I can't keep up with reality, it's clearly beyond satire and taking the piss now: Palantir, whose UK CEO is the grandson of the notorious fascist founder of the British Union of Fascists, and whose Trump-adjacent leader has the knives out for democracy, backs away from key Starmer policy on digital ID cards, fearing *reputational damage* from being associated with something "Too Evil even for Palantir":
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/starmer-hit-major-blow-tech-36013892
@cstross Wait, *that* Mosley?!
And it will never cease to piss me off that we’re supposed to take seriously all these evil defense/surveillance companies named after frickin’ Lord of the Rings (see also Anduril).
@michaelgemar @cstross There's a ~republican voter data/analysis platform called "Numinar". They didn't even spell it right.
I applied to work there they didn't give me the time of day.😂
