We translated the Palantir manifesto for actual human beings

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. What happens when an all-seeing eye looks in the mirror? What happens when an all-seeing eye looks in the mirror? Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Palantir CEO Alex Karp is a man in charge of one of the most important and frightening companies in the world. Karp’s new book, cowritten with Nicholas Zamiska, is called The Technological Republic. After claiming “because we get asked a lot,” Palantir posted a 22-point summary of the book that reads like a corporate manifesto. It evokes both weird reactionary shit and also trilby-wearing Reddit comments from the early 2010s. Palantir’s summary of the book is ominous. But even the company’s name is unironically ominous. The palantíri are crystal balls in The Lord of the Rings that let Middle-earth’s worst tyrants spy on the heroes of the story. It’s a fun reference if you have no shame about your company’s mission. We’ve attempted to translate these 22 points from Alex Karp’s alien words into something more reas

Apr 21, 2026 → May 1, 2026