♛ Maria \|/ 💚

Anything and everything

[♛ Maria \|/ 💚 @IamMaria___]

Absolutely wild second half, especially these last 5 minutes. Wow #Knicks

[Shannonnn sharpes Burner (PARODY Account) @shannonsharpeee]

WOOOOW

After hours of deliberation, the jury found Rick Chow NOT GUILTY of malice murder in the death of14 year old Cyrus Carmack Belton

[Shannonnn sharpes Burner (PARODY Account) @shannonsharpeee]

WOW!

Surveillance footage from inside of the store tha Rick Chow owned showed 14-year-old Cyrus Carmack-Belton being followed by the wife the entire time he was inside

You can also see cyrus put all 4 water bottles back in the cooler before being confronted and then chased

[gianmarco @GianmarcoSoresi]

I know the American education system will never have an internet literacy class bc it’s not in the state’s interest but this would be the kind of stuff people should learn before they’re allowed to vote

[jasper nathaniel @infinite_jaz]

It does feel like if a group of Palestinians with machine guns broke into an Israeli school and shot a bunch of children, it would be breaking news in every outlet on earth…?

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

“We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat.” — Roger Freeman, adviser to Reagan and Nixon, arguing for limits on access to education. The US is functionally illiterate by design. Literacy is a tool of freedom, something that is intolerable in the land of the free.

[Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit]

A man lay dying, a CPR trained coworker asked their manager if he could help administer CPR and the manager said, “It has to be management or safety team. Please get back to work. Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work.” What the fuck is wrong with these people?

[💗 @ma1ybe]

they'll put a woman in prison for a miscarriage but you can state your intent to let your kids die from a preventable disease and its fine

[` @lisaawrites]

“People visit the rich with gifts, but they visit the poor with advice.”

— African Proverb

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

If the Americans and Israelis are involved, their word cannot be trusted. There isn’t a single ceasefire they haven’t broken in the last three years alone. Hopefully a grotesque crisis averted tonight but nothing is off the table for these countries.

[♛ Maria \|/ 💚 @IamMaria___]

@3dancelover Yeppp 🫠

[Felix Prehn 🐶 @felixprehn]

Private equity firms bought 500 hospitals. Death rates in their emergency rooms went up 13%. They fired 12% of the staff. Then they paid themselves billions in dividends.

A Harvard study just confirmed what doctors already knew: people are dying so investors can hit quarterly targets.

Exactly what happens. A PE firm buys a hospital using debt. The debt gets placed on the hospital's balance sheet, not the firm's. Now the hospital owes hundreds of millions it never borrowed. To service that debt, the hospital cuts costs. Costs mean nurses.

The numbers from the Harvard/University of Chicago study are horrifying. After PE acquisition, emergency department salary spending dropped 18.2%. ICU salary spending dropped 15.9%. Hospital-wide employees were cut 11.6%. Emergency department deaths rose 13%, seven additional deaths per 10,000 visits.

A separate study found patients undergoing surgery at PE-acquired hospitals had 17% higher odds of dying within 90 days.

Steward Health Care, owned by Cerberus Capital, filed bankruptcy with $9 billion in debt after closing hospitals across Massachusetts. The CEO lived on a $40 million yacht while emergency rooms went dark. Eight hospitals serving 2 million people nearly disappeared because a PE fund extracted more cash than the system could survive.

The private equity industry has poured over $1 trillion into healthcare. They operate a quarter of ERs nationwide. This isn't going away.

The investing angle nobody talks about.

Non-PE hospital operators like HCA Healthcare (HCA) and Tenet (THC) are the direct beneficiaries. Every time a PE hospital closes or deteriorates, patients flow to the nearest competitor. HCA has returned 1,200% since 2011. Patient volume from PE closures is a structural tailwind nobody's pricing in.

Medical staffing firms (AMN Healthcare, Cross Country) charge premium rates specifically because PE hospitals cut staff. The staffing shortage IS the business model for these companies.

The disruption play: outpatient surgical centers (SCA Health, now part of UnitedHealth) are pulling profitable procedures out of hospitals entirely. PE-owned hospitals lose their highest-margin surgeries to outpatient, and the death spiral accelerates.

Pull up tradevision and monitor healthcare M&A alerts, hospital closure filings, and patient volume migration data. When a PE-owned hospital announces "restructuring," the patient volume shift to competitors like HCA starts within 30 days. That 30-day window is when the competitor's earnings revisions haven't updated yet. Free to try.

(a private equity firm bought your local hospital. borrowed $500 million in the hospital's name. fired 12% of the nurses. emergency room deaths rose 13%. then they paid themselves dividends. nobody went to prison. they're currently buying another hospital.)

[♛ Maria \|/ 💚 @IamMaria___]

@LibyaLiberty Maybe get one in pink with a rainbow on it?

[Francesca Fiorentini @franifio]

All it took was a war for Hillary to fall in love with Trump

[Alex Turrall @ImReadinHere]

'Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.' - Assata Shakur

[BrandGully @BrandGully]

Wow.

NPR.

This one deserves a big out-of-home push.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Everyone’s missing the real story here.

Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses need human data annotators to train the AI. When you say “Hey Meta” and ask the glasses to analyze something, that video gets sent to Meta’s servers, then routed to Sama, a subcontractor in Nairobi, Kenya. Workers there manually label objects in your footage. They see everything you recorded, intentionally or not.

7 million pairs sold in 2025 alone. Every single pair generates training data that flows through human eyes in Kenya. Workers told Swedish journalists they see people undressing, using bathrooms, having sex, and accidentally filming bank card details. One worker said “we see everything, from living rooms to naked bodies.”

Meta’s automatic face anonymization is supposed to protect people in the footage. Workers say it fails in certain lighting. Faces that should be blurred are sometimes fully visible. The person you recorded without knowing? A stranger in Nairobi can identify them.

Buried in Meta’s terms of service is one sentence doing enormous legal work: the company reserves the right to conduct “manual (human) review” of your AI interactions. That’s the legal cover for routing intimate footage from Western homes to a $2/hour labor force operating under NDAs, office surveillance cameras, and a strict no-questions policy. Workers say if you raise concerns about what you’re seeing, you’re fired.

This is the same company, Sama, that TIME exposed in 2023 for paying Kenyan workers $2/hour to label graphic content for OpenAI while being billed at $12.50/hour per worker. Workers described the experience as torture. Sama ended that contract, then pivoted to labeling Meta’s glasses footage. Same workforce. Same rates.

Meta markets these glasses as “designed with your privacy in mind.” The privacy design is a tiny LED light on the frame that most people don’t notice. The data pipeline behind it routes your bedroom footage to a contractor with a documented history of worker exploitation, failed anonymization, and union-busting lawsuits.

And the next generation of these glasses? Meta is planning to add facial recognition. The same system that can’t reliably blur faces in training data wants to start identifying them on purpose.

The LED light on the frame is doing about as much for your privacy as the terms of service nobody reads.

[♛ Maria \|/ 💚 @IamMaria___]

@Bananaji Ok let me DM you