Given what we know about Palantir – its carefree devising of remote, automated murder – that it should be associated with the UK health service is truly mind-numbing. Palantir is not to be trusted, And now the UK Labour Party is complicit in this dark enterprise.
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Creeping fascism
I can’t help but see this as ‘creeping fascism’:
It’s not merely the injustice here but the bureaucratic laziness, a wilful torpor, the refusal to even ask the question ‘is this right?’ The willingness to cause hurt; and of course the impact, which is major, on the poor, the powerless victims of indifference (the sort that is encouraged by the likes of Farage and his stoolies) built into the very systems that are supposedly there to provide support.
The Labour government under Starmer is of course where the proverbial buck stops. I always assumed, it turns out naively, that the civil service acted in accord with the government, indeed, was strongly directed by elected policies and strategies, but clearly not. Instead it is a self-serving, covert power centre of weasels. (I am trying to avoid the idea here of a ‘covert state’ – or, as the BigBaby in the Amerikan White House calls it, the Deep State – but it sure feels like an independent hub bureaucratic power.
20 Feb 26
Dunkelflaute (dark lull) – a useful/fun word? Not too significant but tells you about Germany’s situation with respect to energy supply (specifically its reliance on wind power) and from there is its lack of a nuclear energy infrastructure (versus nuclear weapons,which it isn’t contemplating, except indirectly):
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-02-18/germany-has-a-simple-nuclear-decision-to-make
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Palantir: earth devil
Palantir is the ultimate symbol of techno-evil on the planet. Absolutely blood oriented, servile to conquerors and dictators everywhere, greedy and spendthrift.
https://www.ft.com/content/92c3beda-3cb9-4a3b-8563-f869c32bce59
6 Feb 2026
This is one of those fantasies that won’t disappear. The design of ‘cities of the future’ is a techno-fantasy, i.e. the intensive embedding of technology in urban infrastructure. It is usually presented as a hybrid of ‘enhancement’ as well as a ‘solution’ … but people don’t live like this – we like the ragged and the quirky, the private and the park … and above it all is the phenomenon of ‘desire lines’ …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_path
https://www.azuremagazine.com/article/messy-cities-planning-for-an-unplanned-city/
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They, and their lackeys, just won’t stop their cruel appropriation …
https://theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/04/florida-ban-west-bank-schools-state-agencies-bill
5 Feb 2026
It just gets worse … the idea that a childish sleaze bucket like Mandelson not only slurped at Epstein’s trough but also engaged in self- aggrandisement (and took the money) with the most evil tech company is almost too much to contemplate (for by definition dealing with Palantir is dealing with one of the most extreme anti-humanity machines on the planet.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/04/peter-mandelson-palantir-jeffrey-epstein-government
There are many ongoing posts about Palantir and its gangsterish, inhuman attitudes. Here’s one from just a few days ago …
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/03/palantir_lethal_magical_china_middle_east/
Killing people is their business, no matter how they try to soothe it with garbled techno-jumbo
And incidentally (or not) their business is closely linked to the near total collapse of the concept of a Constitution:
https://www.lawdork.com/p/the-minnesota-julie-le-show-cause-transcript?hide_intro_popup=true
There is, gladly, pushback against the gangster government’s use of barely legal squadristi, though as yet no one is attacking Trump directly for his sickening (but easily explained by stupidity) approach to governance
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A serious policy problem, but simple to fix by a change of assumptions, is that “…the future will behave like the past…” . But climate change does not work like that …
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2 Feb 2026
Ethically I don’t like educational elitism which is based on the idea of selecting people (youngsters) according to a menu of policy driven aptitudes and talents … yet it might be a strategy to help the UK counter American imperialism …
https://www.ft.com/content/68f60392-88bf-419c-96c7-c3d580ec9d97
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On that point, it seems to me that the worst case is the self-identifying genius who simply makes money enough to pay other geniuses to make stuff …
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/31/elon-musk-2026-election-donations-00758992
And then, as if to rpve the point that he is more dork than genius up pops this:
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Space travel is different: https://www.m1roofers.co.uk/02-164062-albert-einstein-predicted-it-and-mars/
“What’s actually happening isn’t sci‑fi at all; it’s general and special relativity doing exactly what they’ve always promised to do. On Mars, gravity is about a third of Earth’s. That means spacetime is less “curved”, so time ticks slightly faster on the surface than it does here. Satellites around Mars, flying high and fast, feel their own distortions: special relativity slows them because of their speed, while the weaker gravity speeds them up.
“Put it all together and you get a messy ballet of clocks. Earth time, Martian surface time, orbital time. **Future human crews won’t just carry watches; they’ll live inside a field of shifting seconds**. And every maneuver, landing, and emergency response will depend on tracking those shifts.”
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“…it is puzzling that the question of screen time [used for teaching] in schools is left out of discussions. … No social media ban will compensate for an education system that conditions [students] to turn to screens for every task.”
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Robots that smell:
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-01-smelly-snapshot-current-state-electronic.html
Sinclair Lewis
Reading Sinclair Lewis’s ‘It Can’t Happen Here’. Excellent and timely satirical rendering of Nazism/Fascism. Way too familiar (writing as a UK observer). Prescient? Yes, a lot. Best joke? The president’s surname is ‘Windrip’ and, like ‘Trump’, a euphemism for a noisy, obnoxious fart.
Spoiler alert: good summary here – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Can%27t_Happen_Here
Tom Stoppard,1937-2025
Great line from his play ‘Every Good Boy Deserves Favour’ about Soviet dissidents locked in mental hospitals.
“I have no symptoms, I have opinions,” a patient says at one point.
“Your opinions are your symptoms. Your disease is dissent,” replies his doctor.
It’s a line for today …
Witty and playful writer who took ideas seriously: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c035je2y608o
Shitty network
Post to Blue Sky, 25/11/25
UK is busy scrapping copper land lines. Replacement? An unreliable, always f**king breaking down fibre/copper digital network. A recent visit from Sky to fix my always breaking (rural) connection told me my phone must now be plugged to the router. Result? When network goes down so does the landline!