In Washington, D.C 🇺🇸

During White House Correspondents’ Dinner weekend.

"These conversations involving shame and uncertainty from workers have seemingly popped up in internal channels whenever Palantir has been in the news over the last year. “I think the only thing not different is a lot of folks are still incredibly wary about leaks and talking to the press,” one current employee tells WIRED, describing how the internal company culture has evolved over the last year.

All of this dissent doesn’t seem to bother Karp, who recently told workers that the company is “behind the curve internally” when it comes to popularity. Here, he’s been consistent; in March 2024 Karp told a CNBC reporter that “if you have a position that does not cost you ever to lose an employee, it’s not a position.”

But for employees, the culture shift feels intentional. “I don’t want to assert that I have knowledge of what’s going on in their internal mind,” one former worker tells WIRED. “But maybe it’s gotten to a place where encouraging independent thought and questioning leads to some bad conclusions.”"

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/palantir-employees-are-talking-about-companys-descent-into-fascism/

#Palantir #Surveillance #USA #Fascism #Technofascism #Authoritarianism

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jensorensen/116471484402293117

Yup

"A NYT inv has found: the govt’s program of #gold sales🚨is based on a LIE. The Mint is actually the last link in a chain that launders for gold, much of it illegally mined, for an insatiable mkt.

The Mint buys gold that originates in a Colombian drug cartel mine."

"While the🚨US MIL is bombing boats allegedly carrying cocaine for Colombian criminal grps, the US govt🚨is buying illegally mined gold from those same #NarcoTerrorists to mint into coins."
-Boz
#Columbia #USPol
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/world/americas/us-mint-gold-drug-cartel-colombia.html?unlocked_article_code=1.d1A.XtlZ.eyNPOao924Rl&smid=url-share

This is precisely correct.

"The difference from corporate social media comes down to incentive structures. Platforms designed around narcissism & parasocial relationships produce content optimized for engagement. A federated network w/ no central owner produces something closer to actual knowledge-sharing, because nobody profits from making it addictive."

https://boingboing.net/2026/03/06/why-mastodon-matters-now-more-than-its-creators-imagined.html

"Trump on Friday fired all 24 members of the National Science Board (NSB), the body that oversees the National Science Foundation (NSF). Many science advocates see it as the latest step by his administration to erode—some would say destroy—the independence of the 76-year-old research agency."

Quite likely, the board will be replaced by loyalists. Even if not, the WH will decide which "science" gets funded and which orgs get the funding.

https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-fires-nsf-s-oversight-board
#Science #UsPol
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