Frater AE -The Arbiter
@karmicarbiter.bsky.social
Professional, Occultist, Maker, and Nerd living in Nashville, TN. I think for myself. Intellectual purity is oppression, as is prejudice. Think for yourself, question authority. “Be the balance, work the science, be diligent, moderate the middle”.
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Scientists say we basically have an HIV vaccine, but Gilead is charging over $40,000 a year for it and won’t yet allow a generic version that could be made for as little as $40 (which still includes a 30% profit).
HIV ‘vaccine’ could be made for just $40 a year for every patient
Generic version of a drug already on the market, which can suppress and prevent HIV, would still yield 30% profit if the current price was slashed, researchers say
www.theguardian.com
July 23, 2024 at 11:52 AM
Scientists say we basically have an HIV vaccine, but Gilead is charging over $40,000 a year for it and won’t yet allow a generic version that could be made for as little as $40 (which still includes a 30% profit).
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If you’re an Author whose work has been pinched by Meta to feed AI, the Authors Guild has a really excellent and quick tool to send a complaint.
actionnetwork.org/letters/auth...?
actionnetwork.org/letters/auth...?
Tell AI Companies They Do Not Have the Right to Use Your Work
I just sent a letter telling AI companies they do not not have the right to use my work. Use the Authors Guild's letter template to send your own.
actionnetwork.org
March 23, 2025 at 9:09 AM
If you’re an Author whose work has been pinched by Meta to feed AI, the Authors Guild has a really excellent and quick tool to send a complaint.
actionnetwork.org/letters/auth...?
actionnetwork.org/letters/auth...?
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School Bully Shocks Nerds With Further Lunch-Money Demands
March 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
School Bully Shocks Nerds With Further Lunch-Money Demands
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The stage of capitalism where people who protest against a failing car company are sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador.
March 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The stage of capitalism where people who protest against a failing car company are sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador.
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This is Nazism.
"Europe is on the brink of civilizational suicide," US Vice President Vance told Fox News. "Countries don’t control borders, restrict free speech. If Germany takes in millions more incompatible migrants, it’ll destroy itself. America can’t save it."
March 16, 2025 at 2:08 AM
This is Nazism.
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Just a quick observation that amid all the turmoil created by the Zelensky meeting, this got completely ignored: A Chinese citizen paid Trump $50 million for the SEC to drop its charges against him.
BREAKING
The SEC has just halted its fraud prosecution of Justin Sun, a Chinese national who has put more than $50 million in Trump's pocket since November through the purchase of crypto tokens from a Trump-backed company, World Liberty Financial.
The SEC has just halted its fraud prosecution of Justin Sun, a Chinese national who has put more than $50 million in Trump's pocket since November through the purchase of crypto tokens from a Trump-backed company, World Liberty Financial.
BREAKING: SEC halts fraud prosecution of Chinese national who sent Trump millions
In December, Popular Information reported that Chinese crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun purchased $30 million in crypto tokens from World Liberty Financial (WLF), a new venture backed by President Donal...
popular.info
March 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Just a quick observation that amid all the turmoil created by the Zelensky meeting, this got completely ignored: A Chinese citizen paid Trump $50 million for the SEC to drop its charges against him.
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I have a little context to add to this outstanding reporting.
ICE lawyer James Rodden is a devout white christian nationalist who has appeared in the network built around the Lutheran nazi podcast Stone Choir. He has promoted it & has regularly interacted w co-host Ryan Dumperth aka Treblewoe. 1/
ICE lawyer James Rodden is a devout white christian nationalist who has appeared in the network built around the Lutheran nazi podcast Stone Choir. He has promoted it & has regularly interacted w co-host Ryan Dumperth aka Treblewoe. 1/
February 20, 2025 at 4:52 AM
I have a little context to add to this outstanding reporting.
ICE lawyer James Rodden is a devout white christian nationalist who has appeared in the network built around the Lutheran nazi podcast Stone Choir. He has promoted it & has regularly interacted w co-host Ryan Dumperth aka Treblewoe. 1/
ICE lawyer James Rodden is a devout white christian nationalist who has appeared in the network built around the Lutheran nazi podcast Stone Choir. He has promoted it & has regularly interacted w co-host Ryan Dumperth aka Treblewoe. 1/
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It feels like no one should have to say this, and yet we are in a situation where it needs to be said, very loudly and clearly, before it’s too late to do anything about it: The United States is not a startup. If you run it like one, it will break.
🔗 www.wired.com/story/the-us...
🔗 www.wired.com/story/the-us...
February 7, 2025 at 2:16 PM
It feels like no one should have to say this, and yet we are in a situation where it needs to be said, very loudly and clearly, before it’s too late to do anything about it: The United States is not a startup. If you run it like one, it will break.
🔗 www.wired.com/story/the-us...
🔗 www.wired.com/story/the-us...
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Apropos of nothing, if you've got rare or unique historical items in your possession, personally or organizationally … two words: digital preservation. Two more words: offsite backup.
January 10, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Apropos of nothing, if you've got rare or unique historical items in your possession, personally or organizationally … two words: digital preservation. Two more words: offsite backup.
