At 7:30 a.m. this morning, the bespectacled, 73-year-old Peter Lippman was in a crowd of activists with Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP).
As he walked around the corner from Cascade Playground to Fairview Market, 400 Fairview Ave. N., Lippman explained he was there for the same reason as everyone else marching with him: To ruin Palantir’s day.
Palantir—a data-mining and analysis firm co-founded by tech billionaire Peter Thiel and ironically named for the telephonic Elven scrying crystals Sauron and Sauruman (evil Gandalf, for non-nerds) used for evil ends in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of The Rings—is in the surveillance space.
Shuffling past a Caffe Ladro, Lippman turned down a narrow