[FRIAM] The whole story about Palantir

[steve smith]

> That said, a lot of the arguments feel like dot-connecting exercises 
> where not all the dots are actually dots. We should watch out for our 
> own blind spots — it’s easy to scream “Big Brother!” when sometimes 
> it’s just a confused uncle with a clipboard.

    "Big Stupid is Watching" - Taylor Meade

And our current crue of "confused Uncles" (and Aunts) are too often 
"Funny Uncles" and "Aunt Lydias" (Handmaid's Tale).  Their intentions 
need not be *bad* for their actions to yield damaging results on their 
vulnerable nieces and nephews.   See RFKjr taking his grandchildren 
swimming in "clear running" yet human-waste-disease-laden water?

glen's caution to "not mistake incompetence for evil" (bad paraphrase?) 
is relevant... but our current (US and elsewhere?) administration uses a 
gloss of "good ole boy" "plain talk" as camoflauge for some much less 
innocent intentions.   I'm not sure if there is a succinct 
contrapositive, but it does seem to be a strategy in some playbooks.


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