This video explores the controversy surrounding Palantir Technologies, a surveillance firm that recently published a 22-point manifesto detailing its ideological stance on technology, culture, and geopolitics (0:00-0:29).

Key takeaways from the discussion:

  • The Manifesto: The document advocates for the remilitarization of Germany and Japan, argues that autonomous AI weapons are inevitable, and asserts that some cultures are inherently "dysfunctional and regressive" compared to others (0:12-0:28; 4:05-5:00).
  • British Political Fallout: Because Palantir holds over £500 million in UK government contracts—including a major NHS data platform—the manifesto has sparked outrage among British MPs, who have likened the company's ideology to a "dystopian" vision and are calling for contract exits (0:47-1:13; 5:52-6:34).
  • Corporate Backlash vs. Reality: While the company claims its software provides critical benefits (such as reduced cancer diagnosis times and support for the Royal Navy), critics—including researchers and philosophers—argue the manifesto reveals a "technofascist" worldview that is dangerous to embed into public infrastructure (6:57-7:35; 5:06-5:32).
  • The Future of the Contracts: The video concludes that while MPs are pressured to drop the company, the UK government is unlikely to exit the contracts soon due to the high costs, complexity of the data systems, and the potential political embarrassment of canceling the procurement deals (7:37-8:48).

Transcript

Over the weekend, Palanteer Technologies, the US company that builds surveillance software for the CIA, ICE,
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and the Israeli military, posted a 22point manifesto on X. The post declared that some cultures have
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produced vital advances, others remain dysfunctional and regressive, called for ending the post-war neutering of Germany
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and Japan, advocating reinstating a US military draft, and argued that autonomous AI weapons are inevitable.
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British MPs responded by calling it a parody of a Robocop film, a disturbing narcissistic rant, and the ramblings of
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a super villain, which is harsh, but probably fair. I'm El. I have a PhD in computer science, and I use data analysis to spot patterns in geopolitics
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and economics. The timing is very interesting. Palanteer currently holds over 500 million pounds in UK government
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contracts, including a 330 million pound NHS data platform, a 240 million pounds
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Ministry of Defense deal and police contracts across the country. British ministers have been exploring how to trigger a break clause in the NHS
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contracts for weeks. MPs have been calling the company dreadful and shameful in parliamentary debates.
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Palanteer's response to this mounting pressure was to post a manifesto about cultural superiority and remilitarizing
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Germany. Bold choice. The manifesto is excerpted from a 320page book called The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West,
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co-written by Palunteer CEO, Alex Karp.
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The book became a number one New York Times bestseller, which tells you something about the current state of the bestseller list. Karp is the billionaire
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who owns 10 cross-country ski huts around the world, has never learned to drive a car, explaining, "I was too poor and then I was too rich," and keeps Tai
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Chi swords in his offices. In December 2025, he gave an interview where he physically couldn't sit still in his chair, squirming, half-standing,
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stammering through sentences. The internet immediately speculated that he was on drugs. Days later, Palanteer's official account tweeted, "While cross-country skiing this morning, Dr.
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Dr. Carb decided to launch a new program, the Neurode Divergent Fellowship. For those unfamiliar with American slang, skiing is a term for
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doing cocaine. So, Palanteer's crisis response to drug rumors was to tweet about skiing at 7 a.m. One user replied,
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"The craziest part of this is that you said skiing." When asked about his Wall Street reputation, Karp said, "The critique I get is I'm an arrogant prick.
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Okay, great. Well, you know, judge me by the accomplishment." But I digress. The accomplishments include building surveillance tools for ICE deportations
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and signing a contract with the Israeli military in January 2024 for war related missions while Israel was being
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investigated for genocide in Gaza. This is the man whose manifesto Britain's NHS is currently funding through a 330
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million pound contract. If you want to sharpen your ability to spot when corporations are telling you exactly who they are, my book, Awake the Practice of
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Critical Thinking in an Age of Self-Les walks through how to read these signals. It's available in ebook and audiobook.
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Subscribers get 10% off and you can grab the first chapter for free in the description links below. In terms of this manifesto, let's go through some highlights because they're generally
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something. Point one, Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rice possible. The engineering
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elite has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. Tech companies should build weapons not because it's profitable,
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though it is, but because of moral duty. Point three, free email is not enough.
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The decadence of a culture will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security. I've read this six times. Free
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email is not enough for what? Why is decadence being forgiven? Forgiven by whom? This reads like it was translated
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from German by someone who learned both languages from NZA. Point five. The question is not whether AI weapons will
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be built. It is who will build them. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates. Ethics debates are
