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  "publishedAt": "2026-02-12T09:09:00.000Z",
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    "mostlysignssomeportents",
    "mostlysignssomeportents",
    "**[https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/12/palantir-is-ice/#robo-mengele",
    "https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/12/palantir-is-ice/#robo-mengele**",
    "https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2026/01/07/palantir-kill-communists/",
    "https://www.thenational.scot/news/25451640.streeting-defends-peter-mandelsons-relationship-jeffrey-epstein/",
    "https://www.opensafely.org/",
    "https://www.digitalhealth.net/2022/04/goldacre-trusted-research-environments/",
    "Keep reading"
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  "textContent": "mostlysignssomeportents:\n\n> mostlysignssomeportents:\n>\n>> ALT\n>>\n>> **If you ’d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:**\n>>\n>> **https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/12/palantir-is-ice/#robo-mengele**\n>>\n>> If you weren’t paying close attention, you might think that the most grotesque and indefensible aspect of Keir Starmer’s Labour government turning over NHS patient records to the American military contractor Palantir is that Palantir are Trumpist war-criminals, “founded to kill communists”:\n>>\n>> https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2026/01/07/palantir-kill-communists/\n>>\n>> And that is indeed grotesque and indefensible, and should have been grounds for Starmer being forced to resign as PM long before it became apparent that he stuffed his government with Epstein’s enablers and chums:\n>>\n>> https://www.thenational.scot/news/25451640.streeting-defends-peter-mandelsons-relationship-jeffrey-epstein/\n>>\n>> But it’s actually _much worse_ than that! It’s not just that Labour hand over Britain’s crown jewels to rapacious international criminals who are deeply embedded in a regime that has directly threatened the sovereignty of the UK. They also passed up a proven, advanced, open, safe, British alternative: the OpenSAFELY initiative, developed by Ben Goldacre and his team at Jesus College Oxford:\n>>\n>> https://www.opensafely.org/\n>>\n>> OpenSAFELY is the latest iteration of Goldacre’s Trusted Research Environment (TRE), arguably the most successful patient record research tool ever conceived. It’s built atop a special server that can send queries to each NHS trust, without ever directly accessing any patient data. Researchers formulate a research question – say, an inquiry into the demographics of the comorbidities of a given disease – and publish it using a modified MySQL syntax on a public git server. Other researchers peer-review the query, assessing it for rigour, and then the TRE farms that query out to each NHS trust, then aggregates all the responses and publishes it, either immediately or after a set period.\n>>\n>> This is a fully privacy-preserving, extremely low-cost, rapid way for researchers to run queries against the full load of NHS patient records, and holy _shit_ does it ever work. By coincidence, it went online just prior to the pandemic, and it enabled an absolute _string_ of blockbuster papers on covid, _dozens_ of them, including several in leading journals like _Nature_ :\n>>\n>> https://www.digitalhealth.net/2022/04/goldacre-trusted-research-environments/\n>>\n>> Keep reading\n>\n> ALT",
  "title": "Doctors’ union may yet save the NHS from Palantir"
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