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  • peter thiel Peter Thiel's dystopian cyberpunk business Palantir bombed its Initial Public Offering Thom Dunn
  • Business Peter Thiel's Palantir gets $500 million from Japan, just before expected IPO Xeni Jardin
  • Business Peter Thiel's Palantir to IPO within weeks, start trading before election Xeni Jardin
  • AI Peter Thiel claims AI is "Leninist" and "literally communist" in a sprawling speech for a think tank Thom Dunn
  • scholarship #NoTechForICE: Calling on ACM to cancel Palantir's sponsorship of the first ACM Symposium on Computer Science and Law Cory Doctorow
  • politics Peter Thiel 'most scared' of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, accuses Google of treason. Trump agrees. Xeni Jardin
  • security Leaked Palantir 'Gotham' user manual shows how fast police and government can grab your info Xeni Jardin
  • corruption Mysterious New Orleans "anti-crime" camera emblazoned with NOPD logos outside surveillance contractor's house is disavowed by NOPD Cory Doctorow
  • Business Beatings—er, bonuses will continue at Palantir until morale improves Xeni Jardin
  • Business Palantir may IPO at valuation of up to $41 billion Xeni Jardin
  • christ what an asshole Palantir has figured out how to make money by using algorithms to ascribe guilt to people, now they're looking for new customers Cory Doctorow
  • surveillance The idea behind Cambridge Analytica's Facebook data-harvesting app came from a Palantir employee, with support from Eric Schmidt's daughter Cory Doctorow
  • surveillance ICE uses Facebook's backend to hunt their prey, with help from Palantir Cory Doctorow
  • police New Orleans Police used predictive policing without telling the city's elected officials Séamus Bellamy
  • politics Before standing for the Democratic nomination in a NY congressional race, Patrick Ryan was in business spying on union organizers and left-wing activists Cory Doctorow
  • peter thiel Peter Thiel, who is certainly not a vampire, reportedly attended a Halloween party at Dracula's Castle Thom Dunn
  • copyright Rise of the copyleft predator Rob Beschizza
  • free speech New university dedicated to "truth", not awarding degrees Thom Dunn
  • muppets The most convincing argument for a Muppet version of The Lord of the Rings Thom Dunn
  • military The wealthiest countries spend twice as much on border security as climate change Thom Dunn

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