Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Hundreds of protestors descended on Palantir’s unmarked office building in downtown Manhattan over the weekend. Organized by the grassroots AIDS group ACT UP New York, they rallied at the New York AIDS memorial before marching on the surveillance company’s offices. According to photos published by the Advocate, protestors came dressed in flashy outfits and brandishing signs with hardline slogans. “Palantir: ICE and war enabler and profiteer,” read one. When protestors got to Palantir’s office, however, they collapsed on the pavement, staging a “die-in” — a disruptive form of protest often reserved for urgent human rights struggles. Die-ins are a common protest tactic in the United States, famously used by LGBTQ activists — including ACT UP — during the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s to demand federal intervention from the Reagan administration. The practice has since become widespread at protests decrying police violence, like those following the murder of Michael Brown. That protest organizers are staging die-ins to draw …