Henning Lahmann 🟥

HHS Is Using AI Tools From Palantir to Target ‘DEI’ and ‘Gender Ideology’ in Grants Since March of 2025, the Department of Health and Human Services has been using tools from Palantir and the startup Credal AI to weed out perceived alignment with “DEI” or “gender ideology.”

I have said it before and I will say it as many times as necessary: Burn Palantir to the ground

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ICE Is Using Palantir’s AI Tools to Sort Through Tips ICE has been using an AI-powered Palantir system to summarize tips sent to its tip line since last spring, according to a newly released Homeland Security document.

If you're looking for a database worth corrupting/poisoning:

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Why? And also: what? But mostly just: Why?

Do US liberals not pause to think about the rest of the world when they outragedly emphasise the CITIZEN part? Let me tell you how it sounds: it sounds like you think murdering mere foreigners is not that big a deal, something you are prepared to maybe forgive a little bit of from a Democrat presdnt

There are few things more disturbing than witnessing the government gun down your fellow citizen on a city street. The more Democrats share video of this, the more they alienate reasonable centrists.

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David Wengrow | Against the Grotian Tradition The World Economic Forum in Davos is ending with talk of a rupture in world affairs, a collapse of international law, a...

Uh oh they’re onto us

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My text on genocide denial in German discourse, first published with @pw-portal.bsky.social, now also appeared in English on @hahauenstein.bsky.social's Substack "Nullpunkt". I explore five types of denial as a synchronous and diachronous repertoire of rejecting the genocide claim vis-à-vis Israel.

The folks who run The Simulation have really started messing with us

Human rights in the governance of digital platforms: introduction to the special issue Published in Transnational Legal Theory (Vol. 16, No. 4, 2025)

happy to see the final version of this Transnational Legal Theory SI on critical views of human rights in platform governance, which I co-edited with Barrie Sander, @hlahmann.bsky.social, Matt Canfield & Jelena Belic 😊

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Ah that’s interesting and clarifying. Thanks Adil!

ICE Is Using a Terrifying Palantir App to Determine Where to Raid The app shows potential deportation targets on a map.

Destroy Palantir. Burn it to the fucking ground. Stop treating Karp like a respectable person and don’t fucking cite or read his stupid book. newrepublic.com/post/205333/...

directed against Hamas; given Western bias towards Israel, Myanmar's argument might hold more water than it should without that additional context?

Thanks, great and very insightful piece. I was just thinking – and I might be completely wrong here – whether the change in strategy might also be connected to an anticipation of the merits phase in AS v. Israel (as in, Israel contending that its conduct in Gaza was purely anti-terrorism action

„Nicolás Maduro hat sein Land ins Verderben geführt. Die letzte Wahl wurde gefälscht. Die Präsidentschaft haben wir - wie viele andere Staaten auf der Welt - daher nicht anerkannt. Maduro spielte in der Region, mit unseligen Allianzen weltweit und durch die Verstrickung Venezuelas in das Drogengeschäft eine problematische Rolle. Die rechtliche Einordnung des US-Einsatzes ist komplex. Dazu nehmen wir uns Zeit. Grundsätzlich müssen im Umgang zwischen Staaten die Prinzipien des Völkerrechts gelten. Jetzt darf in Venezuela keine politische Instabilität entstehen. Es gilt, einen geordneten Übergang hin zu einer durch Wahlen legitimierten Regierung zu gewährleisten.“

"Die rechtliche Einordnung des US-Einsatzes ist komplex. Dazu nehmen wir uns Zeit."

Quantenphysik ist komplex. Das hier nicht.

Gianni Infantino looking real foolish now huh (jk money still flowing)

text of crime of aggression

rome statute of the international criminal court, article 8bis: crime of aggression

nobody from the trump admin will be hauled to the hague at least for this, but (a) that doesn't make the act any less criminal and (b) the whole notion of combating aggression was at the center of the creation of the UN Charter.

congress has an int'l responsibility to stop illegal war.

Maaike saying everything that needs to be said

Can’t wait for the usual suspects to weigh in

Guter, absolut treffender Spruch. Nichts hinzuzufügen

Der Fall Kilani: Ermittlung unter Freunden Ein israelischer Militärschlag tötet 2014 eine deutsch-palästinensische Familie. Doch deutsche Ermittler zögern. Neue Daten zeigen mögliche Gründe auf.

Unsere taz-Recherche, basierend auf Hunderten geleakten E-Mails, zeigt, wie eng Deutschland und Israel kooperierten, um die Tötung der Kilani-Familie in Gaza 2014 nicht korrekt zu ermitteln. Eine E-Mail legt nahe, dass offizielle Antworten telefonisch abgestimmt wurden, um den Fall zu schließen.

(it’s always been so fucking cool)

Singing in movies will only be tolerated if done by Muppets

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

This is excellent

“The unsettling impression remains that the ECJ was not even remotely aware of the significance of its decision.”

The ECJ’s Russmedia ruling quietly overturns a cornerstone of EU platform law.

ERIK TUCHTFELD (@erik.d-64.social) (@mpil.de) shows how GDPR liability may replace notice-and-takedown with de facto monitoring – potentially reshaping online speech across Europe.

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Jacqueline Rose · When the Messiah Comes: When I met Netanyahu Netanyahu is trying to absolve himself of a guilt whose reality he denies. He wants to be declared innocent without...

‘In Netanyahu’s twisted vision, the Jews are always on the verge of catastrophe. Either you become a killer or you die. One thing seems certain. If you accept these terms, there will never be enough corpses to go around.’

Jacqueline Rose on meeting Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Grading exams and…umm excuse me, the what case?

That 2001 AUMF keeps coming back around