American who is a teachers assistant to a college professor is whistleblowing on the tools being used to grade papers
He shows they are now using technology that’s so advanced it can actually playback a person typing an entire paper, it can show all their typing, backspacing, deleting, pace, everything when uploaded to Google Docs to be submitted
He shows the papers aren’t being graded by the professor if these systems flag them as AI generated or using AI tools. A student would just typically automatically be assigned a fail
Now of course a good teacher can also manually review the paper to give a grade but this tool shows how extremely easy it is for a teacher to just have an AI handle things
It can also detect if an AI was used to write the paper
To get around these new detection methods, AI companies are developing better “humanizers” and auto-typers for students
.@cvspharmacy offers a robust financial incentive program to their staff (“certified immunizers”) to push vaccines on customers.
How is this ethical or legal?
The most metabolically ill country on Earth has a control group living right inside it, and the results are deeply inconvenient.
The Amish eat butter, lard, eggs, meat, and raw milk straight from their own cows, by the bucket. They cook in animal fat. They eat the saturated fat the rest of us were told to fear for fifty years. Their obesity rate sits around 4%. The country around them is closing on 40%, four in ten adults. Ten times lower, on the diet that was supposed to be killing them.
They are not dropping from heart attacks at the rate the theory demands either. Their overall cancer rates run lower than the surrounding American population, despite skipping most of the screening that is meant to be saving everyone else.
Now, honesty, because it matters. The Amish are not low-carb. There are pies and bread and plenty of sugar on an Amish table. This is no clean carnivore case, and I will not pretend it is.
What it is, is a controlled experiment sitting in plain sight across Pennsylvania and Ohio. Same country. Same supermarkets down the road. The Amish simply opt out of two things: the ultra-processed food and the sitting still. Their men walk upward of 18,000 steps a day. They eat food their grandmothers would recognise, and they move like their lives depend on it, because for most of history they did.
The animal fat was never what made America sick. The seed oil, the sugar, the packet, and the sofa did that, and the Amish skipped all four. They ran the experiment by accident, by living in the same country as everyone else and politely declining to join in.
McDonald's loses lawsuit against chef Jamie Oliver, who proved that the food they sell is unfit for human consumption because it is highly toxic.
Chef Jamie Oliver won a lawsuit against the world's largest fast-food chain.
Oliver demonstrates how hamburgers are made.
According to Oliver, fatty cuts of meat are "washed" with ammonium hydroxide and then used to fill the hamburger patties. Even before this process, the TV presenter says, this meat was unfit for human consumption.
Oliver, a radical activist chef taking on the food industry, says:
"We are talking about meat that is sold as dog food and then served to humans. Aside from the quality of the meat, ammonium hydroxide is harmful to health." Oliver calls it "the pink slime process."
What sane person would put a piece of meat soaked in ammonium hydroxide into a child's mouth?
In another initiative, Oliver demonstrated how chicken nuggets are made: After the "best parts" are selected, the rest—fat, skin, cartilage, eyes, bones, head, feet—is subjected to a mechanical separation process called "Canica"—a euphemism used by food engineers. This blood-pink paste, which is deodorized, bleached, refreshed, and re-colored, is then coated in flour and deep-fried. It is typically fried in partially hydrogenated oils—in other words, toxic substances.
The food industry uses ammonium hydroxide as an antimicrobial agent, allowing McDonald's to use meat in its hamburgers that is unfit for human consumption. Even more alarming, however, is the fact that these ammonium-hydrogen-based substances are considered "legal components of the production process" in the global food industry, with the approval of health authorities. Consequently, consumers will never know what substances are in their food.
Please stop giving this fake food to your children.
Imagine a VPN that does not know your name.
Does not know your email.
Does not know your IP address.
Has no logs of when you connected, where you went, or how much data you used.
Sweden has one. It has cost 5 euros a month since 2009.
It is called Mullvad. Swedish for "mole." 7,215 stars on GitHub. GPL-3.0. Written in Rust.
NordVPN wants your email. ExpressVPN wants your email. Surfshark wants your email. Mullvad asks for nothing.
When you sign up, the website generates a random account number. No name. No email. No phone. No password. The number is the entire identity.
Five euros a month. The price has not changed since March 2009.
You can pay with a credit card. Or with crypto. Or you can write your account number on a piece of paper, put it in an envelope with a 5-euro bill, and mail it to a post office box in Gothenburg. They add credits to your account and shred the envelope.
Then there is the part where the police came.
In February 2023, German authorities asked Sweden to investigate a Mullvad user. On April 18, six officers from the National Operations Department drove to Mullvad's office in Gothenburg with a search warrant.
Mullvad explained that there was no data. No connection logs. No DNS logs. No IP logs. No timestamps. The servers run from RAM. They forget everything on every reboot.
The prosecutor told the police to leave. They left.
It was the first time in the company's history that a government tried.
Mullvad was founded in 2009 by Fredrik Strömberg and Daniel Berntsson. Founder-owned. No venture capital. Audited by Cure53, the German cybersecurity firm, multiple times since 2018.
They also built the Mullvad Browser with the Tor Project. Free. Open source.
A VPN that does not know who you are is the only kind that can keep a secret.
