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  1. "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."

    thenerve.news/p/palantir-revol

    #UK #Palantir #RevolvingDoors #Surveillance #Corruption

  2. 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

  3. 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

  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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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.”

    rte.ie/news/2025/1119/1544678-

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

  8. 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.”

    rte.ie/news/2025/1119/1544678-

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

  9. 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.”

    rte.ie/news/2025/1119/1544678-

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

  10. 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.”

    rte.ie/news/2025/1119/1544678-

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

  11. 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.”

    rte.ie/news/2025/1119/1544678-

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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. @gigi I guess that would depend, in part, on how many folks at @EUCommission are looking to work at those corporations as their next gig.

    #institutionalCorruption #revolvingDoors

  18. @gigi I guess that would depend, in part, on how many folks at @EUCommission are looking to work at those corporations as their next gig.

    #institutionalCorruption #revolvingDoors

  19. (13/N) The sixth, and last, category of adversaries:

    “They”

    “They” want to define boundaries and acceptable behavior for the masses, as well as monitor compliance on a large scale, and enforce it on an individual level.

    As a consequence, permanent mass #surveillance of all types of assets is a means of monitoring the compliance of the majority, and of detecting deviant behavior. Legalizing more and more monitoring options becomes a goal, including international partnerships on information exchange. Depriving you of your assets, temporarily or permanently, is a means of enforcing your compliance or obedience. The mere threat of this can be sufficient to create a #ChillingEffect.

    State-sponsored actors (such as hacker groups) and nation-state threat actors (in the form of intelligence services, law enforcement, censorship offices, and other #government agencies) fall into this category. It also includes #companies that have either a monopoly, or a significant share of an oligopolistic market, or portfolio of services specifically targeted at the public sector.

    While the entities in this category may seem wildly heterogeneous at first, remember that there are #RevolvingDoors between them, for swapping their respective “ex” members. Beyond lobbying, there is also a complex, ongoing collaboration between many of them, which has been described as “grey intelligence”, “grey policing”, “public-private partnership”, etc.

    Start of this thread:
    mastodon.de/@tuxwise/113503228

    #ThreatModeling #4D

  20. 🚨 #revolvingdoors alert! Timmermans' chief of staff, Diederik Samsom, has moved to Gasunie.

    Samsom had a key role in far-reaching policies including #EGD and Gasunie benefited from gas being kept a transitional fuel and public money for #falsesolutions #hydrogen #ccs

    ❤️‍🔥 We need #FossilFreePolitics

  21. Dois funcionários da Meta (Facebook) passaram a ser eurodeputados #RevolvingDoors

  22. Former #Meta head of public policy Aura Salla is coming back to Brussels as an MEP. We'll closely observe if she represents the public interest in the European Parliament or not and how often she meets her former colleagues. Lobby meetings now need to be disclosed by all MEPs. #revolvingdoors #lobbying #transparency

  23. Post election time: in the coming weeks, we as lobby watchdogs will closely be watching outgoing & incoming MEPs, Commissioners & Commission officials to disclose possible conflicts of interest. Please reach out if you have any hints. @lobbyctrl_tech @corporateeurope #revolvingdoors

  24. If you don’t understand:

    - The profit motive.

    - Slowly boiling frogs.

    - Institutional corruption (the influence of corporate finance in political decision-making – i.e., lobbying and revolving doors).

    You will keep getting surprised over and over gain by what corporations and the politicians bought by the corporations do.

    #crapitalism #capitalism #institutionalCorruption #revolvingDoors #followTheMoney #lobbying

  25. Corporations: just let us regulate ourselves, it’ll be fine…

    Also corporations: old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comme

    Regulate the absolute living crap out of the these bastards. (But who’s going to when the folks who should be regulating are having drinks with them at the pub every evening and eyeing their next gigs at them?*)

    * Did you know Google’s lobbying offices are literally round the corner from the European Parliament?

