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Also be mindful.
I don't work in IT Security, but the folks I know IRL (and whose experience I respect) paint a very very grim future with Palantir.
I was born the year Atari started making home systems, well before computers became personal. I always thought Cyberpunk was neat in an abstract fashion, but never wanted to live Shadowrun IRL.
Palantir is terrifying in its reach. Be smart.
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EDIT: for those who are very concerned, nothing happened that's immediately terrible right now. If you're doing a media blackout for mental health, this doesn't need your attention. Breathe.
Powerish
Wait until the wake the beast and everyone starts arming themselves and start shooting first, asking for warrants later, specially with these undercover assholes
Ricdesan
Yes AI will be the finishing blow to end humanity that social networks started
historycat
Kittenman15
Hey - my upvote ticked it over to 1000 !!!! Party time!
UseYourVoice
So is there really anything we can do about this? Or is it just happening and there's nothing we can do? Because posts and information like this make me feel less inclined to stay alive and I need something to cancel that out.
Tolocamp
"Sir, we just want to talk, open the door."
"How many are there of you ?"
"We are six."
"Talk to each other then."
djangojazz
Keep burner accounts. Don't use your real name. Keep in touch with neighbors to know REAL ACTIVITY around you.
Darprice
Yeah, Palantir is going to be a horrible issue for decades, even if we survive the regime as a country.
Urselchen
Big Brother Palantir is watching you.
RocknRootRanchcuzallwegotisrocksandrootsandafewtrees
Yeah, so I commented on Ryan Zinke's FB post about delisting grizzly bears. I said, Delist Zinke. The MAGAts lost their minds, lol.
isthisusernametakenquestionmark
It will be just a matter of time until Americans on Imgur really need to watch what they post/comment.
lightninginthesky
sehven
meganical
Notice the man isn’t already being forced to the ground or shot, clearly depicting the man is white
jkwgn
He doesn't yet know that they came for his daughter-in-law and grandchild.
Omicron416
*unborn grandchild. So they can force the birth.
WhattaMattahYou
You're missing the point. If someone brown opened the door, they'd be pinned to the floor or shot to death before words were even exhanged.
That's the differenc.e
SubiBryant
This a British thing?
yzark01
Na we arent the ones sending people to concentration camps for being the wrong colour or saying stuff the government doesnt like.
WhattaMattahYou
it's a software thing that Peter Theil created/owns - it's the ultimate Big Brother database and it's being unleashed on Americans right now.
venom181st
https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1bmJrbDVjMW5kMXZrcGplN20wYWV5a2hhdjdoNml6N3A1OWdoZDU2aiZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/hV60kKtX93l22O3Wyn/200w.webp
Cthulhuonabike
Country*
sundaymondayhippyday
Another meme I can’t steal with this new cursed imagur
sundaymondayhippyday
@MartynMage
blueKD
For you, friend:
mercyPandaRunner
My history teacher grew up in the DDR (GDR) and one time he told us of the day an army officer was in his school. Elementary school, i think. The officer asked every kid if they also wanted to become soldiers in the national peoples army. He said no, he did not want to.
The army was stupid and war was stupid.
Later that same schoolweek, in the evening, the doorbell rang and two men in grey coats wanted to speak to his parents about where the boy got those ideas from. Afterwards, his parents>
mercyPandaRunner
had a talk with him about keeping ones mouth shut about certain things, because that's how you get yourself into big trouble.
badwolf9417
They're all rocking the DeSantis fascist fashion flood boots
NaughtyGod1
As the owner of a CyberSec company, I go onto every data brokers site & confirm inaccurate info. Security-by-obfuscation is my favorite...
WhattaMattahYou
every little bit helps, my friend
you're doing good work
NaughtyGod1
Well since they decided they need a list, I thought we did too. So I bought the voter rolls of every state, pulled out just the registered republican names & then cross-referenced those with info I bought from the Dark Web. If you voted in the last election and are a registered republican, I know your home address, phone numbers, emails (including leaked passwords), social media accounts, etc, etc. I initially used it to figure out who in the federal govt was (R)...
NaughtyGod1
I'm also taking a page out of Flesh Simulators manual & scrubbing their socials for comments & putting them into another database. Then I'll feed that data into AI and create custom-built-rage-inducing-posts to steer them... however-the-fuck-I-want-to. Check it: https://youtu.be/YTGQXVmrc6g?t=291
VaultGirl69
I just think of Hydra targeting all the "unwanted" people for "peace".
bertchstudio
Man fuck being smart anymore, they sure aren't so why bother?
I'm filling their fkn files with most inane and crazy bs possible
HandsomePenguin
Ive been telling you guys to shoot the Orange fuck for months now, and nothing bad has happened to me. Traitors get the death penalty.
