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Inside: For-profit healthcare is the problem, not (just) private equity; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/13/patients-not-customers/
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@pluralistic I feel like “Is curing patients a sustainable business model?”said out loud, proudly, should've been a wake-up call. And I guess it was bc at that point I KNEW the med industry was as predatory as I'd suspected. 😿
I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
Catch me next in #Cardiff (TODAY!), #Oxford and #London!
Full schedule with dates and links at:
https://pluralistic.net/tour
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For-profit healthcare is the problem, not (just) private equity: Competition can't to solve the hospice problem.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115542494609702546
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Hey look at this
* Enshittification short-listed for Goodreads Readers' Favorite Nonfiction https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/readers-favorite-nonfiction-books-2025
* Enshittification https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcceOOPdKZY (h/t r/LateStageCapitalism)
* James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers https://www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/james-watson-remembrance-from-dna-pioneer-to-pariah/ (h/t Today in Tabs)
* Exclusive: Here's How Much OpenAI Spends On Inference and Its Revenue Share With Microsoft https://www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/
* Not So Wonderful Things https://stage-write.ghost.io/not-so-wonderful-things/
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#20yrsago New Sony lockware prevents selling or loaning of games https://memex.craphound.com/2005/11/12/new-sony-lockware-prevents-selling-or-loaning-of-games/
#20yrsago Dr Seuss meets Star Trek https://web.archive.org/web/20051126025052/http://www.seuss.org/seuss/seuss.sttng.html
#20yrsago Sony’s *other* malicious audio CD trojan https://memex.craphound.com/2005/11/12/sonys-other-malicious-audio-cd-trojan/
#15yrsago Will TSA genital grope/full frontal nudity “security” make you fly less? https://web.archive.org/web/20101115011017/https://blogs.reuters.com/ask/2010/11/12/are-new-security-screenings-affecting-your-decision-to-fly/
#15yrsago Make inner-tube laces, turn your shoes into slip-ons https://www.instructables.com/Make-normal-shoes-into-slip-ons-with-inner-tubes/
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