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Leaked emails link NHS data privatiser Palantir to Jeffrey Epstein (www.thecanary.co)
submitted 1 week ago by AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world
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In 2023, the then-Conservative government awarded Palantir with a £330m contract to “build a new NHS data platform”. The move proved controversial because Palantir is a US spy tech firm and its co-founder Peter Thiel is a prominent Trump donor with links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Now, a trove of leaked emails have shone further light on Thiel’s connections.

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[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 95 points 6 days ago (14 children)

I assume y’all on the other side of the pond are just learning about Palantir for the first time and that’s why you’re looking for bombshell headlines. I can assure you as someone from Silicon Valley that there is literally no single headline that can possibly convey the pure evil that is Peter Thiel. He literally believes that it is morally and, from his perspective, objectively correct that a few pre-selected technocrat elites (his words) should rule city-states that “compete” with each other. He is currently miserably failing at building a libertarian “eutopia” (his words) out in the desert to the east of San Francisco. He promises it would be done by this year. It hasn’t even started.

He founded PayPal and got mad when he immediately learned that banks exist for a reason. He was such a piece of shit that Elon Musk couldn’t work with him.

[–] Tweak@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Dude, the US has been lagging behind the UK for the last decade. We voted for Brexit because of Cambridge Analytica, then you voted Trump for the first time because of Cambridge Analytica. We voted for Boris in 2019, you got Trump again in 2024. We're probably going to vote in Nigel Farage next and then the US will be like "Hold my beer!"

Palantir is just another symptom of this wider problem.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 days ago

Ok, but hear me out: what if we got Nigel Farage in a 10 gallon hat with Liz Truss in a 10 gallon hat for VP.

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[–] blurb@sh.itjust.works 24 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)
[–] end_stage_ligma@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago

It is an ideal belief system for soi-disant libertarians who realize that, regardless of the principles of freedom being the ostensible foundation of their ideology, they are unwilling to tolerate others' enjoyment of freedom.

pretty much

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[–] zeezee@slrpnk.net 17 points 6 days ago

uhm idk who's not familiar with Thiel but the blueprint of his "utopia" - "The Sovereign Individual" was literally co-written by no other than William Rees-Mogg a conservative house of lords cross-bencher who's also the father of two other conservative MPs that have served in the UK Parliament.

the 2014 reprint of the book has a foreword by Thiel, where he says that it's "the most influential book he had read"

so as usual the theoretical frameworks have been drafted in the heart of empire and implemented in the "land of the free"

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Wikipedia classifies him as a "thinker". Does your wiki entry classify you as a thinker? Check and mate, lib.

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Being a "thinker" isn't exactly a high bar. A fish can do it (depending on the definition). I mean I suppose I can think, but I wouldn't brag about it.

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[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Palantir has been here for years and the police, healthcare and MOD already use them.

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

The first time? Hardly, for anyone who can read and find proper news sources. I've been telling people for years that the most dangerous people in the fascist middle northern america are not in the white house, but in the silicon valley - and that the most evil motherfucker is Peter Thiel.

[–] GorGor@startrek.website 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

the desert to the east of San Francisco.

Lol what the fuck? I assume you are taking about California Forever but desert is a weird word to describe the Sacramento River delta. It is one of the largest estuaries in north america.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago

You’re right I mixed up the different cults in my head.

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 6 days ago

I can assure you as someone from Silicon Valley that there is literally no single headline that can possibly convey the pure evil that is Peter Thiel. He literally believes that ...

Fuck, you spoiled my plan to drop a nuke there.

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[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 24 points 5 days ago

It's 100% safe to assume anyone who even leans in the direction of supporting supply-side economics is a diddler.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 67 points 6 days ago

It’s somehow always the ones you suspect.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 30 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I'm shocked the rich people setting up automated global fascism also fuck children.

[–] PlasmaTrout@lemmy.wtf 7 points 6 days ago

They fuck everybody, just in different ways :)

[–] cute_noker@feddit.dk 6 points 6 days ago

Flabbergasted even

[–] Bucky@hardpass.lol 31 points 6 days ago

Will be adding this info to http://epsteinsfriends.info/ shortly

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 32 points 6 days ago

Why am I not fucking surprised?

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 33 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

Its cofounder Peter Thiel is basically a doomsday culter who wants to be the one to herald doomsday for most of the population.

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[–] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If only people didn't like Pedophiles and billionaires destroying our daily lives....

[–] Akasazh@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Well people did worry about these, but they blamed the other administration and actuallly voted in the pedophiles. Deeply ironic.

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 46 points 6 days ago (6 children)

I find this very hard to believe, he's such a good boy and helps grannies cross the street.

I think it's time we send some F-16s to fire missiles at Chinese weather balloons, our real enemies.

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[–] sad_detective_man@leminal.space 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

as a rule I don't subscribe to theories related to the blood libel myth but if there was a dude to try injecting children's's blood into his blood to prolong his own life, it's probably this psycho. the dude needs a straight jacket and glands removed. not government contracts.

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 28 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I mean…

In 2016, various media outlets reported that Mr Thiel had links to the radical life extension startup Ambrosia, with Gawker claiming he "spends $40,00 per quarter to get an infusion of blood from an 18-year-old based on research conducted at Stanford on extending the lives of mice."

These reports cited his investment portfolio, together with a 2009 essay that laid out his philosophical and political beliefs. In it, he wrote that he stood against "the ideology of the inevitability of the death of every individual."

However the blood transfusion claims were never verified and Gawker shut down shortly after following an unrelated lawsuit partly funded by Mr Thiel.

[–] sad_detective_man@leminal.space 16 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

bro what the fuck, I was joking. what even is this reality

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[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago

It's always the people you most expect huh

[–] TwoDogsFighting@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 days ago

Shocked I am. Absolutely shocked.

[–] bathing_in_bismuth@sh.itjust.works 12 points 6 days ago (2 children)

And he has the fucking audacity to five a four part lecture about the antichrist. The nerves

[–] tankplanker@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

Does he put forward his case that he is the anti christ? As he sure comes across as someone who would want that. He has always felt like the sort of motherfucker who would read the Stand and identify with Randall Flagg

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

but it is always them: either over-compensation or target misdirection

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 days ago

Of course the UK wants to deal with palantir, they want a surveillance state. They have always wanted a surveillance state there

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 days ago

Even worse, Palantir is linked to Peter Thiel.

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