SAURON, INCORPORATED: A Corporate History of Palantir - Part 2: CEO Alex Karp, or Evil Genius Adult-Baby Demands New Cold War

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ERRATA:

I said "Nicholas Drake" when I meant "Thomas A. Drake" the pre-Snowden NSA whistleblower who condemned Stellar Winds (I said "Solar Winds") and the Trailblazer Project as unconstitutional.

REFERENCES

• The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West by Nicholas W. Zamiska and Alexander C. Karp

• The Philosopher in the Valley: Alex Karp, Palantir, and the Rise of the Surveillance State by Michael Steinberger

• The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power by Max Chafkin

• Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice by Virginia Roberts Giuffre

• The Collapse of Complex Societies: New Studies in Archaeology by Joseph A. Tainter

• Total Information Awareness (US Domestic Surveillance Proposal)

• Machines of Loving Grace (Hemlock Podcast Episode)