Palantir employees spill the tea. Thirteen former Palantir staffers signed a letter urging the company to cut ties with the Trump administration.
Palantir employees spill the tea. Thirteen former Palantir staffers signed a letter urging the company to cut ties with the Trump administration.
What was their severance pay, if any?
No way they cut ties. They have a big pay day coming.
Why would Palantir do that? They have a super diamond mine with all our data.
It’s how Thiel wants to use it along with his buddies who support Dark Enlightenment. It’s a done deal at this point.
peter thiel and alex karp are evil menaces who have apocalypse fantasies of destroying the world. they want to work with trump. they want their technology to be used in this way. they want to rule the world. palantir needs to be abolished.
unfortunately Thiel is possibly a worse human than Trump
Not "possibly", IS! The orange fk is just a dummy being controlled by the truly evil people.
Exactly this. Trump doesn't know whether he's shit his pants once or twice today. He's so clueless. A blabbering joke of a man whose incompetence is masked by his cabinet 100 more than Biden. Trump will be gone shortly. You see how many Russian "accidents" have taken place the past month of top ppl?
I'd like to ❤️that comment but...
I think you’ll appreciate my research arrival on Substack on Palantir. open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...
Great info. Palantir seems to be the most lethal weapon of all time.
Thank you!
Thanks for sharing. I remember when this video came out and everybody was losing their minds over it. And now, it looks like Palantir will be doing this at a global scale. youtu.be/Oo_FM3mjBCY?...
Well this is depressing 🙁
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They need to spill the real tea about how Palantir & Theil helped steal the election.
Never gonna happen.. They cant make billions in crypto scams without Palantir
Linda Xia, a former engineer, made it plain: the problem isn’t the technology, it’s how Trump wants to use it. “Combining all that data, even with the noblest of intentions, significantly increases the risk of misuse.”
Once you start merging that much personal data into one system, you’ve essentially created a digital ID for every American. And history has made one thing clear: that kind of power will be abused.
Abuse is the plan. Always was. Linda is naive to think otherwise. Thiel is no humanitarian.
Now think how the villains in every apocalyptic dystopian novel you've ever read would be using that information.
Palantir, co-founded by Trump ally Peter Thiel, has deep ties to U.S. intelligence agencies. Under Trump, it scored massive federal contracts, many without competitive bidding, worth hundreds of millions. These included deals with ICE, the Department of Defense, and Health and Human Services.
Australia - don’t be naive about Palantir. It already has Defence contracts (data access), AusTrack, Coles etc. and just days after retiring from parliament for ‘health reasons,’ ex-Labor MP Mike Kelly took on the role of President of Palantir Australia. So they’re on the inside track. #auspol #albo
Palantir’s tech was used to help ICE track, target, and deport immigrants, often sweeping up data on U.S. citizens along the way. Now, it’s being used to build what many call a “super-database” of Americans, aggregating everything from health records and financial info to law enforcement files.
This isn’t just about surveillance. It’s about control. A centralized system tied to your identity paves the way for blacklists, digital profiling, and political repression.
On TOP of all of this, it also creates a really sweet target for hackers wanting to get personal information.
The Palantir employees warn: this isn’t theoretical. The infrastructure for digital authoritarianism is being built right now, and Palantir is playing a central role.
Is the " digital authoritarian" in the room with you right now? 🤣
i would explain how it is, but i feel like i have better options for wasting my breath
Are they finally realizing what they are using against others can be turned against them? Of course it can!
It's called E-pending. They merge several previously separate databases together. They were until now kept apart for good reasons. They take one DB and merge with another using an index, like past residency address. The problems come when they link everyone who ever lived in an apartment.
Suddenly you now have 100 social security numbers next to your name. And all the criminal history of all those people. Now they can issue a no-knock warrant for you, based on that felony you never did, but is now in your folder. Trump's people are not competent. He hired Hegseth. Expect Mistakes.
Your file will look really suspicious if you now have 200 aliases and birthdays with male and female names. Then the merge in your known associates, and suddenly you're a Drug Lord.
