Since a certain Main Character claims Boots Theory doesn't apply because Pratchett is a fantasy author (with the implication he is just Making Things Up), let me instead posit the Dana F Purse Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness. 1/4

Corporations, not immigrants, are responsible for the vast majority of healthcare fraud, OIG report shows

Corporations, Not Immigrants, Are Responsible for Vast Majority of Healthcare Fraud, OIG Report Shows

Trump officials are focused on immigrants, but the Department of Health and Human Services report on healthcare fraud doesn’t even mention them.

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Anyway, your problem isn‘t finding the time to take notes. The problem is that taking notes is thinking and thinking has to be done by someone. women have been doing a lot of metacognition that looks like a task when it’s really thinking.

The bar exam should end.

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 6d ago

I wrote about the hotass mess that hundreds of recent law grads in Washington are going through for no good reason! ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

Lawgeeks, here's one to watch that was filed on Friday. A lawsuit challenging DHS' use of facial recognition tech to collect info about ICE protesters and then retaliate against them by cancelling their TSA Precheck and Global Entry. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Exclusive from me — Daniel Moraff, one of the political operatives behind Graham Platner's rise and fall, has been accused of sexual assault. Full story here:

Exclusive: Political operative behind Graham Platner's rise accused of sexual assault

A spokesperson for Daniel Moraff said: “Any suggestion that he committed a criminal offence is false and without foundation."

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Here is hoping this interview sells more copies of Surface Detail than shares of SpaceX

Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 2w ago

I knew Iain and he *definitely* despised Musk! (Joliet Veppers in "Surface Detail" is a brutal caricature of Musk. Musk either skipped that Culture novel or didn't recognize himself ...)

New, by me: The Justice Department is prosecuting an American for allegedly providing U.S. border agents with a "duress" passcode that wiped the contents of his phone when they entered it. We've confirmed the phone was running GrapheneOS. Bypass for ad-blockers: web.archive.org/web/20260724...

US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a 'duress' password during border search | TechCrunch

A U.S. citizen has asked a court to throw out the government's claim that he gave over a passcode to border authorities that wiped his phone's data, opening up fresh questions about a person's constit...

techcrunch.com

It's not hard to see the line from this kind of overly simplistic modeling to the deepening wealth inequality that defines our society. The latter certainly has far more intentional and malicious causes, but there's also the simple fact that numbers are easy and people are hard.

This is a wild story. Fraud victims hire black ops corp to steal privileged data is just not something I expect to happen in the real world. And the details are weirder than that...

Innocent🕷Abroad@jjgass.bsky.social · 2w ago

I'm going to use American terminology to get this across: The England & Wales Court of Appeal released a decision yesterday, less than three weeks after a three-day oral argument. And that was FAR from the most extraordinary thing about the case.

I find the film The Odyssey extremely relatable because I too would fight my way across the known world, experiencing trials and horrors over the course of many years, for the opportunity to reunite with Anne Hathaway.

Seattleites: if you, like me, have relied on @thestranger.com for election recommendations in the past, please be aware that those recommendations have been enshittified, likely due to changes in the paper's ownership. Use the Urbanist recommendations instead:

The Urbanist@theurbanist.org · 3w ago

The Urbanist Elections Committee has issued its 2026 primary election endorsements. Be sure to vote by August 4! Endorsements: www.theurbanist.org/2026-primary...

Yesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting. We stand by our work. That’s why we’re removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don’t want you to read, making them free for everyone.

Just a note to say: that ex-wife speaking out about her abusive ICE ex-husband is braver than all of ICE put together. No question at all.

Unfortunately

Corporate personhood has been a catastrophe for human thriving, conjuring into existence a new race of immortal, pluripotent colony organisms we call "limited liability corporations." 25/

But while extending rights to *natural* things produces positive spillovers for human thriving and rights, the *opposite* happened when we extended personhood to *artificial* constructs. 24/

The best argument for this is that every time we extend rights to the nonhuman world, we end up treating *each other* better. Movements to extend moral consideration to animals raised uncomfortable questions about the treatment of humans: slaves, workers, poor people, women, children. 22/

The idea that teaching too many words to the word-guessing program risks creating a "superintelligence" that awakens and converts all into paperclips is absurd, a silly idea akin to the notion that if we breed horses to run ever faster, one of our mares will foal a locomotive. 18/

Grandma's Twitch Stream would be amazing.

Kingfisher & Wombat@tkingfisher.com · 4w ago

Oh, have I not told this one here? Okay. So Grandma had The Charisma.

Holding elected office is care work.

my brother & his partner are telling me an insane story about this local deity called "st. rat" which is apparently a mosaic relief put up by some queers in seattle. the city kept trying to paint over it, but people would repeatedly just use acetone and remove the paint until the city gave up

Why are white het guys so passionate about making the case against allowing white het men to be candidates? And why do they also think it is inherently absurd? No one else was allowed for most of the party's existence.

Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social · 4w ago

this guy man

I cannot express the extent to which I am delighted by the specificity of the expanded term.

rahaeli@rahaeli.bsky.social · last yr.

From here I will be calling this exact strain of right-wing Christofascist dispensational premillennialist apocalyptic evangelical supersessionist covenentalist Biblical-inerrantist evangelicalism that's merged almost fully with right-wing cultural issues and the US civil religion "the US heresy".

So the way you have fun is having behavior standards. Not having rules does create license for the powerful but it also means they are the only people allowed to have fun. And they are kind of bad of it usually.

Dolly Parton. If they are also designing the ceremony Lady Gaga If a Supreme Court Justice counts Justice Jackson

Jess Zimmerman@jesszimmerman.com · last mo.

Okay if you had to have a celebrity officiate your wedding who would you choose? I’m going with Mel Brooks

We were watching Best In Show last night and I discovered the Wikipeada page includes the registered but not the call names for all the featured dogs

It feels like a serious oversight to the one thousand true fans theory that the number also probably includes at least one person who actively wishes you ill (Ratios will vary)

Every time I see those posts by Europeans I'm like, "bitch you don't have to LIVE here". But then I think, maybe this isn't so much the unwashed masses fawning over superior US wealth and culture, but Marco Polo writing of the wonders of the Great Khan in Xanadu; a kind of occidentalist exoticism.

In light of yesterday's decision in Al Otro Lado, in which SCOTUS, 6-3, by Justice Alito decided to ignore the obvious—that the Trump administration would use the decision to block asylum seekers entirely—I was talking to @stephengutowski.bsky.social about the lies the justices tell themselves. 1/