just terrific
I would much rather send my children off to a school run by the CCP than one run by the bastard elite that has been sucking the UK dry for centuries. They are run with a Machiavellian philosophy that generates ruthless, lonely psychopaths.
I also absolutely hate everything Thatcher did, but I think most British private schools were private long before she selling off Britain’s assets.
Britain has been an oligarchy/kleptocracy for centuries. And like all such systems it’s vulnerable to takeover from very big fish.
So Palantir sells a data management tool and deployment support. That shouldn’t really surprise anyone who knows the first thing about data science.
The interesting thing about Palantir isn’t what they sell but how they sell it and who buys it. They clearly market their unremarkable software as an autocrat’s wet dream.
And police and military departments across Europe and the US buy their shit, which says more about those police and military departments than about the software.
I agree but that’s a somewhat different discussion IMO.
Even if Palantir’s software was just a simple interface for a database, the fact that it’s proprietary means that there could be secret backdoors for the US Intelligence community to look at the data. There almost certainly are. That makes it an issue of national security on top of one of personal liberty.
There. Fixed it for you.
Man I hope the EU is going to wake up to software sovereignty soon.
Stuff is moving in the right direction in some places on the local level, but I would love to see a blanket ban on foreign subscription services for safety critical sectors.
Honestly, ban the use of proprietary software in any public, tax-funded organisation.
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I think the greatest concession made was that von der Leyen allowed Trump to frame this as a great victory for him. He has a fragile ego and always needs to look good. She is a much more diplomatic politician and allowed him to appear victorious. But the actual, realistic concessions are pretty limited.
I thought this was a pretty convincing argument why it’s not as bad for Europe as it looks https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sundown-on-the-potemkin-empire-trumps
The request created a backlash online with many disagreeing with the practice.
Let me guess, Americans?
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One can hope. The UK is a few revolutions behind.