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You should definitely watch this video if you haven’t
Solid solid advice
Solid solid advice
anyway seeing a bunch of people today who know more about the topic putting it better than me (I am, to reiterate, just a silly little guy)
here's a video my friend with a criminology background recommends, if it'd help to hear realistic examples and reasons: youtu.be/d-7o9xYp7eE?...
good thread ⬇️
here's a video my friend with a criminology background recommends, if it'd help to hear realistic examples and reasons: youtu.be/d-7o9xYp7eE?...
good thread ⬇️
December 27, 2024 at 9:38 PM
You should definitely watch this video if you haven’t
Solid solid advice
Solid solid advice
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December 21, 2024 at 8:59 PM
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Americans have really never seen how corruption has worked in much of the world for a long time. Except there, it's often "grease the skids by slipping them a little extra", and this is the U.S., so the dollars and scale of payoffs are gonna be breathtaking and shameless and brutally exploitative.
Tim Apple knows how to play the game, but also, this is a tell about how tariffs are going to work.
December 18, 2024 at 6:03 PM
Americans have really never seen how corruption has worked in much of the world for a long time. Except there, it's often "grease the skids by slipping them a little extra", and this is the U.S., so the dollars and scale of payoffs are gonna be breathtaking and shameless and brutally exploitative.
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The culture wars, the race wars, the gender wars...all smoke screens for the war they don't want you to fight.
The class wars.
The class wars.
December 6, 2024 at 2:11 PM
The culture wars, the race wars, the gender wars...all smoke screens for the war they don't want you to fight.
The class wars.
The class wars.
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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/claimfile/
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...
projects.propublica.org
March 22, 2024 at 1:25 PM
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/claimfile/
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Hearing Amy Coney Barrett say there's no history of du jour discrimination against trans people is MIND BOGGLING when I had to sue the state of Illinois for the right to be a lawyer whilst trans
December 4, 2024 at 4:06 PM
Hearing Amy Coney Barrett say there's no history of du jour discrimination against trans people is MIND BOGGLING when I had to sue the state of Illinois for the right to be a lawyer whilst trans
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"United decided that if we’re going to deny claims the best people to deny them to are alcoholics, drug addicts and the mentally ill.They’re not real good at following up on their options.The chances of getting an appeal from one of them is close to zero" www.welcometohellworld.com/this-is-the-...
December 4, 2024 at 5:01 PM
"United decided that if we’re going to deny claims the best people to deny them to are alcoholics, drug addicts and the mentally ill.They’re not real good at following up on their options.The chances of getting an appeal from one of them is close to zero" www.welcometohellworld.com/this-is-the-...
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this is such an evil sentence and it’s just one example
December 5, 2024 at 12:46 AM
this is such an evil sentence and it’s just one example
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Star gazers in ancient Mesopotamia focused on recurring stuff like planetary motion, but sometimes they wrote about meteors.
Watching from Babylon, one wrote: “Night of the 7th, last part of the night, a meteor which was very bright in the middle of the sky” oracc.museum.upenn.edu//adsd/adart1...
Watching from Babylon, one wrote: “Night of the 7th, last part of the night, a meteor which was very bright in the middle of the sky” oracc.museum.upenn.edu//adsd/adart1...
December 5, 2024 at 10:09 AM
Star gazers in ancient Mesopotamia focused on recurring stuff like planetary motion, but sometimes they wrote about meteors.
Watching from Babylon, one wrote: “Night of the 7th, last part of the night, a meteor which was very bright in the middle of the sky” oracc.museum.upenn.edu//adsd/adart1...
Watching from Babylon, one wrote: “Night of the 7th, last part of the night, a meteor which was very bright in the middle of the sky” oracc.museum.upenn.edu//adsd/adart1...
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1/6 So one of the BIGGEST ad agencies in the world, got a giant project by the US GOVERNMENT to design it’s website. The agency used Midjourney.
So is the US government now into the business of displacing artists and elevating a tech that stole from artists and is terrible for the environment?
So is the US government now into the business of displacing artists and elevating a tech that stole from artists and is terrible for the environment?
December 3, 2024 at 7:17 PM
1/6 So one of the BIGGEST ad agencies in the world, got a giant project by the US GOVERNMENT to design it’s website. The agency used Midjourney.
So is the US government now into the business of displacing artists and elevating a tech that stole from artists and is terrible for the environment?
So is the US government now into the business of displacing artists and elevating a tech that stole from artists and is terrible for the environment?
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"Can I interest you in the message of Sobek?"
November 28, 2024 at 10:00 PM
"Can I interest you in the message of Sobek?"
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So let me get this straight.
If you apply for a job at a grocery store, you have to undergo a background check.
But, if you apply to be Director of National Intelligence, you don't?
Got it.
If you apply for a job at a grocery store, you have to undergo a background check.
But, if you apply to be Director of National Intelligence, you don't?
Got it.
November 25, 2024 at 9:59 PM
So let me get this straight.
If you apply for a job at a grocery store, you have to undergo a background check.
But, if you apply to be Director of National Intelligence, you don't?
Got it.
If you apply for a job at a grocery store, you have to undergo a background check.
But, if you apply to be Director of National Intelligence, you don't?
Got it.
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"The frustrated and humiliated intellectual, the rich and scared speculator, the spoiled son, the labor tyrant, the fellow who has achieved success by smelling out the wind of success—they would all go Nazi in a crisis."
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
harpers.org
November 21, 2024 at 1:56 PM
"The frustrated and humiliated intellectual, the rich and scared speculator, the spoiled son, the labor tyrant, the fellow who has achieved success by smelling out the wind of success—they would all go Nazi in a crisis."
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...