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Becky retweeted
🚨 Palantir entered the NHS for £1 during Covid.
Then it became a £23.5mn contract.
Then a £330mn contract.
Now ministers admit it is so deeply embedded that removing it would be too disruptive.
Whatever the original intention, this is textbook vendor lock-in: the customer becomes dependent upon the supplier, and dependency becomes the supplier’s greatest protection.
The proposed two-year extension must therefore be treated as an emergency extraction period, not another comfortable renewal.
During that time, the government must require:
• complete data portability and open standards;
• independent access to the system architecture;
• transfer of knowledge and skills to the NHS;
• a tested migration plan with firm deadlines;
• government step-in rights; and
• a procurement process that is not designed around Palantir’s existing product.
Palantir must not be allowed to shape the problem, define the requirements and then win again because only Palantir can satisfy them.
And calling the replacement “British” is meaningless unless Britain controls its intellectual property, technology and future development.
A £1 foothold has become national dependency.
That is not sovereignty and it is precisely why sovereignty is now necessary.
Becky retweeted
Times reports govt renewing NHS-Palantir contract over fear of patient disruption..proving*exactly* what critics have been saying. That we’re in a technofascist trap.
thetimes.com/article/b6cf6dd…
Becky retweeted
These pictures of Reform councillor George David Madgwick posing alongside Nigel Farage, Robert Jenrick, Suella Braverman, Zia Yusuf and Laila Cunningham were taken after his arrest.
He has now been charged with 35 offences, including rape and offences involving indecent images of children.
The question is why he was still being paraded alongside the party's most senior figures after his arrest?
Becky retweeted
🔴 EXCLUSIVE: After *five-year* legal battle, Democracy for Sale has forced the government to reveal who referred firms to lucrative Covid PPE ‘VIP lane’ for 'politically connected'
30+ senior Tories are named, plus ex Duchess of York, and many more 🧵
democracyforsale.substack.co…
See this Instagram post by @globalactplan instagram.com/reel/DfE6FKVIq…
Becky retweeted
Not a single news outlet has reviewed its coverage of Jason Arday, for accuracy or proportionality. Zero attempt has been made to conduct any inquiry into the media’s role in his death. Instead, the industry has moved into self-congratulatory mode. This isn’t just tone deaf, it betrays a systemic failure
Becky retweeted
Why have the deaths of over 43,000 care home residents at the hands of inept politicians gone off of the news media so quickly? Shouldn't we be hearing about at least two people being taken into custody by now.
BREAKING: Covid inquiry chair, Baroness Heather Hallett, says that action to protect care homes came too late causing it to "spread like wildfire".
Live updates: trib.al/rq3oWgR
📺 Sky 501
Becky retweeted
North Carolina!! If you voted by mail, go to vote.org/ballot-tracker-tool… to track whether your ballot was rejected over minor technical issues. If it was, you can still vote in person!
🚨BREAKING: Thousands of North Carolina midterm ballots are set to be rejected over minor technical issues after a federal court upheld strict new Republican-backed rules for mail voters, according to data shared exclusively with Democracy Docket. democracydocket.com/news-ale…
Becky retweeted
Anthropic is effectively telling the government that they should be allowed to facilitate the deaths of up to 50 people per model and cause up to a billion dollars in damages before the government should consider stepping in to stop them. Insane.
Becky retweeted
Woah woah woah. The lead is buried in paragraph four.
Anthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill to lawmakers politi.co/4zxDFhl
Becky retweeted
🚨The Public have got to wake up. This is Istanbul, Turkey, tonight and it’s just the beginning. Last year Professor Hayley Fowler, a leading climatologist and hydrologist, warned the UK could face this kind of extreme rainfall; enough to wash away cars and homes without much warning. It was ignored by the media.
Journalists and anyone with influence needs to lobby the Govt and the Prime Minister to broadcast the National briefing about the facts of climate change and what is coming towards us publicly on TV in the way we had Covid broadcasts. @nebriefing
The public need to face the reality that we’ve all fucked up. Our media and democracy doesn’t work.
