Local Massachusetts weekly says it's confirmed that the Pentagon was relying on Claude for strike targeting, which is how they came to bomb a girls' school.
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Totally normal stuff
Ok, NOW the US is doing war crimes.
The list of billionaires aiming to "disrupt" healthcare is long:
Gates, Page/Brin, Bezos/Buffet/Dimon, Soon-Shiong - and now Cuban.
But the framing is fatally flawed b/c moving fast and breaking things in healthcare isn't disruptive - it's just rearranging deck chairs.
#Medsky
"Disrupting" US healthcare is a fatally flawed premise.
Moving fast & breaking things in healthcare isn't disruptive - it's just rearranging deck chairs.
Our system isn't technically zero-sum, but it is practically - and "pricing transparency" (incl cash pay) is just a BIG distraction.
#Medsky
"... referrals are submitted electronically, are effective immediately, and are accepted as entered."
Sounds more like a new PCP game in our #CasinoHealthcare?
Maybe a small fee to submit an E-Referral? Whole process could be automated online. I'm not advocating FOR it - just sayin' ...
#Medsky
Two photos. The first shows Catturd tweeting: Name one US inspired regime change that hasn't ended in absolute disaster The next tweet shows him posting an AI illustration of Khamenei turned into a pile of dust. It says "I'm eliminated."
Two tweets. The first shows Laura Loomer promoting her show, where she says "A message has been sent that we are not interested in going back to the way politics were prior to Donald Trump, prior to 2016. We don't want warhawks. We don't want any more Neocons. We want American First. Period. End of discussion." The next tweet says: Today is a great day. Our military is amazing. @PeteHegseth is an absolute killer. Now you see why the Deep State worked so hard against him. It’s great having a Sec War who has Infidel literally tattooed on his body. He actually gets it. God bless him.
Two tweets. The first shows Will Chamberlain tweeting: The Republican Party is no longer the party of regime change and endless wars. If you want to be its standard-bearer that is a non-negotiable position. The next tweet shows him posting "Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead." The tweet has a USA flag attached.
Two tweets. The first shows Gunther Eagleman tweeting: "Warmonger Lindsey Graham just rushed to Fox to advocate for U.S. involvement as soon as he could. He is also pushing for a US-backed regime change in Iran. I would like to renominate Graham to get a one-way ticket to the frontlines of every war he wants America involved in." There's an attached video of Graham speaking. The next shows Eagleman tweeting: UST IN! President Trump is HARD AT WORK all weekend after the massive strikes on Iran! He’s already on the phone with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte! Trump is a machine!" There's an attached video of a news segment about the war in Iran.
manufacturing consent through lowly paid influencers
folks we’re going to see some wild litigation between the world’s worst people
He doesn't want to ack that @costplusdrugs.com isn't always the lowest b/c they tend to focus on narrow patient segments (ie: uninsured) and even then - lot's of other factors also come into play.
More broadly - transparent pricing isn't the big systemic fix many politicians are claiming.
#Medsky
Moving fast and breaking things in healthcare isn't Uber-like disruption - it's rearranging deck chairs.
We need employers OUT of the business of healthcare.
hc4.us/esi20
#Medsky
No.
Longer reply on the LinkedIn post - but the short answer is that we need employers OUT of the business of healthcare - and here's 11 reasons why:
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Very obviously, but good to have data.
X’s Algorithm Pushes Users to Lean More Conservative, Researchers Find gizmodo.com/researchers-...
From study: "...the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media" (via @nature.com).
The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.
A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.
Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.
This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.
This serial killing spree has been completely normalized.
I consider this in many ways the single worst thing going on because it’s getting zero resistance from the media, Congress, everywhere.
Everyone has seemingly accepted he can commit mass murder on boats for… fun, basically.
Ossoff: "Among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this -- they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission."
Actors rely on income to qualify for health insurance thru SAG-AFRA.
10yrs ago - SAG-AFRA's minimum earnings to qualify was 1/3 of what it is today - and MANY actors don't make the minimum. Van Der Beek wasn't making enuf to qualify - so uninsured at time of Dx. Post Dx rates? Can only guess ;-(
Ah yes. More patient testimonials here on @bluesky b/c nothing says authentic healthcare reform like being featured in a repost by @mcuban.bsky.social plugging his Rx company.
NB: Just b/c the consequences of cash-pay for Rx are opaque and downstream - doesn't mean they don't exist.
#Medsky
Since a lot of the coverage is omitting this detail: The Kennedy Center HAD a $250 million renovation and expansion just a few years ago, in 2019.
... also why Surgical Center of Oaklahoma has never really scaled past the novelty stage.
Yes - cash-pay IS cheaper b/c it's OUTSIDE insurance (and there are other cash-pay examples in HC), but these "fixes" can't scale - and generics aren't where the big margins are.
Cash-pay prices are "transparent," but there are downstream consequences. Rx shortages = good example.
#Medsky
There were other things at play in 2024, for sure, but I can’t stop thinking about how this country responded to the possibility of a Black woman being president by electing the Klan.
BUT - it's ignoring the systemic flaws.
Yes - cash-pay IS cheaper b/c it's OUTSIDE insurance (and there are other cash-pay examples in HC), but they don't/can't scale - AND - there are consequences that get ignored b/c they're downstream/opaque.
Rx shortages are a prime example.
#Medsky
There is far more outrage from tech leaders over a wealth tax than masked ICE agents terrorizing communities and executing civilians in the streets. Tells you what you need to know about the values of our industry.
OpenAI exec James Dyett calling out the cowardice
"This is what collapse looks like ..."
by @notjustadrummer.bsky.social
[in 5 paragraphs - no notes]
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i think this attitude — that all opposition is illegitimate and nothing we do can be questioned— is probably pervasive in the white house and helps explain why they keep making terrible political choices
www.huffpost.com/entry/fcc-ta...
Republicans never believed in smaller government. What they believe is that they alone should control the government and that’s exactly why they were every bit a part of the insurrection. Not charging them and not locking Trump away is why America has fallen to them.
... meanwhile ... in other news ... branded Rx prices keep going up. By one account 350 of them just announced for this year - and there will be more throughout the year.
Our Casino Healthcare isn't technically zero-sum. But it is practically.
#Medsky
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
The president of the United States is so brain-dead that he doesn't remember which country he's threatening to destroy the world's greatest military alliance over.
The first big political battle (toward systemic reform) is getting rid of Employer Sponsored Insurance - and the real heavy lifting there is *sweeping* tax reform.
... and that's not a technology problem - it's purely political.
#Medsky
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