I don't know about you, but I refuse to live in the dystopian world that Palantir is not only ideating, but implementing.
It's time for companies to divest, lawyers to go to court, voters to demand that their reps refuse and return their contributions.
We can't just stand by.
The phrase goes, "When someone shows you who you are, believe them."
Palantir has done just that. It has shown us that it has no regard for the sanctity of human life, that it has no qualms separating families and terrorizing children, and that it believes we are not all equal.
In the midst of Trump's harrowing campaign against immigrants, Palantir has been at the forefront, collaborating with ICE-- an entity complicit in killing, torture, and disappearance--to increase their number of targets.
The ACLU explains more here: www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
In the midst of a genocide, Palantir entered into a new strategic partnership with the Israeli Ministry of Defense and became complicit in Israel's illegal targeting of civilians and disproportionate use of force.
BHRC has more: www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-ne...
Today, a lot of people will be talking about the manifesto that Palantir released. In addition to pouring over what those words mean, I invite you to ground the conversation in what Palantir has already done.
Its work with Israel and ICE show us exactly what it stands for.
The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin.
The age of men is over. The time of the Orc has come.
Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed.
We must get rid of Palantir altogether.
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Adding to this (we’ve got years of documentation). Fred Hamilton Park destruction last evening.
It’s weird they can’t do anything about it. The downtown progressives will look blankly at you when asked.
Universal medicare was Canadian innovation rooted in care.
What if the starting point in innovation, more often, was care for people and communities?
Don't forget to add these expenses onto the cost of plane:
- maintenance
- fuel
- insurance
- pilot and staff
- rent a hanger for storage
All will be paid for by Ontarians!
So Doug is all for "the little guy", right???🤬
#FordIsCorrupt #OntarioWorstPremier #onpoli #cdnpoli
My friend, Dan Breznitz, begins talks about innovation by asking “What exactly do we want from innovation?”
I follow up with “Who gets to be part of the “we” in that conversation?”
Here’s our pal, Tom Goldsmith, offering a good answer to both.
"We live in a political economy where innovation is not being pursued for the general good of all, but for the financial gain of only a few." Tom Goldsmith, The Politics of Innovation Orbitpolicy.substack.com
What if instead of innovation driven by fear of falling behind, we instead pursued innovation rooted in care? Care for our neighbours, care for our communities, care for people across the globe, care for our planet itself?
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Hey it's Friday and the Canadian oil industry made $1.5 billion in profits this week.
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As of 2023 27% of Ontario children faced moderate to severe food insecurity.
Grocery prices: up another 9% since.
The average Ontarian’s wage: not keeping up.
Loblaws market cap: up $31 billion since 2023.
Galen Weston Jr’s net worth: $20.6 billion
Doug Ford: “God bless the Weston Family”
This is plain wrong.
Where is the protest music, they asked. Whoa.
Top 100 oil companies globally set to make at least $234bn in unearned profits by the end of the year if prices stay over $100 a barrel. Yet instead of acting against this war profiteering, Carney is shifting the burden onto taxpayers. So much for austerity, eh?
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what next? what, are we gonna provide *roads* for the wealthy too? gonna have health inspectors keep contaminants out of their groceries? are we just gonna have gutters and sewer systems around rich people's homes?
Some thoughts on Canada’s recent policy push for sovereignty — a contested term that has a lot of nuance missing from most of the policy discourse. open.substack.com/pub/orbitpol...
Almost like there's one rule for the rich folks and another rule for the not-rich folks.
NEW: Thomson Reuters, the media company which is also a data broker, has long provided personal data for ICE tools, according to documents obtained by 404 Media and sources. There are also indications its data is now part of the Palantir system ICE uses to find which neighborhoods to target.
European study shows that social democratic parties that move to the right alienate their base.
You don't say.
Already seeing centrist Liberals saying the NDP exists to help the Conservatives, meanwhile their party implements Harper's agenda
The immediate status quo, centrist attacks on Avi Lewis are precisely why he is effective and needed.
In face of growing right wing escalation, an unbashadely left opposition that is anti capitalist & internationalist is both principled *and* realistic.
Whatever happens with Lewis' leadership, we all benefit when the national dialogue is expanded. Right-wing populism is very well-established in Canada and left-wing populism entering the chat is not a bad thing. We need to expand our imagination of what is possible with policy.
Innovation requires ever more state capacity to manage and regulate the complexity it creates. Yet instead of stepping up to manage this, the federal government is imposing deep cuts that weaken state capacity. This will only serve to harm the public interest.
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Atrocity upon atrocity.
Every detail here is worse than the last.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Technology has flattened time and space. Our ability to connect with the rest of the world has profoundly changed our understanding of it. Yet geography, place, and tangibles still matter. We lose sight of that at our peril.
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Some thoughts on how "prosocial" AI remains a matter of academic debate while AI for war is a real thing right now. I think that reveals a lot about the systems in which a technology like AI operates and about the outcomes we are really incentivizing in practice. open.substack.com/pub/orbitpol...