I complained to Comcast about something via email in 2009. I posted that email on my blog: https://blog.kamens.us/2009/07/02/comcast-still-sending-service-announcements-to-wrong-address/. At the time, I searched for the email addresses of Comcast executives and included them all on the email.
Last night I received email from someone claiming to represent Comcast, trying to bully me into taking down the blog posting.
I responded: "lol no"
Feel free to boost this post for the #StreisandEffect.
#smdh #gtfo #Comcast
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Remember when it was fashionable for Republicans to complain about "activist judges"?Every Republican accusation is a confession.The _only_ reason the Republican judges on the North Carolina supreme court ruled that Kennedy should be removed from the b...Remember when it was fashionable for Republicans to complain about "activist judges"?
Every Republican accusation is a confession.
The _only_ reason the Republican judges on the North Carolina supreme court ruled that Kennedy should be removed from the ballot is because it helps Republican candidates to remove him. There is no basis for this ruling in law; on the contrary, it's clearly illegal, and unethical.
#politics #USPol
Ballot Shuffling – Digby's Hullabaloo
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I've been submitting therapy claims to our insurance company for over a year. They've been humming along processing them, until suddenly, out of the blue, they decided that the same exact monthly bills we've been submitting all along and they've been a...They are now demanding that the bills provided by the therapists include all of the following information:
* Patient's name, date of birth, address, phone number and relationship to enrollee;
* Patient's Plan identification number;
* Name and address of person or company providing the service or supply;
* Dates services or supplies were furnished;
* Diagnosis;
* Type of each service or supply;
The charge for each service or supply
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I've been submitting therapy claims to our insurance company for over a year. They've been humming along processing them, until suddenly, out of the blue, they decided that the same exact monthly bills we've been submitting all along and they've been a...I've been submitting therapy claims to our insurance company for over a year. They've been humming along processing them, until suddenly, out of the blue, they decided that the same exact monthly bills we've been submitting all along and they've been accepting are no longer acceptable.
#healthInsurance #healthcare #bullshit
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Fucking #Comcast is (again) bouncing emails from my family mail server with no explanation of why or what to do about it.@dentangle I am well aware that's what's going on. But there was a time when Comcast's bounces gave you instructions for how to contact their postmasters to get stuff like this fixed (they could whitelist your IP). But now they've decided to just bounce messages without any explanation or recourse.
If they accepted IPv6 connections, that would also fix this, since my server has a dedicated IPv6 address block. -
Fucking #Comcast is (again) bouncing emails from my family mail server with no explanation of why or what to do about it.Fucking #Comcast is (again) bouncing emails from my family mail server with no explanation of why or what to do about it. Just "554 server not available".
There is no legitimate reason to bounce emails from my server. I do _everything_ correctly (incl. #DKIM and p=reject #DMARC) and my server has been in continuous operation for over a decade.
Comcast is the worst, but, they're not the only one pulling this crap.
Yet another domain I have to route through #MailGun. *sigh*
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The city of Columbus sues a security researcher who exposed the administration for lying about a recent ransomware attack@campuscodi The City of Columbus is about to find out about the Streisand Effect.
Maybe if they didn't want somebody going on the news to prove they were lying, they shouldn't have lied.
ProTip: Whenever a lawyer working for a client asking for a restraining order says, "This is not about [free] speech," it absolutely is about free speech. -
We know that people with #COVID are contagious even when asymptomatic; perhaps even _more_ contagious.We know that COVID often causes long-term, often permanent, serious disability, even after "mild" cases, even for vaccinated people, even for previous...It took ~10 years for the magnitude of the HIV/AIDS problem to become obvious enough that it could no longer be ignored. I think it'll also take ~10 years for that to happen with #COVID. I'm therefore not expecting any significant change in public policy regarding COVID before 2030 at the earliest.
I'm aware of how much harm will result in the interim. I absolutely think it sucks. I'm not saying I want things to be this way; I'm saying this is the way I think things are, realistically.
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We know that people with #COVID are contagious even when asymptomatic; perhaps even _more_ contagious.We know that COVID often causes long-term, often permanent, serious disability, even after "mild" cases, even for vaccinated people, even for previous...Honestly, the only way this changes is if Congress and the president decide to change it. It's inevitably going to change eventually, since just as it eventually became impossible to ignore HIV/AIDS, it's going to eventually become impossible to ignore COVID.
However, it's not going to change in the last <5 months of the Biden administration. It's certainly not going to change if Trump wins. There's a small chance that it will change in a Harris administration with a Democratic Congress.
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We know that people with #COVID are contagious even when asymptomatic; perhaps even _more_ contagious.We know that COVID often causes long-term, often permanent, serious disability, even after "mild" cases, even for vaccinated people, even for previous...Given these constraints and others that the CDC is under, honestly, there probably isn't much more they can do than they're already doing.
I am sure there are CDC employees who know the CDC COVID guidelines are bad. I wish more of them would speak out, but at the same time I know that if they did, it probably wouldn't do any good, so they would be throwing away their careers for nothing.
