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Bull Shannon said:
Elon's new moneymaking gambit with twitter is to remove free api access and charge $100 a month to if you'd like to leverage the twitter api.

This is astoundingly stupid; so many bots are basically larks created by the bored and creative, and they add value to the platform. So many people (including me, shoutout to my xmas movie bot) are going to just let their bots flounder rather than pay over a thousand dollars a year to shitpost.

Not to mention this flies in the face of freedom of speech. I get that it's a private platform (that's usually the spine of my pushback to free speech absolutism), but if you're really going to take it over in the name of free speech and democratizing the platform, charging people to speak is the opposite.
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I can’t help but think that this is a direct attack on the guy that set up the twitter bot that shows where Elon is flying to on his private jet.

www.insider.com

Creator of Twitter bot tracking Elon Musk's jet fears he'll be banned

Musk previously tried to get 19-year-old Jack Sweeney to shut down the account, which tracks the movements of the billionaire's private jet.
www.insider.com
 
Bull Shannon said:
Elon's new moneymaking gambit with twitter is to remove free api access and charge $100 a month to if you'd like to leverage the twitter api.

This is astoundingly stupid; so many bots are basically larks created by the bored and creative, and they add value to the platform. So many people (including me, shoutout to my xmas movie bot) are going to just let their bots flounder rather than pay over a thousand dollars a year to shitpost.

Not to mention this flies in the face of freedom of speech. I get that it's a private platform (that's usually the spine of my pushback to free speech absolutism), but if you're really going to take it over in the name of free speech and democratizing the platform, charging people to speak is the opposite.
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RenegadeMonster said:
Wow, what a story. Even more shocking that the doctors working for UHC who determine if something is medically necessary are blind to all the details. That don't know the patient's history, what he/she has tried and failed on. They don't know the reasoning for the prescription. They just have to go on does it fit within the FDA guidelines / labels description. Which in cases like this, where something is prescribed off label, is an easy target to deny.

I have UnitedHealthcare for Medical, but Express Scripts for prescriptions. I want to say specialty drugs like biologics fall under medical coverage and not prescription.

Either way, both biologics mentioned in this story are not part of my plan. There are a list of 150 or so odd drugs, mostly biologics, that are not covered by my plan. Should the need ever arise where I need to go on a biologic I would not be covered. They are excluded from my plan due to their costs.

I have the option of adding on coverage for them, but it's not cheap and not covered by my employer. Each biologic would then have between a $1,000 to $2,500 copay per dose depending on the drug. And this plan requires a health savings account specifically for helping you cover your copays.

So basically, crazy and unaffordable to have if you don't have a current need for biologics. Not that it's affordable if you need them either though.
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I’m very fortunate that my insurance covers my Humira. I could not afford it otherwise, a year’s worth cost more than I make in a year. Retail, the medicine cost about $14,000 a month for my dosage.
 
Lee Newman said:
I’m very fortunate that my insurance covers my Humira. I could not afford it otherwise, a year’s worth cost more than I make in a year. Retail, the medicine cost about $14,000 a month for my dosage.
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Unreasonably expensive. Like the article said about biologics. It's not surprising that the insurance companies don't want to pay for them.

Yet another reason why we need to fix our broken healthcare system.
 
Here is an opinion piece from CNN about DeSantis ban of the new AP African American Studies course.

www.cnn.com

Opinion: What's really behind Florida's attack on African American Studies

In targeting African American Studies for censorship, Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis and the board of education are deliberately distorting reality in a bid for power, writes scholar Leslie Kay Jones, whose work was included in the African American Studies course rejected by that state.
www.cnn.com www.cnn.com

Really does have some detailed information about what the course is, what the course is not. What CRT is and what it is not. And what the Conservatives are saying they are and include to strike fear into parents that this course and CRT are dangerous and spread hate.
 
