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This is ominous.
What did DOGE want with this kind of information? None of it seemed relevant to Musk’s stated aim of identifying waste and fraud, multiple government finance, IT, and security specialists told WIRED. But in treating the US government itself as a giant dataset, the experts said, DOGE could help the Trump administration accomplish another goal: to gather much of what the government knows about a given individual, whether a civil servant or an undocumented immigrant, in one easily searchable place.
March 16, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Nice to have a sunny day here in NEO, for a change. The blanket of snow on my rooftop panels melted off before noon, and I sent a decent amount of power to my backup battery, my car, and the grid.
A trend graphic showing the output of my solar roof. Color coded to show the power sent to my home, my EV, my battery, and the grid.
March 8, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Drug pricing in the U. S. is screwed up in all sorts of ways. This Wired profile of Novo Nordisk points to one of the most infuriating problems.

www.wired.com/story/novo-n...
PBMs. The worst. They’re the despised outfits like CVS Caremark that administer drugs for health plans, negotiate for insurance companies, and, most notably, maintain the lists of drugs covered by insurance. Though many of us learned about PBMs only after the December assassination of Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, which is affiliated with a giant PBM, Jørgensen has called these middlemen the real enemy for a long time. Facing down Sanders, he spelled out one of the most excruciating paradoxes of American health care. PBMs make their money from insurance premiums, but they also get money from drugmakers in the form of rebates. Usually, the more expensive a medication is, the higher its rebate. If a drug company like Novo drops the price of its drugs too low, the PBMs, afraid to miss their cut, often stop covering them altogether
February 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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It's nice that they're lowering the prices, but $499/mo is still way more than many people can afford. Are there any groups lobbying for insurance coverage for obesity?
“Every major medical organization and establishment recognizes obesity as a chronic disease, yet insurance and federal programs do not systematically cover people living with obesity for medical care — this needs to change,” said Patrik Jonsson, executive vice president of Eli Lilly and president of Lilly Cardiometabolic Health and Lilly USA.
February 25, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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I've only had my hybrid heat pump system for a bit over a month. The backup gas furnace is running more than I would like.
Graph of home heating system showing mix of gas furnace and heat pump utilization.
December 25, 2024 at 4:00 PM
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Solar roof doing my small part in reducing the carbon footprint.
A “badge” showing my solar electricity production for 2024.
December 22, 2024 at 3:33 AM
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #999,648! I guess being under 1 million makes me an elder. Ha!
999,648
September 16, 2024 at 11:05 PM
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Trying out the Charge on Solar option in the Tesla app.
Screenshot of app showing flow of solar power. Car is getting a portion of the roof’s output. App has a label “charging on solar” on the car’s charging status screen.
September 15, 2024 at 3:08 PM