Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com

@pluralistic I nearly worked for Epic. It was a good interview experience (save for the taxi ride to the airport) overall. What stopped me accepting was learning they paid relocation costs, but you had to work for them for three years otherwise you had to repay everything. No pro-rating. And turnover at the three year mark was high.

The officers approached the door, a brief nod between them, and they knew it was time to begin the familiar sequence. The first officer knocked loudly three times, while the second took on a speaking role.

“Police! Open up!!”

After a few moments of quiet, a gruff voice, muffled behind the closed door, spoke up.

“Come back with a warrant,” came the unwelcoming reply.

“Oh, but we have one. We have a signed search warrant for this property, so come on out,” the officer confidently replied.

“I wanna see it, then,” the voice from inside countered. “Slide it under the door.”

The officers looked puzzled, no one had ever asked to actually see the warrant.

“Well, we don’t have a paper copy of it,” the first officer said.

“Right, everything is on Docusign these days,” the second chimed in.

“Put your phone through the letter box then, I’ll take a look at it on there.”

“I’m not going to give you my phone,” the second officer replied, his phone now in hand. “What’s your email address? I can forward you a copy.”

The gruff voice provided an email address to the officers.

“Ok, I’ve sent that it should be in your inbox now.”

“Nothing.”

“Ok, check spam - sometimes they go into spam,” the first officer interjected.

“Ah yes it’s in spam. But it’s not opening, it says I have to login to my DocuSign account. I don’t have a DocuSign account?”

“Well. Can you just sign up then?” Asked the second officer.

“I ain’t paying for DocuSign!” The voice replied abruptly.

“I don’t think you have to pay, it’s free to view documents.”

“I don’t wanna risk it, I have so many subscriptions,” the voice inside responded.

The officers contemplated their next move.

“Do you have a printer?” One asked.

“Yes,” the voice inside responded.

“Ok, does it have AirPrint?”

“I think so? How could I tell?”

“What’s your wifi password? We’ll join the network and we’ll be able to tell,” the officer responded.

“Ok. Wifi password is $42xnskwfgewzfgekueod!&3.”

The first officer rolled his eyes.

Fifteen minutes later, after breaking the WiFi passcode into manageable chunks, the officer was finally connected.

“Ok. I see the printer. It has AirPrint. Thank God. Ok, I’m printing now.”

“Nothing is happening,” said the person inside the house.

“Ah, it just said you’re out of yellow ink. Do you have any more yellow ink?”

“I do not, but why do you need yellow ink? Just print it in black and white?”

“Yeah these new printers want you to have all the inks before you print.”

“No way. And yet, I’m the criminal?” The voice inside replied.

“Right?” The officers laughed, before finally becoming resigned to their fate. “Ok, we’re going to go print the warrant at the station. I’m out of daily printing credits so will have to wait for them to reset at midnight. Please don’t go anywhere or remove any evidence from the property until we come back.”

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/

Rules are rules

#JimmyCarter #LEGO

@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

Posted into Politics @politics-AxiosNews

@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.