SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: Palantir has just published its manifesto. Read it. Not for what it says about tech. For what it says about politics.

https://x.com/Ced_haurus/status/2045608811243684167

Christophe Boutry

Translated from French

Palantir has just published its manifesto. Read it.

Not for what it says about tech. For what it says about politics. About Karp and Thiel's ideology. About war. About you.

When a private company sets itself the mission of defining who must be surveilled, targeted, predicted, neutralized, and simultaneously publishes a text explaining why contesting that would be civilizational weakness, we're no longer in corporate strategy. We're in the privatization of sovereignty. The right to decide on the enemy—which has always been the founding political gesture of States—is being bought up by a company listed on Nasdaq.

This manifesto rests on a single sleight of hand, repeated in twenty different forms: making the inevitable out of what is actually a choice. AI weapons? They'll be built anyway, so it might as well be us.

Algorithmic surveillance? Geopolitical reality demands it.

The rearmament of the West, the hierarchy of cultures, the disqualification of pluralism as dangerous naivety? Simple lucidity in the face of the world as it is.

This is ideology at its finest: not forbidding the question, but rendering it indecent.

What Palantir calls realism is in fact a radically philosophical decision: conflict is the world's permanent truth, democratic deliberation is a fragility that the adversary will exploit, and a private technological elite is better placed than a people to draw the consequences of that truth.
It's Schmittianism in a hoodie. It's literally the structure of their thinking.

The danger isn't that they're mad. The danger is that they're rich, coherent, and already inside the States. Palantir isn't knocking on governments' doors to sell a tool. It arrives with a complete cosmology: here's how the world works, here are your enemies, here's why you can't afford to debate, and here's our contract.

Palantir is the enemy of peoples and of democracy. What they're building is a technocratic power that no one has elected and no one will be able to overthrow.

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Because we get asked a lot.

The Technological Republic, in brief.

1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.

2. We must rebel