drone party (partiful/palantir)
WE DON'T USE PARTIFUL:
ON SURVEILLANCE TECH, DISABILITY (IN)JUSTICE,
& HOW WAR CRIMES FUNDED A PARTY APP
alt text: block caps of the "WE DON'T USE PARTIFUL" text above
| 1. the gist |
| 2. tell yr friends |
| 3. insta images + text |
| 4. longer follow-up (+ patents) |
the gist:
the cofounders of PARTIFUL worked for Thiel's most murderous baby, PALANTIR.
alt text: 8 partiful employees, lookin cute around their o.g. logo; i've stamped PALANTIR across half their faces, cuz literally *half* the people in this lil core-employee photo worked there, insane
they've hired more palantir ppl, too! in 1 small company, palantir alum include partiful's CEO, CTO, head of business & product ops, founding engineer, & at least 2 product engineers (if they've removed palantir from work history, backed up here). the CEO has also lied about how long she worked at palantir –– either in interviews & on linkedin, where she says 2014-2018, or in her 2020 political donations, which ID her as a palantir "analyst."
alt text: right side of image is my all caps: "YES, THE COFOUNDERS OF *THIS* WORKED AT PALANTIR FROM 2014-2018. WITH THAT TRAINING, JUST ASK SNOWDEN OR THE CIA OR IOF: PARTIFUL CAN DEF TRACK YOUR SEXY GUESTS!!!" the "this" i'm referring to is left side screenshot of partiful's (now-former) homepage; i'd say key vibe points are purple-y background, "INSPO" link, pic of phone with partiful guests dropping emojis & talking about "beliebers," stylized text reading, "Highkey parties, lowkey planning; the sexiest way to get all your guests on the same page (literally)," & bright orange "CREATE YOUR PARTY PAGE" button.
why do we care? bc
PALANTIR = BAD.
learn more:
"How US Intelligence & an American Company Feed Israel’s Killing Machine in Gaza" (The Intercept) + "Cambridge Analytica is bad, but Palantir is fucking terrifying" (The Outline) + "Thiel’s Palantir Used to Bust Migrant Children’s Relatives" (The Intercept) + "War On Immigrants: Powered By Palantir" (#NoTechForICE) + "Palantir filed to go public. The firm's unethical technology should horrify us" (The Guardian) + "Palantir, the secretive company coming for all your data" (Vox) "Palantir has secretly been using New Orleans to test its predictive policing technology" (The Verge)
(if paywalled, check tinyurl.com/droneparty!)
alt text: screenshot of a million palantir headlines with block text saying "PALANTIR: BAD" layered over top. if you search "image 5" down the page, i've got all the headlines written out in the insta section, now with links! side note: the font i use in all of these is the all caps bebas neue pro; it's a tall narrow sans serif that's used a LOT online, probably cuz you can fit lots of text & still be legible, but it's kind of coded as like... is "millennial" too brutal?? tho i def am??? it's not cartoonish like comic sans or anything, it's just a little played out; when you use it to say more than 2 words, the way i do, it can read as urgent and/or earnest (which i also am), rather than Cool or Chill or Sexy Gest.
PARTIFUL leveraged their PALANTIR past into CASH––piles of it from Andreessen-Horowitz.
(yes THIS andreessen, or THIS or THIS)
screenshot from the atlantic:
no need 2 hide palantir past from party girls!!!
alt text: screenshot of atlantic article: "She [Partiful's CEO] wouldn't name the investors who contributed the company's $7.4 million of seed funding, but Partiful has since closed a $20 million Series A round, led by the famous venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Partiful is led by several women, including Murthy and her co-founder Joy Tao, who formerly worked at Palantir, the super-secretive data-analytics company co-founded by the far-right billionaire Peter Thiel (a fact that didn't appear in the New York Times story). When I asked Murthy about this, she said it's not something she and her team hide, because it appears on their public LinkedIn profiles: 'It tends to not be a focus, since enterprise-data-analytics software is pretty far from parties.'"
israel debilitates via guns & bombs & borders, but also w/ help from amerikkkan PALANTIR's predictive policing; PARTIFUL made millions from this war machine's alum club.
to me, that's reason enough to ask PARTIFUL to clarify their stance on genocide & to require accessibility info for events on their platform––a tiny gesture for the millions disabled by PALANTIR's terror-reach.
