Having awarded a major contract to (controversial) data firm Palantir, a growing number of NHS staff are refusing to work with the firm's tools for ethical reasons, with wider passive resistance to its deployment.

One manger said: 'People are saying, ‘I refuse to work on this software. You have to find something else for me to do’... They’re calling it a workplace adjustment. [as] if you were disabled & needed a different desk, they’re literally treating it like that'! 

#NHS #Palantir
h/t FT

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mattsheffield/116332497422486698

this is digital blackface and racist as fuck.

whomever is doing this knows Black people are THE Culture; so how swell it is to make money off Black culture without Black people?

and don't get me started with the fact that automata are proxies for SLAVES.

don't hesitate to call out Alphabet/Google/Youtube for making money off Black digital slaves.

this isn't progress. this is still baldfaced racism.

So apparently the source code of one highly valued, LLM-based code-production product has been inspected by external actors, and found to be extensive, but not exactly an impressive feat of engineering.
Reportedly it consists in some part of natural language directions that attempt to coax, beg, and beseech the text generator to produce desired kinds of output.

Has anyone coined the term "autocompleading" for this style of software development yet?

UN News tooting WHO's horn about shipping Gaza aid to an Israeli port.

https://mas.to/@therightarticle/116333573205395827

Your "significant operational milestone in strengthening WHO’s interregional humanitarian logistics capacity" kinda ignores last-mile delivery.

This is "a UN mechanism to step up aid provision through countries that were not party to the conflict there". You delivered it to an Israeli port.

So, while "they provide a neutral, transparent and internationally coordinated maritime corridor", that maritime corridor terminates in an Israeli port.

The article openly admit "the Kerem Shalom/Karem Abu Salem border crossing with Israel remains the only one open for cargo". And movement of cargo through that crossing has been continuously restricted for the very purpose of ensuring aid does not get to Gaza.

Then somehow the article pivots to a discussion of cash assistance to farmers. In a region where food that could be used for seeding agriculture is stopped at the border crossing, not allowed entry, just as much if not all of their "significant operational milestone" aid will be.

WHO delivered Gaza aid to an Israeli port, and yet UN News has the gall to title this "Breaking the Gaza aid bottleneck".

The bottleneck is Israel. WHO delivered aid into the bottleneck.

Fucking apologist propaganda.

Mohamad Safa, a UN representative for the Patriotic Vision Association NGO posted this on X on Iran and potential use of nuclear weapons. He left his position to do this.

I'm growing terrified.

#IranWar #Iran #NuclearWeapons #UN

Journalist Piers Morgan condemned Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir on X, calling him and his ally Bezalel Smotrich “psychopaths, intent on dragging Israel into ever darker places.”

This came after a video showed Ben Gvir outside the Knesset celebrating the passage of the death penalty law for Palestinian prisoners.

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Palestinian

Nuclear weapons experts are warning that the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, ostensibly launched to prevent the country from obtaining nuclear weapons, may have instead made an Iranian bomb more likely.

> That is because prior to the war, Iran was held back not by technical constraints but diplomatic considerations, say two nuclear weapons experts who were involved in past U.S. efforts to sanction and contain the country.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/iran-nuclear-bomb-united-states-war-9.7147664 #Iran