<![CDATA[Surveillance and data-manipulation giant Palantir was a CIA-funded creation and has become one of the planet's most powerfully evil companies.]]>Surveillance and data-manipulation giant Palantir was a CIA-funded creation and has become one of the planet's most powerfully evil companies. It is vital that the general public understand the danger -- and then work to root it out of our lives.

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Purge Palantir: The Campaign Against Peter Thiel's Spy Firm

A national campaign is taking on Peter Thiel's surveillance giant — and Palantir just handed them a fascist manifesto to campaign against.

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The Nerd Reich (www.thenerdreich.com)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/64ffe926-fccd-4e58-9bb9-5144d305a158/surveillance-and-data-manipulation-giant-palantir-was-a-cia-funded-creation-and-has-become-one-of-the-planet-s-most-powerfully-evil-companies.RSS for NodeFri, 01 May 2026 04:43:38 GMTWed, 22 Apr 2026 00:38:12 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Surveillance and data-manipulation giant Palantir was a CIA-funded creation and has become one of the planet's most powerfully evil companies. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:26:10 GMT]]>@dangillmor

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/subm3rge/statuses/116450234871609927https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/subm3rge/statuses/116450234871609927Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:26:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Surveillance and data-manipulation giant Palantir was a CIA-funded creation and has become one of the planet's most powerfully evil companies. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:48:02 GMT]]>@phl @dangillmor yes indeed and all the nefarious actions of Palantir didn't make them blacklisted at all:

Client Challenge

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MPs question UK Palantir contracts after investigation reveals security concerns

Journalists find Swiss government rejected company over fears US intelligence might gain access to sensitive data

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the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

Only the swiss resisted

Just a moment...

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(www.republik.ch)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://pouet.chapril.org/users/tomtom/statuses/116450084915609661https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://pouet.chapril.org/users/tomtom/statuses/116450084915609661Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:48:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Surveillance and data-manipulation giant Palantir was a CIA-funded creation and has become one of the planet's most powerfully evil companies. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:36:30 GMT]]>@dangillmor After WW2 cia hooked w. nazis to fight the reds. It can be hard to separate the two.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/swggrkllr3rd/statuses/116448859951872973https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/swggrkllr3rd/statuses/116448859951872973Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:36:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Surveillance and data-manipulation giant Palantir was a CIA-funded creation and has become one of the planet's most powerfully evil companies. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:05:19 GMT]]>@sysadmin1138@ngmx.com @dangillmor@mastodon.social

Yeah. Part of the salary "problem" was they wanted cleared personnel but they neither wanted to pay for people that already had the necessary clearances nor did they want to pay for people to maintain the kind of lifestyle-restrictions that allow one to get and retain those clearances.

"Horrors" aside, the lifestyle-restrictions can be onerous (depending on the agency one needs to work for). DoJ, for example, has long had problems hiring people because they have a lifetime proscription against use of recreational drugs. I've worked in IT for a long time and a lifetime history clean of recreational drug use seems to be rare among IT types, particularly the more-gifted ones. So, I've had professional acquaintances get turned down in their thirties for having been pot-smokers in highschool or college. I can only imagine that, as more states loosen rules around such consumption, DoJ's either going to have to rethink that or be satisfied pulling from an ever-shrinking pool of candidates. Most other agencies acquaintances have told me about seem to take a more pragmatic approach. Something akin to, "as long as you disclose the history prior to your background investigation and refrain from further use during the period you have a clearance, we can waive that history".

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://blahaj.zone/notes/aldmqj80wvl20650https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://blahaj.zone/notes/aldmqj80wvl20650Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:05:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Surveillance and data-manipulation giant Palantir was a CIA-funded creation and has become one of the planet's most powerfully evil companies. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:43:38 GMT]]>@ferricoxide @dangillmor I ALSO applied there in late 2013, before I knew anything about them.

