‘Palantir’s market capitalisation has risen to $320 billion, 150 times earnings. The 𝘌𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘵 has speculated that “Palantir might be the most overvalued firm of all time.”’ @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and @lucasamin.bsky.social on Palantir’s NHS contract. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS

A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...

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Israeli settlers in own words: "I think now, after they killed one Israeli, we need to kill all the people in Tal and Sarra, even Jit and Farata," naming the Palestinian villages closest to the outpost. He added, "God chose us [and] because of this you are jealous." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Israeli West Bank settler tells BBC attacks on Palestinians are justified as revenge

Settler violence against Palestinians is on the rise in the West Bank, as settlements and outposts expand.

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🎥 Israel strikes medical warehouse, displacement tents in Gaza An Israeli strike destroyed 2 central medicine warehouses at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, including critical supplies & equipment for kidney dialysis on Sat. Hospital director Raed Hussein told Drop Site’s Abdel Qader...

The definitive text on the birth and subsequent history of MTV

Daydream Believer@monkeesmemories.bsky.social · 4d ago

Michael Nesmith created a television program called PopClips for the Nickelodeon cable network, and in 1980 PopClips was sold to Time Warner/Amex which developed PopClips into the MTV network which launched on August 1, 1981! 📺 Image by Gregory Voutsas 🙂

he's not flying? #Cat #Cats #Caturday #Catsofbluesky #LifuX

Interesting take about uses for data centers. Not benign.

Funny how legacy media execs blame social media for disinformation - but rarely examine their own industry. This panel included former Australian editor-in-chief, Chris Mitchell. Who conveniently forgot the toxic role played by the Murdoch media in undermining The Voice referendum. #Garma #auspol

ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 4d ago

Media leaders say social media disinformation destroying Indigenous debate

The band in Tompkin's Square today was remarkably good, so I ask who these middle-aged guys are, and it's Ted Leo &, and Ted Leo starts keeping time with the mic against his head, and I think Ah, a sly reference to wilder punk days of long gone youth, until blood starts dripping down his forehead.

Turns out INPEX has "drastically under-reported toxic emissions — including the carcinogen benzene — from its Ichthys LNG plant on Darwin Harbour" Environment Centre NT: "NT EPA's regulation of Inpex & Santos's toxic air pollution under the current licences has been alarmingly slipshod..."

EPA recommends stricter pollution rules for Santos and Inpex

The Northern Territory Environment Protection Authority recommends sweeping changes to the licences of Darwin's two major gas processing companies — Santos and Inpex — following a review triggered by ...

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Yung En Chee@yungenchee.bsky.social · 2mo ago

WTF‼️ NT EPA approves SANTOS venting of carcinogenic benzene & other toxic pollutants directly into Darwin's air from their LNG plant (whilst SANTOS' gas export tank is STILL leaking🤯, see next post if you don't know about that disaster) #WhatPriceGas #EndFossilFuels

Ah, this warms the cockles of my cold, dead heart. Wait til you see the price a TERF had to pay for lying about a trans woman. "...also be required to publish a court-approved apology that must remain pinned on their social media channels for three months" www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/07/an-a...

An anti-trans activist lied about a trans athlete injuring cis women. Now she has to pay the price. - LGBTQ Nation

Kirralie Smith admitted in court she didn't have any evidence to back up her claim about a trans woman injuring two cis women.

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Welcome back, feminist theory of 43 years ago:

Shoe@shoe.bsky.social · 4d ago

Oh

This is in the replies and it demonstrates a real issue which is if you find profundity from an AI, you’re responding to something profound a human being wrote that was vacuumed up and what ends up happening is you thank AI and not only don’t thank the person, you have no idea they were involved

John Herrman@jwherrman.bsky.social · 12mo ago

just checking in with one of the most influential philosophers alive today

"Nothing Moves the Needle." For me, this is one of the most successful attempts to explain what's happened to the fourth estate as Trump and his movement try to wreck it. The essay is long, but worth it for the way writer Craig Unger @craigunger.bsky.social redescribes the crisis in journalism.

Craig Unger@craigunger.bsky.social · 5d ago

@noupside.bsky.social @jayrosen.bsky.social @froomkin.bsky.social The ground journalism was built to stand on stopped being solid under everyone at the same time. Find out why investigative reporting can't touch Trump the way Watergate touched Nixon! craigunger.substack.com/p/nothing-mo...

This woman should be the president. And the current president should be arrested.

“Only the dumbest racist dipshits want anything to do with us” is very dark and also very funny

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 4d ago

Not only did they absolutely beg for this, they made it so that “merit” was synonymous with being white so now you’re stuck with precisely the kind of moron who believes that. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

#Auspol Atlas Network partner ppl tend to scrub their (private) school history. James (Andrew’s son) Bolt scrubbed Scotch College pre career at the IPA. John Roskam = Xavier College. Will Kingston (UK Atlas) boasts of Sydney’s Shore on his. It’s class war. lucyham29.substack.com/p/postscript...

“who counts as rapeable - which is to say, who counts as human” gonna be spinning that in my head for a long while

Sophie Lewis@reproutopia.bsky.social · 6d ago

I have a major piece up today at The Key. It's about Israel, parsing the rape baked into Zionism's core grammar. I speak of trained dogs; Screams Without Words; Sde Teiman; the Tomer-Yerushalmi affair; and the Palestinian Feminist Collective on sexual violence's centrality to reproductive genocide.

“.. The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to U.S. President Donald Trump's family business.” @reuters.com $COF www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Dr Assal Rad— "Fixed it for you @reuters.com."

“Are you a communist?” “No I am an anti-fascist” “For a long time?” “Since I have understood fascism.” – Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

This is INCREDIBLE news

Ada Palmer@adapalmer.bsky.social · 5d ago

Endometriosis takes nine years to diagnose. That’s about to change. NICE has approved two tests: a saliva test reading microRNA markers, and a gut-sensor test returning results in 45 minutes, sparing women the keyhole surgery currently needed. buff.ly/QX3jHk8 #ShareGoodNewsToo

(In fact I once made a video about my long-standing confusion over Going Underground, but I won't be making a similar video about "Navvy" by Pere Ubu because the potential audience is negligible by comparison)

Prove your anti-vaxx credentials by getting measles and polio. Otherwise, shut your stupid pie hole.

" the 1997 Leahy Laws prohibit U.S. aid to any foreign military forces guilty of “gross violations of human rights,” but despite an investigation, as well as innumerable other abuses by Israeli forces in Palestine, they have not been enforced."

Sophie Lewis@reproutopia.bsky.social · 6d ago

"Much of the escalation no longer requires secrecy – it is photographed, filmed, and disseminated by its own perpetrators, turning the thousands of members of Israeli society who daily consume and share the footage into co-participants." www.thekeymagazine.com/p/israel-rap...

That was fast. Google sent me a statement saying it is now “rolling back“ this AI feature after our demonstration and others from OSINT researchers www.404media.co/google-earth...

13. Hence our dismal conclusion: rather than finding that LLMs free us to do a better job of what we were doing before they came along, they shift scientific incentives (and the playing field of academic competition) in ways that compel us to do more and more, faster and faster, less and less well.

🚨 BREAKING: A UN Independent Commission has concluded that Israeli authorities continue to commit genocide in Gaza, citing the deliberate targeting of Palestinian children as key evidence of genocidal intent.

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