Report: "Spain blacklists Palantir over domestic security concerns"
"Spain's government launched a blacklist of CIA-backed Palantir Technologies from public & private state-controlled entities".
"Other European states have taken similar steps as Palantir’s reputation for gross human rights violations spreads".
https://thecradle.co/articles/spain-blacklists-palantir-over-domestic-security-concerns
Fifty years later, and this is what has been taken from us by the billionaires, corporations and corrupt politicians
They have stolen our joy.
Over the next fifty years our job is to take it back.
Why is the world's richest man, Elon Musk, who you might think would be focussed on how SpaceX can live up to its astronomical (pun intended) valuation, actually more focussed (at least on social media) on British politics & his growing support for the far right?
Apart from taking joy in his 'interference' its difficult (for me at least) to understand why he's so interested..... unless its just an environment where he (seemingly) can act with impunity?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/04/elon-musk-uk-race-immigration-spacex-ipo
In 1901, divers pulled a lump of corroded bronze out of a two thousand year old shipwreck. It took the next century to understand what it was, and the answer broke the timeline of human history.
It's called the Antikythera Mechanism, and it is the oldest known computer on earth.
It was built by the ancient Greeks, around 100 BC, and it should not exist. Nothing else of its sophistication would appear anywhere in the world for more than a thousand years after it...
@JamesLucasIT #globalmuseum
RT: @Llewcalon Considering Robinson has been documented as messaging young men on grindr and accidentally revealing that his algorithm is attuned to gay adverts, I think he douth protest too much!
RT: @Gabriel_Pogrund EXCLUSIVE
Nigel Farage failed to declare that a criminal and crypto gambler paid for his staff, security, drivers, social media output in year before election
Reform leader has also received free accommodation in Westminster from George Cottrell as MP
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/revealed-nigel-farage-secretly-funded-by-convicted-criminal-j0brtrlnk
Great to talk about the early evidence on Andy Burnham on BBC breakfast just now.
Won't nationalise water companies. Sticking to Rachel Reeves disastrous fiscal rules. Refuses to recognise genocide.
King of the North? Different latitude. Same politics.
This will be the two child benefit cap that he fought tooth and nail to retain and condemned the Scottish government for mitigating? Oh an suspended the whip for Laboiur MPs who voted against retaining it. That one?
🔥 Europe is starting to push Palantir out.
Things are looking rough for Palantir in Europe…
…as they are increasingly seen as a danger to sovereignty with a high risk of structural lock-in and major ethical concerns.
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As Britain swelters through another heatwave, few people will have heard that ministers have quietly dropped plans for solar carports.
Cars cooler in summer. Shelter from the rain in winter. Clean electricity all year round.
A missed opportunity?
RT: @ZackPolanski I'm so proud of Yassin. He made Bristol and Britain his home.
He has contributed so much as a Green Party Cllr to his city and to the community in Lawrence Hill.
Solidarity in the face of this Reform fuelled racist hate.
Hope always wins! 💚
Trump is having waves of military aircraft do low altitude, high volume flyovers of DC all weekend long starting with today, to be followed by a massive fireworks detonation on the 4th, as a way of asserting dominance over DC since nobody went to his stupid "state fair." It's an incredible aviation and environmental hazard and a vast waste of jet fuel.
RT: @CurtisDaly_ I was never convinced that Burnham would change national policy - but there was a tiny chance that Labour wouldn't be as draconian - allowing for grassroots organising.
Seems like the type of people Burnham want will continue the clique.
RT: @Daniel_Grigg So like, Polanski's Greens have the most voters under 50.
More than any other party in the country.
Nice.
❌ Myth: "The EU just decides to add any country it wants, when it feels like it."
✅ Reality: “That's not how EU enlargement works.”
The process of joining the EU is based on a clear set of requirements known as the Copenhagen Criteria, agreed by EU leaders in 1993.
Joining takes years of reforms, negotiations, and continuous assessment. Progress is evaluated on merit.
Every candidate country goes through the same process before joining.
Read more here:
https://link.europa.eu/F639Tm
And so the UK/EU 'reset' once again is upset by UK entitlement & failure to understand the country's position as a non-member of the European Union (after Brexit).
Hardly surprisingly, a request by the UK to gain a 'decision-shaping' role in regulations that impact trade with the UK (the post-Brexit deal) has been rejected.
Our politicians really don't seem to understand how not being a member of a rule making institution works: you (the UK) are a 'rule taker', and that's it!
#Brexit
h/t FT
If you thought the horrendous abuse of Gisèle Pelicot by her husband & a range of men organised online was an isolated case... think again.
Pelicot's case alerted authorities to the way social media was being used to organise similar abuse and now more & more cases are coming to light.
as supporters of Gisèle Pelicot said: not all men, but always a man!
I despair at my fellow men; how can they even contemplate such abuse?
#SexualAbuse #politics
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy4e109nx04o
RT: @Martin_Abrams We've just had the hottest May and June days on record smashing previous records.
People are dying of heat stroke and heat related health problems across the UK and Europe, much of our transport network is ceasing to function and our kid's education is being severely impacted..
..but Keir Starmer has not held any COBRA meetings, announced any significant extra funding for climate resilience, cooling, retrofitting homes, or much needed air conditioning in Schools..
....but we do have money for war.
Imagine if Biden or Obama had made 327 stock purchases in a single day and then, the next day, announced a policy change guaranteed to boost those stocks, while announcing “GREAT TIME TO BUY!!!”
Any previous president would have been quickly impeached and convicted, by both parties.
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/markets/trump-stock-trades-before-tariff-pause-rcna352723
hmmm.... the good news is that Teachers have got a (roughly) inflation equalling pay rise (stabilising their current real income)...
the bad news is the Department of Education is requiring schools to find the first 1% (of the 3.5% and 3%) award each from their own budgets - which to be clear is essentially *another* cut to the schools budget - whatever the talk that may arise of 'efficiency gains', its a cut!
Austerity continues!