Pluralistic: The Epstein class and collapse porn (09 Feb 2026)

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The Epstein class and collapse porn: Buy the dip!
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Pluralistic: Palantir's NHS-stealing Big Lie (08 Mar 2024)

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Palantir's NHS-stealing Big Lie: And the everyday miracle of Trusted Research Environments.
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Pluralistic: 01 Oct 2022 How Palantir will steal the NHS

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How Palantir will steal the NHS: Stealth privatisation was always the endgame for public-private-partnerships.
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Pluralistic: 28 Jul 2022

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Your computer is tormented by a wicked god: Bootkits are why we can't have nice things.
Peter Thiel's evil, but he's not an "evil genius": How to criticize self-mythologizing villains.
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