Once the databases are merged a couple of times using mistaken indexes it's nearly impossible to unmerge them.
So bogus 🔥😡
We need to tesla Palantir.
We certainly do, but how? None of us is driving a Palantir…
LOL. You work for Palantir, and are A-OK with all of the various other scandals associated with your employer and its founder, up to and including enabling digital authoritarianism in other countries. Suddenly, the spotlight turns on you. "THAT'S A BRIDGE TOO FAR," you plea. Nobody's left to care
LOL. So we should just ignore, disregard? Half of America does NOT believe that the Trump admin. would dare to do this. Dare to consolidate data on every, single, American. We know it. Perhaps it'll take more Palantir employees to finally see the light and come out. And convince everyone.
I think in many cases it's not that they don't believe that the government will consolidate the data but that they don't care if the government does so. They believe that whatever Trump does will not hurt them. I've heard them say "I have nothing to hide."
Agreed. Nothing to hide. Not believing or caring that it's authoritarian.
I don't know which is more dangerous, not believing or not caring.
Only 30%, not half. Unfortunately, or fortunately, we are divided by thirds. 1/3 think everything he does is just great. 1/3 know what he's doing is horrifying. 1/3 aren't aware that anything is happening.
Unfortunate Prediction: All of these employees will be fired aka “purged” and the corruption will continue under the Authoritarian Regime…
Thirteen FORMER Palantir staffers …
Thanks for saying this about Palantir employees, the og post was a little weird to read. I thought it was relatively common knowledge at this point that Palantir has been directly assisting genocide for a long time now. They shouldn’t be acting like ties with the Trump admin is their only issue..
Funny how poor your reading comprehension is. “LOL”.
Instead of being an asshole why don't you explain it in a way that makes sense? Cuz I got the same impression. Why continue to work for a company that wants to do this. Quit immediately instead so they can't continue.
Or SABOTAGE THE WORKS
I believe his “gotcha” was that this was a “former” engineer. What he failed to realize is that the person he was replying to was talking about the scandals which occurred prior to this moment. So in actuality it is HE who didn’t read and comprehend.
Maybe because 100’s of other people “quietly” would do the exact job and mind their own “business”
What?
White South African apartheid (aka tax evading, American tax collecting, Palantir ICE IDF) smells good to white supremacist.
@alannalp.bsky.social
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Stop them
The only scenario in which Palantir cuts ties with the Trump administration (so close to the finish line) is if Vance took over.
Vance taking over is the end game
And the end of the game.
Thiel is Vance’s mentor. Thiel convinced Trump to take him on as his running mate. Palantir is looking forward to working with someone smarter than a potato. Personally I hope Trump sticks out his term - he’s not nearly as scary as Vance, Yarvin & Thiel.
My thoughts exactly. Biology might have a word, though.
Are the Palantir employees aware that this may be exactly what Thiel wants?
lol, no shit. They still live with blinders on if they aren’t aware.
Thiel needs to be indicted as an enemy of America and the Coup.
What do we need to do?
Palantir, spying on 'Australian' workers. fk off and spy in your own country
I thought slavery was abolished in 1863?
Do you have a link for that letter? Thanks!
This is reflected in the actual name of the fucking company! “The company name comes from the magical crystal orbs called “Palantíri” in J.R.R. Tolkien The Lord of the Rings. These stones, which allowed one to see far-off places, and even past and future events, also carried great risk if misused.”
Yeah, I've got no sympathy for the staffers that are like "OH NOES! THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!!!" - you bastards _knew_ what this whole thing was and you did it anyway; now you just don't like who the tool is aimed at.
I don't know how this all plays out, but in my imagination, it's terrifying.
A hookauw? What is the Chinese mandatory personal pass called?
You say this as if that's not explicitly what Zionist fascists are trying to engineer as a deliberate technological advancement
Larry Ellison is another tech monster finance.yahoo.com/news/oracle-...
When I saw "big brother" trending, I thought it was about Tech Bros helping monitor our every move. So much for "libertarianism" eh Peter Thiel?
