Peter Thiel Shows Trump How To Sort Spreadsheet Of Americans By Ethnicity
theonion.com
WASHINGTON—Stressing that it would be simplest to troubleshoot now during the onboarding process for his company’s surveillance technology, Palantir founder Peter Thiel reportedly spent Tuesday morning showing President Donald Trump how to sort a spreadsheet of Americans by ethnicity. “So what’s neat is that you can just do command-shift-E and rank every single resident from […]

Stressing that it would be simplest to troubleshoot now during the onboarding process for his company’s surveillance technology, Palantir founder Peter Thiel reportedly spent Tuesday morning showing President Donald Trump how to sort a spreadsheet of Americans by ethnicity. “So what’s neat is that you can just do command-shift-E and rank every single resident from whitest to least,” said the billionaire libertarian, leaning over the commander-in-chief’s shoulder and demonstrating how simple it was to use a drop-down menu to search for undesirable ethnic characteristics among the more than 340 million names on display. […]

  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Pardon the link to x/twitter, but this clip of Thiel is amazing: https://x.com/jasonwblakely/status/1938639600907612610

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    Watch Ross Douthat realize for a moment in real time that he’s spent a decade making ideological bedfellows with a techno-futurist, fascist Right that wants to see the birth of a “machine god” & is in no way enthusiastic about the survival of the human race in universal terms.

    The magical moment… Thiel hesitates for a significant amount of time when asked if he wants the human race to endure, then bullshits.

    Thanks to this comment for bringing it to my attention.