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In short, Palantir is “a sort of Google for spies,”
Google and Palantir Are Two Sides of the Same Coin
Will Oremus
If, to quote Jennings, the “internet now feels like a place whose sole purpose is selling you something,” that’s because the entire world feels that way. This was social media’s mission: to drive capitalist value seeking into areas heretofore resistant or oppositional to it, the “havens in a heartless world,” if not the inner reaches of subjectivity itself.
Two Riders Were Approaching
Rob Horning
As Richard Seymour writes in his blistering 2019 dissection of social media, The Twittering Machine, we think we are interacting—writing and singing and dancing and talking—with one another, “our friends, professional colleagues, celebrities, politicians, royals, terrorists, porn actors—anyone we like. We are not interacting with them, however, but with the machine. We write to it, and it passes on the message for us, after keeping a record of the data.”
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