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Inside: The health industry's invisible hand is a fist; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/13/a-punch-in-the-guts/

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cavyherd ,
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"When deregulation and markets fail, the answer is always more deregulation and more markets."

From the Department of "If It Doesn't Work, Do It Harder."

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On June 21, I'm doing an online reading for the @Locusmag Awards at 16hPT.

On June 22, I'll be in Oakland, CA for a panel and a keynote at the Locus Awards:

https://locusmag.com/2024-locus-awards-weekend/

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18+ pluralistic OP ,
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The health industry's invisible hand is a fist: We've tried everything except for the thing that works everywhere else in the world.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112611205232507602

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A male figure with a doctor's scrub-cab and forehead mirror holds another male figure, head swaddled in bloody bandages, by his bunched collar. The doctor's arm is pulled back to punch the patient. The doctor's fist is translucent, revealing his jacket and tie. They are posed on a chalkboard background. Written on this chalkboard, in chalk handwriting font, is endless lines of cryptic medical billing-codes.
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    • 18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    Hey look at this

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    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    Soviet-era punks https://englishrussia.com/2009/06/11/soviet-punks/

    Junk science and cocaine scares https://www.badscience.net/2009/06/this-is-my-column-this-is-my-column-on-drugs-any-questions/

    The Return of Zita the Space Girl https://memex.craphound.com/2014/06/13/the-return-of-zita-the-space-girl/

    Bot alerts you every time the Supreme Court silently alters its rulings https://web.archive.org/web/20140613031445/http://gigaom.com/2014/06/12/clever-piece-of-code-exposes-hidden-changes-to-supreme-court-opinions/

    Academic publisher tried to stop publication of paper on price-gouging in academic publishing https://www.techdirt.com/2014/06/12/academic-publisher-fights-publication-paper-criticizing-publishers-price-increases-profits/

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    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    How Hayek bred a race of elite monsters https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/06/bill-black-hayek-helped-worst-get-top-economics-ceos.html

    Snowdenbot performs tele-diagnosis and offers aid to reporter who had first epileptic seizure https://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/he-is-not-alone-4821781.html

    Apple adds privacy-protecting MAC spoofing (when Aaron Swartz did it, it was evidence of criminality) https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/06/umbrella-hurricane-apple-limits-mobile-device-location-tracking

    Couture fashion company Vetements is selling an unauthorized €800 Pirate Bay hoodie https://torrentfreak.com/red-hot-vetements-fashion-brand-is-selling-a-845-pirate-bay-hoodie/

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    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    In Alabama, it’s traditional for sheriffs who lose their elections to steal and waste money, destroy public property https://www.propublica.org/article/alabama-sheriffs-undermine-successors-after-losing-reelection

    After American juvenile offenders are released, they can be re-imprisoned for failing to make restitution payments https://www.themarshallproject.org/2019/06/11/punishing-kids-with-years-of-debt

    Majority of American millionaires support a wealth tax on American millionaires https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/06/12/even-1-know-they-arent-paying-their-fair-share-new-poll-shows-60-millionaires

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    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    Facebook execs are worried that Zuck’s emails show he never took his FTC privacy obligations seriously https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-worries-emails-could-show-zuckerberg-knew-of-questionable-privacy-practices-11560353829

    Hong Kong’s protest movement: a million strong, leaderless, wireless and smart as hell https://memex.craphound.com/2019/06/13/hong-kongs-612strike-protest-movement-a-million-strong-leaderless-wireless-and-smart-as-hell/

    Saving the news from Big Tech with end-to-end social media https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/13/certified-organic-reach/#e2e

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    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    Yesterday's threads: An end to the climate emergency is in our grasp; and more!

    https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112603946898377968

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    • 18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    On June 21, I'm doing an online reading for the @Locusmag Awards at 16hPT.

    On June 22, I'll be in Oakland, CA for a panel and a keynote at the Locus Awards:

    https://locusmag.com/2024-locus-awards-weekend/

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