







Except I’m not sure how we can “quit Palantir” as private citizens
Palantir posted a manifesto that reads like the ramblings of a comic book villain
Palantir shared 22 points excerpted from CEO Alex Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska's 2025 book, The Technological Republic, and they're troubling.
We translated the Palantir manifesto for actual human beings
What happens when an all-seeing eye looks in the mirror?


The Eye 02: When is sovereignty not sovereign?
As we start to reject reliance on US tech monopolies, Palantir and its allies rush to strip the word "sovereignty" of its meaning

NHS FDP Season Finale: UK Parliament vs Palantir - it's the last days of Isengard.
Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power
They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.

Arnaud Bertrand on Twitter / X
After reflection, this new narrative by Palantir is probably much more consequential than people may assume.Palantir is basically being the canary in the coal mine announcing the death of two major assumptions propping up the US economy right now: 1) that AI labs will be able… https://t.co/oLRdkWe8nL— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) July 3, 2026
Including anything else by OpenAI, but mainly ChatGPT. See also semble.so/profile/aiueo.ooo/collections… and all the Persona-related stuff
* Not so much “quit” as “you probably shouldn’t move to/sign up for” (just following my naming convention in this “series”). To be clear, I think it’s (probably) totally fine that it exists as an option (unless the potential security concerns turn out to be relevant), but personally I would advise against choosing that option based on what I’m learning. I’m sure it’s a good choice for some people, just probably not anyone I know

「とっさに撮影」岩見沢の病院委託職員が患者20人分の個人情報画面をSNS「BeReal.」に投稿 個人情報漏えい

BeReal finds success in 'engaged' Japanese market, says CEO

Japan is giving the “anti-Instagram” app a second chance at life

若者に人気の映えないSNS「BeReal」本当の怖さ 授業中やバイト中でもおかまいなしに撮影

なぜ「BeReal」から漏えいが相次ぐのか “2分以内”の焦りが生む不用意な投稿

職場・学校を映したSNS投稿、ユーザー自身の安全のため停止を。不適切な投稿による情報流出問題が続発 BeRealのほかInstagramなどでも、限定投稿を流出させる“模倣犯”出現の可能性【INTERNET Watch編集部コラム】

Shopify CEO endorses idea to give more votes to wealthy Canadians | CBC News

Microsoft handed the government encryption keys for customer data

The Quiet Decision Microsoft Made That Devastated Thousands of Nonprofits

Once-in-a-generation moment to protect U.S. Privacy - Irish Council for Civil Liberties

ICCL report on the scale of Real-Time Bidding data broadcasts in the U.S. and Europe - Irish Council for Civil Liberties

Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to its New AI Assistant, Internal Documents Reveal

Windows 11 is adding another Copilot button nobody asked for

Rakuten, German startup Helsing test military drones for Japan

German drone maker Helsing enlists Rakuten to broker Japan military deal

楽天が攻撃型ドローン、陸自配備と国産化を推進 独巨大新興と提携

OpenAI's ChatGPT ads will allegedly prioritize sponsored content in answers

ChatGPT's new Computer History tracks your Mac activity to create a timeline - but should you let it?

US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference

GPT-5.6 is deleting user files when given full access, and OpenAI says it shouldn't but did

OpenAI may have made a fatal misstep in copyright fight with news orgs

Apple Is Suing OpenAI for Allegedly Stealing Hardware Secrets
Quit 1Password (by あ) — Semble
Quit Rakuten 楽天 (by あ) — Semble
Quit Shopify (by あ) — Semble
Quit* W Social (by あ) — Semble
Quit BeReal? (by あ) — Semble
Quit Microsoft (by あ) — Semble

W — Trust your feed
Even as @wsocial.eu onboards more and more users, they can’t seem to get them to talk to each other 🤐 This atrocious engagement rate (~9…

W Social is a textbook case for everything wrong with digital sovereignty

Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂ (@elena@aseachange.com)
This is a rough draft of a thought, but my sense of #WSocial is that it is an attempt to enclose the commons. By cultivating the idea that…
I wish the Atmosphere had content warnings (like on the fediverse)... because I'd like to show you the limits of free speech absolutism and…

1Password wades into a right-wing mess after funding a Linux project
Ah well

Import from 1Password | Enpass Help

Import from 1Password | Bitwarden

1Password Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe — Andrew Lilley Brinker