(tee-hee!)
alt text: screenshot of partiful's ceo quote-tweeting some person (@lmushin) saying "Palantir's mafia is so good that even Partiful was started by an alum." partiful ceo follow-up says, "me talking to VCs: I used to work at Palantir." me talking to candidates: "I used to work at a large tech company."
aside from that... why does a16z want PARTIFUL to know who's going to yr parties? idk :/ creepy af
p.s. they think we're idiots
after 9 months of ignoring your tagging them in story shares, partiful's CEO responded to someone about this on twitter: "hey! definitely *not* funded by Palantir if that's what you mean. and never worked on the government business there anyway. left for good reasons and happy to be working on something more values-aligned now. hope this helps." *one week* later, palantir posted about an upcoming "fireside chat" featuring palantir's chief architect in conversation with partiful ceo shreya murthy & 3 other palantir alum... including a link to the fucking PARTIFUL for the "PALANTIR TALENT MAFIA" event. this was october 2024––a full year after the full-page "PALANTIR STANDS WITH ISRAEL" new york times ad.
"values-aligned"... k
alt text: screenshot of @PalantirTech tweet: "Join Palantir Chief Architect Akshay Krishnaswamy (@hyperindexed) and company alumni for a fireside chat with @southpkcommons. On the agenda: how Palantir's renowned entrepreneurial environment empowered these founders to build their own ventures, what they're working on now, and what's next for the future of tech," followed by a partiful link. image shows 5 people––current palantir chief architect, partiful's ceo, & 3 other palantir alumni––with the text "SPC x Talent Mafias: Palantir." across the bottom are 4 logos; Palantir & Partiful bookend the image.
tell yr friends:
• shortcut to this page:
bit.ly/droneparty
• this page:
nyc-noise.com/drone-party
• dear partiful + PDF folder: tinyurl.com/droneparty
(tinyurl has most docs i reference, palantir alum linkedins, donor records, & some articles on palantir in case you hit paywalls!)
• fully alt text'd insta post version
(i know i know, telling people about surveillance using cop apps = a bummer––but this is where we are, cuz their monopolies are so brutal that lots of people can only access internet thru meta & google... let's not help another creepy tech company dominate the market without telling us who tf they are!!!)
not sharing everything i’ve *heard,* but plz continue to email me any gossip, contacts, links, & leads, subject “DRONE PARTY”... appreciate reporters who have reached out, will try to get back to folks soon; it's helpful to know a pitch or angle!
insta post images + text
+ IMAGES BELOW,
FULL TEXT BELOW THAT
(sorry 4 clunky!!! if i had $20mil i promise it would look *real* nice)
image 1 alt text: WE DON'T USE PARTIFUL: ON SURVEILLANCE TECH, DISABILITY (IN)JUSTICE, & HOW WAR CRIMES FUNDED A PARTY APP
image 2 alt text: I CALL PARTIFUL “DRONE PARTY" CUZ THE COFOUNDERS OF THE "PARTIES FOR HOT PEOPLE” APP WORKED FOR, & STILL GET MONEY FROM, THIEL'S MOST MURDEROUS BABY, PALANTIR
image 3 alt text: "IF YOU’VE NEVER HEARD THESE NAMES, PALANTIR IS WORTH A SEARCH; THINK NSA SPY SHIT, EVIL IN ISRAEL, ICE / DEPORTATIONS, "PREDICTIVE POLICING." THE "PALUMNI” VC FIRM FUNDS FORMER PALANTIR EMPLOYEE STARTUPS –– LIKE EVENT INVITE / SOCIALS PLATFORM PARTIFUL." note: my 2 obscenities in these are censored with asterisks (e.g., "sh*t") in the actual images, just cuz insta's algos are bitches...
