Gary
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"Switzerland’s military has terminated its contract with Palantir… following a security audit… concluded that U.S. intelligence agencies could potentially access sensitive Swiss defense data… significant reputational warning for the data analytics firm"
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Palantir's Swiss Exit Highlights Global Data Sovereignty Challenge | NewsCase
Switzerland's military has terminated its contract with Palantir Technologies Inc. following a security audit. The review concluded that U.S. intelligence ag
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February 11, 2026 at 7:05 AM
"Switzerland’s military has terminated its contract with Palantir… following a security audit… concluded that U.S. intelligence agencies could potentially access sensitive Swiss defense data… significant reputational warning for the data analytics firm"
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#R4Today
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Like a lot of people here, I’d love to see our current government do more to tackle poverty, reduce inequality and protect the most vulnerable in our society. That’s the true mark of civilisation, to my mind. But I still don’t believe they’re “just like the Tories”.
February 3, 2026 at 8:14 AM
Like a lot of people here, I’d love to see our current government do more to tackle poverty, reduce inequality and protect the most vulnerable in our society. That’s the true mark of civilisation, to my mind. But I still don’t believe they’re “just like the Tories”.
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Instead of conferring titles, gongs and baubles and then demanding those titles, gongs and baubles be removed…
…perhaps as a modern, mature polity we should have far fewer titles, gongs and baubles in the first place.
…perhaps as a modern, mature polity we should have far fewer titles, gongs and baubles in the first place.
February 2, 2026 at 11:28 PM
Instead of conferring titles, gongs and baubles and then demanding those titles, gongs and baubles be removed…
…perhaps as a modern, mature polity we should have far fewer titles, gongs and baubles in the first place.
…perhaps as a modern, mature polity we should have far fewer titles, gongs and baubles in the first place.
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If GDP is a broken measure, why do politicians still worship it? youtu.be/CltToHhkhfQ?...
If GDP is a broken measure, why do politicians still worship it?
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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February 3, 2026 at 7:11 AM
If GDP is a broken measure, why do politicians still worship it? youtu.be/CltToHhkhfQ?...
Aah the short necked variety, you only see those in winter!
January 4, 2026 at 9:42 AM
Aah the short necked variety, you only see those in winter!
Wow, every day is a school day
December 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Wow, every day is a school day
Has something changed here, the font size it chooses on my phone is tiny! I'm now forever 'stretching 'and moving around the screen
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Has something changed here, the font size it chooses on my phone is tiny! I'm now forever 'stretching 'and moving around the screen
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Gotta love Private Eye.
Always cuts through the crap.
Always cuts through the crap.
October 31, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Gotta love Private Eye.
Always cuts through the crap.
Always cuts through the crap.
Coins? What are they?
October 25, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Coins? What are they?
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A curious approach from people who don't like the concept of immigration
October 22, 2025 at 11:02 AM
A curious approach from people who don't like the concept of immigration
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How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.
October 8, 2025 at 8:20 AM
How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.
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“He has been killed for saying things that used to be simple common sense. He has been killed because he had the courage to stand up publicly for reasonable opinions held by millions and millions of ordinary people both in the US and Britain.”
- Boris Johnson
- Boris Johnson
“Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person’s slot”.
-Charlie Kirk
-Charlie Kirk
September 11, 2025 at 7:44 AM
“He has been killed for saying things that used to be simple common sense. He has been killed because he had the courage to stand up publicly for reasonable opinions held by millions and millions of ordinary people both in the US and Britain.”
- Boris Johnson
- Boris Johnson
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This is the second in a series of posts I am writing on how to think about economics using some of the ideas in quantum physics, seeking parallels to aid understanding. Links to the foundation articles are in the post. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/09...
Quantum economics, part 2: Money as Particle and Flow
This post continues the story of quantum economics, which began here. That post provides important background information on how this series developed and was drafted. There is a summary of posts to d...
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September 8, 2025 at 6:28 AM
This is the second in a series of posts I am writing on how to think about economics using some of the ideas in quantum physics, seeking parallels to aid understanding. Links to the foundation articles are in the post. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/09...
