Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com

Here's a particularly egregious form of upcoding: back in 2020, the Poudre Valley Hospital in Ft Collins, CO locked all its doors except the ER entrance. Every patient entering the hospital, including those receiving absolutely routine care, was therefore processed as an "emergency."

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At the core of Epic's value proposition is "upcoding," a form of billing fraud that is beloved of hospital administrators, including the "nonprofit" hospitals that generate vast fortunes that are somehow not characterized as profits.

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Vance did a pretty good job sounding reasonable and moderate, and the next debate should be between him and Donald Trump.

Oh shut the fuck up. Citizens are not competing with recent immigrants for scarce homes. They're competing with Wall St

#vpdebate

Trump is brazen and clumsy in his lies, and it doesn't matter. Vance is glib and acrobatic in his lies, and it doesn't matter. It's all normalized now.

WWIII because the thirst for genocide is insatiable. Sounds about right.

“The recruitment of Leonard Leo would cement ties between Opus Dei and the U.S. Supreme Court that had been developing for decades.” https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/opus-dei-leonard-leo-supreme-court-moneybags-kid-1235115538/

@lauren Ya know, if you could credibly show them a plan on how to run it at a profit I'm pretty sure there would be some big bucks in there for you. 👍 🏦

OK, so why did two - yes two - US Naval vessels launch "interceptors" against the Iranian missiles?

Why is the US participating and potentially dragging us (the US) into a war with Iran?

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/10/01/world/israel-lebanon-hezbollah

Donald Trump Lost Wisconsin by 20K Votes. Counties He Won Have Fewer Voters https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-wisconsin-visit-2024-election-comparison-2020-1962051?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Cyber Security Awareness month is a ploy by infosec to send you more spam on how to avoid spam.

#CyberSecurity #AwarenessMonth #TheMoreYouKnow

Police Stop More Black Drivers, While Speed Cameras Issue Unbiased Tickets https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/10/01/police-stop-more-black-drivers-while-speed-cameras-issue-unbiased-tickets/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Jimmy Carter makes history as he turns 100
https://www.axios.com/2024/10/01/jimmy-carter-100-birthday-president-record?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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@dangillmor @pluralistic I’m sure you’ve heard this before, but get a Brother laser printer. B&W only. Toner cartridge lasts forever. Enshittification-free.

I saw a great comment on Reddit in response to "Why do some people prefer Unix to Linux": https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1fjtg9v/comment/lnqiylg/

#FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

On top of all the cutting-edge #enshittification tactics @pluralistic lists here, HP also provides the hardware and data centres that power Israel's military and that allow it to enforce its apartheid state

https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/30/life-finds-a-way/#ink-stained-wretches

https://bdsmovement.net/boycott-hp

@marinheiro @dangillmor @pluralistic it is not a printer. It is an ink vending machine. The fact that it happens to produce printed output is a marketing mistake.

@dangillmor @pluralistic My HP inkjet wouldn’t print in black & white when the yellow cartridge go low—but the black cartridge had plenty! I’ll never buy another HP printer of any kind.

@dangillmor As someone who had to throw away a perfectly good printer because it suddenly decided that even HP ink was not really HP ink, I learnt this the hard way. Never again. @pluralistic

This meeting could have been an email. This email could have been a slack message. This slack message could have been an emoji. This emoji could have been a knowing look. This building could have been a grassy field, this job could have been a rounding error, this company could have been an abattoir. This economy could have been a rat in a cage pressing a button over and over.