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Watching it all burn down in slow motion. Shows of a lost world.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
“A secretive group founded by Palantir mogul Peter Thiel is planning to expand its influence in Washington, D.C. *** The group, called Dialog, wants to establish a permanent physical campus in the capital, where it can carry on its invite-only meetings involving major power players.” 8/7/25
gizmodo.com
Secretive, Peter Thiel-Founded 'Tech Bilderberg
Where well-connected folks sit around and discuss naughty ideas that the American peasantry just wouldn't get.
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Bob Herman @bobjherman.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Medicare Advantage is costing taxpayers $550 billion this year. UnitedHealth Group and a web of business partners have built a research apparatus — replete with flawed studies and papers — to push back against critics and ward off attempts at MA reform. www.statnews.com/2025/08/11/u...
statnews.com
Inside the research machine that helps UnitedHealth protect its Medicare profits
A STAT Investigation: Inside the research machine that helps UnitedHealth protect its Medicare profits.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Did RFK Jr just take away your cancer treatment? mRNA promised to help turn cancer from a death sentence into a manageable condition.
noahpinion.blog
Did RFK just take away your cancer treatment?
mRNA promised to help turn cancer from a death sentence into a manageable condition.
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
The Halo 3C is a smoke/vape detector that Motorola sells for use in school bathrooms. It also has microphones inside. A teen hacker found them at his school, and with another security researcher has now shown they could be hacked for audio surveillance. www.wired.com/story/school...
wired.com
It Looks Like a School Bathroom Smoke Detector. A Teen Hacker Showed It Could Be an Audio Bug
A pair of hackers found that a vape detector often found in high school bathrooms contained microphones—and security weaknesses that could allow someone to turn it into a secret listening device.
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
🚨 The US has quietly deployed nuclear weapons to the UK for the first time since the end of the Cold War. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/nuclear-th...
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Nuclear Threats Are Back
Washington responds to Russia with escalation
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Torr (I moved to Threads) @torrleonard.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
“farther south — where most people live — it is largely the race to suck groundwater from aquifers that is removing the water from the continents. So much groundwater is now being pumped that it’s filling the oceans as it drains off land, becoming one of the largest drivers of global sea level rise
propublica.org
“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat
A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 28/07/2025
The National Science Foundation plans to abruptly end operation of the RV Nathaniel B. Palmer, the sole U.S. research ship capable of braving the farthest reaches of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. scim.ag/4mB8LOX
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NSF plans abrupt end to lone U.S. Antarctic research icebreaker
Imminent termination of the RV Nathaniel B. Palmer shocks polar scientists
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 29/07/2025
A huge story for a specific sector of the stock market (and that I've posted about a fair bit) that hasn't gotten a lot of mainstream traction is the collapse in health insurance markets. UNH earnings this morning were *a disaster*. Not shedding a tear for them but this will have big ramifications.
Chart of UNH Medical Loss Ratio (payments to health insurance providers as a percentage of premiums taken in) Since 2005Annual adjusted EPS growth for UNH since 1992
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Dante The K9 @dantethek9.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Well, I'll be damned. It's royalty free and there's already six, generic manufacturers lined up. newatlas.com/infectious-d...
newatlas.com
The first 100% effective HIV prevention drug is approved and going global
An epidemic that's been sustained for 44 years might finally be quelled, with the milestone approval of the first HIV drug that offers 100% protection with its twice-yearly injections. It's a landmark...
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StarEqualsCheck @starequalscheck.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Another description of how foreign powers are working on attracting US scientific talent . . . This will eventually be recognized as (one of) the biggest self own(s) in US history. Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/b...
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The World Is Wooing U.S. Researchers Shunned by Trump
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Reporter: The FDA has a new AI tool that's intended to speed up drug approvals. But several FDA employees say the new AI helper is making up studies that do not exist. One FDA employee telling us, 'Anything that you don't have time to double check is unreliable. It hallucinates confidently'
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 09/07/2025
The latest installment of “Dude, What Law Did I Just Pass?": “If you’re asking me how it got in there, no, I don’t know,” said Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley. Texas Senator John Cornyn admitted, “I don’t know anything about it. I’m not sure what it does.” trib.al/VIjemB4
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
A critical investigation of the private DeSantis donor reaping the most reward from helping build the Everglades concentration camp. Incredible independent journalism from @floridatrident.bsky.social.