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theatrical. The real question is who gets to build the killbots first. Point six. National service should be a
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universal duty. A tech CEO whose company profits from military contracts is advocating mandatory conscription. I'm sure there's no conflict of interest.
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Point 15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone.
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Palanteer thinks Germany and Japan should remilitarize. The neutering they're referring to is the part where those countries stopped invading their
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neighbors. Apparently, that was an overcorrection. Point 21. Some cultures have produced vital advances. Others
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remain dysfunctional and regressive. The quiet part, my friends, said out loud. Some cultures are good, others are bad.
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This from a company that self-s surveillance tools to immigration enforcement. Elliot Higgins, founder of Bellingat, pointed out, "These 22 points
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aren't philosophically floating in space. They're the public ideology of a company whose revenue depends on the politics it's advocating." Belgian
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philosopher Mark Kokalbear called it an example of technofascism. Greek economist Januz Verafake said Palanteer
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has signaled willingness to add to nuclear armageddon the AIdriven threat to humanity's existence. Meanwhile,
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Sequoia Capital partner Shawn Maguire called the ideas brilliant and said Palanteer represents the ideological center with a rarely articulated moral
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clarity. So, we have philosophers calling it fascism and venture capitalists calling it brilliant. That tells you everything about who's making
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money from this. No. The manifesto's publication triggered immediate political fallout. Liberal Democrat MP
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Martin Rickley said Palanteer's ethos is entirely unsuited to working on UK government projects involving citizens
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most sensitive private data. Labour MP Rachel Mascll called it quite disturbing and urged the government to understand
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the culture and ideology of Palanteer and how it will exit from its contracts at the earliest opportunity. Junior
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Health Minister Zuber Ahmed responded by saying the NHS contract could be reassessed during a break clause next spring. If we find there are other providers that can do the job better,
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then of course that needs to be looked at, which is essentially diplomatic language for we're looking for the exit.
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Palanteer stock initially slid on Monday as traders reacted to what analysts call potential reputational risks and
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political scrutiny. By Tuesday, shares were up 0.86%
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in pre-market trading. So, the market decided that posting a manifesto about cultural hierarchies while your biggest customer debates canceling your
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contracts is fine. Palunteer spokesperson responded to the criticism by saying the company's software is helping to increase NHS operations,
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reduce the time it takes to diagnose cancer, keeps Royal Navy ships at sea for longer, and protect women and children from domestic violence. They
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added that 17% of Palunteer's global workforce is UK based, the highest proportion among the world's 20 largest
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tech companies, which is a fascinating response. MPs call your manifesto fascist and you reply with NHS
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efficiency stats and employee percentages. It's like responding to your ideology is dangerous with but we
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hired locally. What happens next depends on whether Britain treats this as a warning or a negotiating position. The
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easy read is that Palunteer miscalculated. They posted an ideological manifesto at the exact moment their biggest European customer
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was looking for reasons to leave. That's either incompetence or arrogance,
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neither of which inspires confidence in a company handling national security data. The harder read is that Palunteer just doesn't care. The company's revenue
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model depends on the politics it advocates. If Britain exits, there are other buyers. Governments that want exactly this worldview baked into their
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surveillance infrastructure. The manifesto isn't a bug. It's just marketing. Britain will likely stay in the contract, not because the manifesto
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is acceptable, but because exiting is expensive, disruptive, and requires admitting the procurement process was flawed from the start. Multi-year
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production data platform deals don't have easy exits. So Britain will probably keep funding a company whose CEO advocates mandatory conscription,
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cultural hierarchies, and autonomous weapons while the company processes NHS patient data, military operations, and
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police intelligence. And if you think that's dystopian, just remember MPs compared it to Robocop. But in Robocop,
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the surveillance company was the villain. The video on your screen right now analyzes whether the Iran war is a ploy for insider trading. By the way, if
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you're interested in how conflicts get financialized and who benefits, that's the next threat to pull. Thank you so much for watching.
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This video from Epoch Philosophy explores the alarming rise of Palantir, a data analytics firm, and its involvement in the consolidation of government data under the Trump administration. The video argues that we are entering a new era of surveillance where our digital shadows are used to predict and dictate our lives.

