Source: In These Times
by Alberto Toscano
“A new recruitment campaign cropped up on elite U.S. college campuses this April. At schools like Cornell and UPenn, bus stop posters on a stark black background led with an ominous warning (‘A moment of reckoning has arrived for the West’) before charging that most tech companies fail to consider ’national purpose’ when deciding ’what ought to be built.’ By contrast, Palantir, the data-analysis defense contractor behind the posters, declared it doesn’t just build tech products ’to ensure America’s future,’ but ‘to dominate.’ The ads’ implicit message echoes the conviction of Palantir’s leadership, including founder Peter Thiel and CEO Alex Karp, that Silicon Valley’s true mandate is cementing U.S. and Western military supremacy — a reactionary nostalgia for the Cold War fusion of state, engineering and capital.” (06/045/25)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/palantir-designs-infrastructure-of-repression