{"id":22779,"date":"2026-04-21T10:37:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T08:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/palantir-manifesto-described-as-ramblings-of-a-supervillain-amid-uk-contract-fears\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T10:37:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T08:37:27","slug":"palantir-manifesto-described-as-ramblings-of-a-supervillain-amid-uk-contract-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/palantir-manifesto-described-as-ramblings-of-a-supervillain-amid-uk-contract-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Palantir manifesto described as \u2018ramblings of a supervillain\u2019 amid UK contract fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alarm caused by posts of Alex Karp, tech firm\u2019s CEO, championing US military dominance and of AI weapons<\/p>\n<p>The US spy tech company Palantir published a manifesto extolling the benefits of American power and implying some cultures are inferior to others \u2013 in what MPs have called \u201ca parody of a RoboCop film\u201d and \u201cthe ramblings of a supervillain\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive,\u201d wrote Palantir in a 22-point <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PalantirTech\/status\/2045574398573453312\">post<\/a> on X over the weekend, which also called for an end to the \u201cpostwar neutering\u201d of Germany and Japan.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/apr\/21\/palantir-manifesto-uk-contract-fears-mps\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/11945b2389ec82af12664c304d81bfbae8053806\/68_133_2604_2084\/master\/2604.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=7eb9ffda6e470acad03b0b38160b19fb\" title=\"Palantir manifesto described as \u2018ramblings of a supervillain\u2019 amid UK contract fears\" \/>Alarm caused by posts of Alex Karp, tech firm\u2019s CEO, championing US military dominance and of AI weapons<br \/>\nThe US spy tech company Palantir published a manifesto extolling the benefits of American power and implying some cultures are inferior to others \u2013 in what MPs have called \u201ca parody of a RoboCop film\u201d and \u201cthe ramblings of a supervillain\u201d.<br \/>\n\u201cSome cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive,\u201d wrote Palantir in a 22-point post on X over the weekend, which also called for an end to the \u201cpostwar neutering\u201d of Germany and Japan. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alarm caused by posts of Alex Karp, tech firm\u2019s CEO, championing US military dominance and of AI weapons The US spy tech company Palantir published a manifesto extolling the benefits of American power and implying some cultures are inferior to others \u2013 in what MPs have called \u201ca parody of a RoboCop film\u201d and \u201cthe &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/palantir-manifesto-described-as-ramblings-of-a-supervillain-amid-uk-contract-fears\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Palantir manifesto described as \u2018ramblings of a supervillain\u2019 amid UK contract fears<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22779"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}