Palantir posts mini-manifesto denouncing inclusivity and 'regressive' cultures
Source: TechCrunch
Surveillance and analytics company Palantir recently posted what it called a “brief” 22-point summary of CEO Alexander Karp’s book “The Technological Republic.”
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The post ends by criticizing “the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism.” In Palantir’s argument, a blind devotion to pluralism and inclusivity “glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.”
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Higgins also argued that there’s more to the post than a simple “defence of the West” — in his view, it’s also an attack on what he said are key pillars of democracy that need rebuilding: verification, deliberation, and accountability.
“It’s also worth being clear about who’s doing the arguing,” Higgins wrote. “Palantir sells operational software to defence, intelligence, immigration & police agencies. These 22 points aren’t philosophy floating in space, they’re the public ideology of a company whose revenue depends on the politics it’s advocating.”
Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/19/palantir-posts-mini-manifesto-denouncing-regressive-and-harmful-cultures/
Eliot Higgins is CEO of investigative website Bellingcat.
I saw a lot about this manifesto from Palantir as soon as I started reading social media posts this morning. I posted about it in GD earlier - https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221184337 - because I didn't see any articles about it yet, though I knew there would be soon. This TechCrunch article was posted less than half an hour ago.
This is a tech company with huge contracts with a number of countries, maybe especially the US and UK, getting very political. Even fascist, as tech journalist Gil Duran pointed out this morning.
Not sure how this manifesto plays with most of Trump's base, but a post I saw from RW influencer and troll Mike Cernovich was approving.
IMO Palantir should not be trusted by any government.
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I wonder if people like those are totally useless even re cooperation in a survival strategy game.
I have been a hostage of the emerging PanOpticon since 2011 and by my estimates the - male bores tend to be lonely creeps/perverts whereas female bores tend to be aspiring influencers.
To the least daft conservative male one has to coexist with temporarily with all the info available on demand for one later,
The problem is that actually lefties, scientists, feminists etc tend to be difficult people irl. It is the kind of thing that awful Judd Apatow makes way too many movies about- these like cheap obvious punchlines that throw away meaning and value and teach people to hate being alive and to have tonnes of self contempt.
They (a home team or some such thing) probably exists up on the frontlines and barks various injunctions.
This is why I latched on to Yasha Levine specifically of that large pile of tech critics and attention seekers you find among named people. I am definitely changing my handle next time around.
I owe EarlG of course-though he has a way more confusing and difficult job hosting me.
I am not even American and I feel this way about being forced to weigh in on all these obviously corrupt fiffh column+Idiocracy mixes in India and the US:
Seriously. How on earth is this my job? You allowed apparently multiple generations to end up with what looks like a kind lf brain rot that makes it hard for these people to adjust for context as someone intelligent but like Yasha Levine or EarlG (that is not a suck up..it is why I post here, but also consider not posting since no one I know takes any part of their existence unseriously.
It is not necessarily either dysfunction and a mental issue you refuse to get help for etc nor
Sometimes your function is not that rote and I trust Yasha Levine and Current Affairs people who do not fit contexts
Like this is a total con. Representing lefties as crazy when they are for me -in context- the only people I take seriously.
But I feel I am throwing awayzz
That is the problem. You can’t quite direct your brain on what problems it chooses to solve and how.