"Larry Ellison, founder & chairman of Oracle, reportedly joined a November 2020 call to discuss strategies for contesting the election result with Trump attorney Jay Sekulow, Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC), & others who promoted election fraud narratives." www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
No shit.
They are cross referencing with what Musk stole.👹👹👹
Time for an armed uprising before it's too late, we fight them now or your grandkids will still be fighting 100 years from now
Modern-day McCarthyism.
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They are cross referencing with what Musk stole.👹👹👹
And people wonder why I don't post under my real name...
We need to tesla Palantir.
Whatever happened th HIPPA?
No wonder IcE got such a gargantuan budget…so palantir and other companies helping them can hack up their prices and make huge profits.
Everyone but #MAGAts will be deported & imprisoned. We've watched other countries do this & Americans never wanted to help. Now it's us.
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don't forget, Palantir was incubated at the CIA and funded by In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture fund.
This has been the plan all along. It’s Thiel, Andreessen, Musk and Yarvin trying to create that perfect world with eugenics and all. It will 100% be abused and people that used to work for this company should be doing everything they can to stop it. Maybe @youranoncentral.bsky.social could help.
Digital IDs already functionally exist... and is already being abused. For proof of that simply look to 'dynamic pricing'. This is another area where regulation is entirely too weak. There simply aren't enough consumer protections in place... and too many ways corporations can exploit them.
This coup d’ata needs more attention because an individual can cease to exist if they so choose - if a query doesn’t find you in this centralised database, then how do you prove who you are❓ #LifeImitatesArt - m.imdb.com/title/tt0113... #ComputerSaysNo
Sounds like “end of times” and i am no Christian nationalist
This centralized database is also how DHS/ICE are checking citizenship status to go after immigrants.
Why is this news? It’s been clear what the goals were from day one.
Eh... I would argue the problem IS the technology AND how they want to use it. It needs to be heavily regulated.
And if there’s anything we can count on, it’s noble intentions from this administration 🙄
It probably sounds kinda silly, but the Jason Statham film, 'The Beekeeper,' sure seems prescient at this moment.
This company never had noble intentions. It was created to do evil. Even without trump, thiel had nefarious intentions.
He’s not even quiet about it tbh
Facts.
This 👆🏻
Wouldn't it be easier for them to just quit and not be party to what Panantir is engaging in?
That will get a great response. Hope they have jobs lined up.
They are never going to do this because the oligarchs Peter Thiel and Alex Karp cofounded it.
youtu.be/DZ95Gmvg_D4?...
Shouldn't it be the other way around?
LA is occupied by a militant federal government that is terrorizing our city. Border Patrol El Centro Sector Chief Gregory: The federal government is not leaving L.A. We’re going to be here until that mission is accomplished. Better get used to us now, because this is gonna be normal very soon.”
This centralized database is also how DHS/ICE are checking citizenship status to go after immigrants.
It is time for a national strike
It is.
It has been for a long time now.
Share and share.
If youre still work at Palantir, youre a bad person. Quit now before you find yourself in ICC for crimes against humanity.
Maybe the momentum for the general strike will come from ppl @ companies like this who become fed up with their technocrat overlords. 🤞 One can dream.
Well, I remember someone crying all the time saying, “They spied on my campaign. If they can do this to me they will do this to you!”. Everything was/is projection. I feel we are all paying for this racist pos being pissed we had a black president that roasted him. The ultimate grudge master.
SOMEONE KNOWS....even an anonymous confession will do.
They’re not even trying to hide it. They want you to know.
Exactly. Install fear.
In Congress is making money off of it unusualwhales.com/politics www.capitoltrades.com
@colessupermarkets.bsky.social this is who you are going to contract to spy on your employees and shoppers? #BoycottColes and as always #FuckIsrael
Palantir staffers with a sense of ethics and morality. They will be out of job by weeks end I predict.
Undoubtedly, but they knew they'd be fired when they decided to speak up.
True enough...
