Carole Cadwalladr: Palantir has been given full access to our NHS data

Startling convergence between US & UK once again. #Palantir has been given full access to our NHS data as part of a completely opaque deal with zero oversight. Oh, & it’s doing the work for ‘free’ ~Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla

FEMA Tells States to Hand Public Health Data Over to Palantir

“If their AI learns to infer and predict patterns of the disease from our public data, then that becomes a hugely lucrative advantage for Palantir, especially now when every business sector wants to know where COVID is going and how hard it’s going to hit”https://www.thedailybeast.com/fema-tells-states-to-hand-public-health-data-over-to-palantir

@Jack #Reporters Carole #Cadwalla Gods of Silicon Valley take down.

Esteemed Reporter Carole Cadwalla takes down piece of shit Mark Zuckerberg at TedTalk

Cringy Crime: Getting Paid to Lie online pays big time

Mercer, Zuckerberg, Sandberg, Page, Brinn, Dorsey Handmaidens to Authoritarism

I tested very positively, positively toward the negative.

President Tweety

“I tested very positively, in another sense, this morning. Yeah, I tested positively toward negative, right? No, I tested perfectly this morning, meaning I tested negative. But that’s a way of saying it. Positively toward the negative.”

As Expected, Those Who Pushed For FOSTA Are Now Looking To Kill Off Porn

As Expected, Those Who Pushed For FOSTA Are Now Looking To Kill Off Porn

Tue, May 19th 2020 3:33pm — Mike Masnick

A few years back, when the campaign to use FOSTA (then called SESTA) as a way to chip away at Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act by creating a misleading moral panic around “sex trafficking” was in full swing, we pointed out that it was really a precursor to trying to outlaw all pornography. I highlighted how a key group pushing for FOSTA, the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE), didn’t even bother to hide that its real target was outlawing all pornography. NCOSE, as we pointed out, started life as “Morality in Media” and only changed its name later when it realized that everyone was ignoring them acting like fussy prudish pearl-clutchers, and decided that if they pretended they were about “exploitation” it would give them more credibility.

A key part of NCOSE’s campaign is to lump porn, prostitution, and “sexual objectification in media” into the exact same bucket as child abuse and sex trafficking, even though there’s a massive difference there. But it shouldn’t come as any surprise that as NCOSE has now expanded to create an “International” (ICOSE) branch, it has done so by kicking off a silly program demanding that credit card companies stop working with porn sites like Pornhub. Of course, in true NCOSE fashion, it insists that porn sites are really engaged in sex trafficking and child abuse:

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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200511/17354444481/as-expected-those-who-pushed-fosta-are-now-looking-to-kill-off-porn.shtml

President Tweety doesn’t want The military away from home to vote!

President Tweety:
“We don’t want anyone to do mail-in ballots.
Now if somebody has to mail it in because they’re sick or, by the way, because they live in the White House and they have to vote in Florida and they won’t be in Florida, if there’s a reason for it, that’s okay.”

‘Hard stop’: States could lose National Guard virus workers

The Trump administration’s order ends deployments on June 24, just one day before thousands would qualify for education and retirement benefits.

By ALICE MIRANDA OLLSTEIN

05/19/2020 04:30 AM EDT

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/19/national-guard-coronavirus-267514

More than 40,000 National Guard members currently helping states test residents for the coronavirus and trace the spread of infections will face a “hard stop” on their deployments on June 24 — just one day shy of many members becoming eligible for key federal benefits, according to a senior FEMA official.

The official outlined the Trump administration’s plans on an interagency call on May 12, an audio version of which was obtained by POLITICO. The official also acknowledged during the call that the June 24 deadline means that thousands of members who first deployed in late March will find themselves with only 89 days of duty credit, one short of the 90-day threshold for qualifying for early retirement and education benefits under the Post-9/11 GI bill.

The looming loss of crucial frontline workers, along with questions about whether the administration is shortchanging first responders, would require a delicate messaging strategy, the official — representing FEMA’s New England region — told dozens of colleagues on the interagency call.

“We would greatly benefit from unified messaging regarding the conclusion of their services prior to hitting the 90-day mark and the retirement benefit implications associated with it,” the official said.

Top National Guard and other federal officials on the call did not dispute the June 24 cutoff or raise the possibility of an extension. In a statement, FEMA acknowledged that President Donald Trump’s current order for the federal government to fund the troops expires on June 24. But a National Guard spokesperson said a decision to extend the deployments could still be made in the coming weeks.

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“It seemed kind of weird to me,” said retired Brig. Gen. J. Roy Robinson, president of the National Guard Association, the advocacy group for Guard members. “It’s a Wednesday. And it also coincides with 89 days of deployment for any soldiers who went on federal status at the beginning. I was getting all kind of calls about it and I said, ‘It’s probably just a coincidence.’ But in the back of my mind, I know better. They’re screwing the National Guard members out of the status they should have.”
The White House did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
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