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A lovely place

2026-10-27T01:55:07Z

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A lovely place

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117455857241569128 “We should ...

2026-10-17T10:55:49Z

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117455857241569128

“We should ban surveillance advertising altogether, restoring context-based ads to their role as the way that publishers make an honest living without selling out their audiences”

quoting
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More than half of all internet users have installed an ad-blocker; Doc Searls calls it the largest consumer boycott in history.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/10/17/mercenary-spyware/#discover-tech

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Happy Moonbase Alpha Day ...

2026-09-13T19:36:03Z

Happy Moonbase Alpha Day

US Employers Spend Over $1.5 Billion a Year to Fight Union ...

2026-05-20T23:38:21Z

US Employers Spend Over $1.5 Billion a Year to Fight Union Efforts, Study Finds

“Union avoidance law firms have constructed an industry providing counsel on union busting,” the report says.
#UnionStrong https://truthout.org/articles/us-employers-spend-over-1-5-billion-a-year-to-fight-union-efforts-study-finds/

Infectious diseases such as hantavirus and Ebola becoming more ...

2026-05-19T17:18:26Z

Infectious diseases such as hantavirus and Ebola becoming more frequent and damaging, say experts

Pandemic report warns of growing global threat as health teams in Africa move to contain Ebola outbreak
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/may/18/infectious-diseases-hantavirus-ebola-more-frequent-damaging-pandemic-outbreak

A report detailing how climate inaction will consign people born ...

2026-01-18T01:17:00Z

A report detailing how climate inaction will consign people born today to a lifetime of weather extremes must awaken a sense of responsibility.
#ClimateCrisis
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01380-w?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20250508

In a reversal from previous years’ pollution reductions, the ...

2026-01-14T16:57:01Z

In a reversal from previous years’ pollution reductions, the United States spewed 2.4% more heat-trapping gases from the burning of fossil fuels in 2025 than in the year before https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/13/us-carbon-emissions-increase-2025

There will be a memorial for Grateful Dead founding member Bob ...

2026-01-13T03:24:04Z

There will be a memorial for Grateful Dead founding member Bob Weir this Saturday, Jan 17 - with a ticketed event inside Bill Graham Civic and a gathering in Civic Center Plaza

Doors open at 11:30 and it should be from 12:20 - 2:00 pm

Guns and uniforms on the street suggest a variant on ...

2025-08-29T03:20:00Z

Guns and uniforms on the street suggest a variant on Wilhoit's Law: one group that is meant to feel validated, and one group that is meant to feel fear.

See Cory Doctorow (npub1fdr…lvhs) https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/26/sole-and-despotic-dominion/#then-they-came-for-me

Exposure to certain forms of air pollution is linked to an ...

2025-07-25T19:36:01Z

Exposure to certain forms of air pollution is linked to an increased risk of developing dementia, according to the most comprehensive study of its kind.

Fossil fuel burning power plants and vehicles are a major source of the pollutants.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/24/air-pollution-raises-risk-of-dementia-say-cambridge-scientists

The combo of these two images makes me anxious ...

2025-06-07T21:12:22Z

The combo of these two images makes me anxious

Spot on: “Maybe if Democratic leaders pretended Elon Musk was a ...

2025-02-28T15:55:00Z

Spot on:

“Maybe if Democratic leaders pretended Elon Musk was a 22-year-old Palestinian from Dearborn, Michigan, they’d show more fight.”

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democratic-party-fecklessness/

Roberta Flack, soul and R&B icon behind Killing Me Softly, ...

2025-02-24T16:49:24Z

Roberta Flack, soul and R&B icon behind Killing Me Softly, dies aged 88
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrudT410TAI

How the roots of the ‘PayPal mafia’ extend to apartheid South ...

2025-01-27T04:20:02Z

How the roots of the ‘PayPal mafia’ extend to apartheid South Africa

Elon Musk grew up with the privileges of a stratified racial order and Peter Thiel lived in a city that venerated Hitler. David Sacks, formerly PayPal’s chief operating officer and now a leading fundraiser for Trump, was born in Cape Town and grew up within the South African diaspora
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/26/elon-musk-peter-thiel-apartheid-south-africa?CMP=share_btn_url

t was a town’s only Black-owned bookstore. It is now a refuge ...

