Palantir thread 🧵
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Palantir thread 🧵
Palantir is Peter Thiel's intelligence/data-mining and processing company.
"Douthat: It’s worth noting that your company is named for seeing stones used to view things at a very long distance in J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings.” And the PalantĂri, these seeing stones, were used by the noble kingdoms of the West in that story.
It’s also worth noting that in the course of the Tolkien story, they fall into the wrong hands and are used for evil as well.
Sankar: The naming choice was intentional. It’s a built-in warning and reminder to us."
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"Douthat: It’s worth noting that your company is named for seeing stones used to view things at a very long distance in J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings.” And the PalantĂri, these seeing stones, were used by the noble kingdoms of the West in that story.
It’s also worth noting that in the course of the Tolkien story, they fall into the wrong hands and are used for evil as well.
Sankar: The naming choice was intentional. It’s a built-in warning and reminder to us."
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_Palantir Is Helping Trump’s IRS Conduct “Massive-Scale” Data Mining
Military contractor Palantir has been paid more than $130 million by the IRS to analyze sensitive federal databases._
https://theintercept.com/2026/04/24/palantir-irs-contract-data/"The bullet points [of Alex Karp's book] extolled the virtue of arms manufacturing, argued the Axis powers were unfairly punished after World War II, called for a reinstatement of the draft, condemned cultural pluralism, and claimed that wealthy elites are unfairly persecuted."
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_Palantir Is Helping Trump’s IRS Conduct “Massive-Scale” Data Mining
Military contractor Palantir has been paid more than $130 million by the IRS to analyze sensitive federal databases._
https://theintercept.com/2026/04/24/palantir-irs-contract-data/"The bullet points [of Alex Karp's book] extolled the virtue of arms manufacturing, argued the Axis powers were unfairly punished after World War II, called for a reinstatement of the draft, condemned cultural pluralism, and claimed that wealthy elites are unfairly persecuted."
"...and claimed that wealthy elites are unfairly persecuted."
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"...and claimed that wealthy elites are unfairly persecuted."
and again
"...and claimed that wealthy elites are unfairly persecuted."
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and again
"...and claimed that wealthy elites are unfairly persecuted."
Hiring people in the UK to establish themselves there.
_The Palantir pipeline: how Peter Thiel's surveillance firm hired more than 30 senior UK officials _
https://www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-revolving-doors-peter-thiel-transparency-corruption-riskCertainly a national security risk to the UK government.
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Hiring people in the UK to establish themselves there.
_The Palantir pipeline: how Peter Thiel's surveillance firm hired more than 30 senior UK officials _
https://www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-revolving-doors-peter-thiel-transparency-corruption-riskCertainly a national security risk to the UK government.
Palantir's billionaire CEO has humanities degrees but says they're useless for you and that you:d better have other skills
_CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant_
https://futurism.com/future-society/palantir-ai-labor-hands"In the age of AI, Karp said at a forum, a strong formal education in any of the humanities will soon spell certain doom
“You went to an elite school, and you studied philosophy; hopefully you have some other skill,” adding that AI “will destroy humanities jobs.”..."
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Palantir's billionaire CEO has humanities degrees but says they're useless for you and that you:d better have other skills
_CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant_
https://futurism.com/future-society/palantir-ai-labor-hands"In the age of AI, Karp said at a forum, a strong formal education in any of the humanities will soon spell certain doom
“You went to an elite school, and you studied philosophy; hopefully you have some other skill,” adding that AI “will destroy humanities jobs.”..."
"Karp, who himself holds humanities degrees from the elite liberal arts institutions of Haverford College and Stanford Law, will presumably be alright. With a net worth of $15.5 billion — well within the top 0.1 percent of global wealth owners — the Palantir CEO has enough money and power to live like a feudal lord (and that’s before AI even takes over.)"
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"Karp, who himself holds humanities degrees from the elite liberal arts institutions of Haverford College and Stanford Law, will presumably be alright. With a net worth of $15.5 billion — well within the top 0.1 percent of global wealth owners — the Palantir CEO has enough money and power to live like a feudal lord (and that’s before AI even takes over.)"
He's not wrong that what's better than humanities degrees from elite schools, is to have Peter Thiel as a best bud.
Can't argue with the billions.
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He's not wrong that what's better than humanities degrees from elite schools, is to have Peter Thiel as a best bud.
Can't argue with the billions.
Tracking Palantir
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