<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> Modern open-source likes to pretend that its a corp... and ends up serving its social share-holders.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@gsuberland" class="u-url mention">@<span>gsuberland</span></a></span> ive heard that palantir in particular is not even good at stuffing public money into private hands</p><p>the whole thing is just so disgusting and rotten on so many levels and *why the fuck would anyone support it*</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> I&#39;ve always found it painfully obvious that the entire function of these orgs is to funnel as much public money as possible into private hands, wining and dining the constant cycle of green electees, jumping from boondoggle to boondoggle with project costs multiple orders of magnitudes beyond any reasonably-proportional figure, perpetuating a cycle of minimum possible delivery form maximum possible profit.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/@krans" class="u-url mention">@<span>krans</span></a></span> that last sentence is... something. it is for sure not wrong</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> More counterpoints:</p><p>- Palantir subsequently bid for Afghan and Palestinian refugee settlement schemes using a similar system but didn&#39;t win the contracts<br />- Palantir is an extremely suspect company with fascist leadership, so an ideal Home Office contractor in many respects</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/@krans" class="u-url mention">@<span>krans</span></a></span> this is the first good thing anybody has said to me about Palantir, usually it is a strongly worded complaint</p><p>I did not realize this! thanks for the infk</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> Apparently the “Homes for Ukraine” scheme was run entirely by Palantir under a Home Office contract.</p><p>I&#39;ve only heard good things about Palantir&#39;s work on that, from people who were involved.</p><p>Counterpoints: <br />- This clearly should have been run by the civil service, not a contractor<br />- Refugees were placed appropriately but local authorities lacked capacity to give necessary support</p>

<p>(for the record, i think &quot;take money from some but not all companies involved in war based on their actual impact and relation to the world at large&quot; is a legitimate ethical position for an OSS project to have. you could also just never do that. but if you do you better fucking think a lot about what exactly it is you support. &quot;oh we want them all to be welcome&quot; is inexcusable)</p>

<p>there is no tradeoff or ethical dilemma to solve there, people just suck</p>