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No, Carswell and others like him haven’t been ‘radicalised’. They’ve always thought like this. The only thing that has changed is that they now realise they can get away with saying it out loud.
August 31, 2025 at 8:54 PM
No, Carswell and others like him haven’t been ‘radicalised’. They’ve always thought like this. The only thing that has changed is that they now realise they can get away with saying it out loud.
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Remains a source of genuine astonishment to me that governments are deemed recurrently failing in so many countries and there's no apparent systemic analysis.
August 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Remains a source of genuine astonishment to me that governments are deemed recurrently failing in so many countries and there's no apparent systemic analysis.
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I sort of want to write about this but I'm not sure how, but essentially: a lot of policy making has to take into account the fact that a lot of people are quite to very stupid, and that's fine, it's just not usually spoken about, but it's something we need to take into account wrt AI
This is why i think "It's not intelligent, it's just generating words" criticism sometimes misses the point. I mean, have you seen how much damage words can do?!
a huge part of the problem with AI and delusional spirals at the moment is that the "AI safety" people were busy with their own fantasies of Skynet, AGI, and paperclip maximization being the danger and seem to have done zero due diligence on the *actual* risk factors of the product.
August 26, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I sort of want to write about this but I'm not sure how, but essentially: a lot of policy making has to take into account the fact that a lot of people are quite to very stupid, and that's fine, it's just not usually spoken about, but it's something we need to take into account wrt AI
You have to match socks?
August 25, 2025 at 9:30 AM
You have to match socks?
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Call me old fashioned, but I think it might be best if the news media went back to reporting things that have happened, if significant, rather than reporting on the 8am news that something significant *might* happen later that day, then finding what actually happens is not really that significant.
August 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Call me old fashioned, but I think it might be best if the news media went back to reporting things that have happened, if significant, rather than reporting on the 8am news that something significant *might* happen later that day, then finding what actually happens is not really that significant.
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fundamentally the problem is that if you think "hotels are where I stay on holiday and I like being on holiday so living in a hotel must be fun and it's not fair others get to do it and not me" then you have the intellectual reasoning of a little child and it's going to be hard to engage with you
August 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
fundamentally the problem is that if you think "hotels are where I stay on holiday and I like being on holiday so living in a hotel must be fun and it's not fair others get to do it and not me" then you have the intellectual reasoning of a little child and it's going to be hard to engage with you
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Got to be. Surely !!
August 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Got to be. Surely !!
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Strangely they haven’t mentioned his ethnicity or immigration status. Ah yes, we only do that when we want to inspire a far right riot.
Ex-priest found guilty of 17 indecent assaults www.bbc.com/news/article...
I’m sure angry young white patriots will be assembling around churches right…now!
I’m sure angry young white patriots will be assembling around churches right…now!
Ex-priest Chris Brain found guilty of 17 indecent assaults
Chris Brain led a Sheffield-based religious movement in the 1980s and 1990s.
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August 20, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Strangely they haven’t mentioned his ethnicity or immigration status. Ah yes, we only do that when we want to inspire a far right riot.
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And every year they crown the "Tax King" and the "Tax Queen", i.e. the man and woman that paid the most taxes in Iceland that year.
August 19, 2025 at 1:14 PM
And every year they crown the "Tax King" and the "Tax Queen", i.e. the man and woman that paid the most taxes in Iceland that year.
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A patient with type 1 diabetes has begun producing his own insulin after receiving a transplant of pancreatic cells. For the first time, islet cells have been edited so they wouldn't be rejected by the patient, removing the need for immunosuppressant drugs.
www.sciencealert.com/first-of-its...
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First-Of-Its-Kind Cell Transplant Brings a Cure For Diabetes Closer
A patient with type 1 diabetes has begun producing his own insulin after receiving a transplant of pancreatic cells.
www.sciencealert.com
August 17, 2025 at 11:44 PM
A patient with type 1 diabetes has begun producing his own insulin after receiving a transplant of pancreatic cells. For the first time, islet cells have been edited so they wouldn't be rejected by the patient, removing the need for immunosuppressant drugs.
www.sciencealert.com/first-of-its...
www.sciencealert.com/first-of-its...