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zakalwe@plasmatrap.com ("Seán Fenian") wrote:
@cstross@wandering.shop @Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy @schrotthaufen@mastodon.social I read a news article in the Guardian this morning that mentioned Palantir has been described as "the most evil company in the world".
Afterthought:
I have a little piece of time-travel micro-fiction in which the protagonist answers a question about why he has never traveled back and killed Hitler, by pointing out that Hitler existed at a historical cusp at which the timeline narrowed to just two choices, Adolf Hitler or Günter Schaller... and Schaller was worse, because Schaller was competent.(My co-author on Agency took the same scenario and ran a different direction with it. In his version, Hitler came to power as a result of attempts to retroactively prevent a bloody revolt in Germany, which went wrong, and the subsequent attempts to try to fix that...
"The Holocaust was the point at which we realized that we weren't helping.")