image 4 alt text, left: shows a screenshot of partiful's homepage: purple-y background, "INSPO" link next to login, picture of phone screenshowing someone's partiful event page talking about "beliebers." main partiful screenshot text is "Highkey parties, lowkey planning; the sexiest way to get all your guests on the same page (literally)"
image 4 alt text, right: YES, THE COFOUNDERS OF *THIS* WORKED AT PALANTIR FROM 2014-2018; WITH THAT TRAINING, JUST ASK SNOWDEN OR THE CIA OR IOF: PARTIFUL CAN DEF TRACK YOUR SEXY GUESTS!!!
image 5 alt text: a bunch of screenshots of palantir headlines, with “PALANTIR: BAD” in angled block letters over them. the mostly & fully-visible headlines & subheadings read:
• “CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA IS BAD, BUT PALANTIR IS FUCKING TERRIFYING. With its vehicle tracking software, the company Peter Thiel co-founded knows you ran that headlight” (note: not written on slide, but this one’s prolly my favorite lol)
• “PALANTIR ENABLES IMMIGRATION AGENTS TO ACCESS INFORMATION FROM THE CIA. According to a set of funding documents, ICE agents can use a Palantir system to access data held by agencies that possess highly classified intelligence, including the CIA.”
• “PETER THIEL’S PALANTIR WAS USED TO BUST RELATIVES OF MIGRANT CHILDREN, NEW DOCUMENTS SHOW. Palantir previously claimed its software was strictly involved in criminal investigations as opposed to deportations. This was false.”
• “Palantir: the 'special ops' tech giant that wields as much real-world power as Google. Peter Thiel's CIA-backed, data-mining firm honed its 'crime predicting' techniques against insurgents in Iraq. The same methods are now being sold to police departments. Will they inflame already tense relations between the public and the police?”
• “Israel-linked CIA-funded Palantir goes public, making espionage mainstream. The firm is closely linked to the CIA and Israel, while standing accused of multiple counts of human rights violations.”
• “Palantir's CEO Finally Admits to Helping ICE Deport Undocumented Immigrants. Palantir has tried to downplay its role in ICE's detainment and deportation of immigrants for years, but Alex Karp said the quiet part loud at Davos.”
• “Palantir powers Ice immigration raids, the defense sector and police surveillance. It is the big tobacco of the tech world” (note: okay yeah that’s another pretty harsh burn)
image 6 alt text: PALANTIR'S SURVEILLANCE TECH FUELS DEBILITY: THE SYSTEMIC PROCESS OF UNEVENLY-DELIVERED INJURY & BODILY EXCLUSION. ISRAEL DEBILITATES VIA GUNS & BOMBS & BORDERS (& MORE), IMPAIRING MOBILITY THROUGH CHECKPOINTS & BLOWN LIMBS, & THE HELP OF AMERIKKKAN PALANTIR'S "PREDICTIVE" POLICING, MAPPING SOCIAL MEDIA + NETWORKS TO CENSOR & DETAIN. PARTIFUL MADE MILLIONS FROM THIS WAR MACHINE'S ALUM CLUB: *BRUTAL*
image 7 alt text: I TOO LIVE IN A WAR MACHINE & KNOW THE STRUGGLE TO ATONE; I WISH PARTIFUL LUCK EARNING OUR PATRONAGE! MY IDEAS:
• CLARIFY STANCE ON GENOCIDE AS PALANTIR INCREASES SUPPORT TO ISRAEL
• *REQUIRE* ACCESS INFO AS TINIEST GESTURE FOR THE *MILLIONS* DISABLED BY PALANTIR'S TERROR-REACH
THE LEAST U CAN DO IS TELL PEOPLE IF THEY *COULD* ENTER THE PARTY –– IF IT WEREN'T BEING HELD ON THEIR NECKS!
image 8 alt text, left shows weirdly ad-copy-vibe headlines & subheadings about partiful; the atlantic’s reads “The Internet, but for Hot People”; the new york times, “Is This the Least Cringe Option to Get People to Your Party?” & the washington post, “Partiful wants Gen Z to move in a new social direction this New Year’s Eve”
image 8 alt text, right: OF COURSE WITH FREE ADVERTISING LIKE THIS, MAYBE NO ONE WILL MIND IF PARTIFUL JUST KEEPS USING THEIR *MILLIONS* TO TALK "VIBES" & “INSPO" & ~CHIPOTLE GIVEAWAYS~ ... BUT MY HOPE IS THE YOUTH WON’T FORGIVE THE WAR SPOILS
image 9 alt text: IF YOU'RE READING THIS ON THE COP APP (INSTA), YOU ALREADY HAVE ENOUGH SURVEILLANCE TECH. IF YOU’VE SEEN / SENT PARTIFUL INVITES, TELL YOUR FRIENDS: PARTIFUL / PALANTIR = COP SHIT …& WE DON'T GIVE OUR NUMBERS TO COPS!!!
