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Cory Doctorow

@doctorow

2 Jul

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Nominate for the EFF Pioneer Awards; Biden admin orders an end to surprise billing; I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue is back; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/07/02/spo…

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https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1410770220306767872

Nominate for the EFF Pioneer Awards: Who will win this year's Barlow?

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1410770220306767872

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1410974462531440641

Biden admin orders an end to surprise billing: But without legal reform, the next president could reverse it.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1410974462531440641

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Cory Doctorow

@doctorow

2 Jul

@BBCRadio4

One of the sweetest pleasures in this life is the astoundingly funny, long-running @BBCRadio4 comedy quiz show, @ISIHAClue. It is back for a 75th (!!!) series and:

It.

Is.

Amazing.

isihac.net

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I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue is very hard to describe. Essentially, it's a bunch of mock competitive quiz-show "games" that are both incredibly silly and incredibly weird, and (this is the magic bit), they never get tiresome.

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Now, much of that is down to the amazing comedians who use these games as frameworks for hilarious sketches (and, of course, the comedy writers who back them up).

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Cory Doctorow

@doctorow

2 Jul

Of all the dysfunctions of the famously cursed US healthcare system, few are so obviously a total scam as "surprise billing." Here's how that works: you go to a hospital (often its ER) that is covered by your insurer, and then, despite this, you get a giant bill. Surprise!

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How can a hospital covered by your insurer hit you - and not your insurer - with a bill? Simple. A private equity company has convinced each of the medical professionals you interact with to secede from the hospital's payroll and form an LLC.

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The hospital contracts with your anesthesiologist's LLC, your trauma surgeon's LLC, the radiologist's LLC - sometimes the WHOLE ER is amputated from the hospital and then grafted back on in LLC form, under contract to the hospital as a standalone independent business.

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Cory Doctorow

@doctorow

2 Jul

A curse upon you! With the wings of a bat! With the blood of a serpent! I shall curse you! Curse you!

Viy (1967) dir. Konstantin Ershov & Georgiy Kropachyov

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Cory Doctorow

@doctorow

2 Jul

@EFF

Nominations are now open for the @EFF's annual Pioneer Awards, AKA the Barlow Award, now it its 30th year!

eff.org/nominations-op…

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The Barlow recognizes people, projects and groups who "have contributed substantially to the health, growth, accessibility, or freedom of computer-based communications. The contribution may be technical, social, economic, or cultural."

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@aaronsw

Past winners include @aaronsw, @xychelsea, @citizenlab, @AdafruitLab, @zephoria, @GreatDismal and many others (including, to my enduring honor and gratitude, me).

Anyone can nominate, and you may nominate more than one person or group.

Nominations close on July 15!

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