ana @ana@anticapitalist.party

Today's top sources: Naked Capitalism (https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/).

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My first picture book is out! It's called Poesy the Monster Slayer and it's an epic tale of bedtime-refusal, toy-hacking and monster-hunting, illustrated by Matt Rockefeller. It's the monster book I dreamt of reading to my own daughter.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poesy-the-monster-slayer/#poesy

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My latest novel is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books. @washingtonpost called it "a political cyberthriller, vigorous, bold and savvy about the limits of revolution and resistance."

Get signed books from @darkdel: https://www.darkdel.com/store/p1840/Available_Now%3A_Attack_Surface.html

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#5yrsago Tenant farmers: how “smart” agricultural equipment siphons off farmers’ crop and soil data https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/06/the-land-grab-for-farm-data/

#5yrsago As browsers decline in relevance, they’re becoming DRM timebombs https://thetech.com/2016/07/06/electronic-frontier-foundation

#5yrsago NYC’s sloppy records gave $59.2M in tax breaks to dead people https://observer.com/2016/07/city-gave-59-2m-in-senior-citizen-tax-breaks-to-dead-people-comptroller-says/

#1yrago The awful stupidity of measuring engineers' productivity https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/08/absolutely-remarkable-thing/#goodhartism

#1yrago The rotten culture of the rich https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/08/absolutely-remarkable-thing/#get-out-of-selfish

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Of all the dysfunctions of the famously cursed US healthcare system, few are so obviously a total scam as "surprise billing." Here's how that works: you go to a hospital (often its ER) that is covered by your insurer, and then, despite this, you get a giant bill. Surprise!

How can a hospital covered by your insurer hit you - and not your insurer - with a bill?

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The PE "investor" actually calls the shots, and any doctor "owner" who bucks the system gets fired from their own medical practice.

This worked well for PE companies during the pandemic, as they raked in millions in federal PPP loans while slashing doctors' pay and denying medical staff access to PPE.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2020/04/what-wall-street-doesnt-want-you-to-know-about-hospital-emergency-rooms.html

All attempts to end surprise billing, were sabotaged by the PE giants who created it - Blackrock, KKR and co.

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Added a "Mark as Spammer" moderation tool to #Pixelfed.

One click to remove spam and prevent it from appearing on public timelines! #pixeldev #ActivityPub #fediverse

Have you seen #BlissOS already? It's an #Android distribution for your PCs! And here's the best part: It comes pre-loaded with #FDroid and the promise to respect your #privacy.

https://blissos.org/

The world's 125 poorest countries (2.5b people) have received zero covid vaccine doses to date. The 85 poorest countries project vaccination in 2023/24. This is #VaccineApartheid.

https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/21/wait-your-turn/#vaccine-apartheid

It's not that poor countries can't make their own vaccines. The Global South has a *lot* of vaccine production capacity. The problem is Big Pharma, which refuses to transfer the patents and know-how to repurpose those facilities for mRNA production.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Bn55B4xz21-_Rgdr8BBb2lt0n_4rzLGxFADMlVW0PYI/edit#gid=888071280

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Tengo los ojos quemados de tanto leer manga por internet, odio leer en pantallas, pero no venden mis mangas en formato físico en mi país :(
Ya saben, porque son mangas de lesbianismo, y en Chile no dejan llegar ese tipo de cosas, mucho menos ahora que estamos en dictadura.

imagine bragging for years (decades?) about how good you are at management and running a company and then decimating your team over the course of a week, lmfao
https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/1388212468510380034

They say AI is going to revolutionize the world, and yet Google still needs my help identifying fire hydrants on a daily basis.