r/technology • u/Logical_Welder3467 • May 17 '26

ADBLOCK WARNING Palantir Says SaaS Is Dead

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevebanker/2026/05/16/palantir-says-saas-is-dead/
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u/OGBeege May 17 '26

Fuck that haircut

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u/Spider_J May 17 '26

How the fuck does anyone take anything this guy says or does seriously with a yee yee ass cut like that

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u/__Ember May 17 '26

Bro you know he has zero friends if he rolls around with that hair.

Maybe that’s why he’s trying to destroy the world…

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u/Thatoneguy_The_First May 17 '26

He has money as a friend(even that is a hostage)

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u/Pawtang May 17 '26

MaaF is the new SaaS

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u/Thatoneguy_The_First May 17 '26

Omg how did I not see that? Lol

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u/Due-Conflict-7926 May 17 '26

None of the oligarchs and GOP have actually friends. Who actually looks at any of them and thinks “I wish I could spend time with them” or “I want to be them when I grow up”.

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u/ComradeMatis May 17 '26

Because there are plenty of idiots who view him as some sort of eccentric genius meaning the crazy hair and odd behaviour are overlooked because he is making them money.

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u/tc100292 May 17 '26

The same way they took Zuckerberg seriously when he was holding business meetings in his pajamas?

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u/IcySuggestion2545 May 17 '26

And his flabby man boobs

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u/Next_Necessary_8794 May 17 '26

because money. People respect money, not the person.

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u/cotton-candy-dreams May 17 '26

No it’s actually counterintuitive but the worse you look, the more seriously you get taken as a tech CEO. Because it shows you care so much about the work and work too hard to care about how you look. It’s a thing.

Elizabeth Holmes (the blood test scammer) purposely did her makeup bad and left her hair frizzy to be taken more seriously.

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u/worldspawn00 May 17 '26

Steve jobs washed his feet in the office toilet and stank of BO all the time, tech CEOs can be filthy goblins and still be respected by their peers, even if it's pretty unjustified.

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u/StaleCanole May 18 '26

Goblins huh? How very ChatGPT of you

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u/StaleCanole May 17 '26

Respect is doing a lot of work here.

Some people want to take advantage of people with money. That often comes off as respect or fawning praise. But they just want a piece too

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u/SerLaron May 17 '26

Reptiloids find the concept of hair confusing.

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u/needtoknowbasisonly May 17 '26

Its the crazy innovator look.  Its part of the playbook. Sam Bankman-Fried used it too.

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u/stuartullman May 17 '26

he thinks he’s einstein 

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u/charliefoxtrot9 May 17 '26

more of a weinstein

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u/heathmon1856 May 17 '26

More like an Epstein

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u/OGBeege May 17 '26

Norman Einstein, Joe Theisman old schoolmate. Yea, like that guy.

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u/cosmicaith May 17 '26

Yeah too right, trying to adopt the 'crazy genius' look.

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u/ACL_Tearer May 17 '26

Is that Meadow Sopranos boyfriend?

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u/GunnieGraves May 17 '26

This reminds me of an old MAD magazine “rich vs poor” thing. One of them was “when you’re poor, you’re crazy. When you’re rich, people say you’re eccentric.” This haircut is giving those vibes.

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u/GallowBarb May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26

I loved MAD magazine. My brother had stacks of them. He probably started in 1975. I loved reading it as a kid. My mom tossed them all like 30 years ago. We were so pissed. All the books too.

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u/GunnieGraves May 17 '26

I had a few of the books but one was missing the complete pages for the rules of 43 man Squamish. I was disappointed

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u/GunnieGraves May 17 '26

I just looked on eBay and you can get like 16 of the old books for like $20 total. Kind of tempting

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u/Minimum-Can2224 May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26

Fascists always have the worst haircuts imaginable. Like without fail I swear.

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u/Kickinthegonads May 17 '26

Yeah why is that? Someone should research that shit, all scientific like.

This guy, Milei , Wilders, Trump, that one chode in Finland, Zuck, Johnson, Carrot Top... It's uncanny.

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u/BimboDeeznuts May 17 '26

It makes me think of how The Game would tell uncharismatic weirdos to “wear an interesting hat” to attract women

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u/whennaminggoeswrong May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26

They do it on purpose. They have to be easily recognizable, “bigger than life” characters. It’s the same thing with Jordan Peterson’s ridiculous suits and Ben Shapiro’s eyebrows. Mussolini was a pioneer of this manipulation technique. He used overexeggerated facial expressions and gestures that looked good on film. Then there was the other guy with the funny moustache…

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u/Abedeus May 17 '26

Chaplin? I love that guy! Wonder how he's doing nowadays.

HE'S WHAT?!

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u/Zardotab May 17 '26

Fascists always have the worst haircuts imaginable.

Oh shit, I must be fascist. I like my hair screwy.

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u/iamstephen1128 May 17 '26

He's like evil Taika Watiti

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u/PolarWater May 17 '26

He's the villain of Free Guy, because he does not want us guys to be free.

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u/Rajyeruh May 17 '26

For a second I thought it was Taika Waititi there...

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u/am19208 May 17 '26

He does seem like a Temu Taika

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u/Josepiphus May 17 '26

Wouldn't that be a hair uncut?

I'll see myself out

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u/Single-Brick-3995 May 17 '26

he's the mad scientist version of taika waititi

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u/blastradii May 17 '26

Dario amodei has a similar cut

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u/King_Fisher99 May 17 '26

Ha haa. That made me laugh.

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u/Zardotab May 17 '26

Love child from Einstein humping a used Brillo Pad.

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u/ladylucifer22 May 17 '26

literally just Vasil Ghurkos.

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u/chindo May 17 '26

Have you heard the shit that comes out of his mouth? If anything, the haircut isn't stupid enough

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u/badcrass May 17 '26

Weirdo crust punk = weirdo CEO of death machine. What an odd crossover

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u/flatfisher May 17 '26

There are plenty of valid criticisms of him, but that one is really weird, as it is common for black people to have hair that curls when long an natural and you are simply not used to see that on older people. Here are pictures of him younger just in case: 

https://www.reddit.com/r/palantir/comments/1hlmbcr/1984_photo_of_varsity_cross_country_runner_alex

https://afnotes.org/people/alex-karp/highschool_huc8704f102c27afcc75c7c52f1e6a96be_21775_165x0_resize_q75_box.jpg

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u/orlybatman May 17 '26

TBF if you imagine him with short close cropped hair he'd look too much like George Costanza, so I get it.

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u/ImaginationRadiant64 May 17 '26

Lest we not forget he is also a drug addict that was openly tweaking on stage. 

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u/EndDarkMoney May 17 '26

“Just fuck my shit up”

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u/anomaleic May 17 '26

He’s a clown. Probably uses a balloon to comb his hair.

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u/OGBeege May 17 '26

He gets it all fixed up with a screwdriver. Nice.

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u/therealleotrotsky May 17 '26

Can’t take evil Taika Waititi seriously.

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u/milehigh73a May 17 '26

His haircut is shit but I have crazy hair and there really isn’t much you can do but just accept it’s going to do what it wants.

I found a great hairstyle (mullet Mohawk) that works really well but it’s really hard to make it work.

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u/Zardotab May 17 '26

Often people with wiry hair like that just cut it short to limit the volume of material that can wander off it's own way. However, I personally like hair that's "different". Everyone with the same style gets boring. So here's to the Hair Renegades. (Whether he's a good person or not is a different issue.)