I’m going to wheatpaste this article to telephone poles until everyone reads it

March 27, 2026 - 02:28 UTC

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Yet AGAIN: Palantir.

This company, its owner: Thiel, and CEO Karp are existential threats to the western world.

They are insidiously burrowing into our society: Coles, Bunnings, Westpac, the fucking *government*!

They MUST go.
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"A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision" is a well-known, albeit hard-to-verify, phrase originating from an internal IBM management training manual
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Wow...
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Here is a link to the article as the original post has been deleted.
www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying
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"People failed to update a database, and other people built a system fast enough to make that failure lethal." Bottom line is that technology does not absolve people/decision makers of responsibility.
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The foundational assumption that the data is always accurate seems like a pretty serious flaw.
“go fast & break things” means missing the target completely or killing the wrong people.
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I’m not so sure it was AI. By killing all those young girls, entire bloodlines were destroyed. Feels on purpose to me.
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I mean the many real humans here are not being held accountable, is the thing
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So good. So distressing.
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Honestly an exceptionally lucid piece of journalism, jesus
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SO GOOD
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yeah I incandescently loved the relentlessly clarity of its writing. reminded me of Langewiesche
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The core premise is flawed. Maven isn’t a competing AI model; it’s the integration platform that actually hosted Claude. Treating them as mutually exclusive is a fatal technical error.

I wish Kevin had consulted someone with direct subject matter expertise given the gravity of the subject.
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Thank you
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Thank you! Glad somebody said it!

"Someone decided to compress the kill chain. Someone decided that deliberation was latency. Someone decided to build a system that produces 1,000 targeting decisions an hour and call them high-quality. "
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thank you for flagging, I'd honestly ignored it based on the headline. now i have like 8 books to go read.
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Okay fine I finally did it.
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Let's gooooooo
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Ooh I need this
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Wow, this is powerful reporting. A sharp point about what the "banality of evil" looks like these days - agile software development processes repurposed to make it easy as possible to kill other humans.
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Goddammit
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