Met police in talks to buy Palantir AI tech for use in criminal investigations Exclusive: Internal concerns over allowing US firm linked to ICE and Israeli military to process highly sensitive data

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No fandango with it. That might be the problem.

Free plug-in solar panels to be rolled out to some households The technology is designed to be a simpler and more affordable way of benefiting from renewable energy

"Low-income households will get [free] plug-in solar panels to cut their energy bills, the Government has announced."

This is how you do a just transition.
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“Children who need to be taught traditional moral values are being taught they have an inalienable right to be gay"

She went on <& on & on & on ad bloody nauseum> to add:

“…children are being cheated of a sound start in life-yes cheated”

Words can't describe the contempt in which I hold Thatcher.

Petition: Launch a public inquiry into the impact of Section 28 on LGBTQ people We call on the Government to launch a public inquiry into the impact of Section 28 of the Local Government Act (1988) which specified that Local Authorities could not intentionally promote, through ma...

Pls sign & share. I grew up under this law. School never mentioned lesbian or gay life or relationships, somehow everyone was still called a poof or a lemon though. The only time school mentioned it was telling us about "the gay disease" (HIV). Really. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

Done.

The good news is that £500m isn't a lot in terms of Gov contracts.

The bad news is that they have targeted and won the contracts they wanted.

That's where the problem lies - the contracts they have won, not the value.

That was the you decide bit 😆

42.8% 🤦‍♂️

Well, if Blair, Brown and Starmer sacked him, its 43% (42.3%).

So you decide.

Looking forward to Kezia Dugdale and everyone else at @stonewalluk.bsky.social explaining to me how we are supposed to “debate” people like this.

The aim of the organised transphobic movement is to mandate trans people out of existence, they won't be happy until their targets are dead, it's a movement motivated by genocidal mania, and the cruel, vindictive, hateful bigotry extends from there.

Palantir manifesto described as ‘ramblings of a supervillain’ amid UK contract fears Alarm caused by posts of Alex Karp, tech firm’s CEO, championing US military dominance and of AI weapons

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Power without accountability: The Palantir manifesto The problems with our tech philosopher kings

New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally.
It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵
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FTSE bosses receive 18% pay bump this year in global fight for talent Companies are also watering down ESG elements of pay plans as boards reassess whether such awards ‘make sense’

FTSE 100 CEO average pay up 18% to £5.89m, less weight attached to environmental, social, governance targets.

Did your pay rise by 18%?

Workers produce wealth but get crumbs.

Need worker elected directors, worker vote on exec pay to secure equitable distribution.
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Card with image of Starmer and Louis Mosley ‘It beggars belief’: MoD sources warn Palantir’s role at heart of government is threat to UK’s security By Charlie Young and Carole Cadwalladr

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MoD sources warn Palantir’s role at heart of government is threat to UK’s security.

One said: "Ministers clearly have a lack of understanding of Palantir’s technology"

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30 people made the decision to award the Palantir contract.

@unison.org.uk represent 1.3m people and the BMA all doctors.

It's time the Labour government cleared up Tory mess and remove Palantir from NHS.

OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened.

Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah.

(h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)

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I have & still do criticise the PM in this matter, especially re the initial decision to appoint Mandy, but it is clear from the qs being asked that MPs know little of the DV process, especially the data protection side of it.

This thread (and the embedded thread) help with this understanding.

So this is kind of important. Why is it right that Romeo and Little waited a month to disclose to the PM that they now knew about the vetting outcome, versus why Robbins chose not to. Starmer says they were right to await legal advice.

Key q for Robbins whether he took legal advice.

On the issue of people not leaving a union if they do not agree with the union's politics - once again, it is not a question of morals. It is simply understanding the purpose of a union.

If you choose to continue to wilfully misunderstand that, it's on you, not the trade union movement.

On a personal level, I agreed with the political stance of my union. For the record my union had no opinion on an independent Scotland, except to say that it was for the Scottish people to decide.

You continue to misunderstand the role of a union - I tried to explain it and ask you to read it again, this time with an open mind.

No union tells you how to vote. If you read it as such, once again you have misunderstood. More to the point, no one can tell you how to vote 😲

Further to this, and directly addressing your post rather than what I believe to be your misunderstanding of unions, a union's job is partly furthering the politics that, in aggregate, most benefit its members.

That is why union's should be political.

Apologies for my now deleted ad hominem response. It was rude and unnecessary.

Leaving a union's due to its political stance can be akin to cutting off your nose to spite your face, as many current union members whose politics are contrary to the politics of their union understand.

No.

Per my other post on this thread (attached here), belonging to a union is more than the union's politics. That's what political parties exist for (and why the union movement founded the Labour Party.

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The union I belonged to prior to retiring (PCS) had numerous members who were not politically left wing.

These people understood that union representation is far, far more than a union's political pronouncements and/or affiliations.

Well that's your call, but it doesnt change the truth in the previous post 👇
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