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We know that people with #COVID are contagious even when asymptomatic; perhaps even _more_ contagious.We know that COVID often causes long-term, often permanent, serious disability, even after "mild" cases, even for vaccinated people, even for previous...Public health apparati in the U.S. are controlled by the states, not by the federal government. The CDC therefore has little to no ability to impose public health mandates. All they can do is advise, and it should be clear to everyone by now that strong advice about COVID is likely to be ignored for various reasons.
And, finally, nobody wants to wear a mask, nobody wants to stop eating out in restaurants or going to bars, nobody wants to stop spending time with their friends, etc.
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We know that people with #COVID are contagious even when asymptomatic; perhaps even _more_ contagious.We know that COVID often causes long-term, often permanent, serious disability, even after "mild" cases, even for vaccinated people, even for previous...They're underfunded in general, and Congress has allowed COVID funding to lapse (e.g., the school my wife teaches at was getting COVID tests subsidized by the government up until this summer, but the funding is gone and so are the free tests).
The Biden administration has clearly decided that the only politically viable messaging about COVID is "Nothing to see here, move along." Believe me, the CDC got the message, and it would be career suicide for anyone there to diverge from it.
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We know that people with #COVID are contagious even when asymptomatic; perhaps even _more_ contagious.We know that COVID often causes long-term, often permanent, serious disability, even after "mild" cases, even for vaccinated people, even for previous...* The agency hasn't been given the resources ($$$) they need.
* Leadership does not support taking necessary actions.
* Laws, regulations, and government structure interfere with necessary actions.
* The public does not support taking necessary actions.
All of these apply in one way or another to reducing the spread of COVID.
I sympathize with the CDC.
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We know that people with #COVID are contagious even when asymptomatic; perhaps even _more_ contagious.We know that COVID often causes long-term, often permanent, serious disability, even after "mild" cases, even for vaccinated people, even for previous...It's not actually insanity, though.
One of the first pieces of advice I was given when I started working for the federal government is this: most people in government behave rationally within the incentive structures imposed on them.
Government agencies are frequently confronted with hard problems that they are tasked with solving but can't because of externally imposed constraints. Some common constraints:
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We know that people with #COVID are contagious even when asymptomatic; perhaps even _more_ contagious.We know that COVID often causes long-term, often permanent, serious disability, even after "mild" cases, even for vaccinated people, even for previous...We know that people with #COVID are contagious even when asymptomatic; perhaps even _more_ contagious.
We know that COVID often causes long-term, often permanent, serious disability, even after "mild" cases, even for vaccinated people, even for previously healthy people.
We know that #masking dramatically reduces the spread of COVID.
The #CDC COVID guidance simply ignores all of this.
It's absolute insanity.
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We asked 1,000+ attendees to mask indoors this weekend, and everyone just did.So if you're serious about not going to events when it's not safe, then @aehdeschaine is correct: it is *never* safe to go to events that do not take any mitigation precautions.
You could choose to attend while taking sufficient personal precautions to meet your own safety comfort level. Or you could choose something like the https://publichealthpledge.com/ and, for both safety and principled reasons, not attend events that do not take safety and inclusion precautions.
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We asked 1,000+ attendees to mask indoors this weekend, and everyone just did.That means daily cases would have to drop to 1% of where they are now for it to be safe. And that's never going to happen because we've chose to prioritize seeming normalcy for some over safety and inclusion for everyone.
And COVID deaths and ED diagnoses are an absolutely horrendous measure of the danger, because there is now overwhelming evidence that even asymptomatic cases risk Long COVID.
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We asked 1,000+ attendees to mask indoors this weekend, and everyone just did.@dzso This is wishful thinking.
Fauci said, much closer to the start of the pandemic, that we would be able to return to living our lives normally when daily new cases dropped to 10,000 per day. New cases have *never, not for a single day,* dropped to anywhere near that level since he said that. There are around a million new cases of COVID per day in the U.S. right now.
@andymcmillan @aehdeschaine
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The most insane take I’ve seen about VP Harris’ future administration as Madame President is to wonder “but how will she govern?”@Rycaut As Mark Cuban pointed out in a recent interview (I can't believe I'm quoting Mark Cuban approvingly ), the most important thing about the president is character. They don't govern alone, they choose the team who do the governing. They don't need to, and indeed can't, know how to do everything. They need to know how to hire good people. Harris clearly does.
(This is one reason why running a good campaign is a sign that someone will be effective in office if elected.) -
This is your periodic reminder that there are numerous incredibly gifted people doing important work which I would very much like to support with my money but can't because they're publishing their work on #Substack. Substack gets a cut of any subscrip...This is your periodic reminder that there are numerous incredibly gifted people doing important work which I would very much like to support with my money but can't because they're publishing their work on #Substack. Substack gets a cut of any subscriptions bought on it, and I won't give Substack any of my money for a lot of reasons, but most notably because #TransRightsAreHumanRights and Substack is a #NaziBar.