“Tim Cook Is Failing Us”

“So yes, I do hold Tim to a higher standard than these other robber barons, but that’s because Tim claims he holds himself to those high standards. I am measuring him against the ruler that he has provided and he comes up short.”

https://joe-steel.com/2025-01-25-Tim-Cook-Is-Failing-Us.html

This is another must-read from @caseynewton, which only serves to underscore that if you're still active on Twitter, you are supporting a billionaire who wants nothing more than to delegitimize democracy and destroy our shared sense of reality and civic duty. Oh yeah, he's also a racist, sexist and transphobe.

https://www.platformer.news/x-election-elon-musk-voter-fraud-misinformation/

Wealth of Elon Musk
2012: $2,000,000,000
2024: $273,000,000,000

Wealth of Jeff Bezos
2012: $18,400,000,000
2024: $207,100,000,000

Wealth of Mark Zuckerberg
2012: $17,500,000,000
2024: $200,000,000,000

Federal Minimum Wage
2012: $7.25
2024: $7.25

Three words: tax the rich.

“Not Medically Necessary”: Inside the Company Helping America’s Biggest #Health Insurers Deny Coverage for Care
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When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to #EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for #care recommended by #doctors for their #patients.

https://www.propublica.org/article/evicore-health-insurance-denials-cigna-unitedhealthcare-aetna-prior-authorizations

#News #Insurance #Algorithm #AI #Healthcare

The Weather Network’s live #hurricane coverage is far superior to The Weather Channel. They have one dude on the ground doing most of the talking, people on the studio in Canada doing actual meteorology, and no commercials (originating from TWN, there are YT commercials).

It feels like golden era of the The Weather Channel from back when I was a kid.

YouTube livestream: https://www.youtube.com/live/GTNTJnCoQiU?si=5wlzKwBWotMClNbP

#weather #Helene

Amazing and terrifying: Lightning erupting in & around the fierce eyewall of Hurricane Helene, captured just now by the GOES-16 satellite.

https://satlib.cira.colostate.edu/event/hurricane-helene/ #HurricaneHelene #weather #space #nature