Yup. From the seeing stones from lord of the rings.

[intensifies]

Zuckerberg's Hawaiian bunker is technically a volcano lair. And Bezos has Dr. evil's laugh and space rocket.

100%

If you don't mind my nitpiking. This isn't a silicon valley issue, it's the consequence of how corporations are set up to demand ever endless unlimited growth. They are all cancerous tumors competing with each other.

Silicone Valley is where the US IT corporations settled.

Don't give them ideas, they'll start drilling for new volcanoes.

The only thing Silicon Valley is missing is a series of volcano lairs for their founders and CEOs.

As far you know...

Silicon Valley has become a cancer on the world

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_View_to_a_Kill

Don't forget Hooly

I've got Bingo!

What about a... rat's anus.

There's also the function of needing a job to survive and cognitive dissonance.

I.e. "I'm not killing anyone I just do xyz and then other people use it to do bad things, not my responsibility"

It is lying to themselves, but that's how it happens

Those companies have extremely well developed propaganda machines. They have to sell their technology and products as benefits to governments (i.e. society) and solutions to chaos (i.e. crime and terrorism), and they have extremely well refined language to describe themselves in positive term. If you don't look past the company line, it's easy to believe that the skeptics and warnings are all just FUD from haters, especially when the propaganda pays your mortgage.

Then Palantir goes and publishes an actual fascist manifesto...

Grime calculus that is modern ethics. One of the funniest examples to me is Russia Orthdoxy, the Iranian ayatollah, and American Evangelicals all claiming each other in vary amounts being the forces of Satan and The Gays.

Again dark humor to me. They are monsters excusing the oppression and murder of people though, but when fighting Satan muders ok./s

Plenty of secular satans out there too. Communists, Nazis, The Jews, Blood thirsty anarchists, narcists, billionaires, schisos, etc basically any polball or Jreg character. They can be used to justify some horrendous deviation from morality and ethics. You know killing baby hilter kind of stuff. Reeducation camps are ok if they're "terrorists" and the government is moved by the will of the people. Etc. etc.

This is lemmy you can say "fed balls first to rabid hamsters" here.

You mean to tell me, everyone on that platform isn't a CEO....

I've had to help walk back some family here because "if only I made a bunch of money instead of x" talks. Mostly by saying "yeah stinks, all you did was actually help people, should of embezzled enough money to get a foundation" or something.

Like I get it. Money is a form of power, and those without power are powerless, but so many egotist out here only imagining they matter if they changed civilization across the multiverse in some delusional power fantasy really out screwing with the perspective.

It's even more ironic: the palantiri were built as communication devices, to be used for good by the right people. Then Sauron came to power and immediately used them to corrupt and spy on the rulers using them.

So they are dangerous tools that are just one bad government away from being used for horrible things. WHY DID THEY BUILD THEM THEN?

How did you make it that far??

Their recruiters sent me an email, and I sure as fuck didn't want anything to do with them.

There are adversarial ML patterns to do this, but it is quite illegal

Source: Benn Jordan

Pretty sure they're being paid very well.

And you can be sure that anyone who applied for them already doesn't have a heart.

To be honest, I don't think individuals leaving Palantir would matter (although it is likely within their capabilities).

Palantir had ~4,500 employee in 2025 as per Wikipedia. Replacements will be found.

To paraphrase my other comment in this post, people leaving a company/vertical hasn't really ever made an impact (I am sure there are edge cases, but I am talking in terms of systemic impact).

It's usually the other way round, things start to happen on the street and then people bail because they don't want the risk/personal reputational damage.

having been one of them for almost 2 decades, i can confidently say that software engineers think that they're smarter than the average bear because they're better rewarded by the epstein oligarchy than most (the marxists call it labor aristocracy); so it would have been impossible to for them to realize that they're were helping fascists since all capitalists have been taught that the fascists were defeated in ww2 since they were in their cradles.

Right. The real story is that they’re wondering, not whether they’re bad.