From The Register:
"#NHS staff resist using #Palantir #software"

'...Staff reportedly cite #ethics concerns, #privacy worries, and doubt the platform adds much..
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#Surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism

https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/03/nhs_staff_against_palantir/?td=keepreading

Donald Trump Says He Can’t Focus on Child Care Costs: 'We're Fighting Wars. We Can't Take Care of Daycare’

“It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things,” the president said. “We have to take care of one thing: military protection"

He can't say it plainer them that.

A war he started.

A war that benefits nobody except weapons manufacturers to the time of hundreds of billions of dollars and the Netanyahu government.

A war that is murdering people across the Middle East in their tens of thousands

A war that is throwing economies across the world into chaos, including the US's.

If the US doesn't rise up, they will be economically and morally bankrupt.

Especially the Democratic Party. (The GOP is already lost).

https://people.com/donald-trump-cant-focus-daycare-fighting-wars-11941772

#Trump #USPoli #Ethics

Check out my latest post for #HealOurCulture: “Values of the Ancestors”

https://healourculture.org/2026/04/03/values-of-the-ancestors/

Also on Substack:
https://healourculture.substack.com/p/values-of-the-ancestors

#history #values #ethics #respect #nasa #Artemis #Artemis2 #Canada

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https://mastodon.social/@VerdantSquareRadio/116340215473454916

#news #arts #left #commentary #radio #publicradio #community #progressive #green

The Guilt About Feeling Good

https://platoedsim.org/posts/guilt-about-feeling-good/

#Philosophy #Ethics #Hedonism

NHS staff refusing to use FDP over Palantir ethical concerns

https://www.freevacy.com/news/financial-times/nhs-staff-refusing-to-use-fdp-over-palantir-ethical-concerns/7272

#HackerNews #NHS #Palantir #Ethics #FDP #HealthTech #DataPrivacy

Spicy take:

The good is not a destination. It's a bearing you keep recalculating.
Evil doesn't need malice. It just needs someone who stops checking. The worst crimes in history weren't driven by monsters, they were driven by people who let the machinery think for them. The failure wasn't cruelty. It was mindless following.

Positive inversion: If the failure is not-seeing, then the discipline is looking. At the person in front of you. At the situation as it actually is, not as your comfort or ideology or habit needs it to be. This is harder than any act of will, because the self constantly warps the picture through your own biases.

Goodness isn't a set of principles you install and forget. It's a practice of noticing. And the moment you think you've got it figured out, you've already started drifting. Every fixed moral system eventually becomes the tools of oppressor the bureaucrats hide behind.

Evil is what happens when you stop adjusting.
Good is the effort of never stopping.

#good vs #evil #morality #ethics #murdoch