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longer follow-up (+ patents)
TL;DR for the “apolitical”: partiful will be widely considered cringe af soon enough; quit now & lord it over yr friends forever 🥰
LONGER TAKEAWAY: i get that we’re all v tired & u don’t wanna wait 10 months for a new mobile-friendly platform bc your Important Party is soon –– but there’s a possible timeline that has drone party as ubiquitous as meta (links to compare series A funding), palantir’s ceo bragging about their integral role in gaza’s incineration, andreessen horowitz picking every president, & you in the streets protesting these f*ckin people…
so if u wanna use partiful so bad, make them TELL YOU that they think palantir’s f*cked, or communicate ANY real positions!!! y’all have been tagging them in stories sharing this post for the last 1.5 weeks [update: shared 2200x in 5 months, & u cheeky mfs tagged them a *lot* :')] [4.2k shares as of january '25], & all i’ve seen them say back is that they’re having a great time celebrating mardi gras ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ u don’t need to help the hella money'd spy tech co corner a market without asking a few questions!!
other things:
1) at least *6* partiful people are former palantir employees –– partiful's CEO, CTO,* head of business & product operations, founding engineer, & 2 product engineers (if anyone removes palantir from their work history, u can email me for pdf of older version) –– & that's out of only ~20 employees total, & just using public linkedins. i still don’t wanna get in the weeds about individual employees (paying rent is hard), but it’s not like, a ~fluke~
*CTO is credited as an inventor on a number of palantir patents (literally building tools for the aggregation, analysis, & presentation of data for a company that helps the CIA, cops, & state of israel round up, deport, & kill civilians... BUMMER!!!), like...
System for data aggregation and analysis of data from a plurality of data source
[related: Publication number: 20210406045 (2021), Patent number: 11150917 (2016), Publication number: 20170060651 (2016)] ––––––––––– "The present application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 15/235,558, filed Aug. 12, 2016 entitled “System for data aggregation and analysis of data from a plurality of data sources,” which claims benefit of priority to U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 62/210,296, filed Aug. 26, 2015. The disclosures of each of the aforementioned applications are incorporated herein in their entirety for all purposes."
Patent number: 11934847
Abstract: An interactive user interface for receiving and displaying data is described. ... Received data sets may be compiled to form an interactive graphical unit, also called a 'card' ... Cards may be grouped with other cards ...
Type: Grant
Filed: September 14, 2021
Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
Assignee: Palantir Technologies Inc.
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Systems and methods for retrieving and processing data for display
[related: Publication number 20230394054 (2022), Patent number: 11354327 (2020), Publication number: 20200334236 (2020), Patent number: 10740344 (2019), Publication number: 20200159725 (2019), Patent number: 10552436 (2017), Publication number: 20180181629 (2017)] –––––––––– "This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 16/919951, filed Jul. 2, 2020, and titled “Systems and Method for Retrieving and Processing Data for Display,” which application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 16/720813, filed Dec. 19, 2019, and titled “Systems and Method for Retrieving and Processing Data for Display,” which application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 15/852515, filed Dec. 22, 2017, and titled “Systems and Methods for Retrieving and Processing Data for Display,” which application claims benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 62/439793, filed Dec. 28, 2016, and titled “Systems and Methods for Retrieving and Processing Data for Display,” which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety."
Patent number: 11775542
Abstract: A system and method for processing data wherein one or more user selections of source data and an input defining one or more operations to be performed on the selected source data are received to generate processed data for display as a chart ...
Type: Grant
Filed: May 5, 2022
Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
Assignee: Palantir Technologies Inc.
