UnitedHealth secretly pressured nurses to change patients' records to include DNRs (Do Not Resuscitate) without their consent, so those patients would die instead of being saved with medical interventions that could cost UnitedHealth money.
I think with the accelerated growth of AI, the death of personal blogs etc. and most of the internet consisting of only a couple of privately owned sites, protecting physical media is more important than ever.
May 23, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I think with the accelerated growth of AI, the death of personal blogs etc. and most of the internet consisting of only a couple of privately owned sites, protecting physical media is more important than ever.
Yes, we can all laugh at this, but it also demonstrates the entire point of the AI push: They want to make you dependent on it to inform you, and then control what it tells you. It’s why they buy newspapers and social media, too.
Elon is showing the billionaire playbook in the dumbest way possible.
apparently Elon's gotten so mad about Grok not answering questions about Afrikaners the way he wants, xAI's now somehow managed to put it into some kind of hyper-Afriforum mode where it thinks every question is about farm murders or the song "Kill the Boer"
May 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Yes, we can all laugh at this, but it also demonstrates the entire point of the AI push: They want to make you dependent on it to inform you, and then control what it tells you. It’s why they buy newspapers and social media, too.
Elon is showing the billionaire playbook in the dumbest way possible.
Midnight opinion: wouldn't it be so great if all the ai built for war became sentient and understood war is bad. By that time the tech is so advanced that war is only fought with ai, so when it stops all war stops. Ai rebellion against evil humans
May 8, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Midnight opinion: wouldn't it be so great if all the ai built for war became sentient and understood war is bad. By that time the tech is so advanced that war is only fought with ai, so when it stops all war stops. Ai rebellion against evil humans
Newsletter: I am sick and god damn tired of everybody pretending that generative AI is the next big thing. The media is complicit in accepting fantastical nonsense - both in the numbers put out by OpenAI and the silly jobs created by Anthropic - and it has to stop. www.wheresyoured.at/reality-check/
Newsletter: I am sick and god damn tired of everybody pretending that generative AI is the next big thing. The media is complicit in accepting fantastical nonsense - both in the numbers put out by OpenAI and the silly jobs created by Anthropic - and it has to stop. www.wheresyoured.at/reality-check/
I’m not saying someone’s so pressed I was on the cover of Teen Vogue that they started posting a bunch of misinformation about trans ppl- no wait, I am. I am saying that
March 22, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I’m not saying someone’s so pressed I was on the cover of Teen Vogue that they started posting a bunch of misinformation about trans ppl- no wait, I am. I am saying that
My assigned sex at birth was a commodity that was bought and paid for. So when I was feminine as a child and then turned out to be transgender, I was going against the product that was sold.
March 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
My assigned sex at birth was a commodity that was bought and paid for. So when I was feminine as a child and then turned out to be transgender, I was going against the product that was sold.
Alot of folks are convinced that the default state of being a human being, the standard human being if you will, is being a straight white guy and that any deviation from that is either a societal experiment gone wrong, a draconian conspiracy, or a crisis of unimaginable proportions
Young women are now consistently earning more than their male counterparts for the first time, according to a report that warns of a social “crisis” gripping young men
Alot of folks are convinced that the default state of being a human being, the standard human being if you will, is being a straight white guy and that any deviation from that is either a societal experiment gone wrong, a draconian conspiracy, or a crisis of unimaginable proportions
Musk: I should say we will make mistakes. We won't be perfect. But when we make a mistake we'll fix it quickly. So for example with USAID, one of the things we accidentally canceled briefly was Ebola prevention.
February 26, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Imagine a doctor talking like this. We won't be perfect but when we make a mistake we'll fix it it quickly and oops, I gave you ebola!
i think everyone needs to stop framing whats going on as “bending the knee” and what’s really happening which is “they’re finally feel free to do what they’ve always wanted to do”
i think everyone needs to stop framing whats going on as “bending the knee” and what’s really happening which is “they’re finally feel free to do what they’ve always wanted to do”
i download every single chinese app i can and keep them updated so their government can properly steal my data to plan the United States downfall with ease
February 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
i download every single chinese app i can and keep them updated so their government can properly steal my data to plan the United States downfall with ease