[bubblethink]

>I don't know how you could see "mongoDB" and not think it is tech

Depends on the age. MongoDB may not have been such a common name back when the tshirt came out. I have a couple of Palantir t-shirts (american apparel, 100% cotton I think) that have held up over a decade and are really comfortable. One of them says, "Save the shire" and Palantir. I don't think people would have known that it's a tech tshirt back then.

[mulmen]

Everything about that organization offends me. They took their name from a series of books they apparently never read.

How is Palantir supposed to save the shire? By trampling the rights of the Hobbits in addition to destroying their environment?

The Palantir show a narrow view of events and lead to their users to ruin. It’s like they read the cautionary tale as an instruction manual.

They chose an accurate name for what their product does, but I can’t understand how a person with that clarity of thought would decide to actually make one.

[dbt00]

Palantir is a Quenya word meaning far-seeing. The last successful king of Numenor was Tar-Palantir for example.

The palantiri were corrupted by Sauron and limited to only show things that he wanted you to see. This was extremely well known inside Palantir and was deliberately talked about as something we should all consider the risk of.

The origin story of Palantir was the intelligence failures that led to the 9/11 attacks not being caught. The goal was to prevent the total eradication of civil liberties that would necessarily follow another successful attack of that magnitude.

Palantir’s software was rejected by organizations performing dragnet style mass data collection.

This is the most pointless hn comment I’ll ever leave, but you shouldn’t assume other people are ignorant or acting out of malice.

Also the tshirts were comfy as fuck and extremely well designed.

[mulmen]

I don’t doubt the good intentions. I do question the outcome.

[selimthegrim]

They signed a contract with the city of New Orleans!

[pc86]

This seems unrelated to the comfort and fit of their shirts, but maybe not?

[mulmen]

I have been in the same room as someone wearing a Palantir shirt and I was uncomfortable.