No, maybe that wasn’t it. Words precede and surpass me, they tempt and alter me, and if I am not careful it will be too late: things will be said without my having said them. Or, at the very least, that wasn’t the only thing. My entanglement comes from how a carpet is made of so many threads that I can’t resign myself to following just one; my ensnarement comes from how one story is made of many stories. And I can’t even tell them all— a more truthful word could from echo to echo cause my highest glaciers to crumble down the precipice.” - Clarice Lispector

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    Palantir hasn’t altered its behaviour in the face of such criticism. Peter Thiel, the firm’s Trump-supporting co-founder, talks enthusiastically of melding technological progress with nationalist politics. Alex Karp, Thiel’s business partner and classmate at Stanford, who has a PhD in social theory from the Goethe University Frankfurt, has joked about using a drone to spray sceptical market analysts with ‘light fentanyl-based urine’. In April, a 22-point manifesto by Karp heralding the dawn of AI-enabled US military supremacy was posted on Palantir’s X account. As the company’s founders embrace Trump’s increasingly authoritarian second term, its market capitalisation has risen to $320 billion, 150 times earnings. The Economist has speculated that ‘Palantir might be the most overvalued firm of all time.’