Week 27

"@mikegalsworthy@mas.to

Andy Burnham is set to kick Palantir out of the NHS"

Good riddance.. war mongering punks

"@HonkHase@chaos.social

After France, Spain is also kicking #Palantir out"

Euronews: "French spy service drops Palantir in favour of French company"

"Greens are now the most popular party among younger Britons, leading among the under-30s and taking as much as 39% of the vote among the 18-24 age group. The left-wing party’s support declines sharply with age, with the #Greens on as little as 4% of the vote among the over-70s."

"@jalefkowit@hachyderm.io

Seven straight hours with a military jet flypast every ten minutes. By Monday the entire population of the DC metro area will have sworn allegiance to the Ayatollah"

"A Denver startup called Koloma.. has spent the past year quietly mapping the rock under Cobb and Kelseyville, in one of California’s poorest counties, for natural hydrogen."

Tuber uses hallucination machine to generate video about music but the fake character cannot pronounce the word bass, /beɪs/, as in guitar, he keeps saying bass (that sounds like pass) as in fish.

It is one thing providing cash infusion for shares to Boeing. It is quite another doing the same for pets.com.

The article fears scientific funding can be politicized.. abuse is possible surely, but we have to accept the scientific enterprise is stuck in a rut. There are "popular avenues" when ppl dabble in them they get rewarded, and once in position of power they reward others for the same. This created a closed-loop system of punishment/reward that someone needs to break. Everywhere you look there are scientific inconsistencies that are not being resolved, and some of the "most promising" methods attempting to solve them failed to do so, one having failed for over 50 years. Who is going to fix this shit? The people who created the problem?

Ars Technica: "Near the end of May, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) proposed a new rule that would govern how the federal government handles the grants it issues, including those that fund the vast majority of scientific research in the US... I identified many potential problems with the rules. They specifically sidelined peer review as the primary measure of scientific merit"

Australia out. Yanks out pretty soon too?

"Egypt coach Hossam Hassan has dedicated his team’s World Cup knockout win over Australia to the people of Palestine"