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29 Oct
One of my favorite podcasts is @armandalegshow, a show about self-defense from medical billing in the US health care system. As a Canadian in the US, I often feel gaslit by the system, as my doctors and their offices act as though predatory, disgusting practices are natural.

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Arm and a Leg documents these unethical practices in eye-watering detail, making it clear at ever turn that these are Not Okay, and that they are victimizing the American people, and must be overturned. And, in the meantime, they focus on practical ways to protect yourself.

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This week's episode is a short masterclass in using small claims courts to fight predatory billing. It builds on the tale of Jeffrey Fox, a lawyer's son who has mastered the small claims system as a means of holding corporate bullies to account.

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29 Oct
Marsy's Law is a model victim's rights law that many states have adopted (it's on the ballot in Kentucky next week), often at the behest of law enforcement agencies that argue for the right to anonymity for the victims of crimes.

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But Marsy's Law is so broadly worded that one of its primary uses is to shield violent cops - even those who kill - from public scrutiny, as @USATODAY's @kennyjacoby and @propublica's @ryangabrielson write today.

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A Florida deputy handcuffed an intoxicated homeless man to a hospital bed and pepper-sprayed him in the face, then invoked Marsy's Law to remain anonymous on the grounds that his shoulder had been grazed by the wire from a pulse monitor, making him victim of a "battery."

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29 Oct
If you visit Amazon's Prime Video homepage, you'll see that the title of that page is "Rent or Buy: Prime Video." There's a plain-language meaning of "buy" that most of us understand, but Amazon says we're wrong.

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Amanda Caudel is a Prime user who brought suit against Amazon for embedding a gotcha clause in its sprawling terms of service that allows it to revoke the videos you "buy" from it, calling the practice deceptive.

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Amazon's motion to dismiss is telling: they say that you're not buying a video, you're buying a license for "on-demand viewing over an indefinite period of time." That is, a pig in a poke.

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28 Oct
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28 Oct
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: RIAA's war on youtube-dl; Trump abandons supporters to freeze; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/10/28/tru…

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RIAA's war on youtube-dl: The rise of the resistance.



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Trump abandons supporters to freeze: More death cult shit.



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28 Oct
Trumpism is an incompetent death cult. While the movement's incompetence (embodied by the inability of many of its worst monsters to keep their jobs long enough to enact their key policies) finally met its match with the pandemic, though.

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When the plague started, Trumpism's thought-leaders rushed to advise the elderly voters who constitute its base that they should engage in high-risk conduct:

pluralistic.net/2020/04/04/a-m…

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They insisted that the answer to the plague was for the "free market" to decide which countermeasures would save our lives:

pluralistic.net/2020/04/23/rio…

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