From the Baffler:
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How Palantir has made corporate orthodoxy out of experimental theater
Palantir Technologies,
the multi-billion-dollar Palo Alto–based data-analysis software company
founded in 2004 with CIA seed money, gives its new employees a reading
list. One assignment is Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11,
which feeds directly into the