Mastodawn

Aline Blankertz Sep 17, 2025

Apparently this requires restating:
We should not want a European Palantir.
We should not want an open-source Palantir.
We should not want a non-commercial Palantir.

If it is supposed to do what Palantir does, we should not want it.

And I don't care to what extent Palantir's products are shaped by political or profit motives. We know enough to reject its logic altogether.

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gnomeoffender

@alineblankertz I don't know what that means but today's Ontario Budget said it would move in the direction of commercializing research. That would be like funding only science that has a monetary outcome. That would mean that unis exist only under the aegis of corporations which would take their findings for their own profits.