BUZZING· 70%53m·2026-08-13·Arts CulturePart Two: Alex Karp: How Palantir's CEO Went From Marxist To Anti-Woke Crusader
With Palantir now off the ground, Alex Karp turns himself into the spokesman and salesman for Palantir, a company that threatens to destroy everything he pretends to believe in. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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“23:38 This part is absurd, because in the LOTR lore, Saruman (one of the main villains and USER OF THE PALANTIR) uses insider info to escape justice, rebuild his army by secretly profiting off the Shire, and then BURNING THE SHIRE DOWN. The…”
“Tolkien was, by his own description, an anarchist. He'd be horrified by Palintir, and also think that the gross misunderstanding of his writing was at least very ironic.”
“It's so funny that he's all like "I'm such a deviant" and it's actually just that he's poly. Someone call the edgy police”
“17:56 9/11 seems to come up a lot with Palantir. It was a driving force behind Peter Thiel losing his mind. It seems like a certain group of people could not face the realisation that the US was not, as it seemed, untouchable.”
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