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🦋 Rachel Taylor 🦋
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Microbiologist🦠who is obsessed with the black plague 🧫| Learning Italian 🇮🇹(slowly) | ⬅️⬅️ Left of left | Time split b/t 🇺🇸/🇪🇺| I talk about the history of beer🍺for fun | I take #NebraskaVolleyball🏐🌽way too seriously | Hardcore baker 🧑‍🍳
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A Horrible Truth That Shouldn’t Be….
April 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Who did this?
April 4, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" has perhaps the most memorable opening line in all of Western literature: "I hope you motherfuckers like reading about whales"
February 16, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Count me in, ladies!! 💙💙
February 16, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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I teach a class called "Politics of the Internet," and one thing I end up talking about is internet adages. The list I cover:

Godwin's Law
Poe's Law
The Streisand Effect
Don't feed the trolls
The Rule of Goats

Any big ones I missed? Things along those lines I should add?
January 22, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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NEW: UnitedHealth is the nation’s largest health insurance conglomerate.

ProPublica obtained what is effectively the company’s internal playbook for limiting and cutting therapy costs.

Here’s what we found.
How UnitedHealth’s Playbook for Limiting Mental Health Coverage Puts Countless Americans’ Treatment at Risk
United used an algorithm system to identify patients who it determined were getting too much therapy and then limited coverage. It was deemed illegal in three states, but similar practices persist due...
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November 19, 2024 at 4:12 PM
Seems relevant right now.
November 18, 2024 at 3:49 AM