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"[Palantir workers] joined a company that promised to stop abuses of power, and they are watching it build the tools that make those abuses faster, wider, and harder to undo. The question they are left with is ... at what point does building the machine make you responsible for what it does?"

blusherme.comEven Palantir Employees Question If They’ve Become the Villains: “We Were Supposed to Stop These Abuses” – Blusher

19/5/26, 5:17 pm46 reposts163 likes

Alex

@blackjam.net

19 May

"Are we the baddies?"

Electronic Frontier Foundation

@eff.org

19 May

Blusherme notes our work: "After sending Palantir a detailed letter asking how its own human rights commitments applied to its ICE contracts...EFF argued that a good-faith application of Palantir’s stated principles should lead it to end its work with ICE entirely."

eff.orgPalantir Has a Human Rights Policy. Its ICE Work Tells a Different StoryFor years, EFF has pushed technology companies to make real human rights commitments—and to live up to them. In response to growing evidence that Palantir’s tools help power abusive immigration enforc...

Church of game.

@churchofgame.bsky.social

8 June

Which is troubling because that name. That name comes from the elivish seeing stones. And the corruption of Sauron was making those stones show misleading or false information.

Frederick

@fredricksamphire.bsky.social

19 May

and people who work for mush are complicit as well. I'm tired of all the excuses. fuckin' nazis.

Ben 🦇🥌

@ben.batst.one

19 May

I don't understand how you work at a place called Palantir without knowing you're in a Torment Nexus situation before you even sign the hiring paperwork.

SBDValley

@sbdvalley.bsky.social

19 May

Nothing but Kayfabe, they knew exactly what they were signing up for.

_Ken Lyon_

@kenlyon.bsky.social

19 May

Ask Widow Winchester why. Ask Alfred Nobel why. Ask Oppie why. Ask yourself: Do you have a soul?

Nick

@nicksmindcasa.bsky.social

20 May

Same is true with Musk's Doge cronies and people still working for the administration. Where is the tipping point for, "I'm working to keep systems functioning for the good people." to "The bad I enable out weighs the good"