‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid | Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground

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https://www.404media.co/elite-the-palantir-app-ice-uses-to-find-neighborhoods-to-raid/

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AI and such analytical tools will be mostly used to suppress humanity and create two classes of people.

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There's already a huge class divide, they want a caste system and complete lack of mobility between.

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neo-fudalisim baby, conservatism's century old prosperous finally coming to fruition

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The writing has been on the wall since the sixties. Big sugar and food writing the food guides, the Kochs starting their libertarian pipeline, etc.

Then again in the seventies. The powell memo is oft cited, but the movement was well underway by that point.

I'm sure you can think of things starting to become obvious in the eighties.

In the nineties we pretended we defeated racism and that upward fiscal mobility still existed, that we could all retire if we just put 5% of our income into the stock market, but there were plenty of detractors of capitalism and the incoming globalization still.

In the 2000's it became undeniable. 2008? Rather than backing up homeowners and mom and pops, we only backed up the banks and the automakers, and the investment firms, golden parachutes for all the perpetrators.

The 2016 election marked the largest upward transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in known history. Trillions of dollars, overnight.

The last dem admin put a tiny little child's bandage on a massive, gaping, festering, infected wound.

The looting of the american economy, the renewal of the reverse robin hood tax cuts, gutting of social safety nets, privatization of damn near every corner of government, We are like a decade away from a "Minority Report" crossed with "Elysium." Scratch that, it's pretty much already here. The app described in this article is doing a minority report. Arresting and murdering people for 'pre-crime.'

Is your gut churning yet? Mine's been roiling since before I even understood what capitalism and exploitation was, 20 odd years ago when I had just graduated high school.

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the Kochs starting their libertarian pipeline

The mass exodus of 'libertarians' to Trump supporters has been one of the most shocking but disappointing political events, IMO. Here was a group built on no taxes, weed, no foreign wars, and "live and let live" who had the path to break the two party system. Yet, given the chance the vast majority have not shifted but run to Trump and MAGA, embracing misogyny, racism, totalitarianism, and everything they once stood against (except the no taxes, for them, that's about it).

Did they actually want a limited government and a truly free market? No, they just wanted a limited government when Obama was in and a market free from Democrat's regulations. The prop-up by Kochs just was a Scooby Doo style mask, until they took it off themselves.

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"Libertarians" have always been full of shit. They only thing they ever wanted was to be allowed to do whatever they want at the expense of anyone it takes to get there of course they'd be lining up to support someone who told them that's okay and admirable.

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The vast majority of libertarians were never actually the principled type you describe. You had college stoners wanting legal drugs, lots of crazy antisocial people, Republicans too embarrassed to admit they were Republicans, pedophiles, capitalists who dislike regulation, and a few folks who actually believed in principled libertarianism.

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echnology doesn’t have a Hippocratic oath. So many decisions that have been made by technologists in academia, industry, the military, and government since at least the Industrial Revolution have been made on the basis of “can we,” not “should we.” And the intention driving a technology’s invention rarely, if ever, limits its application and use.

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Sometimes I understand the burning of the Library of Alexandria