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Hilarious day for the don’t tread on me crowd
36 upvotes, 19 comments. Sidechat image post by Anonymous in US Politics. "Hilarious day for the don’t tread on me crowd"
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Anonymous 17w

Naming it palantir is such a “yes we know we are evil” move that it’s beyond parody

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Anonymous 17w

Big day for the party of small government

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Anonymous 16w

A database of me?

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Anonymous 17w

Is this not basically the SSA?

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 17w

I don’t get it, is that based on something?

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 17w

Palantirs are crystal balls in Lord of the Rings, used for long distance communication and seeing things happening elsewhere/elsewhen. They are not inherently evil, but are most notably used in the series by Sauron (the bad guy) to command and manipulate other characters.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 17w

It’s not. In LOTR the Palantirs are rare crystal balls that can see everything going on in the world, and the films have it where the villain is in control of one of them Like…..just look at it

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 16w

SSA isnt a surveillance service, its your retirement

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 16w

I mean our summers and shit

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 16w

Ohhh shit, I see

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 16w

No, the SSA doesn’t have info about your whereabouts, medical claims, fingerprints, or phone calls. One of Palantir’s products aggregates stuff like this in one place. The SSA is running on database software that’s probably at least 50 years old and held together by duct tape and prayers

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 16w

Actually SSA software is built on COBOL and held together by institutional knowledge and also prayers

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 16w

I would be shocked if they’re up to date with the latest release of COBOL

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 16w

It’s pretty much all just that one XKCD comic

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 16w

Saw that one today actually. It’s sad how true it is sometimes

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 16w

RIP github, we loved you but clearly you weren’t enough so now we’re going to flood you with ai garbage

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 16w

Fuck, wdym?

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 16w

Oh I’m just being a doomer about GitHub inevitably getting enshittified by users that are going to start flooding their contributions with AI generated scripts

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 16w

Oh I’ve already seen a few of those unfortunately. I think one was to the rust repo or something. The maintainer was NOT happy 😭 the fix didn’t make sense at all and didn’t match what was in the PR description. I assume it was a research project or some sort of test

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