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@jason_howerton I have…. A homeopathic Dr explained to me that antibiotics don’t kill it. Instead, it runs and hides form the medicine, lying dormant in a place like the spleen until the next time the immune sys takes a dip, when it springs to life again. The homeopathic remedy worked for me.
you're about to pay that $14,000 hospital bill. Stop
call the billing department and say five words: "I need an itemized statement"
watch $14,000 turn into $3,200
hospitals send you a summary bill on purpose. one line. one number. one deadline. designed to make you panic and pay or ignore it until it destroys your credit
the itemized version tells a completely different story
every charge has a CPT code (Current Procedural Terminology). this is the 5-digit number that identifies the exact procedure or service. your $14,000 bill might have 30-60 individual CPT codes on it. each one represents a charge the hospital decided you owe
here's what you'll typically find when you actually read them:
$83 for a tablet of acetaminophen. you know this drug as Tylenol. CVS sells a bottle of 100 for $6.49. the hospital charged you $83 for ONE
$482 for "room utilization." you sat in a curtained area in the ER for 22 minutes while a nurse took your blood pressure
$1,400 for "physician consultation" when a nurse practitioner checked your chart for 90 seconds and a doctor you never met signed off remotely
$312 for "surgical supplies" for 4 stitches and a gauze pad that cost the hospital $0.74 in materials
$234 for "facility fee." this is a charge for being in the building. literally a fee for walking through the door
duplicate charges billed under different CPT codes for the same procedure
the chargemaster:
every hospital has a document called the chargemaster. it's a master list of every service and its price. chargemaster prices are set internally by the hospital with zero external regulation. there is no law governing how much a hospital can charge for a tylenol or a CT scan. the chargemaster is a fictional pricing document that has no relationship to the actual cost of care
under the Hospital Price Transparency Rule (CMS-1717-F2, effective January 2021), hospitals with 300+ beds are required to publish their chargemaster prices online. most hospitals bury the file in an obscure corner of their website as a 40,000-row spreadsheet that nobody can read. but it's there
pull it. compare what they charged you to what they published. then compare both numbers to the Medicare reimbursement rate for the same CPT code at https://t.co/OYp6CWUAOK. Medicare rates represent what the federal government has determined is a fair price for each procedure
the gaps are violent:
CT scan abdomen (CPT 74177):
Medicare rate: $280
Average chargemaster price: $4,200
Markup: 1,400%
basic metabolic panel (CPT 80048):
Medicare rate: $11
Average chargemaster price: $620
Markup: 5,536%
ER visit level 4 (CPT 99284):
Medicare rate: $268
Average chargemaster price: $2,800
Markup: 945%
the negotiation sequence:
call 1: "I received my itemized statement. I've compared each CPT code to the Medicare reimbursement rate and found that your charges exceed Medicare rates by 400-1,400% across 18 line items. I'd like to discuss a fair adjustment to bring these charges closer to market rates"
most billing departments have authority to reduce 20-40% without supervisor approval. push for 50%+
call 2: "I'd like to apply for your financial assistance program under your 501(r) charity care policy"
every nonprofit hospital (roughly 60% of US hospitals) is required under IRC Section 501(r) to maintain a financial assistance policy. if your household income falls below 200-400% of the federal poverty level (varies by hospital), you qualify for 40-100% reduction. for 2026, 400% FPL for a single person is roughly $60,240. family of four: $124,800
this means a family earning $120K/year may qualify for a 50-80% reduction at many nonprofit hospitals. they will never tell you this. you have to ask
call 3: "I've identified billing errors including [duplicate charges/upcoded procedures/unbundled services] and I'm filing a formal billing dispute. Please route this to your patient advocate for internal audit review"
the word "audit" triggers a different process. a compliance officer reviews the bill instead of a collections agent. errors get found. charges get removed
call 4 (the close): "I can pay $3,200 today as settlement in full. This resolves the account. I'll need written confirmation that the account is settled and will not be sent to collections"
hospitals would rather take $3,200 today than send $14,000 to a collection agency that will buy it for $420 and harass you for years. your lump-sum offer at 23 cents on the dollar is more profitable for the hospital than the collections route
if it already went to collections:
the collector bought your $14,000 bill for $280-$560. they'll take $1,500 and delete. but first, send the FDCPA 809 validation letter demanding the full itemized statement with CPT codes, the insurance explanation of benefits, and proof the remaining balance is accurate after all contractual adjustments
collectors almost never have this for medical debt. the hospital sold a spreadsheet. the supporting documentation went to a filing cabinet nobody will ever open. unable to validate = dispute with bureaus = deleted in 30 days
a woman came to us with $89,000 in medical bills across 4 hospital visits from 2023-2025. we requested itemized statements for all four. found $31,000 in duplicate charges, facility fees already included in surgeon's bills, and supplies billed at 2,000-5,000% above cost. applied for 501(r) financial assistance at 2 of the 4 hospitals. she qualified for 70% reduction at both
$89,000 original total
$31,000 removed (billing errors)
$58,000 remaining
$40,600 reduced (70% charity care at 2 hospitals)
$17,400 remaining across 2 for-profit hospitals
Settled for $6,200 lump sum payment
$89,000 to $6,200. 7 cents on the dollar. score went from 512 to 703 in 68 days after the collections were deleted
five words. "I need an itemized statement." the hospital is hoping you never say them lol
(i fix credit in 30-90 days. link in bio)
God gave Moses 50 chapters of instructions for a tent.
Fifty.
More space in the Bible is devoted to the design of the Tabernacle than to the creation of the universe.
That's not an accident.
Every measurement, material, and color was pointing to something, and once you see it, you can't unsee it.
A thread. 🧵