While Brian Thompson was CEO of United Health Care, the company began using an AI to automate the denial of services. The AI was found to have a 90% error rate, but the company continued to use it, resulting in people being denied medically-necessary and fully-covered treatments.
i would like to reiterate that i think of wearing a mask pretty much just like how i think of wearing a seatbelt, which is why i find it so laughable when people frame masking as something done out of fear. because like… do you feel afraid when putting on a seatbelt? lol.
Won't wear a mask. Won't give up vapes. Won't listen to disabled people. Won't stop buying and upgrading tech. Won't boycott. Won't make accessible educational materials. Won't add alt text. Won't stop using AI. Ok wtaf are you willing to do for revolution & better worlds then.
How Stevie Nicks responds to mask-shaming 🔥
"I dare anybody to give me a dirty look. I would just say, 'Hey, you know what? I’m Stevie Nicks. And if I get sick, my entire thing goes down. Forty families are out of work. So that’s why I have a mask on, asshole.'"
For thousands of years, indigenous communities around the world would plant mangroves to lessen the damaging impacts of hurricanes, floods and tsunamis. Colonialism, urbanisation and capitalism largely reversed this environmental trend by destroying mangrove populations.