• Alaknár@sopuli.xyz
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    10 hours ago

    I guess calling it “Project Barad Dur” was a bit too on the nose after they named themselves Palantir.

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      9 hours ago

      Yes, maybe a bit much, but it would have been very fitting, since the marketing is obviously aimed specifically at the villains of the world—perhaps for the next project.

      It’s quite telling of the times we live in that you can make it so obvious these days. You’d think that at least some concealment of the intentions behind these mass surveillance products would be appropriate, but I guess with people like Trump in the White House, Putin in the Kremlin, Netanyahu in Israel, and many others of that caliber, it’s no longer necessary.