Joint Commission for Healthcare Accreditation Partners with Snake Supplier

The Joint Commission for Healthcare Accreditation chose Palantir for an Artificial Intelligence partnership.  The announcement came in May and the Joint Commission's CEO cited Palantir's 

“Palantir’s emerging leadership in healthcare transformation"

Recent comments by Palantir CEO Alex Karp raise serious questions as the type of leadership provided by the Joint Commission's new supplier. Alex may not be a self administering drug addled TechGod, but he does want to spray opioid laced bodily fluids on people doing their job as financial analysts.  At least he said those words on CNBC.

Fellow TechGod and Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale recently called out healthcare cartels at the Reagan Library.  Joe seemed pretty hyped up in the interview.  Lots of caffeine or some TechGod self medicating?

He wrote on X in February

Most hospitals are corrupt, backwards cartels & local monopolies, with state lobbying arms to keep out competition or threatening innovation. 

They often have talented staff (talented surgeons, some other great doctors & nurses), but often cynical or disgruntled administrators.

Another X post had Lonsdale's prescription for healthcare.

aggressive deregulation to allow innovation & competition, forcing EHRs to let patients port data to apps, and FTC breaking up local monopolies and PBM cartels.

How would one force EHRs to do anything without regulation?  Wouldn't breaking up hospital systems also be a regulatory intervention?

Joe wants the government to change market structure so his companies can win.  Lonsdale wants healthcare to become software.  Medicine is like intellectual property rights in AI, something to be steamrolled or worked around.

TechGods want healthcare as medicine to disappear, replaced by healthcare as software.  The Joint Commission picked a snake for partner with Palantir.  Their leadership is based on steamrolling competitors, manipulating market structure from the top down, selling billions in services to Uncle Sam and for the spoils to accrue to the TechGods.  

Healthcare as medicine needs people to do the work.  Healthcare as software does not.  The Joint Commission picked a snake supplier, one with endless venom.  I expected better.

The PEUples House

Politicians Red and Blue love PEU (private equity underwriters) and increasingly, more are one.  Congress lives this with their new tax bill which saves PEU preferred "carried interest" taxation, a highly unpopular tax dodge.  Both parties combined to do one better, allow greater deductibility of burdensome interest expense.  The greed and leverage boys make money by saddling affiliates with debt, often taking those borrowings and paying themselves a handsome dividend/special distribution.

The Lever reported:

...an accounting maneuver included in the bill creates more lenient standards for calculating the deduction as a share of total taxable income, which could boost private equity firms’ tax savings by an estimated 15 percent, netting the companies billions of dollars.

Billions more for politically connected billionaire PEU Legends.  There is no people's House.  It belongs to the PEUples.

LinkedIn: Jobs Down, Advice Up Says TechGod Founder

TechGod LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman painted a dark picture for college grads seeking entry level jobs.  

Congress is yet to tackle known social media harms for children, so they cannot be counted on to reign in billionaire TechGods worst instincts.

Because power and money talk, Congress has regulatory protections for Artificial Intelligence (AI) in its Big Beautiful Bill.

The good news is I don't have to use the job killing AI bullet.  I can stay away from AI, all of them.

Hoffman's advice to college grads is to "use AI," the very thing taking away their employment opportunities.  Spoken like an arrogant TechGod, always pushing their book. 

Isn't LinkedIn supposed to help people find employment?  Don't they use AI?

Welcome to a world of endless billionaire TechGod enrichment opportunities, known as "Gush Up Economics."  Apparently, they are the only talent worth paying and paying and paying and paying.

TechGods Join Military Reserves: Young Men

U.S. Tech executives joined the U.S. Army Reserves and were installed as lieutenant colonels in the newly established Detachment 201, an Executive Innovation Corps.  Weren't executives already working on behalf of the military via direct government contracts?  Doesn't the military already have a Defense Innovation Board?

