Shares of Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:PLTR) rallied 3.68% on Monday, as speculations continued to swirl regarding the company’s possible role in the U.S. operation that led to the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro over the weekend.Did Palantir Aid ‘Seamless’ US Operation In Venezuela?On Monday, in a post on X, The Kobeissi Letter asked, “Was Palantir Involved?” while pointing to the stock’s 5% overnight rally, which it attributed to the “initial reaction to this weekend's events in Venez ...

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RT Jon Rice (@JonRice)As the first guest on the new podcast 'Not Dead Yet' discussing cypherpunk values, I argue that social media has been a precursor to a CBDC.We have been conditioned to 'allow all' and not question why we carry a surveillance tool in our pockets at all times.This is literally what a CBDC would be - a tool for total surveillance - and we, as a society, have become so used to the idea that we are the product, we trade our data and privacy for convenience, that a CBDC is no longer a stretc ...

Privacy & Technology - Technology is only recently articulating the moral dimension of privacy, emphasizing that a human life should not be reduced to an audit trail [1] - Arguments against privacy often stem from a logic of extraction, struggling to envision trust without total visibility or safety without control [1] - Surveillance prevailed due to convenience, quiet imposition, efficient execution, and normalization, not because it was inherently right [2] - A zero-sum mindset reveals how deeply surveillance has colonized the imagination, hindering the conception of a world without constant oversight [2] - The current trajectory normalizes total visibility into personal financial life, rewards extraction, and conditions acceptance of control and surveillance as the price of using decentralized systems [3] Decentralized Systems & Cypherpunk Renaissance - The cypherpunk renaissance has already begun, signaling a shift towards resisting the normalization of total visibility and control [3] - The industry is interrupting a trajectory that equates safety with control and total visibility [2]

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This video shows the moment a Colombian woman was arrested at a daycare center in Chicago on the 5th of November following what ICE called a targeted traffic stop. In a statement defending the arrest, the Department of Homeland Security said the woman's car was registered to a female illegal alien. But that made me wonder, how would they know that.They had to link vehicle registration data, which is held by the states, with citizenship data, which is held by the federal government. Documents show that ICE c ...

Stanley, professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto and author of many books, including Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future. Professor Stanley, good to see you. Thank you for being with us. >> Thank you for having me on, Ali. >> This is not a topic we've talked a ton about, but it's a topic you know a great deal about from your study of of repressive cultures. It's actually key to being an authoritarian culture, right? the ability to scare enough pe to encourage th ...

if it can be seen, it can be seizedzcashDisclose.tv (@disclosetv):NEW - Berlin has enacted a new draconian police law granting authorities extensive surveillance powers, including the right to secretly enter homes and hack phones.https://t.co/FglbvAltK9 ...

RT Drop Site (@DropSiteNews)🔴 BREAKING: AI firms Palantir and Dataminr are rushing to claim their share of Gaza’s post-war landscape, +972 Magazine reports. Both firms are embedded inside the new U.S. military hub (the CMCC) in southern Israel, where Washington is building the security machinery for Trump’s Gaza plan, according to a seating chart seen by the outlet.Palantir’s Maven, an AI “kill chain” optimizer, and Dataminr’s social-media scraping tools are being folded into the new occupation model - one ...

Governance & Architecture - Polkadot's OpenGov is designed as an architecture with no rulers, admin keys, or silent capture [1] - The system contrasts with centralized governance models characterized by surveillance, speed, and centralization [1] Social & Political Commentary - The report highlights the importance of freedom of speech, contrasting it with situations where surveillance restricts expression [1]