Ah crap, saw the Palantir manifesto

[_l1vy_@mstdn.social]

#Via Adam Serwer / adamserwer
8:04 AM · Apr 19, 2026

"What’s interesting here is they say 'culture' when they mean 'people' but they think that this maintains a veneer of deniability about what they’re really saying. In any case it’s true that the 'culture' of the tech billionaires is morally and intellectually depraved rot.

You can plate it and serve it how you like but it’s impossible to disguise that this is just shit scraped from the toilets of 20th century totalitarians."

[kierkegaanks@beige.party]

@_L1vY_ @leahmcelrath let’s integrate literal shoah fascists in our systems!

[_l1vy_@mstdn.social]

#Via jamelle / jamellebouie
8:29 AM · Apr 19, 2026

"this is just a warmed over david duke speech from 1990"

[_l1vy_@mstdn.social]

#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."

[oldclumsy_nowmad@mastodon.social]

@Kierkegaanks @_L1vY_ @leahmcelrath

I don't connect to X, but I would like to know what's in the Palantir manifesto that's the buzz this morning. Is there a public copy of it somewhere?

[_l1vy_@mstdn.social]

@oldclumsy_nowmad The post directly below that one

[_l1vy_@mstdn.social]

@Kierkegaanks It is so, so bad

[kierkegaanks@beige.party]

@_L1vY_ You can literally see the evil in their oily sheen

[cjpaloma@mstdn.social]

@oldclumsy_nowmad

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.

@_L1vY_

[craignicol@glasgow.social]

@_L1vY_ @leahmcelrath some cultures gave us jazz, others gave us the Holocaust.

[_l1vy_@mstdn.social]

#Via Wandering Hoo / wanderlib
11:21 AM · Apr 19, 2026

"9, 18, and 20 scare the shit out of me..."

[mk30@tilde.zone]

@_L1vY_ @leahmcelrath @FantasticalEconomics having just re-watched "iron sky" last night, this Nazi shit hits particularly hard

[bluedot@left-bank.net]

@_L1vY_

I gather the fascists would like amnesty.

[nini@oldbytes.space]

@craignicol @L1vY@mstdn.social @leahmcelrath And those same cultures that gave us the Holocaust also stole the jazz.

[dbaplanb@mastodon.sdf.org]

@_L1vY_ @Kierkegaanks

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.

[_l1vy_@mstdn.social]

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!

[knutson_brain@sfba.social]

@_L1vY_ @leahmcelrath
Palantir corporate: Our new motto is “Be Evil.”

[count_01@mastodon.social]

@_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.

[nini@oldbytes.space]

@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.

[cjpaloma@mstdn.social]

@_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.