Tim Miller

You mentioned the pushback to the time strike.

What is the truth, do you think?

Or what do we know, I guess, about what Palantir is doing with the Trump administration as far as the database work is concerned?

Well, what they said is it's just to improve government efficiency, which, again, I mean, I never thought of.

Obama did that.

So did Mussolini.

You know, so it's like hard to know what you're talking about.

And I don't recall Donald Trump running on a platform in 2024 of making the government more efficient.

That was not that was not part of the the agenda, as I recall.

Yeah, that is what Palantir says.

It says the work they're doing is completely misunderstood and misrepresented.

But, you know, as you know, there were people who work in government, work with very sensitive data, people who lost their jobs under Doge, who said, look, this information wasn't kept segregated because we wanted the government to operate less efficiently.

It was because it was understood better.

going back forever, that couldn't always count on having trustworthy people in power.

And merging this information, making it easier for bad actors to get a hold of information they shouldn't have to do nefarious things.

The idea was we should make that as difficult as possible.

And that's why so much of this information was siloed.

I think the bigger concern here, from my point of view, and I think from many other people,

is what's going on with ice because it does seem that ice is building out a surveillance apparatus palantir is integral to that it's it's it's software is foundational to the work that ice is doing right now and you know the argument is very simple you know what's being directed at one segment of the population right now could very easily be directed at others and in fact as as you mentioned before you know isis is scraping social media and

Apparently, one of the things it's doing is it's monitoring critics of ICE.