From Pokémon to Palantir: The Hidden Map of Your Life

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From “Man In America”

Something historic is unfolding in front of our eyes — and it’s not really about a game. For years, 143 million people thought they were just catching Pokémon, but they were helping build one of the largest real‑world visual datasets in history. In this clip from my SUNDAY LIVE WITH SETH show, I walk through how “fun” consumer tech has become the engine for mapping our world with military‑grade precision, and how that hidden data pipeline connects to Palantir and Maven’s AI warfighting system now helping pick targets in Iran. The question is simple: what happens when the same machinery used to find “terrorists” abroad is turned inward on us?

(Here is an interesting video from 9 years ago:)

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