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Palantir is shifting profits from its European operations to the U.S., allowing the Florida-based data analytics giant to pay minimal taxes in Europe, a new report finds.

Palantir funnels earnings to US to avoid European taxes, report findsA new study finds that Palantir, which boasts of high profit margins in the U.S., barely scrapes a margin in Europe, which helps slash its tax bill.www.politico.eu

-Punched his pregnant girlfriend. -Said he would rape the kids if he was a schoolteacher. -Said chiild sex abuse porn should be legal. Allison Pearson in the Telegraph...

The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.

This wasn’t how it was supposed to be… The tragic truth is that, as some of us warned a decade ago, mainstream climate science has turned out to be the opposite of alarmist. It has turned out to be complacent and over-optimistic. Truthfulness - and strategic adaptation - are urgent. (Pse repost.)

They got what they paid for

Period tracker: knows when you're ovulating, when you're stressed, when you might be pregnant. Also your period tracker: selling that to an analytics firm, allegedly. 👀Nothing Personal's recent report on period trackers now live mzl.la/4pF2WCA

Period and Ovulation Apps Privacy Review 2026: Is Your Period Tracker Safe?We tested six popular period and ovulation tracker apps to find out how they handle your private health data. Our privacy expert Shoshana Wodinsky did hands-on testing of 6 popular period tracking app...mzl.la

There is always a human responsible Principle '"The algorithm did it" is not an acceptable excuse if algorithmic systems make mistakes or have undesired consequences, including from machine-learning processes' Claims www.bbc.com/news/article... www.bbc.com/news/article... #AI @abeba.blacksky.app

Anthropic says Claude AI hacked three organisations during cyber testsIt comes just days after rival OpenAI said rogue AI agents had breached other firms' networks.www.bbc.com

SIPTU has reaffirmed that it will support any member who, on grounds of conscience, refuses to participate in the hosting, servicing or facilitation of the upcoming UEFA Nations League fixtures involving the Irish and Israeli national football teams. https://bit.ly/4cdpEw2

SIPTU supports workers' boycott of Israel fixtures and calls on Government to cancel gamesWhen facing an attempt to sportswash a genocide, workers have a right to act in accordance with their conscience and should not face disciplinary action.www.siptu.ie

This is going to make it very difficult to know which sports we should ban them from.

But that conversation cannot be just about the technological project of AI, it must recognize and center the much broader political projects of AI. This includes AI's anti-working class politics... 15/

This is not happening in a void. It is challenging but we must acknowledge the 🐘 in the room: Big Tech / Silicon Valley's growing alignment with authoritarian actors across the globe and their complicity in building digital infrastructure used for large scale human rights abuses and oppression. 11/

We must also remember that IR systems collect huge amounts of personal data on users (their search queries, clicked links to websites, keystrokes and mouse-movements, etc.) and make them available to be retrieved by corporate and government actors constituting powerful mode of user surveillance. 8/

How did we start with such grand ambitions but end up realizing infrastructure for surveillance and manipulation? And if this is where we are today, I quipped "where are we heading?" After posing that question, I cheekily played one of my favorite scenes from the film "Brazil" (1985). 6/

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The provocation for this talk was: "How can IR be a force for societal good?". I chose to begin by reflecting on one of IR's inconvenient truths: Our work is often motivated by grand ambitions about information access but IR has been a testing ground for user surveillance and attention farming. 5/

The topic of societal impact of technology is saliently political. So, it's challenging to talk about this in a community like IR that historically has tried to view its work as apolitical. I chose to foreground this tension at the start of the talk to encourage authentic reflection and dialog. 4/

Like many others in the field, I am trained in information retrieval (IR) and machine learning (ML). But my research has also been informed by my lived experiences—growing up in Kolkata, working as an immigrant in USA/UK/Canada, organizing for social justice within the Southasian diaspora, etc. 3/

Last week I presented a keynote at #SIGIR2026 titled "Emancipatory Information Retrieval: Towards Critical IR Theories and Practices". Slides: bhaskar-mitra.github.io/files/emanci... I went in nervously excited but several people appreciated talking openly about this topic. A quick thread. 🧵 1/

Elon Musk, owner of X, has called the editor of the Economist "a traitor to the West, plain and simple" after her recent interview with him. He now argues that "anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor" Musk has been socialising violence since Aug25: "fight or die, that's what it comes down to"

Libraries are still essential in the digital age. Some librarians are even helping patrons ditch AI and get off Big Tech. This week Hannah Cyrus and @flexlibris.bsky.social join @parismarx.com to discuss how libraries address people’s concerns about tech. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/338_...

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