Key sections of the video include:

The Nature of Palantir: (1:56-4:56) Palantir specializes in big data orchestration for entities like the CIA, ICE, and the NHS. The video highlights how its software, Gotham and Foundry, is used for predictive policing and autonomous military operations.
The "Doge" Heist: (6:22-11:09) The video examines the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk, claiming its stated goal of cutting waste is a facade for gaining unauthorized, centralized access to sensitive federal databases, including Social Security information.
Centralization and Surveillance: (11:11-14:36) The administration's plan to create a master database of all American citizens, with Palantir at the helm, is presented as a major shift toward surveillance capitalism, where human behavior becomes a resource for prediction and control.
The Theory of Control: (14:49-20:36) The narrator draws on the work of Shoshana Zuboff and Paul Virilio to explain how the speed of technological innovation and data collection erodes privacy and democratic institutions, normalizing a state of constant observation.
Steps Forward: (20:36-22:32) While the situation is dire, the video suggests that individuals can still exercise agency by limiting their digital footprint, using open-source tools, or "poisoning" data sets. However, it emphasizes that state-level centralization will ultimately require collective political action.

Transcript

I. An Emerging Dystopia
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You apply for a job, never hear back.
Your resume uniquely filtered not by a
person but by a prediction algorithm fed
by your uniquely private life. Past
employment, your social media, your
race, your relationships, then process
to make a decision whether you can
afford to live. You search for chest
pain symptoms at 2 a.m. The next day, an
insurance company emails you about a
specific plan tailored to you. You get
pulled aside at an airport. No stated
reason. You just matched a pattern.
They're reading your shadow, the data
you've shed, the gestures you've
forgotten, and the correlations you
didn't know existed. This isn't fiction.
This reality is being constructed right
now. And there's one group that's making
this possible. They're called Palunteer.
a group that has quietly operated behind
the scenes for years. And what they
built isn't a system of raw
surveillance. It's authorship. The
ability to write your life before you
live it. And what's being authored is
something that will mark the rest of the
21st century. Something that will
absolutely impact each and every person
watching this video. no matter who you
are and where you live.
[Music]

II. So, Who is Palantir?

So, who is Palunteer?
Palunteer is a publicly traded
corporation that specializes in big data
integration on the software level. But
what does that mean? In layman
terminology, Palunteer focuses on the
orchestration, organization, and
implementation of data. A ton of the
information behind the scenes that
products and services need with a focus
on automating the decision-making
processes with that existing data
infrastructure.
But how and where do they do this? They
do this for corporate clientele such as
JP Morgan, Wendy's to public entities
such as Britain's NHS, Norwegian
Customs, Danish P, Intel, Predictive
Policing, all the way to ICE and the CIA
in the United States. Product lines such
as Palunteer Gotham allow police
departments to predict potential crime
with data of citizens in a given
community. They can even run probability
for whether someone might have a mental
health crisis. For militaries such as
the IDF, Gotham can expand drone
capability to be completely autonomous,
controlled, operated, and executed by a
machine learning algorithm.
Palunteer Foundry can automate logistics
and make predictive outcomes in
healthcare and supply chains such as
Britain's NHS. As we speak, Palunteer is
experiencing an unprecedented rise in
market cap, growing by 23 times since
2023. They were founded by Peter Teal, a
billionaire venture capitalist and mega
donor of the Republican party, who broke
campaign finance records by donating a
whopping $15 million to JD Vance's 2022
Senate campaign. Teal is also famous for
pushing for fully privateowned cities,
citystates entirely owned by
corporations.
You would prefer the human race to
endure, right?
Uh, you're hesitating.
Well, I Yes.
I don't know. I I would
I would um
This is a long hesitation. So many long
hesitation. There's so many questions
and
should the human race survive? Uh,
yes. Okay. But
the second major player is the eccentric
CEO, Alex Karp, an odd technology CEO
who has remained in the shadows until
recently
to disrupt and make our the institutions
we partner with the very best in the
world and when it's necessary to scare
our enemies and on occasion kill them. A
question emerges here. Amidst a very
unstable technology market in the US, an