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Governor DeSantis is building “Alligator Alcatraz” with little oversight – and this big campaign donor is set to reap millions from it
As the large commercial trucks roar one after another onto the airfield property in the Everglades where a massive detention camp for immigrants is being
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
A member of Taiwan's parliament stole a bill and ran off with it to prevent it from being passed
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The Rabbit Hole Cartographer @quacksanonymous.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
"Deadly ‘pharaoh’s curse fungus’ could be used to fight cancer" — Popular Science www.popsci.com/health/cance...
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Deadly ‘pharaoh's curse fungus’ could be used to fight cancer
'Nature has given us this incredible pharmacy.’
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ABC4 Utah @abc4utah.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Walmart is testing new “dark stores” that look like traditional retail stores but are used for online orders only and aren’t open to the public
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Walmart testing ‘dark stores’ closed to the public
Walmart is attempting to compete with fast delivery from online shops like Amazon.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 27/06/2025
Miami just canceled its November election & pushed it to 2026. No public vote, just canceled. Mayor Suarez & Joe Carollo get to stick around an extra year. This feels like a power grab. If one city can delay elections for “participation,” what’s to stop others from doing it to silence opposition?
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
China now has 1 terawatt of solar capacity. For reference, the entire US power grid has 1.3TW of capacity.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Dictatorships often isolate their own countries from the world, and this move by the US to discourage foreign visitors should be viewed in that light. They will continue to escalate. I expect they will eventually increase barriers to Americans travelling outwards as well.
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Cynthia Fox @cynthfox.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
This is a very big scientific milestone: stem cells appear to have permanently cured most diabetics in this small but historic trial based on the work of Harvard researcher Doug Melton, who has 2 kids with diabetes. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/h...
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People With Severe Diabetes Are Cured in Small Trial of New Drug
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Joshua Failé @joshuafaile.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
The Trump regime has implemented a number of changes to longstanding policies and metric frameworks which allow it to manipulate official economic data, with an expansion of related price estimation for CPI calculation being among them. Now it’s going after CBO, OMB, and BLS independence outright.
marketplace.org
How the BLS and its data could be affected by a proposed Trump rule
If the rule goes into effect, it could be harder for economists at the Bureau of Labor Statistics — who are anxious about losing their jobs — to deliver bad news.
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Greed Apocalypse @juanmunoz.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Trump quietly shutters the only federal agency that investigates industrial chemical explosions flip.it/hPeSV1
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Trump quietly shutters the only federal agency that investigates industrial chemical explosions
The Chemical Safety Board, a federal agency that investigates large-scale industrial chemical disasters, will close under Trump's orders.
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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
No more waiting to get a drug approved in the US. All you have to do is bend the knee. FDA commissioner will now issue vouchers to companies he finds aligned w national priorities to shorten their drug application review time to 1-2 months instead of standard 10-12 months. See how fascism works?
reuters.com
US FDA to shorten review time for drug developers under new voucher program
The U.S. FDA is launching a program under which its commissioner can issue vouchers to companies he finds are aligned with national priorities to shorten their review time for a drug application to one to two months from the typical timeline of about 10-12 months.
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John W Buaas @johnwbuaas.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
"How could you not be inspired after seeing these images from the reddest parts of the country, where there’s a social cost to publicly being a Democrat?" And it's true. I'm more than a little misty-eyed as I read this article.
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WIRED @wired.com · 18/06/2025
SCOOP: The "Appeal To Heaven" flag, a popular symbol for Christian nationalists that was waved by January 6 rioters, was raised over the Small Business Administration headquarters last week.
wired.com
Far-Right ‘Appeal to Heaven’ Flag Seen at Jan. 6 Riot Flown Above Government Agency in DC
The "Appeal To Heaven" flag, a popular symbol for Christian nationalists that was waved by January 6 rioters, was raised over the Small Business Administration headquarters last week.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife. While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE. This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.
