• Korkki@lemmy.ml
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    2 hours ago

    I still have only vague ideas what they even are and do and why they are special. Yeah, marketing, data brokering, spying, PR, social engineering, propaganda, but then how does that differ from Meta and Google.

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      34 minutes ago

      This may an overly cynical take, though that seems hard to do these days, but I’ve always believed they are intentionally vague… even to their customers.

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      1 hour ago

      Werent palantir those shady orbs from LOTR? You know, the backports sauron used to spy on us…