    #regulation #selfRegulation #lobbying #revolvingDoors #institutionalCorruption

  26. #auspol #ArmsDealers #Thales #HomeAffars #revolvingDoors #GovernmentSecrets
    #Lobbyists #Corruption

    “There’s a matter that’s literally unfolding as this debate is unfolding and that’s in the office for the minister of home affairs, where the chief of staff for the minister for home affairs is in the process of moving … from that powerful position as a senior adviser to taking a government relations job with the international arms manufacturer Thales,” Shoebridge told the Senate.

    From: @br00t4c
    mastodon.social/@br00t4c/11106

  27. #auspol #ArmsDealers #Thales #HomeAffars #revolvingDoors #GovernmentSecrets
    #Lobbyists #Corruption

    “There’s a matter that’s literally unfolding as this debate is unfolding and that’s in the office for the minister of home affairs, where the chief of staff for the minister for home affairs is in the process of moving … from that powerful position as a senior adviser to taking a government relations job with the international arms manufacturer Thales,” Shoebridge told the Senate.

    From: @br00t4c
    mastodon.social/@br00t4c/11106

  28. @gabrielberlin
    Mir scheint dieser Ausgang wie so eine Drehtür, bei der die meisten den Moment verpassen und wieder am selben Ort reinkommen, wo sie rausgingen. #revolvingdoors

  29. “Judit Baumholczer was a policy advisor to MEP Miriam Dalli and claims that she played a ‘central role’ in drafting the position of the Social Democratic group with regard to the European Green Deal and ‘higher’ climate ambitions for 2030. 

    A year after leaving the Parliament, Baumholczer became a lobbyist for Shell.” #revolvingdoors

    ftm.eu/articles/corporate-lobb

  30. So much to deal with following this article:

    👉Real enforcement of current EP rules
    👉Much tougher rules for MEPs including on #revolvingdoors
    👉Corporate influence in EP incl. Big Tech and Climate Polluters
    ---
    RT @peterteffer
    NEW @FTM_eu INVESTIGATION - From Huawei to Shell: corporate lobbies unimpededly recruit former EU Parliament staff

    In ten years, 166 former MEP assistants began working as lobbyists within two years of leaving t…
    twitter.com/peterteffer/status

  31. Important new article by @FTM_nl and @peterteffer on the #revolvingdoors of EP assistants.

    It uses #LobbyFacts data with @parltrack data to compile evidence for article.

    Check out lobbyfacts.eu/
    ---
    RT @FTM_eu
    Former assistants of Members of the European Parliament have free rein to lobby on legislation they were involved with. Although the European Parliament can impose a temporary lobbying ban on them, it rarely does so. h…
    twitter.com/FTM_eu/status/1649

  32. 🤔New media adviser in Envi Cssr's cabinet comes straight from lobbygroup EuropaBio. #RevolvingDoors

    🚩Problematic as many issues on table DG Envi - including new GMOs, bioeconomy - are big topics for EuropaBio members.

    👉CEO and Testbiotech's letter:
    testbiotech.org/en/news/direct

  33. #EU #BigTech #Lobbying #RevolvingDoors: "Big Tech might be the EU's biggest lobby spender by sector, but a little-known band of economic consultancies are still managing to fly under the radar on behalf of their tech clients. These consultancies are effectively 'spamming the regulator' with supposedly neutral reports to influence the EU's competition policy and smooth the path for Big Tech monopolies and mergers. What's worse, the Commission's DG Competition in charge of competition policy enjoys a regular revolving door with these consultancies."

    corporateeurope.org/en/2023/01

  34. @bhaug wir müssen diese Verbindungen kappen: in die Politik, in die Medien, in die Polizeien, in die Gerichte - #RWE ist ein toxisches Netzwerk. Um es zu zerschlagen, muss jeder Faden aufgespürt und zerschnitten werden.

    #RWEzerschlagen #Spendengelder #Anschlusskarrieren #Stiftungen #Aktien #Beteiligungen #RevolvingDoors