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Submission + - DHS billion-dollar contract with Palantir (wired.com)

sinij writes:

According to contracting documents published last week, the blanket purchase agreement (BPA) awarded "is to provide Palantir commercial software licenses, maintenance, and implementation services department wide." The agreement simplifies how DHS buys software from Palantir, allowing DHS agencies like Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to essentially skip the competitive bidding process for new purchases of up to $1 billion in products and services from the company.

People with "nothing to hide" approach to privacy should start rethinking their position.

Comment Re:Judical independence (Score 1) 201

You, just like Ketanji Brown Jackson, cannot even define your terms. This is because your arguments depend on equivocation, the moment I force you to define your terms is the moment it becomes obvious that you are talking nonsense.

Ketanji Brown Jackson failed to define what is a woman - an adult human female - because doing so undermines a core misdirection at the root of trans ideology, that a human male can transition and become a human female (and vice versa). Maybe in the future we will have technology to do that, but in 2026 the best you can do is get part way there, well short of the goal. This shortcoming does not mean that everyone has to agree on redefining all our social norms.

Comment Re:Judical independence (Score 1) 201

Trying to pretend that issue is settled is blatant gaslighting. There is absolutely no consensus and the radical left is trying to force it closed on their terms. Sex is biological, binary, and has significant physiological differences, you can't pretend that it is the same thing as your self-identity and act as if you can become the opposite sex.

Comment Re:So if this was a sane Court (Score 1) 201

I wish what you observed was limited to only OP's posting. However, it is clear to me that there are fewer actual people involved than personalities. I have a hard time believing there are many people in tech that are THAT rabidly partisan. The shared cultural roots of being a nerd, work that constantly exposes you to ego-checking "it just doesn't work" situations, necessity of continuous self-education to stay current in a rapidly evolved field, etc., etc. enables and causes a degree of pragmatism. Which is completely absent in that poster.

Comment Re:Judical independence (Score 0) 201

Why should a Supreme Court Judge be asked such a stupid question?

Because there is a high chance she is going to rule on some law according to her definition of what is a woman. "Everyone knows" is not a workable definition when SCOTUS reviewing a case when someone claims gender-based discrimination. The fact that you are not getting this and had to ask a question shows how far left your views drifted.

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