There are other reasons for the UK government not to award or continue Palantir contracts but this statement of intent by its CEO must surely be decisive?
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There are other reasons for the UK government not to award or continue Palantir contracts but this statement of intent by its CEO must surely be decisive?
"Palantir CEO Alex Karp thinks his AI technology will lessen the power of 'highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat' while increasing the power of working-class men."
Remind me again why Labour is shoving vast public contracts down its throat?
We have awarded these people contracts in the Ministry of Defence. What the fuck are we doing.
Szymborska, MiΕosz, Herbert, RΓ³ΕΌewicz, and Zagajewski are familiar to readers of Polish poetry in translation, but whatβs up today? Catch my discussion with poets Julia Fiedorczuk and Tadeusz DΔ
browski on βEncounters with Polish Literature.β
youtu.be/GY9KQ0ID1eo?...
βElon Muskβs Tesla given go-ahead to supply electricity in Great Britain.β A subheading underneath says: βOfgem licence means firm can replicate Texas setup of powering homes, businesses and EVs.β
Ed Miliband must step in and bar Tesla from holding an energy licence.
Elon Musk is a threat to our national security and clearly not a fit person to operate in our energy industry.
We canβt have the lights go out because heβs having a strop on X.
Almost 10,000 authors have come together to publish an empty book protesting the theft of books by tech companies to train AI models.
Titled Donβt Steal This Book, it is empty of text except the names of the authors involved.. π§΅
β¨ Calling all Polish to English literary translators β¨ Join Antonia Lloyd-Jones & MaΕgorzata Margo Rejmer for the Polish Workshop at BCLT Summer School 2026
Find out more about and apply: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...
Five Benefits of Reading Translated Fiction ππ
Reading translated fiction is like traveling the world without leaving the comfort of your favourite reading spot. Every story opens a door to a different culture, perspective, and way of thinking.
#ReadTheWorld #TranslatedFiction #Translation (1/2)
UK arts must not be sacrificed for speculative AI gains, peers say
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
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2h ago 12.32 GMT UK government charter flight will take off from Oman 'in the coming days', says home secretary A government charter flight will take off from Muscat, Oman, βin the coming daysβ, foreign secretary Yvette Cooper has told the Commons. Cooper said that Britain was working with airlines on increasing capacity out of Muscat, Oman to prioritise the evacuation of vulnerable British nationals. Cooper said she was in close contact with her counterparts in the Gulf countries, where 130,000 British citizens have now registered their presence in the region. βWe are also working with airlines on increasing capacity out of Muscat for British nationals, with priority for vulnerable nationals,β Cooper said. βA government charter fight will fly from Muscat in the coming days, prioritising vulnerable nationals, but British nationals in Oman must wait to be contacted by the Foreign Office regarding these options.β
Will Yvette Cooper confirm that wealthy Brits who decamped to Middle East tax havens to dodge their patriotic obligation to pay their taxes won't get free flights?
This is nothing. Just send Mahmood out again to announce some more anti-refugee policies and you can easily find your way to fifth place.
"using Palantirβs software would increase dependence on a U.S. provider. It also poses the risk of losing data sovereignty and thereby national sovereignty.
"Above all, however, the armyβs staff experts say it remains unclear who has access to data shared with Palantir."
Shabana Mahmood will continue to pitch-roll for Reform and to try and ban legitimate protest against Israeli genocide. Wes Streeting will continue his war on trans youth whilst lying about it. Bridget Phillipson will continue with her new section 28. And Labour will continue to haemorrhage votes.
Urszula Honekβs collection of dark stories, WHITE NIGHTS, translated from the Polish by Kate Webster & longlisted for the Intl Booker Prize, are quietly piercing β & now available to US readers from @twolinespress.com. Hereβs my review in ASYMPTOTE.
asymptotejournal.com/blog/2026/02...
I reviewed I WAS ALIVE HERE ONCE: GHOST STORIES for Asymptote. The collection, from @twolinespress.com's Calico series, features ghost stories from Korea, Yemen, Poland, Japan, Uzbekistan, Iceland, Tanzania and Thailand. Who knew the dead could be so lively www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2026/02...
Tech companies are trying to gaslight us into thinking AI is commercially viable (it is not), that its products are on par with human-made products (they are not), and that the singularity is imminent (far from it!). They do this to attract fundingβI call it the vaporware-industrial complex.
If no journalist is actually using the phrase βethnic cleansingβ then we really are in a worrying place
NEW
How Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence
How a close read of public domain documents show how MoD was commercially colonised by Palantir
By me, at FT
www.ft.com/content/5207...
These people are poison. They will unleash racist thugs on the streets of this country and call it security. They will subjugate us to the US and call it patriotism. They must be stopped. There is no more important task in politics.
"The report, reviewed by the FT, decided against using Palantir technology for Swiss military data since there was a risk that US authorities could gain access to the sensitive files."
Yet here Labour continues to shove public money down its throat.
If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.
It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.
www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...
Gmail are accessing private messages π« This is how to stop that, screenshot the steps to follow.
The betting has the Greens at 1/2 and Labour at 5/1. If you actually want to keep Reform out, rather than making a rhetorical point, you can only rationally argue for Labour to step aside.
Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.
The barrister Setu Kamal sued @danneidle.bsky.social for Β£8m for defamation. Representing himself in court, Kamal cited three cases that made Neidleβs case βuntenableβ.
But, in a bizarre twist, it turned out that these cases were hallucinated by ChatGPT:
https://goodlaw.social/n1cv
Blimey. Looks like Matt Goodwin, who seems to think the Handmaid's Tale is an instruction manual, is in the pay of an Orban think tank, funded by Russian oil money.
It would be great to see the Institute of Translation and Interpreting become active again here on Bluesky, as an ongoing means of member engagement. @iti-uk.bsky.social
CiOL is active on Bluesky.
And the Society of Authors has over 8,000 followers here.
So it isn't a quiet backwater! #xl8
