Palantir Wants to Reinstate the Draft

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Palantir released a manifesto advocating for mandatory national service, suggesting a move away from an all-volunteer military.
The manifesto criticizes Silicon Valley for focusing on consumer apps and urges tech companies to build weapons and enhance national security.
It calls for reverence towards public figures like Elon Musk while dismissing public political engagement by ordinary citizens as trivial.
Palantir's document promotes cultural superiority, arguing that some cultures are regressive and advocating for more value judgments against them.
The article critiques the manifesto as elitist, ultranationalistic, and contradictory, highlighting its support for surveillance and AI weapons.
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A Substack post discusses eroded Fourth Amendment protections due to outdated legal doctrines like the third-party doctrine.
An AI development notes that text attribution to authors is becoming reliably possible, raising privacy implications.

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