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Land and Expand - how Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence

What a close reading of public domain documents tells us about two concerning contract awards

Detailed post by me, following-up on my FT column

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Single vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus, researchers say A Stanford University team have tested their nasal spray vaccine in animals but still need to do human clinical trials.

Why isn’t the right excited about technology?

The Commons w/ Peter Linebaugh Featuring Peter Linebaugh on the long histories of commons and commoning, connections between enclosures in Europe and imperial conquest abroad, and writing history from below.

This was such a special interview to conduct: the first in two episodes with historian Peter Linebaugh on the long histories of commons and commoning, connections between enclosures in Europe and imperial conquest abroad, and writing history from below. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/the-...

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

in 2023, @samburgum.bsky.social and i worked with @leedsgate.bsky.social to directly hear from community members on the "chilling effect" of the police act. you can find some of their testimonies in our evidence submission, including legal alternatives: drive.google.com/file/d/1YXpd...

some good news today! if the amendment passes on feb 25th, it would help halt the most severe forms of criminalisation of roadside ways of life practiced by gypsy-traveller and roma communities, as is custom. thanks to @fft.bsky.social @libertyhq.bsky.social @gardencourtlaw.bsky.social for your work

Peter Mandelson sought help from Jeffrey Epstein on setting up advisory firm Emails from 2010 show former UK minister asking child sex offender how to win political and corporate clients

EXCLUSIVE:

Peter Mandelson sought advice from Jeffrey Epstein on setting up his advisory firm, Global Counsel, including how to target potential new clients such as the Chinese government.

www.ft.com/content/13d2...

Somebody should invent a socioeconomic system which is good at allocating resources

Former prince discussed with Jeffrey Epstein ways to get round investment rules Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor shared official documents while serving as a UK trade envoy

FT exclusive

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor discussed ways round restrictions on his making investments while an official UK trade representative and shared official documents from the role with Jeffrey Epstein, files released by the US Department of Justice show

www.ft.com/content/6b2f...

guys, "the judges at the ICC are being sanctioned by the USA and can't access their iphones or bank accounts" and "why aren't any countries banning twitter or prosecuting elon musk for owning a site that manufactures CSAM" stories are the same story

thank you!

thanks for sharing - what text is this from?

Chevron Corp NYSE: CVX 155,90 USD +5.69 (3.79%)past 5 days Closed: 5 Jan, 06:13 GMT-5 • Disclaimer

The fossil fuel companies are insisting they're not interested in increasing oil extraction in Venezuela but their investors / shareholders don't seem to believe them

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?

Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

Let me sum up the reaction of the German government:
International law applies when our enemies violate it, it’s that simple.

Say no to Palantir in the NHS NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back

Is your local NHS trust using Palantir software?

Find out and tell them what you think ⬇️
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Hello Bluesky! I do policy and politics at Good Law Project and I want to talk about it here. Mostly thinking about trans rights, big tech, and the far right. I would love to hear from anyone with similar interests/obsessions/millstones...

Criminalisation of homelessness: Information cards - Liberty Liberty has designed and produced information cards in collaboration with Streets Kitchen Legal to support people who are being criminalised, for example under ‘anti-social behaviour’ laws, for experi...

NEW RESOURCE WITH @streetskitchen.bsky.social

Info cards to support people who are being criminalised for experiencing homelessness and poverty, for example under ‘anti-social behaviour’ laws.

Share with your networks and download the info cards ⤵️

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The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.

They should invent a university that prioritizes teaching and research

Goodwin's palpable disgust for black and brown people is, of course, a colonial inheritance. But the "national" prosperity that made Britain's welfare state possible is in no small part a colonial inheritance too, plundered from places like Africa and south Asia. He might show a little gratitude.

These reports the Government could revalue council tax bands F, G and H don't make sense to me. Here's what could actually be going on:

It beggars belief that Labour are taxing universities’ most lucrative revenue streams at a time when three quarters of them are in the red

🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]

The Data Center Resistance Has Arrived A new report finds that local opposition to data centers skyrocketed in the second quarter of this year.

And it's helping swing elections www.wired.com/story/the-da...

"Slaveholders also ensured that there was no effective bureaucracy for tax assessment. In Georgia, for example, property holders simply asserted the value of their estate and, by law, tax officials could not dispute the owner’s estimate."

YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions.

“YouTube is furthering the Trump administration’s agenda to remove evidence of human rights violations and war crimes.”

Land for the People (Scotland) Bill - Land Matters Introduction This blog introduces my proposals for a comprehensive Land Reform Bill - one that goes far further than existing proposals in reforming Scotland’s land governance. I plan to publish furth...

Folk often ask me what I would do by way of land reform legislation. Have a read of this blog to find out. It seems pointless to do much further detailed work since there is so little appetite for such measures andywightman.scot/2023/12/land...

Land Reform (Scotland) Bill passes with 85 voting yes, 28 voting no and 9 abstentions