US spy-tech firm Palantir was a shoo-in for a multi-million-pound NHS contract months before the deal was signed, emails obtained by openDemocracy appear to show.

The email exchange from 2020, in which senior #NHS executives discussed the budget for a new national data platform, sees more than one person referring to #Palantir as the recipient of the funding.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/nhs-palantir-contract-emails-reveal-plan-win-multi-million-pound/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=newsie_social&utm_content=palantir_shoe_in

#UK #UKGov #Health #DavidDavis #PeterTheil #CoriCrider #Foxglove #RachaelMaskell #Labour #Conservatives #UKpol

New episode of the Insurance vs History Podcast is out TODAY! How can insurance save a company from bankruptcy? How does litigation funding work? Why did a lawsuit about a famous wrestler’s sex tape become a warning to journalists everywhere about the power of Silicon Valley? Join me for a discussion of the court case funded by Peter Theil that bankrupted an online news organization: Hulk Hogan vs Gawker! #insurance #insurancevshistory #insurancehistory #HulkHogan #Gawker #PeterTheil

@OutOnTheMoors

#JDVance's VC firm (Narya Capital) is invested in #Rumble. #PeterTheil, too. Their money went in, it was made a big deal of, and the top-name #GOP right-wingers followed.

More "Freedom of Speech" 🙄

Both invested in 2021, a year before the company went public.

The person most responsible for the dismantling #democracy in the US is not
#DonaldTrump
#KochBrothers
#VladiirPutin
#ElonMusk
#PeterTheil

It is
#BarreSeid
I got zero on hashtags when I just wrote his name.

A chicken and egg conundrum: does being super rich turn you into a repugnant sociopath or do you have to be a repugnant sociopath to become super rich?
#ElonMusk #JeffBezos #PeterTheil Anybody?

#PeterTheil, another #Crypto grifter, running away from it while telling others to run towards it.

Again for those in the back - #Cryptocurrency is a ponzi scheme based around Greater Fool theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory

#CryptoClownCar

New from our blog: Why Christians Should Not Make Fun of #BlockFi or Its Investors: a guest opinion from our beloved benefactor #PeterTheil

#cryptocurrencies #finance

I want #journalists to consider this when reporting on peopke like #musk #petertheil or #zuckerberg or even economic news related to neoliberal economists. They are the "competition is for losers; get to monopoly" posse. They are ideologically bound to dictatorship and monopoly. You think your life will be unaffected by them or by white washing with them anodyne descriptions? Hav you watched as the news industry is hollowed out? You think Hungary can't come to the US?

@cstross it's also rich man's disease where monomaniacal ideation is a cultural heritage and of course he's a techbro homie of #PeterTheil 's posse. You've heard of him? He is the totalitarian monopolist dismantling our republic in order to rule on its ashes.

@lauren It’s funny how if #Musk runs into a bit of reality he doesn’t like, he rejects it and (tries to) substitute his own.

But understand the tech bro posse he rides with is lead by #PeterTheil who is decidedly anti democratic and anti-capitalist. He is directly quoted saying “competition is for losers”. His goal is to dismantle the republic and rule on its ashes thru #totalitarian #monopoly (Mussolini’s version of fascism basically). The crypto bros and Zuckerberg are also members.

@micahflee Authoritarians gonna authoritarian.

His tech bro posse mob leader #PeterTheil hates #democracy and is driven to have totalitarian monopolies replace government. This is no exaggeration. He is on video saying as much.

#Twitter is undergoing a digital pogrom. Lord help us if they evolve to the physical stage.