beginn des AI-Faschismus und den Auftakt zu einer Dystopie ungekannten Ausmaßes."
#Via Wandering Hoo / wanderlib
11:21 AM · Apr 19, 2026"9, 18, and 20 scare the shit out of me..."
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#Via Leah McElrath
@leahmcelrath
8:38 AM · Apr 19, 2026"Palantir released what it describes as a vision for 'The Technological Republic' in which it argues AGAINST democratic and cultural pluralism and FOR militaristic supremacy enforced by a technocratic elite who produce AI weaponry.
These points stand out:"
@_L1vY_ @leahmcelrath @FantasticalEconomics having just re-watched "iron sky" last night, this Nazi shit hits particularly hard
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#Via Wandering Hoo / wanderlib
11:21 AM · Apr 19, 2026"9, 18, and 20 scare the shit out of me..."
I gather the fascists would like amnesty.
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@_L1vY_ @leahmcelrath some cultures gave us jazz, others gave us the Holocaust.
@craignicol @L1vY@mstdn.social @leahmcelrath And those same cultures that gave us the Holocaust also stole the jazz.
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@Kierkegaanks It is so, so bad
I can't get past this one, freedom through authoritarianism:
4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software. -
#Via Wandering Hoo / wanderlib
11:21 AM · Apr 19, 2026"9, 18, and 20 scare the shit out of me..."
They're saying they want (even more) no-accountability for the rich and powerful, and they hate it when their heinous crimes and misdeeds are made public despite their wealth and power.
So we know that part's working; keep it up!
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#Via Leah McElrath
@leahmcelrath
8:38 AM · Apr 19, 2026"Palantir released what it describes as a vision for 'The Technological Republic' in which it argues AGAINST democratic and cultural pluralism and FOR militaristic supremacy enforced by a technocratic elite who produce AI weaponry.
These points stand out:"
@_L1vY_ @leahmcelrath
Palantir corporate: Our new motto is “Be Evil.” -
#Via Wandering Hoo / wanderlib
11:21 AM · Apr 19, 2026"9, 18, and 20 scare the shit out of me..."
@_L1vY_ I don't know why it still surprises me when an expert in one field is a complete bumbling idiot when they encounter any other topic, but here we are again: computer nerds trying to do policy and ethics and failing in a hundred ways people like me, who studied politics and morality, already discarded centuries ago.
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#Via Leah McElrath
@leahmcelrath
8:38 AM · Apr 19, 2026"Palantir released what it describes as a vision for 'The Technological Republic' in which it argues AGAINST democratic and cultural pluralism and FOR militaristic supremacy enforced by a technocratic elite who produce AI weaponry.
These points stand out:"
@L1vY@mstdn.social @leahmcelrath Yeah, follows their whole thing would be continuing the fairly fascistic recruitment ad we saw on a college's property into "25-point program" territory.
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They're saying they want (even more) no-accountability for the rich and powerful, and they hate it when their heinous crimes and misdeeds are made public despite their wealth and power.
So we know that part's working; keep it up!
@_L1vY_ yeah that was my take too, those points didn't scare me so much as they made me say
ha! Those greedy entitled jerks are nervous as hell.
The points that truly disgusted me were the "yes- we will build better rifles to kill!!!! That is good!!!" Talk about brainwashed people. Wow.
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@_L1vY_ I don't know why it still surprises me when an expert in one field is a complete bumbling idiot when they encounter any other topic, but here we are again: computer nerds trying to do policy and ethics and failing in a hundred ways people like me, who studied politics and morality, already discarded centuries ago.
@count_01 Behold, you are brilliant in a way that matters
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I gather the fascists would like amnesty.
@BlueDot They want immunity, at least
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@_L1vY_ You can literally see the evil in their oily sheen
@Kierkegaanks I can almost hear the freaky soundtrack for "Annihilation" while reading any of these.
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#Via Wandering Hoo / wanderlib
11:21 AM · Apr 19, 2026"9, 18, and 20 scare the shit out of me..."
#Via Eliot Higgins / eliothiggins
6:22 AM · Apr 19, 2026"Points 9, 18 and 19 go after accountability directly. Scrutiny of public figures is reframed as cultural sickness driving talent away from public life. The problem becomes people scrutinising, not people being scrutinised.
Healthy accountability is triggered by evidence, points upward at power & is public. Disordered accountability protects insiders & aims punishment outward. The document argues for second while calling it the first."
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#Via Eliot Higgins / eliothiggins
6:22 AM · Apr 19, 2026"Points 9, 18 and 19 go after accountability directly. Scrutiny of public figures is reframed as cultural sickness driving talent away from public life. The problem becomes people scrutinising, not people being scrutinised.
Healthy accountability is triggered by evidence, points upward at power & is public. Disordered accountability protects insiders & aims punishment outward. The document argues for second while calling it the first."
#Via Mike Masnick
@mmasnick
10:01 AM · Apr 19, 2026"I've had some friends suggest that there was plausible deniability for people who used to work at Palantir who thought at the time it was just another tech company. I always found that hard to believe as it was always creepy and cultish. But after this... anyone still working there..."
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#Via Mike Masnick
@mmasnick
10:01 AM · Apr 19, 2026"I've had some friends suggest that there was plausible deniability for people who used to work at Palantir who thought at the time it was just another tech company. I always found that hard to believe as it was always creepy and cultish. But after this... anyone still working there..."
#Via Ian Boudreau
@ianboudreau
10:06 AM · Apr 19, 2026"Palantir is a quasi-fundamentalist subversive right-wing movement with a stock symbol."
