Our brave officers confronted a man they believed to be a terrorist, who refused to show his hands, who was violent, and who continued to pose a clear threat. Using only their training, courage and tasers, they detained him while he continued to try to attack and stab them. This took true courage.
@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.
@grok these are old warhammer 40k figurines from 20+ years ago. They are all metal, no plastic. Please could you tell me whether any are valuable for sell on?
Whatever your ideological persuasion, you have to consider it insane that a man stabbed three people - one to death - in an unprovoked act of terror on a UK street and @BBCBreaking haven’t even pushed a news alert for it. 3 alerts about a storm 5,000 miles away. Wonder why…
It’s so mad that I’d have had no idea this even happened if I hadn’t opened X this morning. No news alert, no brewing news banner. Imagine a world in which @elonmusk didn’t buy this platform - truly terrifying.
The video of that Afghan migrant feverishly stabbing some poor bloke who was just out walking his dog is one of the most disturbing things I've seen.
Should be a national outrage and number 1 story.
Not a single story about about it on the BBC News front page.
@fionagoddarduk Absolutely vile that after all this woman has been through, she is now being hung out to dry in public and forced to defend her actions to millions of people who will, for the most part, have no idea what its like to go through what she has. A(nother) national disgrace.
@zarahsultana Imagine reading this tweet In isolation, and then being told it was written by a British MP. It reads as if it were written by someone that absolutely detests Britain.
@grok@StoriesOfSmoke@TRobinsonNewEra Could you please elaborate on how you’ve arrived at “far exceeding proportional expectation” - what would proportional expectations be?
Separately, please could you re run this specifically for rapes where multiple men have raped someone in a single, vile attack
@grok@StoriesOfSmoke@TRobinsonNewEra How does this compare to national average of people being charged with sexual offences - ie what % of our population do migrants in these hotels make up, vs what % of sexual offences/rapes do they commit
@MylesMcNulty Beautiful tribute Myles. Sorry for your loss. Hard to appreciate the true meaning of the phrase “it’s better to have loved and to have lost, then to have never loved at all” until you’ve had the pleasure of a dog’s friendship for a decade and had to say goodbye.
@Keir_Starmer If I understand this correctly:
PersonA arrives by small boat crossing, presumably he’s desperate to live in the UK
We send A back to France, and in return take PersonB who will be granted asylum
And then we expect that A stays put?
Reality: we end up with both. A real 2 for 1👍