Any reliance on Palantir is an overreliance on Palantir.
"Pentagon Investigators Say Overreliance on Palantir AI Tech Contributed to U.S. Strike That Killed 123 Iranian Children"
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Some users expected Maven to flag stale records or contradictions in the intelligence assembled for potential targets, though it is not clear why they thought the system would do that. The Minab [elementary school] site...came out as a recommended day-one target. Target-list work that once took hours was condensed into minutes....Staffing on civilian harm mitigation teams across the U.S. Department of Defense had also fallen by roughly 90% over recent years....The U.S. Central Command's group shrank from 10 people to one. No member of those teams reviewed the Minab site before the missiles were up in the air.
—2026 Bloomberg Palantir investigation](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kuzu6nt5i562hajk4532a76t/bafkreicv44i6zuzyy5gpdreiy3l2v3ziebxklnrvrui5wzgvhv3zbcnsze)
Jon Ippolito
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How does tech empower and frustrate creators—writers, programmers, media makers—and how do we keep their work alive in the long run? UMaine Professor of New Media, Director of Digital Curation; former Guggenheim Curator of Media Art jonippolito.net