"Careless People" by Sarah Wynn-Williams is a good book about the inner workings of Meta. I wish I could say that I find her stories shocking, but I don't. Twitter & Palantir are no better than Meta since the CEOs are cut from the same cloth.
Similar to the former social media employees interviewed for “social dilemma” …but they had quit before they decided to speak out
Damn, that's A Lot if spilt tea!!! 🍵 ☕️ 🫖 🫖 🫖 🫖 🍵 🍵 🍵 ☕️ 🫖 🫖 🫖
Wut. Palantir’s platform is tailor-made for doing the technofascisms. I don’t think they have another business model.
Trying to control America Like China in a Panopticon wont go the way they thing We dont have a lifetime without knowing what it feels like to have no rights
All the quisling techbro ai scanning tonprotect tesla and twitter and other nazis in the world diesnt change the fact that no kings got a MASSIVE fucking response w only ice raids You start enacting total control and violence on Americans enmeshed in violence from birth and expect returning action
only reason china made it work was because that sort of governance was kind of ingrained in the chinese way of life
IIRC, wasn’t Palantir initially given gov. funds during the Bush admin back in ‘03 to help with the surveillance under the Patriot Act? They didn’t seem too concerned with misuse then.
Never trust a company named after an evil and sinister artifact from lord of the rings that Sauron uses to spy on others and communicate with his evil allies.
As though they knew what they would use the company for when they launched it.
This is where Palantir employees draw the line, huh? At the Trump administration? Interesting considering how long Palantir has had direct ties with Isnotreal and as far as I know nobody at the company had a public issue with that. “This tech might be abused!” It already was.
Can you post the source? Thx!
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Peter must be sad
Palantir says they “just process the data," just like IBM when they helped catalog Jews for the Nazis.
when working for a soulless Corporation, one Must Hang up their Soul and Hope it's in the soulscloset Still There when the whistle Blows. after a while one no longer hears the whistle
Coca-Cola: but we only sold them Fanta.
I never knew that about IBM.
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“Just doing my job,” said the guy sawing off Jamal Khashoggi’s arm.
Are they also designing tattoos to number us in a way easily recognized by their software?
I thought Anonymous was going to swoop in and cause some chaos. 🤨 😑 ☹️
You can’t be thinking someone is going to swoop in and save us, especially “Anonymous”? We must each do our part, not sit back.
Who said I was sitting back? I don’t have that set of skills.
You have other skills.
some of us definitely will
And magats were worried about tracking chips in the covid vaccines 🙄
Kinda funny eh?
Yes, like we are not all carrying tracking chips in our pockets and purses anyway. I saw an interesting article that if you want to do something that is unusual and maybe not so legal your phone has to do what it normally does, like hang out with friends on a Friday then you can do something else.
"Every accusation is a confession."
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And posting about it with the high priced tracking device we all willingly subscribe to. We are all still part of the problem and we all still have the power to change it. Simply boycotting smart phones, turn it off, get a landline. This alone would change the game, peacefully, overnight.
Love this. More please. Every little bit helps
Never gonna happen. This company was built to profiteer off crooked administrations. And it's doing just that.
Wait until Palantir starts cataloging gun owners. And Trump becomes senile thinking folks close to him want him gone. So he gets the miltary to go grab the guns out of homes. It’s going to happen. All authoritarian leaders in history eventually go after people’s freedoms.
The irony of this eventually happening to so many of the people who spent 2016 screaming that Hillary Clinton was going to come take away their guns…
Obama too
Yup.
Exactly. Whew. The stuff will hit the fan when this happens.
Trump wants to be king and have control over everything.
Now we wait for congress and wait and wait.
Impressively scary thread, a must read of it in entirety.
Former? Wonder why
That's so bizarre. They better spill the plot and not just the tea. It will be so odd of a coincidence when 13 people who used to work for palantir all fall out windows at the same time.
FYI: A palantír is a fictional magical crystal ball from J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings," used for seeing far-off places and communicating with others. The term comes from the Elvish language, meaning "far sight" or "watch over."
