A "consumer-driven marketplace" seems like the wrong approach to necessary and preventive healthcare. #DrawnInPowerpoint https://www.drawninpowerpoint.com/2017/11/shopper.html

Have a listen to this podcast that Dr Rob Person and I did with Major Kyle Atwell from West Point’s Social Science Department and the Institute of Modern War. https://mwi.usma.edu/welcome-to-social-science-of-war-a-new-podcast-series-from-west-points-department-of-social-sciences/

Hard to believe, but every airline has a malicious service known as "Flight Status" that provides coordinates to assassins.

Musk is terrified of the masses. He didn't buy Twitter to advance humanity, he bought it to control and stifle the most important thing his wealth can't control. He's so desperate he has aligned with fascists and right wing populists who defend him. Musk is, ultimately, a small man, his wealth far more a function of luck than exceptionalism. In that he's no different than most if not all of the Silicon Valley elite, whose paranoia will increasingly merge with the froth of fascism on the right.

I've been following the build up and war daily for well over a year and I will never get used to the fact that a major European country and its capital is under weekly massive assault with cruise missiles and strategic bombers to disable its basic infrastructure like heat and power in a war overtly attempting colonialist conquest.

I have written a Python script that takes my Mastodon feed and turns it into #teletext pages, and I consider this time well spent.

Well ACTUALLY Twitter accounts that use public records to track airplane movements are a historically recognized EXCEPTION to the First Amendment, if you actually cared about free speech you'd know that.

Twitter is a realtime experiment
In what happens when you pipe stderr to /dev/null
and wait.