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NYT: "I Was a Health Insurance Executive. What I Saw Made Me Quit... At Cigna, my P.R. team and I handled dozens of calls from reporters wanting to know why the company refused to pay for a patient’s care. We kept many of those stories out of the press..

One story that we couldn’t keep out of the press and that contributed most to my decision to walk away from my career in 2008 involved Nataline Sarkisyan, a 17-year-old leukemia patient in California whose scheduled liver transplant was postponed at the last minute when Cigna told her surgeons it wouldn’t pay. Cigna’s medical director, 2,500 miles away from Ms. Sarkisyan, said she was too sick for the procedure. Her family stirred up so much media attention that Cigna relented, but it was too late. She died a few hours after Cigna’s change of heart.

Ms. Sarkisyan’s death affected me personally and deeply. As a father, I couldn’t imagine the depth of despair her parents were facing. I turned in my notice a few weeks later"

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"China's largest offshore solar-hydrogen farm starts operation... The largest of its kind in China, the energy farm is officially known as the Rudong offshore photovoltaic-hydrogen energy storage project... By integrating hydrogen production through water electrolysis, the overall energy utilization efficiency is further enhanced"

Newsmax: "In a now controversial move, Tesla has reportedly replaced thousands of U.S. employees laid off earlier this year with foreign workers on H-1B visas, sparking debates over labor practices and the visa program's role in American job markets"

#UnitedHealth #Warren #Upcoding

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The tech doesn't work but there is so much money seeking investment targets that the hype had to keep going.. That's why Balaji was suicided. Moneyed interests are behind it. These bleeping bleepers are worse than any opressive order anyone can imagine. It's like 1984 but for moneyed class.

The tech is still shit, LLMs are as smart as a hamster.

#Balaji #OpenAI

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Suicided

The Guardian: "[2024/12] OpenAI whistleblower who died was being considered as witness against company"

From a strategic pov more EU presence in Syria esp. now through TR makes sense. Europe has a lot of intrests in Anatolia, vica versa. After the Syrian refugee crisis interdependence increased, but it is all a simple function of geography.

German FM made a visit to Syria. Syria will need lota cash to rebuild, and I believe Europe just showed up at the door w promise of truckloads, granted Syria is governed certain way. Good.. I hope the EU is actively involved in building gov structures in Syria. That would ease the reintegration of the country as well..