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Systems and methods for attribute analysis of one or more databases
[related: Publication number: 20220164371 (2021), Patent number: 11106701 (2018), Publication number: 20190065578 (2018), Patent number: 10114884 (2016)] ––––––––– "This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 16/172,616 entitled “Systems and Methods for Attribute Analysis of One or More Databases” filed Oct. 26, 2018, which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 15/077,650 entitled “Systems and Methods for Attribute Analysis of One or More Databases” filed Mar. 22, 2016, now U.S. Pat. No. 10,114,884 issued Oct. 30, 2018, which claims benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 62/268,425 entitled “Systems and Methods for Attribute Analysis of One or More Databases” filed Dec. 16, 2015. Each of these applications are hereby incorporated by reference herein in their entireties."
Patent number: 11580137
Abstract: Systems and techniques for indexing and/or querying a database are described herein. Multiple, large disparate data sources may be processed to cleanse and/or combine item data and/or item metadata. Further, attributes may be extracted from the item data sources. The interactive user interfaces allow a user to select one or more attributes and/or other parameters to present visualizations based on the processed data.
Type: Grant
Filed: August 27, 2021
Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
Assignee: Palantir Technologies Inc.
1b) no, they did *not* all work there at the same time –– unless partiful’s cofounders are lying about how long they worked for palantir. tho relatedly…
2) partiful's CEO made bb donations to political candidates in october 2020 that ID her as an "analyst" for palantir technologies; you can see those here or by searching her name at <opensecrets.org/donor-lookup>. [heavy-handed clarification bc idk if ppl got this:] partiful's ceo tells *us* she quit working for palantir in 2018 –– but in october of 2020, *she* said she worked for palantir on three donations.
3) if u think “all tech is compromised by evil money” then sweethearts while i agree there are lots of baddies out there & it’s a hard time to be alive, it is simply not true that every party app is ex-palantir co-founded, recruiting additional ex-palantir employees, & getting millions of dollars from palantir partners / alum while palantir takes out full-page pro-israel ads in the new york times during an ongoing genocide. the situation is in fact... ~unique.~
4) thing i’m *not* saying = "partiful is DEF misusing your data” (...not yet lol). i AM saying this is a GREAT time to exert pressure on companies if they want your business; make them earn it!!!! ...& if they fail, chase them outta town!!!
5) partiful has offices in nyc & los angeles rn, but they’re hiring “party evangelists” (lol ew) in boston, chicago, & london (<jobs.lever.co>), & they have PILES OF CASH; again not tryina judge individual workers (i, too, would love to know how i’m gonna pay rent next month), but since these ppl are coming for yr scene soon enough… why help them with rollout for free?? resist adopting the platform & maybe down the line they will help pay your rent before fading into irrelevance!!
6) re: the “palumni” vc firm, their (unpaid, lol) internship job ad says “Yes, you will spend a lot of time on Partiful.” again that is… all i’m saying
7) you can look stuff up about partiful's latest $20 million in a series A round led by andreessen horowitz aka a16z –– & learn more about andreessen's quaint views in janus rose's vice article, "Major Tech Investor Andreessen Calls Architect of Fascism a 'Saint' in Unhinged Manifesto" –– but they aren’t saying where they got the first $7.4 million. aren’t you CURIOUS???? i am, personally, v curious
okay these are original images w/ full text beneath, sorry this is clunky!!!, just a workaround for now... (if i had $20 million i can promise u it would look *real* nice)
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timeline:
2024-01-25 –– initial post here (on @nyc_noise). i try to put stuff on site before (/mostly *instead of*) cop app, just still working out blog stuffs on new site!! relatedly, big thnx again to GREG & recurse pals, who made nyc noise way better & are not to blame for stuff i say!!!
2024-02-05 –– most of longer update
2024-07-24 –– if u can't access something linked, i've prolly added it to this folder, shortcut link = tinyurl.com/droneparty
2024-10-13 –– this has been getting traction again lately, so i finally added a big ~mobile friendly~ overview 2 top, plus shortcut!
2025-01-04 –– ditto but cleaned it up & added a table of contents, plus the p.s. about this palantir mafia business; also added patents in early january