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Charlie Richmond (Gyro Gearloose) 311.3ppm 🇨🇦🇬🇧☮️⚛️🇺🇦🌈🦋 @charlierichmond.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Extreme Heat Is the Biggest Threat to Insurers and Businesses | Scientific American www.scientificamerican.com/article/extr...
scientificamerican.com
Extreme Heat Is the Biggest Threat to Insurers and Businesses
Deadly temperatures put great stress not just on human life but also on the economy, infrastructure, agriculture and health care
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
This administration is filled with what at any other time would be career-ending scandals you have to learn about in school, but instead they get immediately buried by three other scandals from the same day.
theguardian.com
‘Extremely disturbing and unethical’: new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veterans
Trump order allows VA staff to decline providing healthcare to patients based on political affiliation or marital status
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 16/06/2025
Thank fuck for the Don't Just Let Everybody Die cavalry
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matt tuckerbaum @mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
My god. 6 MILLION acres of public lands in Oregon, including the vast majority of our national forests, will be sold in a fire sale if the MAGA budget passes.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
“Two people deeply familiar with the Charleston 787 plant told the Prospect they had particularly acute quality concerns over planes that were delivered to Air India.” 😱
prospect.org
One of the Dreamliners That Gave a Boeing Manager Nightmares Just Crashed
Whistleblowers always warned that passengers would pay a price for Boeing’s tyrannical corner-cutting, especially with the planes shipped overseas.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 13/06/2025
Organizers in LA are raising money to do tamale buyouts from local tamale vendors who are unable to safely vend on the street due to ICE kidnapping vendors. The tamales will be distributed to unhoused neighbors. Please consider donating — I personally vouch for this one: venmo.com?txn=pay&audi...
HELP KTOWN VENDORS STAY SAFE ® HOME
DONATE NOW
to love your neighbors & help them resist ICE
TAMALE BUY-OUT!
LET'S GO!

Venmo: @AndreinaKniss
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Andrea Chalupa @andreachalupa.com · 30/05/2025
Man made climate crisis destroys Swiss village www.npr.org/2025/05/29/g...
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A Swiss village is buried after a glacier collapses in the Alps
The Birch Glacier above the village of Blatten collapsed and caused a landslide that has buried most of the village. Authorities had evacuated residents earlier this month, but one person is missing.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Today Pam Bondi insisted that Mr. Abrego Garcia was brought back because our legal system required that it be done so he would "face justice." But remember; she actually DROPPED much more serious criminal charges against top MS-13 leaders, and had them deported rather than face trial here.
Trump administration trying to dismiss MS-13 leader’s charges to deport him
Exclusive: Critics and defendant’s legal team accuse US president of trying to do favor for Salvadorian leader

José Olivares
Fri 23 May 2025 18.15 EDT

Donald Trump’s administration is attempting to dismiss criminal charges against a top MS-13 leader in order to deport him to El Salvador, according to newly unsealed court records – igniting accusations from critics and the defendant’s legal team that the US president is trying to do a favor for his Salvadorian counterpart, who struck a deal with the gang in 2019.

According to justice department records, the MS-13 figure in question, Vladimir Antonio Arevalo-Chavez, has intimate knowledge of that secretive pact, which – before eventually falling apart – involved Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele’s government ceding money and territory to the gang, who in return promised to reduce violence from its side and provide Bukele’s party with electoral support.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 10/06/2025
Breaking news: The Trump administration is planning a major increase of deportations to Guantánamo, including citizens of Britain, France and other allies. Officials said they are unlikely to inform the foreigners’ home governments about the transfers.
washingtonpost.com
Trump to ramp up transfers to Guantánamo, including citizens of allies
The administration aims to send thousands of foreigners to Guantánamo, including people from Britain and France, with no plans to notify their home governments.
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
NEW: A data broker owned by major airlines sold domestic US flight data to DHS, telling the dept. not to disclose that, according to records obtained by @404media.co—copublished in partnership with @wired.com. No paywall bc FOIA @josephcox.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/airlin...
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Airlines Don’t Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS
A contract obtained by 404 Media shows that an airline-owned data broker forbids the feds from revealing it sold them detailed passenger data.
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Ireshresists @eilishparker.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Busy at the GOP convention in Georgia where they just passed a resolution banning Brad Raffensberger as a Republican because apparently he believes in country over party. www.wabe.org/georgia-gop-...
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Georgia GOP convention delegates pass resolution to ban Raffensperger from qualifying as Republican
Delegates at the Georgia GOP convention in Dalton on Saturday passed a resolution that would not allow Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to qualify as a Republican for elected office, with one rea...
