Maeve

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[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 45 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The BMA said its opposition to Palantir’s involvement in the NHS was a matter of good governance, not ideology. “If Palantir’s software is being used to target individuals in immigration enforcement and is being deployed in active conflict zones, then that’s completely incompatible with the values we uphold in the delivery of care,” said Dr David Wrigley, the deputy chair of the BMA’s general practitioners committee. He warned patients would be alarmed and could choose to withhold information from their doctor if they did not trust the organisation processing their data or there were fears about what the data might be used for. The Liberal Democrat MP Martin Wrigley said the interoperability between the data systems Palantir provides for health and defence was “profoundly worrying”. The Conservative MP Kit Malthouse wanted to know if a military could target particular individuals with particular characteristics by using Palantir’s ability to process a large pool of data. Mosley said: “We provide an enormous amount of control and governance to the organisations that use our software for that purpose to manage precisely the kind of risks that you’re talking about.” Malthouse said: “That sounds like a yes”.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 6 points 5 months ago

Vocabulary matters, too. People will search the wildest things for hours and cba to look up unfamiliar words.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 3 points 5 months ago

Vietnam? Cuba? Hard to say, never having been out of the Continental USA.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm extremely interested. Perhaps somewhere on a niche instance?

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 0 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Perhaps a post about this in politics? You've piqued my interest.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 20 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Probably won't have to pay. They're appealing.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 8 points 6 months ago

Also look at what percentage of voters switched parties.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 14 points 6 months ago

I became aware in the last 2-3 years of the nineties, but I was always drawn to places that discussed these things.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 6 months ago

Ok but 17k for a kid is a bargain.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 6 months ago

Rats, snakes, yellow jackets...

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 6 months ago

A lot of "scrappers" will remove it for free or gas money, sort it and take it to recycle, fix and sell, etc. If they ask you to sign a receipt, do it because a lot of addicts will, too -- unasked.

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