Dr. Jack Brown 
Expand the Supreme Court. Overturn Citizens United. Eliminate Dark Money.
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Anne Applebaum"The russian government has jailed virtually every individual who has dared to speak out against its repressive political system in recent years. It has effectively become a carceral state, in which hundreds of Russians and an untold number of Ukrainians, including thousands of children, have been taken hostage by the Kremlin, their whereabouts, in many cases, unknown."
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/01/russian-opposition-political-prisoners-vladimir-kara-murza/677083/https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/01/russian-opposition-political-prisoners-vladimir-kara-murza/677083/
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/01/russian-opposition-political-prisoners-vladimir-kara-murza/677083/https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/01/russian-opposition-political-prisoners-vladimir-kara-murza/677083/
ProPublicaDoctors With Histories of Big #Malpractice Settlements Have Found a New Home in the #Insurance Industry
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#Doctors working for health insurers can rule on 10,000 or more requests for care a year. At least a dozen were hired by major insurance companies after being disciplined by state medical boards or making multiple or outsized malpractice payments.
Doctors With Histories of Big Malpractice Settlements Now Work for Insurers
Doctors working for health insurers can rule on 10,000 or more requests for care a year. At least a dozen were hired by major insurance companies after being disciplined by state medical boards or making multiple or outsized malpractice payments.
BrianKrebsReading the responses to @cj tweet @ Mu*k in re his spreading of misinformation around the CTI League's work, I'm reminded why I left that platform a year ago: Because I couldn't shake the gut feeling that 90 percent of the people responding to my posts there were disinformation accounts. The replies were always a bit off, whataboutist, completely off-topic, or downright nasty.
Flipboard Tech DeskCanadian news readers rejoice! Google has agreed to pay Canada $100 million ($74 million U.S.) a year to ensure online news articles can still appear via Google Search and Google News. Meta however, is still holding firm in its refusal to pay for news links on its platform.
ICYMI (I did)...the founder of the infamous and now-defunct spyware maker Hacking Team was arrested on Saturday after allegedly stabbing and attempting to murder a relative, according to multiple news reports.
David Vincenzetti, who launched Hacking Team in 2003, was arrested when police showed up to his apartment after his cousin called the police, local media reported, because he couldn’t reach his wife on the phone. According to Italian newspaper Il Giorno, the woman was visiting Vincenzetti, who reportedly had psychological issues, to take care of him.
E RosalieSavage subtitle: The crowdsourced encyclopedia is a monumental project that for more than two decades has represented the very best of what the internet has to offer — unlike X.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-10-24/no-wonder-elon-musk-wants-to-see-wikipedia-taken-down
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-10-24/no-wonder-elon-musk-wants-to-see-wikipedia-taken-down
Max KennerlyAn open secret of big pharma is that the bulk of their "innovation" is trivial—they're mostly generating analogues to evade patents—and the real breakthroughs are always mostly/entirely government initiated and funded, then handed to private companies for rent-seeking.
https://prospect.org/health/2023-10-18-nih-how-to-become-billionaire-program/
Kate StarbirdResearchers studying online mis- and disinformation are experiencing a multi-faceted attack (online harassment, lawsuits, congressional investigations) — but we aren't walking away from this cirtical work: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/a-battle-for-better-information
Haven't done this in a while, but let's take a look at some of the fine people making sure Kiwifarms stays online.
Passive DNS says kiwifarms[.]net has been resolving for at least the past 10 months through 103.114.191[.]1, which is assigned to the Autonomous System 1002.
For an AS # that low (there are tens of thousands of them), you'd think it was a big ISP. But it's not. This ISP -- Veilios Hosting -- doesn't even have a website. But it has an OG autonomous system #, and quite a bit of IP space, considering.
Who runs Veilios? A young Canadian man named Curtis Gervais. In 2014, Gervais was arrested for perpetrating more than 30 swatting attacks and bomb threats, including multiple swatting attempts of our home.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/05/teen-arrested-for-30-swattings-bomb-threats/
In 2017, Gervais was found guilty of those crimes and got nine months of house arrest, basically.