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Decent? It was always in plain sight. Palantiri, hello?
People are fucking stupid.
I still have only vague ideas what they even are and do and why they are special. Yeah, marketing, data brokering, spying, PR, social engineering, propaganda, but then how does that differ from Meta and Google.
Werent palantir those shady orbs from LOTR? You know, the backports sauron used to spy on us...
They were a tool for good before they were corrupted, though.
Were they, though?
Ungoliant says, "yes."
Yep: https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Palant%C3%ADri