Kris Sargent, MD @kristofor@qoto.org

I can't get over this New York Times headline saying Ron DeSantis is "building his brand" by wrecking public education in Florida. It reminds me of NYT’s first mention of Hitler in 1922, which claimed his anti-Semitism wasn’t “genuine” or “violent” but was just “bait” to attract followers. From 1922 to 2023, NYT is still covering fascists from a marketing perspective rather than a moral perspective.

TikTok's transparency theater: "The company seems to have realized that it won’t save itself from a US ban on the technical merits of its Project Texas proposal. The debate is now purely a matter of politics and optics. Unlike the tour I went on, that’s something TikTok can’t control"

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/2/23583491/tiktok-transparency-center-tour-photos-bytedance @alexeheath

Today in “neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party”

This article from @ProPublica is a long read, but completely worth it. It pulls back the curtain of what happens behind the scenes at health insurance companies. It is frightening, frustrating, and incredibly accurate. https://www.propublica.org/article/unitedhealth-healthcare-insurance-denial-ulcerative-colitis

I wrote about how Elon's API plan should help Mastodon. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/02/elons-new-api-pricing-seems-perfectly-designed-to-help-send-more-users-and-developers-to-mastodon/

my body is NOT a temple. it is a STORAGE UNIT for my REGRETS

Landlords "provide housing" like scalpers "provide" concert tickets.

Sticker spotted in Redlands, California

Police are worse than useless. They are actively harmful. We just had a medical emergency with one of our encampment residents. She was flat on the ground, stuporous, with severe decerebrate posturing and breathing normally.

The cops radioed it in as an overdose (which means EMS will take forever to respond), even though there were no signs of OD. To make things worse, the 911 dispatcher confirmed to me that the cops had given them the complete wrong address in their call.

Even worse, I was the only one on scene carrying Naloxone. The cops made everything worse and were not even prepared for an overdose. The cops asked me several times if I could administer Narcan; I had to correct them repeatedly and tell them there were no overdose symptoms and that the woman had a recent history of aneurysm. They stood their and did nothing, and were afraid to even touch her.

NEVER assume that police have made a proper emergency call. Always call 911 yourself. Carry Narcan.

Woman with #dementia adored her haircut. Her husband's letter to the stylist is everything. https://www.upworthy.com/man-thanks-stylist-for-his-wifes-haircut

#Alzheimers #kindness

@malwaretech it’s like the “I never took a day off in 15 years people” like, oh so you woefully neglected your family, got your coworkers sick, had zero mental health, and encouraged everyone junior to you to do the same”

I'm puzzled how economists could be puzzled about all the people missing from the workforce. Your demands to re-open everything prematurely for "The Economy" killed and disabled them, econo-geniuses. #EconomicCrisis #CovidIsntOver

Every New Year I look forward to what @neilhimself will write in his blog.. 💗 #NewYear #quotes

7 people dead and 1 injured in yet another mass shooting today. This one also in California, Half Moon Bay.

That's the 38th mass shooting of 2023

That's 2,715 total gun violence deaths in 2023

It’s only January 23 😑
#GunReformNOW

Tucker Carlson recently attacked "woke M&Ms" for looking "androgynous" and "less sexy."
M&Ms just responded with the following attempt to appease him. I'd have taken a slightly different approach. I'd have said, "Instead of pandering to fish-stick fascist Tucker Carlson's grotesque efforts to monetize bigotry, we sent him a crate of 'lesbian' M&Ms to shove so far up his ass they gushed out of his mouth in a rainbow cascade." #LGBTQ