So what is this "Steampunk, Inc" company listed as ICE funding recipients?

[cwebber@social.coop]

So what is this "Steampunk, Inc" company listed as ICE funding recipients? https://bsky.app/profile/jacky.wtf/post/3mgdozxzcac2f

Why is a 200X hipster genre of fiction the name of a company that is pulling in *more money than Palantir* from ICE?

They describe themselves as "design intelligence" and "human-centered design" but this can't just be Gestapo UI/UX

Who are these people?

[cwebber@social.coop]

I enjoyed 200X hipster Steampunk fiction I won't lie

It's still strange

[wcbdata@vis.social]

@cwebber From what I can see, and through the connections I share, they're an IT consultancy that focuses on data analysis & visualization, particularly for defense and law enforcement. The people crossover points towards the kind of business I would have avoided working for back when that was my stomping ground... Not quite Palantir-level, but leaning in that direction, it seems.

These firms seem to like ruining good words & literature references.

[cwebber@social.coop]

It gets worse https://bsky.app/profile/vortexegg.com/post/3mgdpqtpdb22p

IT GETS WORSE https://bsky.app/profile/nirebryce.breadthcharge.net/post/3mgdpxupng22u

[jorgecandeias@mastodon.social]

@cwebber Hey, hey, HEY! I *wrote* steampunk.

It was not hipster at all.

(OK, most of it, more insterested in the bubbly Victorian aestethic than in any kind of actual content, or anything "punk", really, was. But that's not the whole of it)