HandsomePenguin
I mean... It probably helps that im not from there, but I stand by it.
Khanamana324
We’re going to need to do a whole hell of lot more than bury one person to fix this shitshow. We’d need to put all the enablers, enforcers and sycophants up against the wall instead of coddling them like last time.
HandsomePenguin
Hey, it would be a hell of a start.
MaleProstateMilker88
+1 for real political art
vanishinggirl
That’s ok, I’m ready to sacrifice for the rebellion, well, in a few months- fulfilling my bucket list to travel to Australia- before the regime makes it illegal- but when I get back, gloves off! Btw, had Atari as a kid- the clown teeter/totter balloon popping game was my favorite!
JackieTreehornProductions
Yars Revenge and Missile Command
WhattaMattahYou
If I get some kind of terminal in less than a year diagnosis, I know what I'll be doing instead of hospice. Long distance marksmanship, ,and later some Street Narcotics
XanderCorsaj
You'll love Oz. Beautiful place, beautiful people, beautiful heat stroke...🥵😂 But in all seriousness, it is a tropical paradise(I've only ever visited Perth, WA, because my little sister and family live there, but what a familiar yet exotic place, if that makes sense. Have fun!
tomalt
Australia is awesome. Go inland for a day or two and see how big and empty it is. Go to a small town bakery and pub and marvel at how far back in time you travel. Also go to Melbourne if you like good food.
vanishinggirl
Thanks for the tips! We’re staying in Sydney, so probably no Melbourne- but a day trip to Canberra is planned!
pfrazier21044
I am in IT security, and what scares me is that they are in the process of creating a database of every American... what a perfect target for nation-state actors and any ongoing advanced persistent threat (APT) to rob and pillage information about United States citizens. So there is a double threat of what the idiots are doing with it and what other countries will do with it when they get their hands on it.
bourbonandbaddecisions
Imagine if they list all the service members that held security clearances and also listed the missions they worked on. The possibilities are frightening
HovercraftFullaEelss
DOGE pretty much hoovered up all that data from government databases and gave Russia direct access to it. Not to mention the repeated breaches of OPM and Equifax. Every time I get a notice that my data has leaked, my response is just "lol oh noez, not again"
pfrazier21044
Honestly, we have been giving away our information for years... Facebook, Twitter (X), and even those grocery store cards that track what we purchase.
But this craziness has existed for a long time, and Palantir is just one of many in a long line of those helping fascists:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_World_War_II
mercyPandaRunner
You mean something other than a registry of citizens as basically every country has had for generations?
WhattaMattahYou
a whole fucking lot more than just a registry of citizens
mercyPandaRunner
So more like the databases the US intelligence agencies have been accumulating over the past decades?
WhattaMattahYou
Like that, but by a factor of "one metric shitload" exponentially added to by "those fuckwits DOGE, who stole a bunch of data"
It is to a database what eMoney is to an excel spreadsheet, only much much moreso
blarkk
Shadowrun would be a "Best Case Scenario". At least we'd get magic.
WhattaMattahYou
That was my thought. But with my luck I'd stay human and not get Magic.
SpaceCoyote300
I would 100% continue being a human wage slave while everyone else gets cool new traits. I guess, on the bright side, I'd have a SIN and a job.
HannibalHoseth
And teleporting elves. And dwarves. And…ima stop myself
Illithidbane
I'm voting for Dunkelzahn for president.
UnnecessaryAlgebra
And cyberware. Same person shouldn't get both though
Illithidbane
In our luck, you'd need a Facebook login or your legs stop working, and your eyes blank out for ads periodically.
TheUntiss
Somebody forgot the best part. The sexy thicc Orcs with their tudks. Yall never read tusk love and it shows.
Deshalope
Tusks! Another impossible body standard! /s
ChronicD
Just don't eat the orc cuisine. Unless you want the green apple quick steps, chum.
WhattaMattahYou
When Orc Grannies get old, sometimes they forget to put in the dentures before grabbing their axe to defend the Orclings. That's my headcanon, I'm standing by it.
Artist credit: Ursula V, work is called "The Old Battleaxe" and the backstory/Lore is superb. That's my next print, I already have her "The Biting Pear of Salamanca"
https://www.deviantart.com/ursulav/art/The-Old-Battleaxe-17164865
chaosheck
Just finished the shadowrun return games. Great stuff.
Sigge1981
As an addition to my earlier comment, I have heard very good thing about the Mercurial UGC, too. I think its in Dragonfall. I haven't gotten around to trying it myself, though.
Sigge1981
You should try out some of the UGC for those games. There are some real gold nuggets out there. The trilogy from Cirion are fantastic! Starts with Antumbra Saga in Dragonfall, follows with The Caldecott Caper, and ends with Cal-Free in Chains, both run in Hong Kong. They're all in the Steam workshop.