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Re: ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data

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Post by hobs »

fastball wrote: post #344
jayd16 wrote: post #249

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Pam Bondi is now demanding voter rolls. It's clearly about suppressing liberal voters in liberal areas through a show of force. They're using this data to optimize who to harass.

How does that work? As a US citizen, no amount of "harassment" is going to stop me from voting.

Wrong https://www.americanhistory.si.edu/explore/exhibitions/ameri...

There has been many ways to stop you from voting, contesting your vote, calling your registration into account, imitating tests that are impossible to validate if you are intelligent enough to vote, etc

Spend some time educating yourself on how voting suppression has worked historically and you wont sound so ignorant.

Re: ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data

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Post by dfdf2 »

KennyBlanken wrote: post #572
neilv wrote: post #287

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That questionable-sounding stunt by the media outlet wasn't comparable: Google/Alphabet knows much more about individuals than addresses, salary, and political donations. Google/Alphabet knows quite a lot about your sentiments, what information you've seen, your relationships, who can get to you, who you can get to, your hopes and fears, your economic situation, your health conditions, assorted kompromat, your moveme…

The research that kicked off Google was funded by US intelligence orgs. Stop pretending like Schmidt was or is "one of the good guys." They all knew from day one what the score was.

Hes def not a good guy lmao.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/37457418/eric-schmidt-mistress...

Re: ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data

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Post by AndrewKemendo »

jacquesm wrote: post #565
AndrewKemendo wrote: post #532

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100% that is exactly what happened and in public Just invoking Richard Stallman will prove it because the smear campaign on him was so thorough. Linus seems to be the only one that made it out.

And barely so.

No doubt

Re: ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data

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Post by cthalupa »

iso1631 wrote: post #261
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #59

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Anyone on the right who implicates Pretti for carrying a licensed firearm is a good litmus test for bad faith.

I assume the NRA are out in droves at a US citizen being executed for carrying a gun?

They are not where I would hold them to if they were truly a principled organization and not largely a political tool for the far-right on any and every talking point, but we got far more out of them than we usually do.

They publicly called out a Trump appointee for saying you're not allowed to bring a gun to a protest, and have urged that there be an investigation in to what occurred.

They also then blamed it on the MN government, because for some reason CBP (250 miles from a border, and thus 150 miles away from their remit...) pretending to be police officers when they also lack a remit to do that and them then fucking things up and murdering people because of the lack of remit, lack of training, lack of screening on the hiring... is because of Walz and co.

So... better than I expected, but still pretty dogshit.

Re: ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data

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Post by nailer »

daveguy wrote: post #509
nailer wrote: post #454

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Maybe you should change the channel from Fox News, NewsMax and "apolitical" forums. It is happening everywhere dumpty and his goon squad decides to make it happen. Do you not realize these ICE agents are Federal agents? Sure, completely incompetent, racists that choose to join so they can go after immigrants (legal or otherwise) with cover, but officially sanctioned Federal agents nonetheless. Your ignorance and acce…

Do you have reports of serious incidents between members of the public and federal agents in Florida as you allege or are you just on HN to insult people but not actually respond to their arguments? If so, what happened?

Re: ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data

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Post by cthalupa »

2snakes wrote: post #161
hackyhacky wrote: post #131

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Writing papers is not the same as being an intellectual. The Heritage Foundation certainly publishes, but they don't have a coherent ideology. Project 2025 is not an work of political philosophy, it's just a roadmap for seizing power at all costs.

"What are we to infer from Oakeshott's favoured 'cook' metaphor?First, that conservatism is about doing, and about understandingwhat one is doing, not about thinking in the sense of planningwhat to do.12 Second, that conservatism is unreflective to the extent that it does not deal with packages of coherent ideas abouthuman beings and their societies, but is a method of recognizingreality through experiencing it, inte…

Trying to map the current Republican party, despite calling themselves conservatives, to anything that Freeden would recognize in 98 does not seem to be particularly productive.

Re: ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data

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Post by cthalupa »

nailer wrote: post #291
plagiarist wrote: post #9

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The same people saying that will also defend police wearing masks, hiding badges, and shutting off body cameras. They are not participating in discussions with the same values (truth, integrity) that you have. Logic does not work on people who believe Calvinistic predestination is the right model for society.

Police absolutely should have body cameras - quite frequently they’ve proven law enforcement officers handled things correctly where activists have tried to say otherwise.

This is true.

Yet law enforcement officers are some of the most resistant to the idea, and Trump and DHS are extremely resistant to the idea of utilizing them for ICE and CBP, and have even cut funding for it.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-moved-cut-funding-ice...

When we know that the body cams are frequently used in a way that benefits the people wearing them, I find it quite telling when those people are railing against the idea and those in power actively work to block it.

Re: ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data

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Post by cranberryturkey »

simonw wrote: post #2

Any time I see people say "I don't see why I should care about my privacy, I've got nothing to hide" I think about how badly things can go if the wrong people end up in positions of power. The classic example here is what happens when someone is being stalked by an abusive ex-partner who works in law enforcement and has access to those databases. This ICE stuff is that scaled up to a multi-billion dollar federal agen…

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Re: ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data

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Post by dfdf2 »

peyton wrote: post #506
neilv wrote: post #287

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That questionable-sounding stunt by the media outlet wasn't comparable: Google/Alphabet knows much more about individuals than addresses, salary, and political donations. Google/Alphabet knows quite a lot about your sentiments, what information you've seen, your relationships, who can get to you, who you can get to, your hopes and fears, your economic situation, your health conditions, assorted kompromat, your moveme…

Having met him one time he seemed like just a really intense dude who embodied the chestnut “the CEO is the guy who walks in and says ‘I’m CEO’.” I dunno if there’s more to it than that.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/37457418/eric-schmidt-mistress...

erm hes a creep, claimed to be rapist... not many redeemable qualities.

Re: ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data

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Post by terminalshort »

EngineerUSA wrote: post #186

Palantir is interesting. Founded by a closeted German, run by an Israeli operative, and a 3rd arm of the federal gov. I wish we could prosecute it in my lifetime for the numerous violations of privacy it undertakes, but the world does not work that way. The rich enjoy private jets subsidized by our hard-earned taxes, while violating ideals held by our Founding fathers (for what would Thiel or the current CEO know abo…

Palantir will never be prosecuted because they don't actually engage in any violations of privacy themselves or take possession of any data. They just sell software that enables it. And their main customer is the people who do the prosecuting. For the government prosecuting Palantir would be an admission of guilt, so it will never happen.
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