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7 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Apr 2025

NHS staff resist using Palantir software

AnonContractor

Re: Wouldn't matter who it was

Failed 'because of the unions' my arse. It failed because it was run by a secretive contol-freak angry short bald man with no idea about health-care, who got the job because he impressed Tony Blair by installing some CCTV cameras around London on schedule.

Not the greatest basis to chose someone.

They tied to impose the same workflows across an organisation of 1.2M people which runs on a federated model. Absolutely insane.

Why AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation

AnonContractor

Re: There is something deeply unsatisfying about reading words that nobody wrote

After nearly 30 years managing project and programmes and minuting, I estimate, over 10,000 meetings, you'll be prizing that AI writing my minute and actions for me [which I obviously check dilligently same/next day], out of my cold, dead hands.

Once they got more than 85% accurate, it became life-changing for me. Freeing up time to actually plan, communicate and manage projects, restoring joy.

Nobody reads them anyway, unless a wheel comes off somewhere, and there they sit, searchable on MS Teams.

That's another thing that effing brilliant, issue comes up, search Teams.. and there are the minutes, chat or transcript notes... total game-changer.

Beats sifting through flies with 200 sequentially numbered faxes, like I was on my first big project.

Finally comfortable letting go [to an extent] and managing agilely. The paragdigm shift was thinking of myself as a content creator / curator. Recordings, images, musings, logs, test results, get it all on Teams in one searchable bucket.

Manchester hits snooze again on joining Palantir-run NHS data platform

AnonContractor

Re: Waiting for evidence?

Or the Pay Pal Mafia..

VodafoneThree to offshore UK network jobs to India

AnonContractor

Re: Offshoring a key part of your telecommunications networks

We've already off-shored the government to the highest bidder[s]

- Russia when the Tories were in power

- The-Country-That-Cannot-Be-Named now Labour are in power

When I was in Turkey years ago I marvelled at all the conspiracy theories and pro-this and pro-that groups jockeying for power

Since leaving the EU we are being tossedm, and sunk, by the same tides..

Shield AI shows off not-at-all-terrifying autonomous VTOL combat drone

AnonContractor
Terminator

Re: AI-written PR slop?

A very expensive clay pigeon?

Breathe easy: Apple Watch can read your oxygen levels again

AnonContractor

What I'm really hoping for is that someday someone figures out a way to do blood pressure in a watch

They do exist...

Aktiia now Hilo - FDA and CE approved

https://hilo.com/uk/blood-pressure-monitor/?msclkid=935d7a3b6a591ef010b4128b5ee9b676&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=GBR-EN%7CSRC%7CBRD%7CAktiia%7CEXM&utm_term=aktiia&utm_content=Aktiia%3A%20Core

Huwai, Samsung

https://digitalhealthcoachuk.net/are-wearables-accurate-for-monitoring-your-blood-pressure-heres-what-you-need-to-know/

Europe's cloud customers eyeing exit from US hyperscalers

AnonContractor
Mushroom

Your own tin wins - every time

I've never bought into this 'cloud' nonsense with it's confectionary of contracts.

Give me something I can touch.

I can trust that.