Nick Fountain

There's a lot of ones and zeros in the background.

There's data.

Yes, amazing segue.

My valentine goes out to the journalists at 404 Media for their coverage of immigration and customs enforcement, in particular, the technology that ICE has been using in this past year.

Yeah, they're this newish outlet, pretty small.

They are owned by their reporters, which I think is pretty cool.

Have sort of a retro internet vibe, kind of not unlike Nancy Drew, your new.

Their design choices are not what I want to shout out, though.

It just seems like these folks have been training for this their entire lives.

And because of that, they are firing on all cylinders.

They're tech reporters, largely.

They're tech reporters.

And so what I want to shout out are their scoops, which are many and I am very jealous of.

And do you want to shout out a specific scoop?

Yeah, I mean, it's probably they're reporting on Palantir, the data mining software company, and this app Palantir developed, which seems like it's sort of the Google Maps for ICE.

According to their reporting, it compiles federal data and shows ICE neighborhoods that might be hotspots where lots of non-citizens are suspected to live.

It shows potential targets on maps, and if an agent clicks on one, it'll show a dossier about that target.

By the way, we reached out to Palantir.

They disputed this description of the software.

They said it's a tool used to reconcile address data, data that's not theirs, they wanted to be clear, but their customers.