Fazal Majid

@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us the real story is the Swiss were not corrupted, whereas the British government gave Palantir a number of sweetheart contracts without even competitive bidding. In a twist you couldn’t make up if you tried, the head of Palantir UK is Louis Mosley, grandson of Oswald Mosley, founder of the British Union of Fascists.

@kravietz Like how they took the Russian Strela B MANPADS, dramatically improved it to make the Grom, which is now defending Ukraine. Or how they made the mathematical breakthrough that made the Nazi Enigma machine solvable by the primitive computers of the day, but are seldom given credit by the British.

@gbargoud@masto.nyc @cstross@wandering.shop @tony@toot.hoyle.me.uk it takes a special kind of creepy to weird even Epstein out.

@cstross@wandering.shop @rikiwilchins.bsky.social @quixoticgeek@social.v.st he openly sneered at John McCain's stint as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, and insulted gold star parents (parents of a US service person killed in action). If he has zero respect for US soldiers, why would he have any for British ones?

@cstross@wandering.shop more importantly, safety critical, a number of people have burned alive in Teslas because their door controls became inoperative and they did not know where the emergency manual release hatch is. Also, China just banned recessed door handles like Tesla's. They may help aerodynamics a tiny bit, but once again a safety hazard.

@cstross@wandering.shop more plausible the billionaire is a Mammonist (of course that overlaps quite a bit with US Protestant Evangelicals) and the secretary Jewish or a faith-and-good-works offshoot of Christianity, but I repeat myself).

@cstross@wandering.shop the Gestapo was probably the one embarrassed by the proximity since Interpol was led by Reinhard Heydrich, architect of the Holocaust. Presumably to honor that legacy, the outgoing director of Interpol is a UAE police general known for his hands-on enthusiasm for torturing dissidents.

@cstross@wandering.shop @codinghorror@infosec.exchange @jhooper@techhub.social not uncoincidentally, the US does not recognize moral rights getting in the way of capital.

@mattblaze@federate.social or perhaps we have been so desensitized by the torrents of abhorrent behavior that something innocuous now seems like a ray of sunshine.

@cstross@wandering.shop you can buy camel milk chocolate on the UK high street, from the UAE I believe, and it's been available for some time.

@cstross@wandering.shop followed by "My pronouns are he/him."

@flippac@mendeddrum.org @cstross@wandering.shop

@cstross@wandering.shop it’s almost as if the briefings against him were a false flag operation by the same clique that installed Starmer, now that it is flagrantly obvious Starmer will be gone in 6 months’ tops.