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ziibiing.com
Here is the fundraiser for Renee Good’s wife and son, from a very trusted source.
Donate to Support for Renee Good’s wife and son, organized by Mattie Weiss
Please support the wife and son of Renee Good as they grapple with the devastating … Mattie Weiss needs your support for Support for Renee Good’s wife and son
www.gofundme.com
January 8, 2026 at 2:18 AM
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hankgreen.bsky.social
We gotta reject “Well, RFK jr. is right about some things” and accept “if we don’t confront the real problems with our systems, it becomes much easier for con artists like this guy to manipulate people.”
January 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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davidsirota.com
🚨NEW DATA: Health insurers spent $120 BILLION to enrich shareholders & execs through stock buybacks - all while jacking up premiums & claim denial rates.

44% of the buybacks were at UnitedHealth, which reportedly denies 1 out of 3 medical claims. https://buff.ly/49y4feG
December 12, 2024 at 4:14 PM
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moreperfectunion.bsky.social
A new @rooseveltinstitute.bsky.social report is sounding the alarm on “Uber for nursing.”

Hospitals are using gig apps for nursing, with some nurses paying to bid on shifts and offering to work for less to win those bids.

The full extent of this 'gig nursing' is unknown.
‘Uber for nursing’: alarm over use of AI to aid US nurses and healthcare
Report by Roosevelt institutes argues apps encourages nurses to work for less pay and can threaten patient wellbeing
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2024 at 4:00 PM
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edzitron.com
I have watched Rot Economy stooges like Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai and Mark Zuckerberg destroy an internet that made me human, and I will never forgive them for what they’ve done to the computer. They peddle digital asbestos. They must be stopped.

www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
I will never forgive these people for what they’ve done to the computer, and the more I learn about both their intentions and actions the more certain I am that they are unrepentant and that their greed will never be sated. I have watched them take the things that made me human — social networking, digital communities, apps, and the other connecting fabric of our digital lives — and turned them into devices of torture, profitable mechanisms of abuse, and find it disgusting how many reporters seem to believe it's their responsibility to thank them and explain why it's good this is happening to their readers. Sam Altman is a con artist, a liar, and a sleazy carnival barker who would burn our planet to the ground, steal from millions of people and burn billions of dollars in pursuit of power, and I believe the same can be said of people like Dario Amodei of Anthropic and Mustafa Suleyman of Microsoft. Tim Cook is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, slowly allowing the rot to seep into Apple’s products, slowly adding bothersome subscription products and useless AI features to chip away at the user experience. Apple’s app store and its repeated support of exploitative microtransaction-laden mobile games built to create gambling-like addiction in adults and children alike, making it billions of dollars a year. Because Apple’s products are less shitty, it gets a much easier time. Sundar Pichai is the Henry Kissinger of technology — a glossy executive that escapes blame despite having caused harm on a global scale. The destruction of Google Search at the hands of Sundar Pichai and Prabhakar Raghavan should be written about like a war crime, and those responsible treated as such. Satya Nadella has aggressively expanded Microsoft’s various monopolies, the most egregious of which is the Microsoft 365 suite — a monopoly over business software that everybody kind of hates that Microsoft prices to undercut the competition, effectively setting the conditions of most business software as either “cheaper than Microsoft” or “slightly better than Microsoft.” Nadella has overseen layoffs of tens of thousands of people in the last three years alone, and despite his bullshit “growth mindset” culture treats his employees and customers as equally disposable. Mark Zuckerberg is a putrid ghoul that has overseen the growth and proliferation of some of the single-most abusive and manipulative software in the world. Meta has grown to a market cap of $1.5 trillion dollars by intentionally making the experience on Instagram and Facebook worse, intentionally frustrating and harming billions of people. These are the people in charge. These are the people running the tech industry. These are the people who make decisions that affect billions of people every minute of every day, and their decisionmaking is so flagrantly selfish and abusive that I am regularly astonished by how little criticism they receive.
December 16, 2024 at 5:32 PM
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hankgreen.bsky.social
Hey, so it turns out that paper on black plastic was a bit blown out of proportion by a simple math error.

nationalpost.com/news/canada/...
How a simple math error sparked a panic about black plastic kitchen utensils
A study warned that people were being exposed to a toxic chemical from kitchen utensils. But the researchers misstated the safe daily limit
nationalpost.com
December 16, 2024 at 5:09 AM
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kenklippenstein.bsky.social
Sen. Elizabeth Warren: "Violence is never the answer...but you can only push people so far, and then they start to take matters into their own hands."

"What happens when you turn this into the billionaires run it all, is they get the opportunity to squeeze every last penny."
December 11, 2024 at 8:46 PM
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hankgreen.bsky.social
My dad sends me the most adorable investment advice. He should have a column. It always ends with shit like “I know it’s out of style but sleep is the key to health. Assets are there to help you sleep better, not to give you one more thing to worry about.”
December 8, 2024 at 4:06 PM
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snmrrw.bsky.social
When my Mom was dying of cancer, she was staying in a nursing/rehab place while we figured out next steps. She couldn't walk, was on an IV, and was at risk of sepsis.

Her Aetna Medicare Advantage wouldn't cover her stay. But regular Medicare would have.

My story for @moreperfectunion.bsky.social:
Medicare Advantage Denied My Dying Mom A Bed
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
youtu.be
December 5, 2024 at 9:31 PM