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Mother Bones (_l1vy_@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 20-Apr-2026 06:04:10 JST Mother Bones

Ah crap, saw the Palantir manifesto
Here we go.

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  10:06 AM · Apr 19, 2026
  "Palantir is a quasi-fundamentalist subversive right-wing movement with a stock symbol."
  
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  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 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 Wandering Hoo / wanderlib
  11:21 AM · Apr 19, 2026
  "9, 18, and 20 scare the shit out of me..."
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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."
  
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  #Via jamelle / jamellebouie
  8:29 AM · Apr 19, 2026
  "this is just a warmed over david duke speech from 1990"
  
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  #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."
  
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  #Via Rose Schmits / roseschmits
  10:04 AM · Apr 19, 2026
  "So Palantir are like Fascist fascists i see yeah maybe we shouldn’t integrate the nazi computer into the NHS."
  
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  @ayoub
  4:45 AM · Apr 19, 2026
  "Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed.
  We must get rid of Palantir altogether."
  https://twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398573453312
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    Because we get asked a lot. by @PalantirTech(Palantir) | Twitter Thread Reader
    
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    Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 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. 5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed. 6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost. 7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way. 8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive. 9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret. 10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed. 11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice. 12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin. 13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet. 14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war. 15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia. 16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn. 17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives. 18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within. 19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all. 20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim. 21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what? Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska https://t.co/8igjazz1On
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  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:"
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  1. 21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures... have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?
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  11:12 AM · Apr 19, 2026
  "At a time when mass surveillance and autonomous weapons companies like Palantir are openly announcing their plans for violent world domination, it is crucial that our attempts at 'big tech reform' don’t actually give them more power—ie via government mandated age verification/identity software."
  
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  #Via Killswitch / iamkillswitch
  11:13 AM · Apr 19, 2026
  "Palantir is trending. There's the techno arm of global fascism and probably behind every single surveillance bill whether it's disguised as child safety or not."
  
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  #Via Dr. Damien P. Williams
  @Wolven
  11:08 AM · Apr 19, 2026
  "I really wish more people had paid attention when several observers tried to warn about the technofascist and eugenicist tendencies of thiel and karp and that group, for rolling up on two decades, now.
  And i *Really* wish the media & political actors would take the threat of them seriously, today."
  
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  #Via onion person / junlper.beer
  12:12 PM · Apr 19, 2026
  "palantir should be viewed as the enemy of modern society"
  
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  #Via StephC / scomea
  9:25 AM · Apr 19, 2026
  "They know they have crossed the Rubicon where they can no longer afford to lose control of the US without facing prosecution. We're in their end game."
  
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  #Via mtsw
  @mtsw
  9:21 AM · Apr 19, 2026
  "The plot to enslave America. The plot to enslave humanity. They are announcing it because they think we can no longer stop them."
  
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