DOGE operatives have repeatedly referred to the software company Palantir as a possible partner in creating a “mega API” at the IRS, sources tell WIRED.
  • ReallyActuallyFrankensteinEnglish
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    27 天前

    The agency is expected to partner with a third-party vendor to manage certain aspects of the data project. Palantir, a software company cofounded by billionaire and Musk associate Peter Thiel, has been brought up consistently by DOGE representatives as a possible candidate, sources tell WIRED.

    So they are planning on relying on an outside surveillance and analytics tech company whose name is taken from the Lord of the Rings orbs that are used by Sauron to spy on Middle Earth. But that’s just a fluke coincidence, right?

    Corcos has discussed plans for DOGE to build “one new API to rule them all”

    Uh… So, yeah, that’s just the single most famous line from Sauron himself, about his plan to enslave all of Middle Earth. Funny coincidence. But this is a code update - I’m sure this will be run by reasonable people, bean counters, and not insane partisan zealots.

    Palantir CEO Alex Karp said in a February earnings call. “Disruption at the end of the day exposes things that aren’t working. There will be ups and downs. This is a revolution, some people are going to get their heads cut off.”

    So…umm…

    • Tryenjer@lemmy.world
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      27 天前

      Considering Peter Thiel’s stated preference for Mordor (Sauron’s realm where “the very air is a poisonous fume”), there’s no doubt that he knows exactly what he’s doing,

      ”Gandalf’s the crazy person who wants to start a war… Mordor is this technological civilization based on reason and science. Outside of Mordor, it’s all sort of mystical and environmental and nothing works.”, Peter Thiel