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Yeah because working with Trump is what makes the company evil, not like, oh I don't know, everything else they do.
Yeah I saw the company name and was like "wait, aren't these the Israel AI people", turns out they're just universally morally bankrupt.
It's Peter thiel's people
* Peter “Blood Boy” Thiel
To be fair, that describes like 80% of tech companies nowadays
Still, only a few provide the AI used to automate the targeting and killing of Palestinians, the vast majority being civilians of course
A palantír is one of several indestructible crystal balls from J. R. R. Tolkien's epic-fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings. The word comes from Quenya palan 'far', and tir 'watch over'. The palantírs were used for communication and to see events in other parts of Arda, or in the past.
It is in the name.
Maybe they hoped for someone more competently evil?
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I loved that video where Mark Robert praised Anduril. Same energy.