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cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/42114450

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Since 2023, the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation has paid Palantir nearly $4 million to improve its ability to track down payment for the services provided at its hospitals and medical clinics. Palantir, a data analysis firm that’s now a Wall Street giant thanks to its lucrative work with the Pentagon and U.S. intelligence community, deploys its software to make more efficient the billing of Medicaid and other public benefits. That includes automated scanning of patient health notes to “Increase charges captured from missed opportunities,” contract materials reviewed by The Intercept show.

Palantir’s administrative involvement in the business of healing people stands in contrast to its longtime role helping facilitate warfare, mass deportations, and dragnet surveillance.

In 2016, The Intercept revealed Palantir’s role behind XKEYSCORE, a secret NSA bulk surveillance program revealed by the whistleblower Edward Snowden that allowed the U.S. and its allies to search the unfathomably large volumes of data they collect. The company has also attracted global scrutiny and criticism for its “strategic partnership” with the Israeli military while it was leveling Gaza.

But it’s Palantir’s work with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that is drawing the most protest today. The company provides a variety of services to help the federal government find and deport immigrants. ICE’s Palantir-furnished case management software, for example, “plays a critical role in supporting the daily operations of ICE, ensuring critical mission success,” according to federal contracting documents.

“It’s unacceptable that the same company that is targeting our neighbors for deportation and providing tools to the Israeli military is also providing software for our hospitals,” said Kenny Morris, an organizer with the American Friend Service Committee, which shared the contract documents with The Intercept.

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This place used to be full of cars.

https://www.knkx.org/transportation/2025-07-23/pike-place-market-car-ban-foot-traffic-overlook-walk-tourism

black and red my beloveds

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/60478981

Borges alleges that a little-known federal tech team called the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, copied the government’s master Social Security database into a cloud system that lacked normal oversight.

If his account is correct, the mishandling of this information could expose hundreds of millions of people to fraud and abuse for the rest of their lives.

I prepped everything in the morning so that no matter how bad my arm was I could just toss everything together at the last moment.

Cost per person $2

The MSG is under the sesame seeds.

From deadcrabfilms:

In the NGO (non-governmental organization) world, the balance between good intentions and pressure to please the people who write the checks is a constant struggle, and in 2026, that struggle is on full display. As the Epstein files spill out into every living room in America, the industry that promised to stop the very thing that the files show irrefutable evidence of has stayed silent - not to protect victims, but to protect their donors, and protect their own political identities.

Having said that, this post is not meant to discredit the large amount of incredible work any of the organizations named on the above slides have done - it’s meant to show that no good deed goes un-poisoned, and that money and politics trump morals.

Author -> https://www.instagram.com/p/DUsoYF8AFNt/