RenegadeMonster said:
Here is an opinion piece from CNN about DeSantis ban of the new AP African American Studies course.

www.cnn.com

Opinion: What's really behind Florida's attack on African American Studies

In targeting African American Studies for censorship, Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis and the board of education are deliberately distorting reality in a bid for power, writes scholar Leslie Kay Jones, whose work was included in the African American Studies course rejected by that state.
www.cnn.com www.cnn.com

Really does have some detailed information about what the course is, what the course is not. What CRT is and what it is not. And what the Conservatives are saying they are and include to strike fear into parents that this course and CRT are dangerous and spread hate.
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RenegadeMonster said:
Only thing is, MSG is large. So in the case of the mother, she didn't know the Rockettes were a subsidy of MSG, and while the company she worked for was notified that they are banned from MSG properties, she didn't realize it applied to her because she didn't have any active litigation against MSG.



www.cnn.com

Madison Square Garden CEO doubles down on use of facial recognition tech

The chief executive of the Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corporation has doubled down on using facial recognition at its venues to bar lawyers suing the group from attending events.
www.cnn.com www.cnn.com
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I mean that's unfortunate, but "ignorance of the law is not a defense". Just because you don't know doesn't mean it doesn't apply to you. For sure they will double down on this to avoid more folks trying to skirt around their policies.
 
yukbon said:
I mean that's unfortunate, but "ignorance of the law is not a defense". Just because you don't know doesn't mean it doesn't apply to you. For sure they will double down on this to avoid more folks trying to skirt around their policies.
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I wouldn't say it's ignorance of the law. There is no law that is being broken, just MSG policies, of which are in a legal gray area.

In some states your biometric data is protected under privacy rights. And companies like MSG can't have access or use it without your prior written consent. New York has no such laws yet.

The issue here isn't so much the mother not being allowed access, but the many in which MSG did it. Big brother is watching, and legal rights have not been fully established. In some states it's perfectly legal, in others this would be the equivalent of a HIPAA violation in terms of legal standing and liability to pay out compensation.

MSG could very well drive New York to create this laws in the next few years which is a good thing for privacy.
 
RenegadeMonster said:
I wouldn't say it's ignorance of the law. There is no law that is being broken, just MSG policies, of which are in a legal gray area.

In some states your biometric data is protected under privacy rights. And companies like MSG can't have access or use it without your prior written consent. New York has no such laws yet.

The issue here isn't so much the mother not being allowed access, but the many in which MSG did it. Big brother is watching, and legal rights have not been fully established. In some states it's perfectly legal, in others this would be the equivalent of a HIPAA violation in terms of legal standing and liability to pay out compensation.

MSG could very well drive New York to create this laws in the next few years which is a good thing for privacy.
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It might be a privacy violation - i think that's doubtful, she's in public and attempting to enter a public place of business, I can't imagine there are any real expectations of privacy at play here. If NY does gets laws from this, I 100% expect them to be explicitly enshrining the right to do this kind of public surveillance.
 
yukbon said:
It might be a privacy violation - i think that's doubtful, she's in public and attempting to enter a public place of business, I can't imagine there are any real expectations of privacy at play here. If NY does gets laws from this, I 100% expect them to be explicitly enshrining the right to do this kind of public surveillance.
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It wasn’t a public place though. It was a theater where she was a chaperone. Basically MSG is saying it’s a violation of a restraining order since she set foot in one of their properties.

I’ll agree with their grounds of kicking her out since it was an ongoing lawsuit, but the facial recognition stuff just adds to it feeling gross.
 
folsom_lives said:
It wasn’t a public place though. It was a theater where she was a chaperone. Basically MSG is saying it’s a violation of a restraining order since she set foot in one of their properties.
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I feel this doesn't really change my argument; either she's in public and had not expectation of privacy or she's in their private place and had to abide by their rules regarding surveillance and access.
Indymisanthrope said:
The troubling thing about the MSG case, IMO, isn’t their policy or the tech they’re using to enforce it, but the implication that “recognition” means they have already compiled a database of faces to match against. Where is THAT data coming from? How are they feeding new data into it and/or maintaining it? Who has access to it? How are they able to put together accurate lists of every name of every person of every firm with pending legal action against them, AND match that up with an actionable amount of photographic/video data? That’s where the real story is.
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atlasofsurveillance.org

Atlas of Surveillance - Atlas of Surveillance

Documenting Police Tech in Our Communities with Open Source Research
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