A Wired analysis shows that ICE & CBP have collectively spent at least $515 million on products from Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Palantir in the last few years alone.
1d 13h ago by lemmy.world/u/gAlienLifeform in technology from www.wired.com
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We’re reaching the end game of late stage capitalism where the government and the biggest companies on the planet come together to cement their positions of power.
They will work together to ensure that neither one can be dethroned
Eh, that's what they're trying to do, but that's always what groups like them have tried to do throughout history and it never really works for very long. We aren't reaching the end of anything, it's just the next stage of the game.
Correct.
It's a cycle, and one that's repeated many, many times.
Time is a flat circle.
France is bacon.
Back bacon or pork belly? I'm not crossing an ocean for shit bacon
I still have my great grandfather's torches and pitchforks in the family armory, so I'm ready for the next stage also.
Very easy to turn pinetar into pitch and lots of pine trees out here. Just so you have proper torches is all. I'm one for the classics
The damning class conflict has been raging for more than a century, and it's getting worse and more complicated.
The sign in the thumbnail... it's hardly a secret.
CIA and KGB and Stasi and Gestapo were supposed to be secret but weren't
The secret part is generally just who is in the organisation, hence the gator masks.
And yet so many people have a hard time acknowledging it.
Palantir has products?
I know you are probably joking.
Its flagship products—Gotham (for intelligence and defense) and Foundry (for commercial and civil use)—connect previously siloed databases to support intelligence operations, counterterrorism analysis, law enforcement, and enterprise analytics.
I guess that's okay, if we really got our money's worth.
/s