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Texas delivery driver Don Johnson, 81, works 14-hour days to help pay wife's medical bills - strangers raise almost $250K trib.al/iOH2hYR
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This is extremely dark
🦔The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association says insurers paid out nearly $1 billion more than usual from AI-assisted hospital documentation in 2024-2025. Hospitals use AI to scan records and find secondary diagnoses that human reviewers missed. More diagnoses means higher reimbursements. But treatment levels haven't gone up.
BCBSA's SVP of data science said AI is "identifying more billable conditions, not sicker patients." Insurers now deploy their own AI to deny those same claims. Patients pay for both through higher premiums.
My Take
This might be the most American healthcare story I've ever read. Hospitals bought AI to find more things to bill for. Insurers bought AI to deny those bills. The technology cost money on each end and the tab went straight to patients through higher premiums. A billion dollars moved and no one got any healthier. The only thing that changed was the size of the invoices.
Two sides of a trillion-dollar industry found a new tool to fight over the same pool of money and the person in the hospital bed pays for all of it. Premiums go up, denials go up, and the AI vendors collect from everyone. If you want to know who AI works for, stop reading the press releases and look at where the money goes. In healthcare it went straight into the billing department.
Hedgie🤗
Ashley Stewart retweeted
Johnathan Newell, one of the Cornell 7 gang rapists is the one that sent the Snapchat message to the “Chi Phi Actives,” where the other 6 learned about the “free p*ssy.”
Never let this story die down and never stop calling it out.
He wants to be a Dr. No med school should accept him
Ashley Stewart retweeted
I remember reading in an Anna C. Salter book how in court, stranger rape victims are often shocked to find that their rapists usually genuinely do not remember them. They assume that it must have been as life-altering for the rapist as it was for them and it just... wasn't.
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On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell @jvplive) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same @Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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You wanna know why? Cuz the nerd that created this map found more than 300,000 surveillance devices. Flock only publicly reported 120,000
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for those who cannot sacrifice $1 for the boston globe article, i made a text only version as a pdf so here you go dropbox.com/scl/fi/y6hdngkgw…
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New Zealand’s karure, or black robin, has been crowned the country’s 2026 Bird of the Year. cnn.it/4rqzZeL
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Every single surviving Black Robin is a descendant of Old Blue, she should be a household name 🥲
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Your dog carries your stress in its body for months. A 2019 study in Scientific Reports measured cortisol in the hair of 58 dogs and their owners over a full year and found that the two rose and fell together. When you are stressed, your dog is stressed. When you calm down, so does it.
The synchrony was not driven by walks, weather, or the dog's own life events. It was driven by the owner. Dogs whose owners scored higher on personality measures of anxiety showed higher cortisol year-round. The dog's body was tracking the owner's emotional state over months, not moments.
The bond between a human and a dog is not a one-way relationship where the human provides and the dog receives. The dog is absorbing the household's emotional weather and carrying it in its endocrine system. Your bad month is its bad month.
This is what 15,000 years of co-evolution looks like. The dog did not just learn to read your face. It learned to sync its chemistry to yours, and the hair on its back is keeping a record of how you have been feeling since the last time it was groomed.
The next time someone says "it's just a dog," the cortisol data says otherwise. The dog is a mirror with a heartbeat, and the reflection goes deeper than behaviour. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3117…
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The government literally just told us that:
-AI was responsible for the mistake of targeting a school in Iran and killing over 100 school girls.
-Almost caused a conflict with China due to a hallucination about transporting nuclear material
And they want it to run air traffic…