Interviews with current and former Palantir employees, along with internal Slack messages obtained by WIRED, suggest a workforce in turmoil.
  • baeb66@lemmy.todayEnglish
    44 minutes

    Silicon Valley has become a cancer on the world. There are too many companies run by greedy, unhinged psychopaths who do not care how their products and services affect the world. It’s not just Thiel’s companies. It’s Meta and Google and Apple and Amazon and Uber and OpenAI.

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

    • Yuccagnocchiyaki@lemmy.worldEnglish
      38 minutes

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

    • brsrklf@jlai.luEnglish
      32 minutes

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

  • DupaCycki@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1 hour

    Crazy how long it takes for supposedly extremely brilliant scientists and engineers working at Evil LLC to realize that maybe their work is a net loss for humanity.

    It’s almost as if… they just didn’t care and pretended to realize their mistakes once everything was well exposed. It’s like reading obviously satirical scientists’ memos in Resident Evil. Except it’s real life and they’re not satire.

    • arrow74@lemmy.zipEnglish
      28 minutes

      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

      • porcoesphino@mander.xyzEnglish
        17 minutes

        I just think a lot of them don’t think about the actions of their companies and are more focused on their income and promotion opportunities

  • Sabata@ani.socialEnglish
    25 minutes

    Those ghouls can feel and regret? I thought they were in it for the love of the boot, funny mustaches, and a voyeurism kink.

  • urushitan 漆たん@kakera.kintsugi.moeEnglish
    52 minutes

    lol most of them are probably doing this to save faith now that Thiel is getting more coverage and saying more unhinged shit. Otherwise they gladly keep taking home their paychecks and watching their stock vest.

  • Dogiedog64@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32 minutes

    If Palantir employees had any amount of introspection, moral compass, or ethics, they wouldn’t be working at fucking Palantir. It’s safe to assume anyone working at Peter Thiel’s House Of Horrors is a turbo-Fascist, and should be [REDACTED] with the rest of them.

  • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    3 hours

    “starting?” I assumed everyone who wasn’t onboard left years ago.
    At least Linkedin is full of “ex-Palantir” people, but tbh Linkedin job descriptions are not know for their truthfulness.

  • ProfThadBach@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 hours

    I saw another article that they provided the targets that lead to the school full of little girls being bombed. They are the bad guys.