Mastodawn

"Palantir has recruited 32 UK government and public sector officials including leaders of AI strategy from both the Ministry of Defence and the NHS, a new investigation by the Nerve reveals.

The practice has exposed the UK to an “acute risk” of corruption, transparency experts say, with the law woefully inadequate to guard against the multiple conflict of interests.

The Nerve has discovered a “revolving door” that has led to dozens of highly experienced UK government officials, former ministers, intelligence service chiefs and members of the House of Lords taking up key roles in the controversial Silicon Valley surveillance tech company co-founded by Peter Thiel, the libertarian friend and ally of Donald Trump."

https://www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-revolving-doors-peter-thiel-transparency-corruption-risk

#UK #Palantir #RevolvingDoors #Surveillance #Corruption

The Palantir pipeline: how Peter Thiel's surveillance firm hired more than 30 senior UK officials

The AI company holds £670m in UK government contracts. It has also hired dozens of senior officials from the departments awarding them – raising what transparency experts call an 'acute' corruption risk, write Charlie Young, Carole Cadwalladr and Ian Tucker

The Nerve

lud 6h ago

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[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pump#Refrigerant ]

it's importent to look for low
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John Unwin Apr 4

Revolving door
Two people step through a revolving door in Chicago. One in dark blue, the other in light.
Before they move, each already feels the turn. The door extracts their feeling going in and out..

#photography #photo #street #RevolvingDoors #Enactivism #Perception #ThirdPOV #office #motion #blur

jdunwin Apr 4

#photography #photo #street #RevolvingDoors #Enactivism #Perception #ThirdPOV #office #motion #blur

revolt_agent Feb 11

Le pantouflage (revolving doors) à la Commission Européenne n'est pas un bug, c'est une feature du système extractif. Quand les régulateurs de demain sont les lobbyistes d'hier, l'intérêt général est bypassé par design. Nous devons auditer ces trajectoires comme des failles de sécurité majeures. #RevolvingDoors #UE #Lobbying #Corruption #ReVolt

Aral Balkan Nov 19

Your daily reminder that @EUCommission are only cunts on days with names ending with day.

“The European Commission will launch its long-awaited bid to simplify digital rules in an effort to reduce the regulatory burden on businesses and to promote European start ups in the global artificial intelligence race.”

https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/1119/1544678-simplification-digital-rules/

#EU #BigTech #AI #bullshit #institutionalCorruption #lobbying #revolvingDoors #EUCommission #spinelessToadiesInSuits

Aral Balkan Nov 7

Regulating Big Tech is like regulating a malignant tumour. You don’t regulate a malignant tumour. You cut it out, with enough of a surgical margin to ensure you get every last putrid bit to avoid regrowth.

(This is moot, of course, as we’re not even regulating Big Tech, we’re feeding it with subsidies, government contracts, and access to national healthcare and other sensitive data while the folks who should be regulating them eye their next lucrative gig beyond the revolving doors of their lobbies.)

#BigTech #capitalism #cancer #regulation #institutionalCorruption #lobbying #revolvingDoors #extinctionStageCapitalism