And we all saw how it was abused in his books.😳 Any wonder why Thiel named his spy tech after it?!? Gives great clues to its intended purpose. 😔
1) he must be a Lord of the Rings fan 2) he likes fantasy fiction 3) the palatir is a very powerful tool which is used by Sauron (evil) to watch & track his foes. Note that I took a 400 level LOTR English class @ university…
It was also believed to be a comparison of sorts to propaganda tech Hitler used in WW2, to make ppl so terrified that they would give up in advance.😔 It was essentially used to conquer ppl. All in all, a very auspicious name.😡
You know, I wasn’t sure if I was remembering correctly… because SURELY this wasn’t a LOTR reference 😵💫
How does this affect our social media presence? Do we need to delete accounts like 🦋 ?
Fuck’em! Speak out even louder!!
I’m an immigrant & disabled. I still fear for my life. I continued to speak out but it’s scary
I get it, Louise. I am so sorry that you have to deal with this bullshit.
Thank you. Sending hugs
Good question. When I created my Bluesky account I did it with an anonymous email address from Proton, always make sure I have my VPN on, never have my name and photo up and try to keep my postings as unidentifiable as possible. Even then, I'm sure they have workarounds 🤬
Toooooo late. Scrubber service?
🙏 May the Domino theory go into action.
indeed
hooray!
get a job
Get a life
i already have one that doesn't involve pretending to be part of an underground resistance online lmao
Tf are you commenting at 9am on a weekday then? 🤡
wait until you learn about timezones
And komrades.
Probably too late for that.
Related: 'Tracking Uses of AI in the Trump Administration' therevolvingdoorproject.org/tracking-use...
The offices are in Palo Alto. I’m not too surprised. Libruls outnumber conservs by 3:1
Even if Palantír cuts ties with Trumplandia, Thiel et. al. will continue to expand their tech broligarchy.
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Some people have a line they aren’t willing to cross and it seems Thirteenth Former Palantir staff members have decided that enough is enough
I hope this gives Meta employees the courage to speak up. The author of "Careless People" took the leap.
I hope so too
It will also have all the NRA data of gun owners.
Those employees are in denial. It's not just trump. It's Thiel.
… and it was always his intention to use Palantir in this fashion to create a citizen database for malicious intent. Gross
Thats like asking water not to be wet
Hilarious. Peter Thiel is the devil.
As someone who works with data, this scares the shit out of me. most people won’t understand what this could lead to
Same here. Few understand the power of big data. A perfect storm is coming...the tech, abhorrent national leadership and a complacent public. It's all coming together.
Especially when they get the data wrong.
Regime
It sounds like Palantir is doing exactly what Peter Thiel wants done. Why would he stop?
Thiel has had this in his sights for a long time. Backing JDs venture capitalism became a bonus to the fast track when JD became VP or perhaps JD is a pawn for Thiel and Trump.
Is that why they are former?
Because it is TOTAL white supremacy bsky.app/profile/ched...
"Shut up, peasants."
So. They are former employees and the fact they are urging this will have absolutely no affect over what palantir does.
The Palantir techbros want to rule the world via the Steady State and Freedom cities that spread each one's version of authoritarian power like a plague across the rest of the countries they're located in. They all need to just go buy some island and start their own country and leave us be.
Who knew that MAGA worries about the deep state is that it didn’t go far enough
Rats fleeing a boat commanded by the FELON!
Why are all these supposed big tech guys have serious drug problems? They aren't young kids just messing around anymore. These are midlife men who have fried their brains. They can't see or evolve because they've stunted their brains.
More money and boredom
It needs more than that, imho. They need to do interviews and spill the beans generally, even if they have to be identified as "a former employee," or have their faces blurred and their voices distorted, to save them from lawsuits over NDAs.
The problem *is* the technology. What did they think it would be used for?
They knew...
They literally work for a comic book villain
The fact even people who once worked for Palantir know its a sinking ship says something
fuck palantir btw
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Peter Thiel wants to see the world burn, I don't think he's impressed