III. Palantir's Origin Story

economy generally bearish at the
prospect of new technology investment.
How has Palunteer quietly grown by a
seismic 23 times?
Palanteer didn't grow overnight, but the
acceleration they are experiencing
seemingly did. An acceleration fueled by
robbery in plain sight. A heist that
dwarfs anything in history. Yet, it's
important to note the past 40 years of
neoliberalism can be described as a
heist in general, an unprecedented
seismic extraction of wealth from normal
day-to-day workingclass people to the
point where the rich have never
accumulated more wealth compared to the
rest of society in human history. But we
all know this. Many aren't surprised
that the top 10% own 93% of the entire
US stock market. That the top 1% own
over 30% of all wealth in the US.
Journalists, economists, and even the
rare politician have warned us for
decades that this level of extraction is
occurring. But without outright
crippling society to the point of
economic collapse, what else is there to
take? Turns out a lot more and it's far
more powerful and substantial than money
could buy.

IV. The Heist

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Out of President Trump and Elon Musk
latest moves to reshape the federal
government. The top social security
officials stepped down after Mus team
requested access to sensitive personal
data about millions of Americans. Senior
political correspondent Rachel Scott is
tracking it from Mara Lago. After the
2025 presidential election, the Trump
administration announced the creation of
Doge, the Department of Government
Efficiency
with the official aim to cut quote
fraud, waste, and abuse in the public
sector. Headed by Elon Musk and with ex
employees of Palunteer, Musk made an
official goal of cutting $2 trillion in
what he claimed was identifiable waste.
In actuality, the final sum expected to
be cut is 160 billion with official
estimates showing that Doge's total
operational cost to be around 130
billion itself. And according to a
report from Yale's the budget lab, the
measures to cut various government
agencies is expected to create a net
loss of 300 to 500 billion over the next
decade. And despite this, this has been
the Trump administration's greatest
success. That's because Doge is a lie.
The point was never to cut fraud, waste,
and abuse. It's a facade for an ambition
much greater and far more consequential.
In February of 2025, members of Doge
gained root access to a plethora of
government IT systems such as the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration and the US Agency for
International Development. But the real
crucial one is the Social Security
Administration harboring one of the most
sensitive databases in the United
States. the birth dates, historical
addresses, employment history, financial
records of every single American. It
doesn't take a genius to understand what
is going on here. But what sells the
terrifying endgame is the transparent
illegal nature of this. Federal courts
have blocked Doge from entering these
databases after it was already done. But
that's the point. The repercussions do
not matter. Even if courts find Doge and
the Trump administration in judicial
contempt for illegally accessing federal
databases, the data has already been
siphoned.
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In April of 2025, Judge Ellen Hollander
denied Doge access due to concerns
around privacy and the Fourth Amendment
along with the Fair Privacy Act, a 1974
law that requires explicit protection of
personal data unless there is immediate
urgency in law enforcement functions.
which, as the courts reflected, there
clearly is zero urgency to combat crime
that would necessitate unfettered access
to the Social Security Administration's
database. Yet, in June of 2025, in an
absolutely contradictory and wild
ruling, the Supreme Court ruled that the
Trump administration had authority to
executively access federal databases at
will. The only three liberal judges
dissented. The behavior here is what is
particularly dangerous to execute
without legal process without genuine
consultation of the law. Justice Conti
Brown Jackson voiced concern in
regarding the Trump administration's
legal defense. In essence, the urgency
underlying the government's stay
application is the mere fact that it
cannot be bothered to wait for the
litigation process to play out before
proceeding as it wishes. A concerning
question here remains. Is this naive
hubris of the Trump administration a
lack of concern due to Trump's evasion
of legal repercussions? Or is this done
with a strategic plan of assurance that
the law will not be applied to them
after the fact? That the few democratic
judicial procedures in the US will be
null and void by the time justice could
ever be served. We don't know the
answer. What we do know is that all our
collective sensitive data is now out in
the wild, unbeknownst to us, but not
without emerging clues.
[Music]
[Laughter]
[Music]
[Laughter]
In May of 2025, a New York Times article