The first members of this new elite unit include:

• Shyam Sankar, Palantir’s chief technology officer
• Andrew Bosworth, chief technology officer of Meta
• Kevin Weil, OpenAI’s chief product officer
• Bob McGrew, an advisor at Thinking Machines Lab & former chief research officer for OpenAI

These highly paid tech executives with loads of company stock now have a military commission with commensurate pay and benefits.  The public has a right not to be excited that billionaire TechGods get yet another way to make money while working to eliminate millions of jobs across the country.

The words "oracle", "breaking defense" and "detachment" seem a perfect fit for this cataclysmic moment.  

The wholesale, unrestrained government embrace of AI charges ahead on all fronts with no consideration of how people are supposed to make money and support themselves in this bizarre future.

There's always the AI Emergency Air Corp where human soldiers rush out on the battlefield to save downed drones or some future politicians digital hairpiece.  Between those rushes of adrenaline human soldiers can ingest AI porn, fall "in love" with their time-limited AI chatbot and bet digitally until their hearts are discontent.

Lakers Go to TWG Global

Mark Walter is reported to be the new majority owner for the Los Angeles Lakers.  Walter is CEO of multiple billion dollar entities, TWG Global and Guggenheim.  

Walter's TWG owns stakes in a number of professional sports franchises.

It's not clear if Walter is using any United Arab Emirates money to take the majority stake.  Not long ago they did a "you fund my junk and I'll fund yours" deal.  

TWG is not the first to partner with Mubadala.  The Carlyle Group, a politically connected private equity underwriter (PEU), did so in 2007 and again in December 2024.Lakers fans should know 

Mark Walter's TWG is big into Artificial Intelligence and already partners with Palantir, the firm building digital dossiers on U.S. citizens.

They recently added Elon Musk's xAI to the mix.  Musk is fresh off scraping lots of U.S. government data into his xAI machines.

There are enough millionaires in the Los Angeles area to sell out The Forum.  The question is how many regular people will be afforded the chance to attend a game.  Does the price of admission also include having your phone scraped by TWG's AI?

I have an idea for a promotion:  Lost your job to TWG's AI?  That gets you included into a drawing for a free ticket to the Lakers vs. Kings.  That's the least billionaire TechGods and PEU Lords can do for the little people they plan to supplant.

Evil GENIUS Act Passes Senate

President Trump's drive for $200 billion in net worth got a significant boost today as the U.S. Senate passed the GENIUS Act, which provides for dollar backed stablecoins.

Trump II holds a 40% stake in USD1 stablecoin issuer World Liberty Financial, as well as 22.5 million $WLFI tokens.

I'm sure the 68 members of the Senate who voted "YES" were aware of Trump's holdings before they passed the evil GENIUS Act.  

I don't get stablecoins.  .It's like contracting out your currency to a middleman (who you already know works with criminals).

Matt Stoller wrote:

The crypto bill is the wholesale deregulation of finance at the behest of big money donors. It’ll lead to another financial crisis, but the people who supported it won’t be blamed. So yeah it makes sense for cynics to support it.

I imagine this will blow up much faster than Gramm-Leach-Bliley, the deregulation that enabled Wall Street to package financial garbage and push it on their clients.  It took nearly a decade for the elimination of Glass-Steagall to result in the Fall 2008 Financial Crisis.

It takes financial cops to catch financial criminals and those are in very short supply.  For Trump to hit his $200 billion net worth target "the pump must go on."  The Senate did their part today, as did Treasury Chief Scott Bessent.

Pump, pump, pump...

TechGods: They're Eating the Jobs

CNBC interviewed Andrew Yang about the non-existent AI regulatory environment and the high likelihood of significant job loss.

Providing jobs for people is no longer part of a corporation's aim.  CEOs may wish to consider how they expect people in the future to pay for their products.  Henry Ford put considerable thought into this when he started his automobile company.

Yang believes in several years that many jobs will be replaced by AI and that the process will occur on a mass level fairly quickly.  Congress is still working on social media's predatory impact on children and has no appetite to deal with current or potential harms from AI, including widespread intellectual property theft.

TechGods -  "Our creations are valuable to society, yours are not, even though we incorporated yours into ours..."

It is the Age of Usurpment.