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A Third of Americans Have Cut Spending or Borrowed Money for Health Care. As medical costs rise, more than 80 million people have made sacrifices like skipping meals and driving less, a new survey finds. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/health/health-costs-cutting-back.html?smid=bs-share

A Third of Americans Have Cut Spending or Borrowed Money for Health Care

As medical costs rise, more than 80 million people have made sacrifices like skipping meals and driving less, a new survey finds.

The New York Times

Ben Feb 3

Electronic Frontier Foundation Feb 3

LISTEN: EFF’s Beryl Lipton joined WBUR’s On Point to explore the AI surveillance state. From your online browsing habits to traffic cameras on your commute and more, AI helps gather, store and share detailed information about you faster than ever.
https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2026/02/03/inside-the-ai-surveillance-state

Inside the AI surveillance state

From your online browsing habits to traffic cameras on your commute, data about you is everywhere. And with AI, companies can gather, store and share detailed information about you faster than ever.

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Ben Dec 25

@bettycjung.bsky.social doesn’t calcium supplementation increase excess deaths by significantly more than the number of fractures it reduces, even when given with D and K? (Heart health) Also, doesn’t dairy consumption pretty linearly increase your risk of certain cancers, like colon cancer? (Pretty sure talk about supposed raging calcium insufficiency is just old Got Milk propaganda. On the face of it, it seems pretty obvious that the West needs to be adding greens, not cheese.)

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Ben Sep 10, 2025

@exchgr the magNOPEficent 7. The malignant 7. The mercurial 7?

Ben Jul 26, 2025

Silversnapples Jul 26, 2025

Think every government needs to do this. That would make an international law protecting our personal physical identities.

Ben May 23, 2025

Andrea Junker

May 23, 2025

Back before the Internet, we thought the reason for human stupidity was the lack of information options.

I’ll put it this way: That wasn’t it.

Ben May 21, 2025

This was an unexpectedly *terrible* take from Vox.

Imho, speech that directly threatens someone's safety (a child, no less) should not be protected under 1A.

Wasn't this halfway to a criminal incitement to violence?

Yet @imillhiser seems to believe that this is valid expression of "opinion"? That allowing this speech without even a censure is a win for democracy?

What a shameful use of editorial discretion from Vox, as well. @supreme-court-Vox

https://www.vox.com/politics/413775/supreme-court-libby-fecteau-maine-transgender-house

The Supreme Court stands up for democracy — and for an anti-trans lawmaker

Libby v. Fecteau is a voting rights case about an anti-trans lawmaker who nonetheless needed to win.

Vox

Ben May 21, 2025

flexghost.May 21, 2025

At 1 am, Republicans tried to sneak the Big Beautiful Bill through the Rules committee

Rep. Jim McGovern wasn’t having it

“You are literally taking food off kids' plates to buy Elon Musk another yacht...this is not policy: This is theft."

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Ben May 18, 2025

Greenpeace International May 18, 2025

The world's biggest corporations have already caused US$28 trillion in climate damage.

More than half of that total figure comes from oil and gas companies. ⁠
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We KNOW oil companies are causing this crisis.
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Sign the #PollutersPayPact to make them pay their fair share: https://act.gp/3FccTES

Polluters broke it, we're paying for it. Make Polluters Pay

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Ben May 18, 2025

Information Is Beautiful May 18, 2025

Rubbish? Fine? Brilliant? British superlatives graded and ranked.
https://yougov.co.uk/society/articles/21568-how-good-good

US version here ('quite' interesting comparison)
https://today.yougov.com/society/articles/21717-how-good-good-1

How good is “good”? | YouGov

A new YouGov study looks at exactly how positive and negative various descriptions are seen as being