https://magnus919.com/tags/algorithmicwarfare/Recent content in AlgorithmicWarfare on Notes from the Rabbit HoleHugoen© [Magnus Hedemark](https://github.com/magnus919)Thu, 17 Apr 2025 10:15:02 -0400https://magnus919.com/2025/04/the-silicon-panopticon-palantirs-militarization-of-ai-and-the-erosion-of-digital-liberty/Thu, 17 Apr 2025 10:15:02 -0400https://magnus919.com/2025/04/the-silicon-panopticon-palantirs-militarization-of-ai-and-the-erosion-of-digital-liberty/<h1 id="the-silicon-panopticon-palantirs-militarization-of-ai-and-the-erosion-of-digital-liberty">The Silicon Panopticon: Palantir&rsquo;s Militarization of AI and the Erosion of Digital Liberty</h1> <p>In the dystopian fiction many of us grew up reading, surveillance states weren&rsquo;t built by governments alone—they were constructed through public-private partnerships with corporations eager to profit from omniscience. Today, that fiction has materialized in the form of Palantir Technologies, a company whose very name—drawn from the corrupting &ldquo;seeing stones&rdquo; of Tolkien&rsquo;s Middle Earth—betrays its function: to watch, to know, and to enable action based on that knowledge.</p>