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WIRED @wired.com · 10/06/2025
So-called “less-lethal” weapons like those that have been used against demonstrators in Los Angeles can cause severe, lasting harm like nerve or brain damage or blindness. They can also kill. www.wired.com/story/what-t...
wired.com
What Tear Gas and Rubber Bullets Do to the Human Body
So-called “less-lethal” weapons like those that have been used against demonstrators in Los Angeles can cause severe, lasting harm like nerve or brain damage or blindness. They can also kill.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 09/06/2025
What a disturbingly intricate scam: Immigrants end up paying thousands of dollars and attending fake virtual immigration hearings over many months—all the while jeopardizing their real immigration cases by missing the real hearings.
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Fake Immigration Courts Take Advantage of Immigrants Desperate for Answers
Immigrants seeking legal help online to protect themselves from Trump’s deportation plans are increasingly falling prey to costly scams.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 09/06/2025
BREAKING: RFK Jr. removes every member of scientific committee that advises the CDC on vaccine use, pledging to replace them with his own picks.
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RFK Jr. ousts entire CDC vaccine advisory committee
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines.
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Elisabeth Beinke @ebeinke.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Our own government is now using our own military against our own people! There is NO NEED for this and it isn't legal - this is a show of agression and intimidation by Trump against US citizens. PAY ATTENTION to what is going on right now.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 09/06/2025
1/3 🚨 The Dept. of Energy is quietly trying to gut building accessibility rules under Section 504. This rollback would erase protections disabled activists fought decades to win. 🛑 Drop a public comment by June 16 to help stop it: 👉 dredf.org/action-alert... (Mini history lesson below ⬇️)
dredf.org
Tell the Department of Energy to Stop Attacking Civil Rights and Section 504 - DREDF
Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund
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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
In preparation for next week’s parade/demonstration, tanks are being moved into Washington, DC today. Unprecedented. (Photo from a colleague in DC)
Photograph of dozens of tanks on a train, next to I-295 in Washington, DC.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Around the time that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was indicted in the Middle District of Tennessee, the chief of the criminal division in that district posted this on LinkedIn: “Earlier today, after nearly 15 years as an Assistant United States Attorney, I resigned…”
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Former Chief, Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney'
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Earlier today, after nearly 15 years as an Assistant United States Attorney, I resigned as Chief of the Criminal Division at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Tennessee.
It has been an incredible privilege to serve as a prosecutor with the Department of Justice, where the only job description I've ever known is to do the right thing, in the right way, for the right reasons. I wish all of my colleagues at the U.S. Attorney's Office in Nashville and across the Department the best as they seek to do justice on behalf of the American people.
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Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
This isn't good: "BLS is reducing sample in areas across the country. In April, BLS suspended CPI data collection entirely in Lincoln, NE, and Provo, UT. In June, BLS suspended collection entirely in Buffalo, NY." #EconSky www.bls.gov/cpi/notices/...
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Notice of CPI collection reductions
Notice of CPI collection reductions
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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Dear DC residents and proponents of statehood: I have heard from now two sources (one of which I trust a great deal) that TACO is planning to give DC to Peter Theil to run as a privately owned “freedom city” without any government oversight or control. No more mayor or city council.
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
A once-hyped AI startup backed by Microsoft has filed for bankruptcy after it was revealed that its so-called artificial intelligence was actually hundreds of human workers in India pretending to be chatbots.
latintimes.com
AI Startup Backed by Microsoft Revealed to Be 700 Indian Employees Pretending to Be Chatbots
A Microsoft-backed AI startup that relied on hundreds of human workers posing as chatbots has collapsed into bankruptcy amid fraud allegations.
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Alice Miranda Ollstein @alicemiranda.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
BREAKING: The Trump admin is scrapping Biden admin guidance that hospitals in states with abortion bans can't turn away pregnant patients experiencing medical emergencies. The move comes amid court battles over the guidance in Idaho, Tennessee and Texas. www.cms.gov/newsroom/pre...
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CMS Statement on Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) | CMS
The Department of Health and Human Services and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) are rescinding July 2022 guidance from CMS with the subject “Reinforcement of EMTALA Obligations specif...
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Jenny Rae Rappaport @jennyrae.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
This is the most delightful website. Owls! In towels! owlsintowels.org
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Owls in Towels
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