- baeb66@lemmy.todayEnglish2 hours
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.
- 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.worldEnglish39 minutes
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.
- Yuccagnocchiyaki@lemmy.worldEnglish2 hours
Zuckerberg’s Hawaiian bunker is technically a volcano lair. And Bezos has Dr. evil’s laugh and space rocket.
- NocturnalMorning@lemmy.worldEnglish19 minutes
The only thing Silicon Valley is missing is a series of volcano lairs for their founders and CEOs.
As far you know…
- MasterBlaster@lemmy.worldEnglish2 hours
You mean like Musk’s “Boring company”?
Too late, they’re already on it.
- partofthevoice@lemmy.zipEnglish17 minutes
Oh yeah. Check out this interview from a former employee: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ezra-klein-show/id1548604447?i=1000762591811
2 hoursIf 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.
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.
- tburkhol@lemmy.worldEnglish2 hours
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…
The thing about propaganda is it works on the leadership, too. Eventually the fascists always take the mask off because they forget why they were wearing it in the first place.
- arrow74@lemmy.zipEnglish2 hours
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
- AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish52 minutes
You can only make that claim for so long. These aren’t Amazon deliver drivers we’re talking about. The developers and higher ups at Palantir could easily find another job somewhere else.
The job market in tech is not good right now, so they may not. I have a friend who is a dev and was getting heavily recruited by Palantir because he had a clearance already. The money was really good, and he was at the cusp of taking the job because he had been ghosted by other companies for months and only had a handful of interviews after being laid off six-ish months ago. Luckily, another place gave him an offer for a bit lower compensation, which he took. If that other place didn’t come through, though, I think he would have gone with Palantir so that he could get some income.
ETA: That said, Palantir is evil, and my friend was in that position because of the BS that is the US economic system, which is perpetuated by the people at Palantir.
The banality of evil.
Adolph Eichmann claimed he never cared if the jews lived or died. He was just “doing his job”.
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
- Corvidae@lemmy.worldEnglish42 minutes
Don’t forget the Stanford Prison Experiment. The problem is the CEOs aren’t like the psychologist running the experiment who brought it to an end when he realized it went too far.
Those ghouls can feel and regret? I thought they were in it for the love of the boot, funny mustaches, and a voyeurism kink.
- dumbdown@lemmy.caEnglish1 hour
This dude is actively funding tween influencet clavicular. He’s obviously try to set the world on fire. How has he not gotten hit yet?
- ProfThadBach@lemmy.worldEnglish4 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.
- flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyzEnglish4 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. - 2 hours
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.
They know for sure that they are the bsf huts,they’re just trolling us
- Tanis Nikana@lemmy.worldEnglish5 hours
Better late than never, I suppose. They got some making up to do.
