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just once I'd like to see an article like this point out that the current administration lobotomized all cybersecurity regulators and organizations because large companies didn't want even rudimentary oversight

wlbt.comUMMC confirms cyber-attack, closing clinics and canceling surgeriesThe hospital is unable to access medical records and is serving existing patients using 'downtime procedures.'

Karl Bode

@karlbode.com

19 Feb

We don't talk enough about about how America's grotesque levels of corruption simply don't exist in most press narratives about any number of U.S. dysfunctions

karlbode.comCorruption Killed The U.S. Government And The Press Was ComplicitTrump's second term corruption has caused generational and potentially irreversible damage to public safety and corporate oversight. The establishment press, with scattered exception, couldn't care le...

Karl Bode

@karlbode.com

why don't we have gun control? why does our for-profit healthcare system suck? why is broadband so expensive and slow? why aren't companies held accountable for lax privacy and security standards? The cause, I'm told by any number of mainstream media outlets, is AMBIGUOUS PARTISAN ANIMUS

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SusanMcT ❌👑

@susanmct.bsky.social

19 Feb

Not billionaires. It could never be billionaires.

Nikki DuCoté

@raisedbyvalaya.bsky.social

19 Feb

This is taking a few leaps, but questions like yours led me to this bsky.app/profile/rais...

Nikki DuCoté@raisedbyvalaya.bsky.social

Piggybacking on this; I wonder if I am ascribing exceptional am to the Am Revolution compared to ensuing revolutions or not, but maybe one of the reasons for our history of elite immunity is because our revolution was an elite led one, not a popular third estate style one.

Nick

@bricklearns.bsky.social

19 Feb

Found this book to be pretty eye opening about similar stuff: app.thestorygraph.com/books/6dc577...

app.thestorygraph.comOn Corruption in America: And What Is at Stake by Sarah Chayes