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Palantir CEO admits to shareholders that Palantir is here to 'disrupt', and ‘when it’s necessary to scare enemies and on occasion kill them’! Are all the shareholders happy with that ? Sounds like terrorism ? pic.twitter.com/zKbx6vw2sD
— Andrew Bridgen (@ABridgen) January 10, 2026
“Blood and power intoxicate; they help to develop callousness and debauchery. The mind then becomes capable of the most abnormal cruelty, which it regards pleasure; the man and the citizen are swallowed up in the tyrant; and the return to human dignity, repentance, moral resurrection, becomes almost impossible.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from the House of the Dead, 1862
Mark Skidmore is Professor of Economics at Michigan State University where he holds the Morris Chair in State and Local Government Finance and Policy. His research focuses on topics in public finance, regional economics, and the economics of natural disasters. Mark created the Lighthouse Economics website and blog to share economic research and information relevant for navigating tumultuous times. View more posts
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An apt quote to describe the mindset of the developer of the Lavendar targeting/killing program.