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The health industry's invisible hand is a fist: We've tried everything except for the thing that works everywhere else in the world.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112611205232507602

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Cory Doctorow

2024-06-13 20:30:26

The US has the rich world's most expensive health care system, and that system delivers the worst health outcomes of any country in the rich world. Also, the US is unique in relying on market forces as the primary regulator of its health care system. All of these facts are related!

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/13/a-punch-in-the-guts/#hayek-pilled

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Hey look at this

* Two people arrested in connection with investigation into homemade mobile antenna used to send thousands of smishing text messages to the public https://www.cityoflondon.police.uk/news/city-of-london/news/2024/june/two-people-arrested-in-connection-with-investigation-into-homemade-mobile-antenna-used-to-send-thousands-of-smishing-text-messages-to-the-public/

* Icehenge https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/icehenge

* Remedyfest 2024 https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/content/files/2024/06/RemedyFest-Final-Report.pdf

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Icehenge

My introduction to it

^{Henry Farrell (Programmable Mutter)}

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#15yrsago Soviet-era punks https://englishrussia.com/2009/06/11/soviet-punks/

#15yrsago Junk science and cocaine scares https://www.badscience.net/2009/06/this-is-my-column-this-is-my-column-on-drugs-any-questions/

#10yrsago The Return of Zita the Space Girl https://memex.craphound.com/2014/06/13/the-return-of-zita-the-space-girl/

#10yrsago Bot alerts you every time the Supreme Court silently alters its rulings https://web.archive.org/web/20140613031445/http://gigaom.com/2014/06/12/clever-piece-of-code-exposes-hidden-changes-to-supreme-court-opinions/

#10yrsago Academic publisher tried to stop publication of paper on price-gouging in academic publishing https://www.techdirt.com/2014/06/12/academic-publisher-fights-publication-paper-criticizing-publishers-price-increases-profits/

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Clever piece of code exposes hidden changes to Supreme Court opinions

The Supreme Court has long made surreptitious changes to its opinions without telling anyone. In response, a coder has created a tool that flags and publicizes those changes.

^{web.archive.org}

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#10yrsago How Hayek bred a race of elite monsters https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/06/bill-black-hayek-helped-worst-get-top-economics-ceos.html

#10yrsago Snowdenbot performs tele-diagnosis and offers aid to reporter who had first epileptic seizure https://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/he-is-not-alone-4821781.html

#10yrsago Apple adds privacy-protecting MAC spoofing (when Aaron Swartz did it, it was evidence of criminality) https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/06/umbrella-hurricane-apple-limits-mobile-device-location-tracking

#5yrsago Couture fashion company Vetements is selling an unauthorized €800 Pirate Bay hoodie https://torrentfreak.com/red-hot-vetements-fashion-brand-is-selling-a-845-pirate-bay-hoodie/

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Red-Hot Vetements Fashion Brand is Selling an $845 Pirate Bay Hoodie

According to the latest Lyst Index report of the world's hottest fashion brands, Switzerland-based Vetements is a Top 10 player, just behind Versace.

^{Andy Maxwell (TF Publishing)}

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#5yrsago In Alabama, it’s traditional for sheriffs who lose their elections to steal and waste money, destroy public property https://www.propublica.org/article/alabama-sheriffs-undermine-successors-after-losing-reelection

#5yrsago After American juvenile offenders are released, they can be re-imprisoned for failing to make restitution payments https://www.themarshallproject.org/2019/06/11/punishing-kids-with-years-of-debt

#5yrsago Majority of American millionaires support a wealth tax on American millionaires https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/06/12/even-1-know-they-arent-paying-their-fair-share-new-poll-shows-60-millionaires

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Even the 1% Know They Aren't Paying Their Fair Share: New Poll Shows 60% of Millionaires Support Warren's Ultra-Wealth Tax

"A majority of Americans, even the 1% of us, know that our inequality is out of control and we need to make some big changes if we want to fix things."

^{jon-queally (Common Dreams)}

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#5yrsago Facebook execs are worried that Zuck’s emails show he never took his FTC privacy obligations seriously https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-worries-emails-could-show-zuckerberg-knew-of-questionable-privacy-practices-11560353829

#5yrsago Hong Kong’s #612strike protest movement: a million strong, leaderless, wireless and smart as hell https://memex.craphound.com/2019/06/13/hong-kongs-612strike-protest-movement-a-million-strong-leaderless-wireless-and-smart-as-hell/

#1yrago Saving the news from Big Tech with end-to-end social media https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/13/certified-organic-reach/#e2e

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Yesterday's threads: An end to the climate emergency is in our grasp; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112603946898377968

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Cory Doctorow

2024-06-12 13:44:33

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: An end to the climate emergency is in our grasp; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/12/s-curve/

#Pluralistic

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My latest nationally bestselling novel is "The Bezzle," an ice-cold revenge story of high-tech finance crime starring the forensic accountant Martin Hench:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865878/thebezzle

Signed copies from Chevalier's Books:

https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/product-page/the-bezzle

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My latest nonfiction book is "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" from Verso Books:

http://seizethemeansofcomputation.org

Signed copies available from Book Soup:

https://www.booksoup.com/book/9781804291245

Both are national bestsellers!

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The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation (Hardcover) | Book Soup

A USA TODAY BESTSELLERWinner of the 2024 Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity"An essential read for anyone that wants to understand how we lost control of our digital spaces and infrastructure to Silicon Valley’s …

^{www.booksoup.com}

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My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."

https://craphound.com/shop/

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Upcoming appearances:

* @Locusmag reading (virtual), Jun 21
https://locusmag.com/2024-locus-awards-weekend/

* @Locusmag Awards keynote (Oakland), Jun 22
https://locusmag.com/2024-locus-awards-weekend/

* HOPE XV, Jul 14 (Queens, NY)
https://www.hope.net/talks.html
https://locusmag.com/2024-locus-awards-weekend/

* American Association of Law Libraries keynote (Chicago), Jul 21
https://www.aallnet.org/conference/agenda/keynote-speaker/

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2024 Locus Awards Weekend, June 19-22

We can’t wait to see you at the Locus Awards Weekend, to be held June 19-22, 2024 in Oakland, California! WEDNESDAY – FRIDAY: We’ll kick off the event with a series of online read…

^{Locus Online}

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Recent appearances:

* Reimagining the Internet
https://publicinfrastructure.org/podcast/102-cory-doctorow-enshittification/

* Circulating ideas
https://circulatingideas.com/2024/06/11/261-the-bezzle-by-cory-doctorow-summer-reading-spectacular/

* Capitalist Realism vs. Science Fiction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz-iHWzqGK0

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102. Cory Doctorow Coined "Enshittification." He Sees 4 Ways to End It. - Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure at UMass Amherst

To kick off our Good Web series, Cory Doctorow joined us for a deep dive into his enshittification theory, and how regulation, labor power, competition, and user self-help will make it a thing of the past.

^{Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure}

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On June 21, I'm doing an online reading for the @Locusmag Awards at 16hPT.

On June 22, I'll be in Oakland, CA for a panel and a keynote at the Locus Awards:

https://locusmag.com/2024-locus-awards-weekend/

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2024 Locus Awards Weekend, June 19-22

We can’t wait to see you at the Locus Awards Weekend, to be held June 19-22, 2024 in Oakland, California! WEDNESDAY – FRIDAY: We’ll kick off the event with a series of online read…

^{Locus Online}