V. The Taken

highlighted the Trump administration's
plan to create a centralized database on
every single American citizen. Palanteer
is set to lead the charge. Little is
known how this database will be
constructed, but technical data will
exactly be used, but we do know
Palanteer representatives have been in
contact with two big American agencies,
the Social Security Administration and
the Internal Revenue Service.
who head the two most important
government databases in the country.
It's important to note how information
systems work. One might argue that our
data is already in a specific state
database, that the entirety of our
information is already available to the
state at large. This framing is
incorrect. It presupposes that the state
is a single entity able to executively
access specific data at will.
information systems are much more
fragmented and that's on purpose. The
Social Security Administration will not
have access to the same data as the
Department of Health and Human Services.
It's the centralization that changes
everything. And the horror of this
conundrum is twofold. The state now has
unfettered access, a single executive
database to pull from. And now it's not
just the state. A third party and
private entity, Palunteer, owns the
keys.
I have given it to some, but it goes to
very special people and I thought I'd
I'd give it to Elon as a presentation
from our country.
Thank you, Elon. Thank you. Take care of
yourself. Thank you.
All of this was under the political
banner of efficiency. Trump's
administration wanted to stop fraud,
waste, and abuse by eliminating
information silos through the process of
quote, "Removing unnecessary barriers to
federal employees, accessing government
data, and promoting inter agency data
sharing are important steps towards
eliminating bureaucratic duplication and
inefficiency while enhancing the
government's ability to detect
overpayments and fraud. The efficiency
was made possible by tearing down the
legal privacy and data protections in
place to protect American citizens from
third parties. And the Trump
administration handed the keys of our
most sensitive data to one of the most
sophisticated data organizations in the
world. But you may ask, for those of us
around the world, for those of us who
don't care about data integrity, what
does this mean for us? Well, it means
everything because everything is at
stake. Information is a currency far
greater than the dollar or any tangible
asset. It allows for the prediction of
that very everything. And Alex Karp
understands this
with uh them being the winner of the
world because if they're winning, it
means other people are losing. What do
you think of that?
I don't think in win- lose. I think in
domination.
Do you know who Palunteer is?
I do.
Do you think that Palanteer has ever
scraped data from Facebook?
Senator, I'm not aware of that.
We've entered what theorist Shosana
Zubof calls surveillance capitalism. An
economic system that doesn't extract
value from your labor, but from your
behavior itself. Every search, pause,
purchase becomes raw material for
algorithms that predict and modify what
you will do next. And it's a surplus you
give out freely while scrolling social
media, visiting web pages, much of your
digital life. This might seem overly
theoretical and dramatic in nature, but
this model of extraction is right here.
Bruce Schneer, a cryptographer, computer
scientist, and author, coined it
perfectly. Surveillance is the business
model of the internet. We build systems
that spy on people in exchange for
services. Corporations call it
marketing. When immigration data gets
processed, Palunteer and the state is
not just tracking individuals. They're
modeling migration patterns to engineer
policy responses. When health records
get analyzed, they're not predicting
individual outcomes. They're optimizing
population health according to invisible
computerized priorities.
You aren't just being watched. You're
being predicted. and prediction becomes
policy before you know the game has
started. Another reason why data is so
incredibly powerful in the hands of
organizations with vast computational
power is the sheer speed and velocity
it's able to capture behavior to predict
to fundamentally own.
Paul Verilio a theorist and military
historian is also particularly relevant
here. In the 1970s, Verilio coined the
term dramology, relating to the Greek
word dramos, which roughly means race.
Dramology can be seen as a way to
understand the contemporary relationship
with society and speed. Verilio sees
speed as a fundamental mechanism of
power and a driving force in
technological growth. In the context of
modern warfare, pure strategy no longer
wins. superior logistics do from the
Wormach strategy of Blitzkrieg to the
United States ability to reach A to B in
the supply chain. In the case of
domestic society, telegraph to the
telephone to advanced computation and
digital communications.
Yet to Verilio, there's side effects.
Speed confuses. It creates what Verilio
calls the tyranny of real time. A type
of sociology that minimizes the
geographic physical existence of life by
way of rapid communications,
digitalization, and processing power,
which then can lead to instability,
upheavalss, and even the erosion of
democracy by way of a cult of
technocratic efficiency. Just through
the speed of modern work and
technological innovation, our ethics,
the sublime humanity we hold tends to
get tossed the wayside. Verilia was
concerned about an emerging ideology of
technological determinism and supremacy.
The belief that technologies evolution,
its ability to innovate, was enough to
legitimize itself. that any result from
technological growth is inherent,
perhaps not proper nor desirable, but
inevitable and we have no say. Does that
sound familiar right now?
Um, you know, I think AI will probably
like most likely sort of lead to the end
of the world, but in the meantime, uh,
there will be great companies created
with serious machine learning.
Palanteer embodies this. It may seem
that Palunteer's extreme centralization
of information is reckless. Arrogant
executives foaming at the mouth at new
quarterly increases and a bump in stock
price. But this underscores the very
intentional real power grab that is
happening. And the goal is not merely
financial in nature.
Palanteer's ability to harness the power
of speed, its velocity of growth and
information capabilities is what makes
this a horrifying prospect. The effect
of this is the evisceration of
democratic procedure, expectations of
privacy. This creates an effect similar
to what Fuko deemed as panopticism, the
effect of surveillance, normalizing of
an authority that watches to the extent
you regulate yourself. It's not just the
mass collection of data of many across
the globe, but the quiet acceptance,
creeping normalization, the feeling of
inevitability that our entire DNA can be
sequenced remotely, our behaviors,
mental patterns synthesized and
predicted. Private health insurers and
or state health care systems may have
access to nearly all of your data and
have the power to make predictions on
health outcomes. They may deny your care
based upon specific behaviors, your
whereabouts, and weakened activities.
Marketers can target individuals with
accuracy we've never seen based upon
biological makeup, your spending habits.
With your data becoming centralized in a
master database, combined with the rise
of self-trained AI and neural networks,
political corruption, and
administrations that willingly sacrifice
public commons in favor of capital, the
disturbing possibilities are endless.
But not all is lost. We create new data

