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@MTWake
Everyone here undrstands those cow collars will eventual develope towards human collars, yeah?
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@TukiFromKLposted on X
🚨 Do you understand what Peter Thiel just funded.. the guy who built Palantir.. military-grade AI surveillance for the Pentagon, the CIA, ICE.. he just led a $2 billion round.. for a cow collar.. Halter.. a New Zealand startup that puts GPS collars on cows and herds them with vibrations and audio cues.. valued at two billion dollars.. they literally call it a "cowgorithm". the man who builds software that tracks humans across borders.. just decided tracking cows across fields is worth the same investment.. lol! cancer research gets defunded.. clean water startups can't close a seed round.. but a cow GPS backed by the guy who killed Gawker gets a $2B valuation.. VCs don't fund what matters anymore.. they fund what sounds good in a deck with "AI" on the cover slide..
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Community Sentiment Analysis
Real-time analysis of public opinion and engagement
Sentiment Distribution
72% Engaged
53% Positive
19% Negative
Positive
53%
Negative
19%
Neutral
28%
Key Takeaways
What the community is saying — both sides
Supporting
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Cow collars are a testbed for human surveillance.
Many replies argue the tech is intentionally transferable — from Palantir-style tracking to “human collars” — and that collars on livestock are just the prototype for monitoring and directing people.
2
Algorithmic nudging replaces fences: the algorithm becomes the cage.
Several voices emphasize that real change isn’t physical restraint but invisible behavioral control: sensors and signals that steer living beings remove the need for walls and create new, softer forms of domination.
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This is about a technocratic data economy and tokenizing everything.
A subset ties the investment to broader agendas — Internet of Bodies, One Health, tokenization of natural assets, Agenda 21/2030 — arguing the goal is to turn ecosystems and humans into monetizable, brokered data streams.
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It’s legitimate agricultural innovation with hard questions.
Some defend Halter as solving labor shortages and improving animal welfare via precision livestock management, while asking who owns the generated data and whether these systems might be repurposed.
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VCs chase returns, not public good.
Several replies frame the $2B deal as plain market logic: investors fund what reproduces capital fastest, even if that means prioritizing collars over clinics — hence the outrage about misplaced priorities (and the jokes about getting wire transfers for cow tech).
Opposing
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Thiel’s investment makes sense
his visa pushes him to back local startups, he has a track record of funding science and health R&D, and he favors bets that combine capital with strategic, long-term influence.
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Halter is not a novelty
the collars are established technology tied to a major export industry — a long-running, practical tool rather than a flash-in-the-pan startup.
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Collars create defensible data moats
like a rural Apple Watch, they capture proprietary signals and enable repeatable, real-world outcomes — the kind of tangible data advantage investors like Thiel favor over surface-level consumer apps.
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Concrete public-safety impact
“cows on the highway” is a frequent 911 issue; emergency services already track owners and mobilize for these events, so collars can meaningfully cut incident load and response friction.
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VC focus is skewed
many VCs chase leverage and quick multiples instead of infrastructure that secures essential systems like food production, leaving agriculture underfunded relative to its importance.
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Agritech advances support sustainability
technologies that enable selective grazing and rotational management can drive large-scale re-greening and resilience even with a shrinking rural workforce.
Top Reactions
Most popular replies, ranked by engagement
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@AronVonBrando
It's a precursor for humans.
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@TheDonBigote
You aren’t connecting the dots here homie. He wants to apply the cow tech to people. That’s why he invested
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@2kySzn
VCs don’t fund what matters. They fund leverage. Food > water > humans You’re just not thinking big enough…
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@FarZenith
Down here, Halter is a key technology in one of are largest industries and most important exports. they've been around for years, this is nothing new Thiels visa requires him to invest in local companies, it's not surprising he goes in on a round on one of our only unicorns.
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@Court_Reinland
We have to master farming to master sustainability. Have you ever heard of macro environmental re-greening by selective grazing/rotation of cattle? This enables that in the face of a shrinking workforce.
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