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Inside: US health insurers get more and more federal funding, deliver less and less care; and more!
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I'm in #Miami!
Catch me today (Oct 13) at @JoinLincoln's Reboot Conference:
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US health insurers get more and more federal funding, deliver less and less care: Medicare Advantage will murder your grandparents - and you're next.
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* How Flashbots is taking over Ethereum block proposals protos.com/how-flashbots-…
* The Polyhedral Perspective publicdomainreview.org/essay/polyhedr…
* One trick Apple uses to make you think green bubbles are “gross” uxdesign.cc/how-apple-make… (h/t @BoingBoing) 4/
#15yrsago First-ever patent-suit filed against Linux groklaw.net/article.php?st…
#15yrsago HOWTO cite blogs in formal academic medical papers ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK7266/ 5/
#10yrsago California AG publicly shames United Airlines on Twitter over crappy privacy policy latimes.com/business/la-xp…
#10yrsago Videos from the HOPE 2004 conference: Jello Biafra, Woz, Schneier, Mitnick and more web.archive.org/web/2012103000… 6/
#10yrsago UK surveillance bill: 19,000 letters opposing, 0 in favour web.archive.org/web/2012101500…
#10yrsago Myhrvold patents 3D printing DRM web.archive.org/web/2012101404…
#10yrsago Scanning whole books is fair use arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20… 7/
#10yrsago Photos from backstage at Disneyland imgur.com/a/TJQYm
#5yrsago How do you dump the firmware from a “secure” voting machine? With a $15 open source hardware board blog.adafruit.com/2017/10/11/ft2… 8/
#5yrsago Portland police stage bizarre sensory deprivation stunt against ICE protesters
#5yrsago The US has quit UNESCO, the UN agency that protects world heritage sites and teaches poor children to read vice.com/en/article/gy5… 9/
#5yrsago China’s 1 percenters are now worth as much as the GDP of the United Kingdom scmp.com/business/china…
#5yrsago Here are the three most common dishonest arguments used to derail universal healthcare proposals latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/… 10/
#5yrsago Yet another Trump official accused of defrauding taxpayers with dirty travel expenses cnn.com/2017/10/11/pol…
#5yrsago Trump’s FCC redefines “effective competition” to include having only one ISP in your county techdirt.com/2017/10/12/gro… 11/
#5yrsago Here’s what hospital food looks like in Japan web.archive.org/web/2017100606…
#5yrsago Chinese internet censors really enjoy the work scmp.com/news/china/pol…
#5yrsago You are the elevator captain: a guide to Japan’s unspoken elevator etiquette medium.com/japan-init/ele… 12/
#5yrsago Equifax is serving malware to visitors arstechnica.com/information-te…
#5yrsago How the University of New Hampshire spun blowing a frugal librarian’s donation on a stupid football scoreboard deadspin.com/how-unh-turned… 13/
#1yrago There are no corporate criminals in America: Because America doesn't have corporate crime prosecutions pluralistic.net/2021/10/12/no-…
#1yrago This Thing Between Us, a neck-hair-stand-up cuycuy horror: Gus Moreno's debut novel pluralistic.net/2021/10/12/no-… 14/
#1yrago India funded a starving kids' app, but not food: Solutionism at its worst pluralistic.net/2021/10/13/the…
#1yrago Adobe uses copyfraud to preserve spyware: A free-as-in-surveillance-free Flash installer is gone thanks to a bogus copyright claim pluralistic.net/2021/10/13/the… 15/
#1yrago Charter uses bad credit threats to corral ex-subscribers: "Resubscribe or we'll keep trashing your credit report." pluralistic.net/2021/10/13/the… 16/
Monday's threads: Undetectable, undefendable back-doors for machine learning; Shelter in place; and more!
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My latest book is Chokepoint Capitalism (with @rgibli), nonfiction about monopoly and fairness in creative labor markets.
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My latest novel is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books, now in paperback, wherever books are sold.
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My ebooks and audiobooks (from @torbooks, @HoZ_Books, @mcsweeneys, @BeaconPressBks et al) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."
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Upcoming appearances:
* Reboot Conference, @JoinLincoln (Miami), 10/13
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* Copyright Evidence: Synthesis and Futures – @copyrightcentre (Glasgow), Oct 17
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* @LibraryJournal Day of Dialog (Zoom), 10/20
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* Chokepoint Capitalism Event, @ArgoBookshop (Montreal), Oct 23
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* Surviving Apocalyptic Economics, with @rushkoff and @rgibli, Ottawa @Writersfest, 10/24
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* @WEDF_forum, 10/26-28
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* #RadicalBookFair/@Lighthousebks (Edinburgh), Nov 10
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* Arthur C Clarke Award (DC), 11/16
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Recent appearances:
* Regulating the Online Public Sphere (@ColumbiaGFoE)
* Canadians Connected 2022 with @ambermac:
* Amazon Billing Amazon for Amazon (@trashfuturepod)
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