Can anyone explain a user flow for how a Palantir product enables ICE to go from app launch to ‘target arrested’?

Here's an example. One of my friends works for a manufacturing company. He attended a protest. The next day ICE called his employer and he was informed that if he attended another protest he would be fired. All this b/c he had a small company logo on his jacket.

The ability to en-mass record, lookup and intimidate citizens is unprecedented and while I have no hard proof that this is due to Palantir, it sure smells like it

My understanding (and I couldn't get past the app paywall)

Is that Palantir is joining databases from many different federal and state agencies, including passport and driver license photos. The app then allows you to scan a phase and it finds a match. It returns information on the person found, including citizenship.

The existence of this technology means that ICE can grab anyone they want, scan their face, and instantly have (or not have) probable cause to arrest them. Without the app, there would be hours before probably cause could be established which makes justifying the detainment legally much harder. I.e without the app, ICE has to actually build a case or see something suspicious for each target. With the app, ICE can just mass sweep people.

Which should be illegal, but thanks to the shadow docket order on Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, is happening anyway.

NGL this sounds like pretty basic technology

Overeating doesn’t just happen in a bubble - there is a confluence of issues creating anxiety and stress in Americans’s daily lives leading to the obesity issue.

I agree with this take too. Culture influences it but I don’t think anyone can be singled out being immune. We are stressed and overworked. Simple food takes work. We no longer have a village. If you have kids so many are just stuck at home.

I compare it to my childhood which was a while ago but not that far and I would go out in the middle of the day with instructions to come back home before dark. I would be running all over town on my bicycle. Now parents in the US are obsessing over travel sports and keeping booked calendars for their kids. Both parents will be working. There is nobody around put a meal together.

Unprecedented times call for unlikely youtube heroes.

Interesting choice of words to try and make the logic sound ok. Try:

'Is praising an adversary on a single issue the same as praising them'. Yes, yes it is

Totally different. Linus is a jerk for justice, Steve was just a narcissistic asshole.

I believe the point here is to evaluate if we're cool with how we treated our kids being part of our legacy.

So you think now. A few years after Linus is dead maybe the real truth will come out, when he won't be around to defend his legacy.

I thought it was already pretty well established that Torvalds is a jerk? Or, at a minimum, somewhat petulant.

But also a good example of someone’s accomplishments .. arguably being worth something even if that’s true. I made my whole existence off of Linus’s handiwork and owe him a debt of gratitude for it. I probably still get more in monthly residuals than 90% of the people who wrote anything I deployed. Who cares what I think of anyone personally?

I’d hate to be so deranged about anyone that I can’t see any good in their accomplishments. I’m not exactly Miss Manners in the professional or personal realm either, don’t let me cast the first stone.

Id even go as far as saying that Linus’s are way more important and that Steve’s destroyed society but that’s enough out of me. Even if that’s my opinion, I’m still saying that about a trillion dollar company and that’s still someone’s yardstick for success. Genius is genius, accomplishments are accomplishments

… and god what a grey and insecure and screwed up IT world this would be if neither of those people ever existed and Microsoft ruled the world. Either we wouldn’t even have functional cash registers let alone any other technical pillars or infrastructure… or we’d all be in our rightful BSD utopia right about now.

To emphasize the difference between Linus and Steve. Steve seemed to be 100% an asshole when he wasn't performing, whereas Linus is (afaik) mostly very opinionated and doesn't care about being diplomatic at all, but not fundamentally a bad human being.

There were things about Jobs around before he died, I'm pretty sure.

The denial of paternity of his first born being one of them.

(I think that was relatively well known well before he died)

Eh, pretty sure it would be out by now.

It goes back to the core issue: which nations have the moral right to tell others how to conduct domestic policy.

You’re not wrong about the motives, but others are:

The U.S. has all the oil it needs right now.

The message from the U.S. to the world is: don’t nationalize our businesses infrastructure and then use it against our interests (even if they are on your sovereign territory) - we do not forgive and we do not forget.

Which might signal to the EU to not build local cloud infrastructure?

Why would it signal that? The loud and clear message would be "do not let American companies get involved in your infrastructure, government or any other system where government requirements would come into open conflict with their profits".

Like Russia did in 2022?

I believe Russia signed over those rights voluntarily on Ukrainian independence.

I don't support Trump, but I would not support a foreign power unilaterally abducting him.

Charlie’s will explains their mindset:

https://youtu.be/FvRT15EayG0