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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 06/12/2024

is the final value of AI revealed? is this is why the economy is swiftly reorienting itself around a shoddy speculative industry to the tune of trillions of dollars?

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Daniel Martin @fizbin.bsky.social · 22/03/2024

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases) projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

projects.propublica.org

Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim

You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...

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Vox Media Union @voxmediaunion.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Hello Bluesky. Sucks that this is our first post. A statement from the Vox Media Union and @wgaeast.bsky.social on today's layoffs. Please stay tuned for more details on how you can support our colleagues who were impacted today.

Today, we were blindsided by news from Vox Media management that many of our colleagues at Thrillist and Eater would lose their jobs. We are devastated to lose writers and editors who produce invaluable work each and every day, and disgusted by Vox Media’s short-sighted decision making. As always, it is the workers who bear the brunt of management’s poor choices, and this close to the holidays, their callousness is especially galling.

We are incredibly disappointed by management’s decision to decimate Thrillist, a vertical that it has invested almost nothing in since acquiring it from Group Nine. As we have made clear to management with our demand for One Union, One Contract, the WGAE-Vox Media Union views our colleagues at Thrillist as members of our union, and we will make sure that they are made whole in light of management’s decision to essentially shutter this beloved publication.

Many of those impacted by today’s layoffs work on Eater’s Cities team, a group of powerhouse journalists who produce some of the most impactful local journalism in the country. Their work has always differentiated Eater and built it into the country’s most prominent food website, and management’s treatment of these workers is both irresponsible and reflects a complete lack of understanding of the journalism that is needed in this moment. We need more boots on the ground doing this essential work, not fewer.

As always, the Guild will continue to demand that members are treated fairly in the aftermath of layoffs. As we approach the upcoming negotiations for our third collective bargaining agreement, we want to make abundantly clear to management that the status quo of constant, cyclical layoffs will not continue. We will fight like hell to ensure that our industry has a future, no matter how many times those in charge attempt to run it into the ground.

Details on how you can support laid off workers at Vox Media will be forthcoming. Solidarity forever.

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camwing @camw.ing · 05/12/2024

In 2025 (less than 30 days away), PayPal will start selling your transaction history for targeted advertising. I very highly recommend logging into your account and going to Settings > Data & Privacy > Personalized Shopping. If you're reading this, turn that off RIGHT NOW before you forget.

A screenshot of PayPal's terms of service. Big wall of legalese text, which I will be pasting in below. You don't need to read it, here's the important part:

"The key update to the Privacy Statement explains how we will share information with merchants to personalize your shopping experience and recommend our services to you. Personal information we disclose includes, for example, products, preferences, sizes, and styles we think you’ll like. Information gathered about you after the effective date of our updated Privacy Statement, November 27, 2024, will be shared with participating stores where you shop."

Here's the whole paragraph:

We are updating our Privacy Statement to explain how, starting early Summer 2025, we will share information to help improve your shopping experience and make it more personalized for you. The key update to the Privacy Statement explains how we will share information with merchants to personalize your shopping experience and recommend our services to you. Personal information we disclose includes, for example, products, preferences, sizes, and styles we think you’ll like. Information gathered about you after the effective date of our updated Privacy Statement, November 27, 2024, will be shared with participating stores where you shop, unless you live in California, North Dakota, or Vermont. For PayPal customers in California, North Dakota, or Vermont, we’ll only share your information with those merchants if you tell us to do so. No matter where you live, you’ll always be able to exercise your right to opt out of this data sharing by updating your preference settings in your account under “Data and Privacy.”

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Breaking News: Police believe that the suspect in the killing of health insurance executive Brian Thompson has uploaded himself to the Dark Web and become a being of pure information, a “ghost in the machine”

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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

GUY NAMED LIKE "THE SQUAT TO PISS MOTHERFUCKER": Led Zeppelin only has songs named "Stairway to My House" or "Stairway to My Friend's House". These guys just love going on the stairs. BLUESKY USER SINCE NOV 2024: That's not true. That's not true. That's not FUCKING TRUE. That's not FUCKING TRUE.

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 27/11/2024

I’m worried that kids today are growing up without a video game series that teaches them 13 or 15 similar sounding skate punk songs

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Dan Hentschel @danhentschel.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Hey everybody, we’ve been discussing internally whether or not Blue Sky sucks and if maintaining an account on here is a useless waste of time. The consensus seems to be, we’ll keep it around, and use it as sort of a “dumping ground” for garbage

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 24/11/2024

Advice

Maladaptive pattern:
Thave a problem
it's my business and I have to deal with It
After cognitive restructuring:
Thave a problem
it's not my business
Depression
No depression

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I'm Dirt Mother Fucker @aynrandy.boontavista.com · 12/11/2024

the reality of things right now is that the institutions which are meant to protect us are doing nothing, while a group called something like "Da Cum Goblinz" raises eye watering amounts of money for direct action

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marny 6v6 @marny6v6.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Blue eyeshadow has kinda changed the game for me idk. This is such a Hot girls eat croissants on thursdays kind of tweet but this is my truth ok

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slurm king 👑 @slurm.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

bro they are straight up analyzing your directorial intent right now… they’re literally deriving significance from your work’s formal elements, including but not limited to its mise-en-scène and sense of photogénie

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marny 6v6 @marny6v6.bsky.social · 20/11/2024