- How could they have possibly known that a defense contractor named after the evil orb in Lord of the Rings and founded/owned by an outspoken opponent of democracy and rule of law might be up to immoral things?
- NEW: 13 ex-Palantir employees condemn work with the Trump administration as violating Palantir's code of conduct, including using products to collect data on immigrant children. "These injustices could be facilitated by the very software infrastructure we help build." www.npr.org/2025/05/05/n...
- The Palantir (plural) were not originally evil: they were corrupted when Sauron gained access to one and then both sucked intelligence from the others and also fed them bad information. An even closer analogy. "Believe then when they say who they are"...
- "These injustices could be facilitated by the very software infrastructure we help build." If Celebrimbor were a software designer
- The Palantir was not evil - it was a communication device. It was the purpose to which it was PUT that was evil. I'm guessing you only ever saw the movie and didn't read the books.
- Big Tech is absolutely rife with this. "Gee whiz the company I was/am working for does bad things???" as they collect obscene salaries and bonuses, which I'm sure is unrelated to their performative obliviousness.
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- and the office is in a dormant volcano
- Plantir employees:
