Palantir has no place in our NHS.

The Labour government must get this Mandelson and Trump backed company out now.

Listen to what health workers are saying.
https://news.sky.com/story/nhs-hospitals-urged-to-reject-330m-data-platform-part-owned-by-trump-ally-13519263

Wales becomes the first UK nation to remove profit from children’s homes, fostering, and secure accommodation
#News

https://nation.cymru/news/wales-becomes-the-first-uk-nation-to-remove-profit-from-childrens-homes-fostering-and-secure-accommodation/

Read below 👇 why you should start using LibreSpeed from now on for internet speed tests

"Speedtest and Downdetector were just sold to Accenture for $1.2 billion. (...) Ookla, the parent company of both tools, has been acquired by the global IT consulting giant Accenture (...).

The open source alternative: LibreSpeed. No tracking scripts, no GPS harvesting, no profile building, no ads and no data sold to anyone."

https://librespeed.org/

https://www.reddit.com/r/xprivo/comments/1rmalpy/news_librespeed_opensource_alternative_made_in/

#FOSS #opensource

So Amazon are now using Persona for ID checks too on buyers - my 18-year-old daughter has just lost a gift voucher because having let her add it to her account, they promptly cancelled an order she placed using the gift balance and are demanding she upload digital ID. Attempts to fix this over the phone have failed and long story short, the money she was given appears to be lost unless she's prepared to hand Persona her details.

A reminder why this is a bad idea: https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/

Ever was it thus:

As political leader(s) declare the necessity of war on enemies (for their own domestic political reasons) and launch 'regime change from the air', so the normal people living in these enemy states die on the alter of political strategies, which for the most part have noting to do with their lives (or death).

War always involves 'collateral damage' & launching attack(s) on a whim or for vague/changing 'reasons' tells us how little the lives of others are valued!

#Iran #war

You may not be interested in the intricacies of public procurement but @davidallengreen argues you (we) should be; while the case of Palantir's 'capture' of the UK Ministry of Defence may be an extreme case, this (in its form) is not unusual.

DAG points to six key issues:
the amount of money involved;
the lack of transparency;
a small group of favourite contractors;
the 'revolving door';
the interaction of IT & IPRs;
and the danger of no rules.

#Palantir #politics

https://emptycity.substack.com/p/six-concerns-about-public-procurement

As an avid listener and sometime contributor to the BBC Sorld Service, it seems crazy to me that we have got to this point.

It would be a tragedy to let the World Service and all the good it does disappear.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/13/the-guardian-view-on-the-bbc-world-service-this-is-london-calling