I’m very aware that people think those of us who talk about climate change are crazy but the reality is developing right in front of our eyes. The scientists warnings are coming true.
People want to look away. I know lots of people in my own life do. But this is just the beginning it is going to get much much worse. The planet is already hotter than it’s been in over 100,000 years, carbon dioxide levels are higher than they’ve been in millions of years, scientists are telling us our kids will not survive the coming decades on the course we are on. This is really happening and we got to wake the hell up urgently. We are already in huge trouble and it can only get worse. youtu.be/2Jq23mSDh9U?is=u830…
Becky retweeted
Appeal for info following rape and attempted rape in Milton Keynes ift.tt/OxCoU51
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I don’t care how many things you’ve already read about the film Naza, or how many perspectives you think you’ve considered, or even if you’ve seen the film.
Stop whatever you’re doing and read this thread:
Yesterday, I watched Naza.
I did not go to learn what had happened in Gaza. I am from there. I am one of the victims of this war, one of its witnesses, and one of those who have paid a price that will not end when the war does.
I did not need a film to tell me how entire neighborhoods were wiped away, how residential buildings were bombed with the people still inside them, or how families were forced to leave their homes without knowing where they were supposed to go.
Nor did I need anyone to tell me about the famine. I lived through it twice, with all its humiliations, down to the smallest detail. Or about the starving people who were killed while trying to reach what were so absurdly called “food distribution centers.”
I know all of this.
I was there.
Read the whole Thread below :
#Naza @yuval_abraham
Becky retweeted
Should be leading the news.
'Prepare for the unthinkable' warning over autumn flooding
People are being told to prepare for "the unthinkable" as flood response teams warn of a heightened risk over the autumn.
Natural Resources Wales (NRW) said it was concerned by long-range forecasts, external
which indicated an increased likelihood of wetter, windier weather than usual over the coming months.
Those living in flood-hit areas told BBC Wales they were worried, and had started preparing.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm4g…
Becky retweeted
🚨NEW: Oxford University lecturer and ex-girlfriend of Michael Gove has been charged with possessing indecent images of children
• Dr Lola Salem, 33, a music lecturer at Oriel College, has been charged with possessing indecent images of children dating from May 2021 to February 2023.
• The allegations involve four images, three classified as Category B and one as Category C.
• Salem was suspended by Oriel College after it became aware of the charges in June.
• Salem has pleaded NOT GUILTY and remains on bail ahead of an expected trial at Oxford Crown Court next year.
• Former Conservative politician Michael Gove and Dr. Lola Salem ended their relationship last week after dating for two years.
Becky retweeted
This summer: Thousands of deaths from extreme weather.
This weekend in the media: What's the point of the Green Party?
This morning from the Labour party 👇
ALT ministers preparing to slash heat pump subsidies to find defence spending
Becky retweeted
Warning: Terrible footage coming out of Las Condes, Santiago, Chile this evening including what looks like people being swept away in and on a bus.
This is what scientists mean when they’ve been warning about El Niño.
As the planet heats, the atmosphere holds more moisture which means we can get massively increased rainfall and records are falling all over the world.
Those politicians and media who constantly framed Net zero as more of a threat than climate change should be ashamed - as far as I’m concerned we should be talking about criminally prosecuting journalists, broadcasters, politicians, and fossil fuel industry lobbyists who are stopping us from taking action on climate change.
This is only going to get worse. Educate yourself and friends and family:
David Attenborough’s BREAKING BOUNDARIES Netflix youtu.be/2Jq23mSDh9U?is=GEs8…
Big Oil V The World youtu.be/b-jGw-cew3c?is=bgFI…
Leonardo DiCaprio’s Before the Flood youtu.be/zbEnOYtsXHA?is=2WOg…
Becky retweeted
My God. How the hell can the world STILL not be in emergency mode about climate change?
What the hell will it take??
This is Spain.
Becky retweeted
This is Albacete, Spain, 2nd October, 26.
Please can you push for your outlets to finally treat the climate crisis as the unprecedented global emergency scientists say it is.
The anger from the public at the media’s decades of lack of honest reporting will soon be immense.
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