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@bctallis.bsky.social

I did not know the Ukrainians were using Palantir. That's now put me in a bad mood. Palantir is effectively a euphemism for CIA - it's as bad as that. I am aware that Europe has near equivalents, but haven't spent much time researching them. Clearly that needs to change. Thanks for posting this.

Systematic already meet the demands more or less. So is a feasibly alternative.

Definitely. Looking at the values the leaders of Palantir showcases, they are rotten to the core.

Something a European Security Council should take a lead on

There is a Swedish challenger. Right now it mostly looks like a high school project, even though the guy who created µTorrent is a financier and board member

Ah sorry I didn't reply earlier. Been having my hands full at work. I don't really know much about Palantir's stuff or the alternatives, I mostly know/use more lower-level software for investigations and forensics (link analysis, digital forensics, etc).

@anderspucknielsen.dk @silberbauer.dk @balticseadivingr.bsky.social

Not necessarily. As I understand it, it's a tool for joining data from multiple databases. Palantir sells consulting to set it up. The ethics issues are in who they sell to and the causes and philosophy its execs promote. That same tech could be used for contact tracing and finding missing kids.

Hear hear 👏

Make a youtube piece about it. These are crazy people.

Palantir sure has to be ridiculously good to justify the side effects. And even then...

This American does not love Trump and hates what he is doing to the country and the world — Ukraine in particular. I want to see Ukraine defeat Russia, and that may mean having to make a deal with the devil (aka Palantir) to get there. All that said, deals with the devil are fraught with danger.

*to* Palantir.

It feels like conceptually it would be easy. While on the other hand, building a system that's confident requires masses of data and ways of collection that basically ... aren't legal. And in Europe, we don't usually let companies break the law for our convenience. Is that bad?! I dunno.

The secret to Palantir is not their software, but how they develop software.

Oh, and it gets better: https://www.heise.de/news/Digitale-Souveraenitaet-Verfassungsschutz-kauft-europaeische-Palantir-Alternative-11293663.html

Having the world's most powerful tools controlled by mad men certainly isn't optimal. 😭

Holly Molly! 🤯 No, Ukraine! NOOO!