Gentleman Adventurer

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[Gentleman Adventurer @anglogent]

@viajoshhunt I keep really wanting one!

[Louis Mosley @louismosley]

Thank you @FT for publishing my letter on a common (occasionally wilful) misunderstanding about Palantir software: no UK government data ever leaves the UK. Ever.

[Louis Mosley @louismosley]

@ZackPolanski - this is magnificent. Three things I can’t deny:

1. It is a video.
2. You are wearing a jacket.
3. Then you aren’t.
4. Then you are again.

Unfortunately that’s where the accuracy ends.

A few corrections for you:

Peter Thiel is not our CEO. Alex Karp is — and has been for 20+ years. (A lifelong Democrat, for anyone keeping score.)

We are not a “spyware company.” Spyware is malware. Malware is illegal. Calling a software company spyware is, technically, defamatory (don’t worry, we are not suing).

We don’t build surveillance technology. We build software that helps organisations make sense of data they already hold. Not the same thing.

There was no “private tour” of our HQ. There was a public photocall to which the media came. Hence, why there are so many pictures of the event.

Our MOD contract is not “the biggest defence contract in UK history.” Ajax armoured vehicles = £5.5bn. Dreadnought submarines = £31bn. We’re grateful for the work, but let’s keep a sense of scale.

We have no more access to NHS data than Microsoft has to the contents of your Word documents. I think you know this by now.

We don’t have access to patient medical records. Same story.

I agree that “nothing matters more than our health.” Which makes it worth reminding you of what Palantir’s software is actually doing in the NHS right now:

->110,000 additional operations
->15% fewer delayed hospital discharges
->7% more patients finding out within 28 days whether they have cancer

Respect again for what you did with that jacket.

[Gentleman Adventurer @anglogent]

@historydefined This is only 8 years after the end of ww2. Imagine if the war had dragged on and the western front was just countries lobbing nukes at each other.

[Gentleman Adventurer @anglogent]

BREAKING: Labour to force asylum seekers to sell a kidney to pay for deportation…

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: Shabana Mahmood will tomorrow announce that asylum seekers will have their valuable assets like jewellery seized and sold to pay for their accommodation costs

[@TheSun]

[Gentleman Adventurer @anglogent]

@ThatGarthGuy @CoKeynesian If we ended up with a president, they would surely just be ceremonial? No need for Buckingham palace.

[Gentleman Adventurer @anglogent]

@ScholarshipfPhd Hi

[Gentleman Adventurer @anglogent]

@tomhfh I don’t think people should be having kids they can’t afford but also don’t think any kids should be living in poverty. I don’t know what the solution is.

[Gentleman Adventurer @anglogent]

@PopfictionPeeRr @CrankyGuardian @binkxbt @Arbeitologist Yes we are. But the solution is not to tax people earning £84k. I genuinely think anyone earning under £150k needs to be protected, and tax the (actual) wealthy.

[Gentleman Adventurer @anglogent]

@jimthegiant I don’t think either are a great option for business owners to be honest.

[Gentleman Adventurer @anglogent]

@PopfictionPeeRr @binkxbt @Arbeitologist That’s insane? Every single place I’ve worked, the managers have been on £75k+. What kind of place do you work in?

[Gentleman Adventurer @anglogent]

@AaronBastani I don’t know why we did stuff like this… Streetlamps, phone boxes, we literally had the best designs and decided to change it.

[Gentleman Adventurer @anglogent]

The issue is that we won’t have better public services. In 4 years time, you will notice that nothing has improved. The NHS will still be on its knees, the roads will still be peppered with pot holes, we will have regular hose pipe bans, and the government will be harping on about a black hole in the public finances caused by the last government. Nothing changes.

[Gentleman Adventurer @anglogent]

@s8mb I think we need strict design codes that keep new homes in character, but absolutely don’t think a neighbour should have a say in what someone else’s house looks like

[Gentleman Adventurer @anglogent]

@db_fink What kind of apps?

[Gentleman Adventurer @anglogent]

@PippyBing They literally act like Israel/Gaza is the absolute most pressing issue in British politics. I understand that it’s important to them, but fucking hell, we have so many problems of our own that they could focus on.

[Gentleman Adventurer @anglogent]

@kiwibrett @Telegraph @gordonrayner I’m a working person and would benefit enormously from tax cuts. An extra couple of hundred quid in the bank each month would make a bigger differennce to me than anything else.

[Gentleman Adventurer @anglogent]

@don68613607 @JACKGUYANDERTON Haha no worries, just didn’t want to be accidentally thought of as a green 😂

[Gentleman Adventurer @anglogent]

@don68613607 @JACKGUYANDERTON Why is that unfortunate for me?