If a Wrong Decision Can Be Made, Depend upon America to Make It
Another cloudless morning in Prague, recovering as best we can from yet another car breakdown on the way to our tiny summer house, having my morning coffee and browsing the headlines.
Trump Threatens to Expand Strikes on Iran’s Civilian Infrastructure, so says my Guardian UK headline. “US president says he will knock out all power plants and bridges in effort to force Tehran to agree to deal amid impasse over strait.” Apparently, in his unprovoked and unnecessary war in Iran, our man in the Oval Office plans to follow Israel’s model of killing civilians.
Meta used AI to tag workers who took leave to be laid off, lawsuit claims. Over in the ‘child runs a company, department’ (a growing list of billionaire kids running conglomerates), Zuckerberg, who is hip-deep in the AI race, is accused of using it for what everyone fears.
I investigated Palantir’s foothold in the British state – and what I found should worry us all. “Paid-for political access and threadbare regulations have helped to em…