Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com

Why are so many (legal) drugs in short supply? Because a cartel of pharmaceutical middlemen have rigged the market to ensure shortages.

Monopolies/oligopolies are killing people, deliberately, and the law -- including the lawmakers in Congress -- keeps letting them get away with it.

https://prospect.org/health/2024-04-17-our-uniquely-american-drug-shortages/

"“It’s difficult for people to move out of a one-bedroom apartment, you can imagine the challenge of moving out of a four-story building with a historic print shop, a theater, a gallery and we have music, dance and art studios and offices. So the move is huge,” #MCCLA
https://eltecolote.org/content/en/mission-cultural-center-in-search-of-a-new-home/

Video records extracted by Joey Scott (KnockLA) show that San Bernardino Sheriffs shot and killed a kidnapped 15 year girl. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/01/california-police-video-shooting-15-year-old-girl-savannah-graziano

Biden Claims to Support a Two-State Solution. His Policies Say Otherwise. https://truthout.org/articles/biden-claims-to-support-a-two-state-solution-his-policies-say-otherwise/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Muted several accounts telling me to delete my post, calling it ageist or unfair to older net-wise people. I get this is a sensitive issue. But pretending it doesn't exist makes no sense. Yes, kids do stupid shit on the Internet, too, but it usually doesn't cost you your inheritance or the kid's college fund.

@pluralistic @molly0xfff Eh, I think LLMs work really well at their intended purpose—which is to separate investors from their capital. (The claimed "benefits", meanwhile, are mostly a collection of bare-faced lies.)

I can tell I’m growing as a person, or at least away from social media, because of my frankly saint-like restraint in not constantly rage posting against the billion dollar data broker industry trying to gut the California act with Senate bill 1076 this year.

Fun fact that’s totally not related: did you know that thanks to the Delete Act we now know that Experian’s marketing division deals in precise geolocation information, reproductive healthcare data and kids data?

Blame Inflation on Monopolies — Robert Reich on NBC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFD2vEIiFvM&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Samantha Power Confirms Famine Is Likely Underway In Parts of Gaza https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/04/samantha-power-confirms-famine-is-likely-underway-in-parts-of-gaza/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

An important observation: defining the notion of "identity" as a construct is functionally identical to establishing a locus of authority.

True of any mechanism of power, of course, but insisting that identities be unique means the auditor or enforcer of that uniqueness has been granted a position of specific power. For example, if your drivers' license or passport is the guarantor of identity, then the function of anonymity is reserved to the state, that can print whatever docs it wants.

Why does ChatGPT always sound so generic? Because it’s been trained on publicly posted language. What’s the most common public language around infosec? Marketing language.

"The solution is simple: We need to tax the rich"