During the interview process, they said they'd like me to work in their SCIF. That's when I had my WTF moment. Secure Compartmentalized Information Facilities are where you keep the Cthulhonic horrors. I don't want to work with Cthulhonic horrors, thank you. I bounced.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ngmx.com/users/sysadmin1138/statuses/116448416113084797https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ngmx.com/users/sysadmin1138/statuses/116448416113084797Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:43:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Surveillance and data-manipulation giant Palantir was a CIA-funded creation and has become one of the planet's most powerfully evil companies. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:15:30 GMT]]>@gulfie@mastodonapp.uk

Heh... The "flying people out" reminds me of interviewing with Amazon.

The position was local to me, but, since they were expanding a practice that was previously Seattle-only, they needed to fly me out to be interviewed. Day before I was due to fly out — which is to say, tickets were already procured, my PTO was already arranged, etc., the Amazon HR person asked what kind of compensation I was looking for. Seemed an odd question:

1) I'd already told them at the beginning of the process (I generally don't like wasting time on interviewing for jobs I can't afford to take if offered).

2) One would think you'd (re)ask that question before money had been committed to flights and PTO had been arranged

At any rate, I reminded her the range I'd previously said I'd need. She got quiet, then said, "that's more than we're looking to pay for this position". I responded, "Ok, so, do you still want me to fly out? I'm already out the PTO, regardless. Dunno whether y'all are out the ticket price or not". She said to go ahead and fly out. As expected, it was a wasted trip — not just the compensation thing but, being a new position, the people interviewing me didn't know how to interview for the newly-created position.

At any rate, a couple year's later, a different person reached out to me about the same position. They were up front about the pay-rang and it had increased markedly — to a point where it was actually competitive for the hiring-region (guessing they discovered that requisite expertise in my region was more expensive than when they initially opened the position).

So, while not so much "sketchy", it was definitely a "wtf were you thinking" kind of deal.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://blahaj.zone/notes/aldkygd7wvl20617https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://blahaj.zone/notes/aldkygd7wvl20617Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:15:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Surveillance and data-manipulation giant Palantir was a CIA-funded creation and has become one of the planet's most powerfully evil companies. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:02:30 GMT]]>@dangillmor Sadly it's not the general public that chooses to embed Palantir into everything.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/phl/statuses/116447310685457860https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/phl/statuses/116447310685457860Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:02:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Surveillance and data-manipulation giant Palantir was a CIA-funded creation and has become one of the planet's most powerfully evil companies. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 07:02:07 GMT]]>@dangillmor Evil was always the plan, not something they stumbled into. The name itself is a clear signal.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.vivaldi.net/users/fazalmajid/statuses/116447073254707482https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.vivaldi.net/users/fazalmajid/statuses/116447073254707482Wed, 22 Apr 2026 07:02:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Surveillance and data-manipulation giant Palantir was a CIA-funded creation and has become one of the planet's most powerfully evil companies. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:03:56 GMT]]>@dangillmor You know, I know but our politicians do not know.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/fenixmaster/statuses/116446844434276198https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/fenixmaster/statuses/116446844434276198Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:03:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Surveillance and data-manipulation giant Palantir was a CIA-funded creation and has become one of the planet's most powerfully evil companies. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 04:19:17 GMT]]>@dangillmor Great write-up!

I would just like to add how classic conservative all this ”libertarian authoritarianism” is.

Greedy people who want nothing but power, when out of power they’re all for liberalism and small government. But when they are in power, they’re all about big government and anti-liberalism.

