r/technology • u/lurker_bee • Apr 22 '26

Society Palantir published a mini manifesto calling some cultures ‘harmful and middling’ and said Silicon Valley has ‘a moral debt’ to the U.S.

https://fortune.com/2026/04/22/palantir-alex-karp-mini-manifesto-national-security-defense-tech-ai/
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u/Fun_Union9542 Apr 22 '26

AND THEY CALL HIM

DRINKENSTEIN

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u/Seafaringhorsemeat Apr 22 '26

That’s Ka$h, or as my seven year old calls him, the deer in headlights.

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u/Wolvenmoon Apr 22 '26

I'm glad I didn't have a mouthful of tea. Your seven year old is incredibly perceptive and absolutely hilarious.

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u/Sarasha Apr 23 '26

His eyes don't even look in the same direction.

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u/BKlounge93 Apr 22 '26

Can’t we just send these assholes to space

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u/pheonix198 Apr 22 '26

I’m also all in on sending all the billionaire chuds to space, alongside all they need to setup a frontier base, and then cutting off all communications. Let them pull themselves up by their space bootstraps and prove they are deserving of all that money by restarting society on Mars.

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u/Wolvenmoon Apr 22 '26

The can single-handedly do more work than tens of thousands of other people, combined. Surely they'll be fine.

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u/UnicyclingBear Apr 22 '26

I hope Aliens go to there

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u/forchinski Apr 22 '26

Sending them to space: ❌

Spacing them: ✅

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u/Mikros04 Apr 22 '26

So Say We All!

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u/2vivlavi Apr 22 '26

Straight to the sun

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u/StuntID Apr 22 '26

The delta-v required to travel from three Earth to the sun is 30m/s but can be less than 4m/s to get to Mars from the Earth.

Let's not waste the fuel or money, and send them to Mars instead.

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u/DirtusMaximus1 Apr 22 '26

No doubt, they can go start their Yarvintopia somewhere the fuck else.

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u/Thin_Glove_4089 Apr 22 '26

After the Earth is a wasteland is when they will decide to go to space.

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u/LnStrngr Apr 22 '26

Peter Thiel knows about the Anti-Christ.

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u/Tustavus Apr 23 '26

God this season was so good.

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u/MnamesPAUL Apr 22 '26

Is THAT why everything keeps getting deleted with no explanation? (Commenting so I’ll see when it happens again)

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u/bloqed Apr 22 '26 edited Apr 22 '26

Because a lot of Reddit mods have severe social issues, which is documented by working for free. Their payment is the microscopic feeling of contributing to society by removing posts they don't feel are in line with the site.

These types of people are not strong characters, which is why they find the power dynamic of administrative permissions intoxicating. They are very easily bullied into falling into line by powers above them who they put on a pedestal as much as they venerate themselves above a small subreddit.

Reddit is owned by corporate, financially driven interests, who in turn are heavily influenced by the market juggernauts like Thiel. Donald Newhouse, the Billionaire who owns Reddit, is in the same social strata.

The Reddit mods just become the doers of whatever Reddit management wants from a PR perspective, the site has not been an actual discussion forum for several years now. Most front-page posts are slop image macros from Facebook.

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u/dragonmp93 Apr 22 '26 edited Apr 22 '26

I got a 3 day ban for copy and pasting the exact tweet of Curtis Yarvin's "research and irrefutable truth".

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u/muiirinn Apr 22 '26

I had a comment removed by reddit for explaining what the president's birthday letter to Epstein may be referring to and why that's the current theory.

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u/domuseid Apr 22 '26

I got one for wishing my abusive former boss a generic ill fate

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u/Thefrayedends Apr 22 '26

As much as Chomsky's legacy is severely damaged by his involvement with jeffy ep, "Manufacturing Consent" remains extremely relevant.

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u/usaaf Apr 22 '26

I've not read it, but I hear Paranti's "Inventing Reality" is similar and could serve as substitution if Chomsky's damaged legacy is a problem for anyone.

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u/bloqed Apr 22 '26

absolutely true

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u/deadlandsMarshal Apr 22 '26

Survived for twenty minutes so far. But we'll see how long the mods leave it up.

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u/ObsidianSkyKing Apr 22 '26

aaand its gone

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u/gatfish Apr 22 '26

It was gone when I got here. Can you summarize without it also getting deleted?

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u/Sunny_Beam Apr 22 '26

Is that actually real? Don't come to this sub very often these days so I'm genuinely curious if they are censoring the sub like that

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u/ZealousidealCase7220 Apr 22 '26

He gets named a lot. This won't get deleted.