2025-01-23T17:20:52Z

t was a town’s only Black-owned bookstore. It is now a refuge for those displaced by the California fires

Nikki High’s Octavia’s Bookshelf in Pasadena was spared by the fire, but touched by change, it became a hub of relief
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/23/california-wildfires-pasadena-bookstore-octavias-bookshelf?CMP=share_btn_url

Be the manic pixie protestor you want to see in the world ...

2025-01-22T04:06:44Z

Be the manic pixie protestor you want to see in the world

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2025-01-18T15:26:21Z

#GoodMorning

McKinsey... Ex-McKinsey partner pleads guilty to destroying ...

2025-01-11T02:30:50Z

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McKinsey...

Ex-McKinsey partner pleads guilty to destroying records on opioids

Martin Elling pleads guilty to destroying records on advice provided to Purdue Pharma on how to ‘turbocharge’ sales

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/10/mckinsey-partner-destroyed-opioids-record?CMP=share_btn_url

Another small one immediately after in the same place - did not ...

2025-01-10T15:09:03Z

Another small one immediately after in the same place - did not feel it
https://sfba.social/@sfeq/113804686495892905

Excited to have someone from McKinsey working on "health, ...

2025-01-07T19:42:56Z

Excited to have someone from McKinsey working on "health, homelessness, and family services" for San Francisco

They did such a great job with oxy addiction, excited to see what they can do to... I mean, for San Francisco
https://missionlocal.org/2025/01/daniel-lurie-picks-mckinsey-partner-to-oversee-health-homelessness-and-family-services/

Billionaire Wealth Soared in 2024. So Did Child Hunger. ...

2024-12-31T05:40:31Z

Billionaire Wealth Soared in 2024. So Did Child Hunger.
https://truthout.org/articles/billionaire-wealth-soared-in-2024-so-did-child-hunger/

Years of propaganda efforts by the GOP and big business have ...

2024-12-30T03:40:46Z

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Years of propaganda efforts by the GOP and big business have fostered this entirely false view of the situation.

10 minutes of reading about the NHS - in that horrible, socialist gulag, the United Kingdom - would dispense that view

I knew that healthcare spending and results in the US were worse ...

2024-12-29T20:57:48Z

I knew that healthcare spending and results in the US were worse than in various European countries...

But I had no idea they were this bad.

The US spends more than 3 times as much as Italy on healthcare, but still has an average life expectancy that is four years lower.

If you allow for "statistical" deaths, it becomes clear that the health insurance and for-profit healthcare industries in the United States are killing tens of thousands a year and the only consequence they face is... increased profits.

With #UnitedHealthcare one of the major beneficiaries of this profiting off death

"The letter, titled brown round-up part 1, told recipients to ...

2024-12-23T02:41:18Z

"The letter, titled brown round-up part 1, told recipients to write down the license plate numbers of cars driven by people of color"

I mean, it's not even 2025 yet. People are getting a jump on New Nazi Years Resolutions

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/22/lincoln-oregon-brown-people-immigration-letter?CMP=share_btn_url

On UnitedHealthcare: "People hate Unitedhealthcare, for good ...

2024-12-09T21:42:02Z

On UnitedHealthcare:

"People hate Unitedhealthcare, for good reason, because he personally decided – or approved – countless policies that killed people by cheating them until they died.

Nurses and doctors hate Thompson and United. United kills people, for money. During the most acute phase of the pandemic, the company charged the US government $11,000 for each $8 covid test"
~ Cory Doctorow (npub1fdr…lvhs) https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/09/radicalized/#deny-defend-depose
#Unitedhealthcare #healthcare

‘I have no money’: Thousands of Americans see their savings ...

2024-11-24T23:01:40Z

‘I have no money’: Thousands of Americans see their savings vanish in collapse of Andreessen Horowitz-backed Synapse
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/22/synapse-bankruptcy-thousands-of-americans-see-their-savings-vanish.html

"by seizing the means of computation, workers and organized ...

2024-11-23T20:11:07Z

"by seizing the means of computation, workers and organized labor can turn the tables on bossware – both by directly altering the conditions of their employment, and by producing the evidence and tools that regulators can use to force employers to make those alterations permanent" - Cory Doctorow (npub1fdr…lvhs)
https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/23/hack-the-class-war/

This Time We Have to Hold the Democratic Party Elite Responsible ...

