2025/05/05

Ex-Palantir Workers Invoke Tolkien’s ‘Seeing Stones’ to Warn Against Surveillance State

“The myth of the powerful seeing stones warned of great dangers when wielded by those without wisdom or a moral compass, as they could be used to distort truth and present selective visions of reality.”
– Former Palantir employees, drawing parallels between J.R.R. Tolkien’s palantíri and modern surveillance technology in an open letter criticizing the company’s abandonment of ethical principles under the Trump administration.
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