The banner of dystopian surveillance company Palantir hung above Fenway Park last weekend, lording over the spectacle of some college kids playing football, many more of them watching it, and most all their parents eating $12 burgers or whatever. It was the Secretaries’ Cup, and the United States Coast Guard Academy’s team was playing, and since the Coast Guard is apparently sponsored by dystopian surveillance company Palantir, and the Coast Guard is run by the gubmint, and the gubmint can tell the Red Sox what to do, the banner was there. That’s all there is to it, the team would have you believe.

And yet, it’s… plainly not, even if Red Sox people indeed told OTM Grand Poobah Dan Secatore that the ad was there strictly because the cartoonishly evil surveillance company (my words) led by

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