Palantir, the software company cofounded by Peter Thiel, is part of an effort by Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to build a new “mega API” for accessing Internal Revenue Service records, IRS sources tell WIRED.

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    14 days ago

    I’ve never felt better about denying that Palantir internship in 2010. Chances are I would have become a fully embedded psychopath by this point.

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    One change they suggested was to limit the audits performed each year to one. A single person whose name was drawn at random gets an intensive Mega-Audit™

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    13 days ago

    Lobby to get rid of government bureaucracy like Theil so you can have your delivery boy get you the info so you can sell it. Ideal.