VI. Not All Is Lost

every day, and much of it is under our
control. While not all, we have
ownership and agency around how and when
much of that data is shed. On the front
of a state sponsored centralized
database, explicit political pressure is
about all we can do. This is a unique
dilemma not even security researchers
would have predicted. This is relatively
new territory. It must be conveyed as a
crisis alongside and equal to issues
such as climate change, money, and
politics, which it absolutely is.
There's also a lot we can do
individually to combat the peripheral
data collected by private largecale tech
platforms such as social media, online
shopping, and general computer use.
While this goes beyond the full scope of
the video, we can limit our footprint,
avoiding the gold mine we create for
corporations that are contrary to normal
people's existence using open-source
software, refusing to use tech platforms
that make you the center product, or if
you must, poison their data sets, never
use real names, give false addresses,
make their data completely inoperable.
As individuals, we can still control
what data private entities collect from
us. In theory, we can destroy the very
fabric that makes corporations such as
Google profitable. What is more
difficult is a state-run centralized
database, though. Digital hygiene and
individual habits don't equally apply
here. There will need to be collective
pressure, and we will have to work
together. But it's up to us whether or
not we will approach these challenges
with a cynical nihilism, a laziness that
accepts defeat before the race has
finished, or we can move forward with
the courage and understanding that we
still fundamentally control the keys.
Thank you all for watching and making it
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While we're here, I want to also give an
extra special shout out to Jay Roberts
and Cedric Wattman. You two have gone
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see you all in the next