I expect this to be flagged, and rightly so, it's kind of off topic here, but man, the dehumanization is in full effect, isn't it? Sliding down this particular slippery slope awful fast.
on one hand its off topic, on the other hand does it do any of us any favors to close our eyes to this? Lots of tech is ultimately involved in this and when people here talk about 'acing that palantir interview' it should be known that they are, directly or indirectly, involved in this.
I'm not opposed to these stories surfacing in the zeitgeist, I think that's important. You're right though, we try to compartmentalize tech from all this crap when it has become intimately linked.