The people haven’t changed and their greed for power hasn’t changed.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.green/users/gimulnautti/statuses/116446432972692823https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.green/users/gimulnautti/statuses/116446432972692823Wed, 22 Apr 2026 04:19:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Surveillance and data-manipulation giant Palantir was a CIA-funded creation and has become one of the planet's most powerfully evil companies. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 04:15:31 GMT]]>@dangillmor Peter Thiel isn’t the sort of human being* you want in a position of power or authority over other people.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/su_liam/statuses/116446418130917147https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/su_liam/statuses/116446418130917147Wed, 22 Apr 2026 04:15:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Surveillance and data-manipulation giant Palantir was a CIA-funded creation and has become one of the planet's most powerfully evil companies. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 04:13:16 GMT]]>@dangillmor evil corp

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/schtaks/statuses/116446409320300980https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/schtaks/statuses/116446409320300980Wed, 22 Apr 2026 04:13:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Surveillance and data-manipulation giant Palantir was a CIA-funded creation and has become one of the planet's most powerfully evil companies. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 02:48:51 GMT]]>@dangillmor reich shouldn't get another post

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116370991894144008/statuses/116446077369581478https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116370991894144008/statuses/116446077369581478Wed, 22 Apr 2026 02:48:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Surveillance and data-manipulation giant Palantir was a CIA-funded creation and has become one of the planet's most powerfully evil companies. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 02:44:36 GMT]]>@dangillmor it's in bad taste to give it a place. The campaign has a source.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116370991894144008/statuses/116446060613529476https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116370991894144008/statuses/116446060613529476Wed, 22 Apr 2026 02:44:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Surveillance and data-manipulation giant Palantir was a CIA-funded creation and has become one of the planet's most powerfully evil companies. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 02:40:25 GMT]]>@Beachbum @dangillmor

How: If you go to purgepalantir.com and you go to the Palantir Payroll tab, you can actually see all the politicians in the United States, Democrats and Republicans, who are on the Palantir payroll — who have taken Palantir money. You can say, "Am I down for mass surveillance? If I'm not — Democrat or Republican, or wherever on the spectrum I am — I don't want my elected champion on the Palantir payroll." You can join the campaign to get your member of Congress off the Palantir payroll.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://m.ai6yr.org/users/knowattitude/statuses/116446044206656282https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://m.ai6yr.org/users/knowattitude/statuses/116446044206656282Wed, 22 Apr 2026 02:40:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Surveillance and data-manipulation giant Palantir was a CIA-funded creation and has become one of the planet's most powerfully evil companies. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 01:58:28 GMT]]>@dangillmor

Mordor…

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/xs4me2/statuses/116445879246714434https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/xs4me2/statuses/116445879246714434Wed, 22 Apr 2026 01:58:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Surveillance and data-manipulation giant Palantir was a CIA-funded creation and has become one of the planet's most powerfully evil companies. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 01:31:56 GMT]]>@dangillmor@mastodon.social

My opinions about Palantir were first formed in 2013 during a recruiting process. We got to the job offer part. I wasn't particularly interested based on my interactions with the interviewets and the job description they gave during the process. Get to the compensation part and they wanted to offer $30k less than I was currently making and would have meant both more work and significant travel. I told them how far apart we were just from what my current compensation was. "We can't offer you that: that's more than the CEO makes" ... Utterly ignoring that the CEO was already quite wealthy and sitting on a massive block of pre-IPO shares (and there was lots of rumbling about how he was already collateralizing them).

Recruiters get annoyed at candidates that know nothing about the company they're interviewing with. They also get annoyed when you do "too much" research.


At any rate, everything about the interview process was icky. Everything in the news since has just further soured an already low opinion.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://blahaj.zone/notes/alcxytwiwvl205h3https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://blahaj.zone/notes/alcxytwiwvl205h3Wed, 22 Apr 2026 01:31:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Surveillance and data-manipulation giant Palantir was a CIA-funded creation and has become one of the planet's most powerfully evil companies. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:50:22 GMT]]>@dangillmor I’ve been talking about them for a while. I hope people realize how dangerous they are. This is a great piece.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.sdf.org/users/Beachbum/statuses/116445611433858607https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.sdf.org/users/Beachbum/statuses/116445611433858607Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:50:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Surveillance and data-manipulation giant Palantir was a CIA-funded creation and has become one of the planet's most powerfully evil companies. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:42:13 GMT]]>@dangillmor

Why what could be wrong living under the lidless eye?

Living in the service of Barad-dûr sounds so cool

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