2024-11-06T23:27:46Z

This Time We Have to Hold the Democratic Party Elite Responsible for This Catastrophe
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democratic-party-elite-responsible-catastrophe/
#Election2024

Four years ago, 12.8% of San Franciscans voted for Trump. This ...

2024-11-06T22:06:59Z

Four years ago, 12.8% of San Franciscans voted for Trump. This year, that number rose to 16.7%, as things stand on Wednesday afternoon

[a small thing, but still deeply disappointing, a worrying]

https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/san-francisco-neighborhoods-trump-vote-19894256.php

Mark Farrell hit with six-figure ethics fine on eve of S.F. ...

2024-11-04T17:43:49Z

Mark Farrell hit with six-figure ethics fine on eve of S.F. mayoral election
#SFPol
SF Chronicle
https://www.sfchronicle.com/election/article/mark-farrell-hit-ethics-fine-eve-of-mayor-election-19886013.php

Hurricane Milton becomes second-fastest storm to reach Category 5 ...

2024-10-07T18:26:06Z

Hurricane Milton becomes second-fastest storm to reach Category 5 status
#HurricaneSeason #HurricaneMilton
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/10/hurricane-milton-becomes-second-fastest-storm-to-reach-category-5-status/

Private equity’s role in US healthcare remains unchecked after ...

2024-10-05T17:32:11Z

Private equity’s role in US healthcare remains unchecked after California veto

Bill rejected by Newsom would have let attorney general deny mergers after recent scandal involving Stewart Health

#Healthcare #PrivateEquity

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/05/private-equity-healthcare-california-veto?CMP=share_btn_url

New scientific review of #LongCovid: "there is no cure for ...

2024-09-27T00:30:03Z

New scientific review of #LongCovid: "there is no cure for the tens of millions of people believed to be experiencing long COVID, and industry engagement in developing therapeutics has been limited"

#CovidIsNotOver https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(24)00886-9

Eating less beef is a climate solution. Here's why that's ...

2024-09-20T05:14:03Z

Eating less beef is a climate solution. Here's why that's hard for some American men

[marketing, dumb ass ideas about masculinity, stupid views of “culture wars”] #ClimateChange #diet

https://www.npr.org/2024/09/14/nx-s1-5003066/beef-climate-change-american-men-masculinity

Coming soon! Order your free COVID-19 Tests at the end of ...

2024-09-20T01:12:32Z

Coming soon! Order your free COVID-19 Tests at the end of September 2024.

U.S. households will be eligible to order 4 free COVID-19 tests at COVIDTests.gov. The COVID-19 Tests will detect current COVID-19 variants and can be used through the end of the year.
https://aspr.hhs.gov/covid-19/test/Pages/default.aspx #Covid #CovidIsNotOver

Global spending on subsidies that harm environment rises to ...

2024-09-18T01:12:26Z

Global spending on subsidies that harm environment rises to $2.6tn, report says

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/18/spending-subsidies-environment-deforestation-pollution-fossil-fuels-aoe?CMP=share_btn_url

The real - it burns https://xkcd.com/1599 ...

2024-09-15T19:29:31Z

The real - it burns

https://xkcd.com/1599

Mayor London Breed and Supervisor Matt Dorsey introduce a ...

2024-09-12T01:21:10Z

Mayor London Breed and Supervisor Matt Dorsey introduce a proposal to "save" a property development by dumping the affordable housing that was to be built as part of it.

Which really tells you a lot about the state of things https://www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/article/sf-tower-revival-19755282.php

I would vote for that ticket

2024-08-24T23:16:56Z

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I would vote for that ticket

Typo: should be "are NOT the same type"

2024-08-20T15:54:54Z

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Typo: should be "are NOT the same type"

Flaming out? Burning Man festival fails to sell out for first ...

2024-08-14T17:09:48Z

Flaming out? Burning Man festival fails to sell out for first time in a decade https://www.theguardian.com/culture/article/2024/aug/14/burning-man-ticket-sales?CMP=share_btn_url

Waymo to begin autonomous freeway driving tests in Bay Area this ...

2024-08-13T16:38:53Z

Waymo to begin autonomous freeway driving tests in Bay Area this week https://www.axios.com/local/san-francisco/2024/08/12/waymo-freeway-driving-sf-bay-area

"We'll be less activist if you be less shit" ...

2024-05-10T22:11:02Z

"We'll be less activist if you be less shit"