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I wonder if the judge who allowed UnitedHealth Group to acquire Change Healthcare is rethinking his decision in that antitrust case.
“HHS opens probe into UnitedHealth’s cybersecurity as hack fallout continues”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/he…

HHS opens probe into UnitedHealth’s cybersecurity as hack fallout continues
The investigation will focus on identifying the extent of the breach and the company’s compliance with patient privacy rules.

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Guardians Acquire Darren McCaughan From Marlins
#MLB #Baseball #MLBTradeRumors

Buccaneers, Baker Mayfield agree to 3-year, $100 million deal: Sources https://theathletic.com/5315268/2024/03/10/baker-mayfield-signing-free-agency-2024-buccaneers/

Buccaneers, Baker Mayfield agree to 3-year, $100 million deal: Sources
Mayfield, who turns 29 in April, threw for 4,044 yards with 28 TDs and 10 interceptions for a 94.6 passer rating last season for the Bucs.

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I've been reading Ray Dailo's "Principles for dealing with the changing world order" in which he charts the rise and fall of empires and kingdoms and dynasties.
The main cycle, he reckons is:
1) Winner of a war consolidates power, unites the population (often through oppression)
2) A smart cooperative equitable educated society with meritocracy means good societal progress and wide sharing of the wealth.
3) Long period of peace, building good tech and military and financial systems.
4) Leadership corrupts: Excessive debt, money-printing, inequality, financial ruin, no sense of solidarity, then a natural disaster pushes it over the edge
5) The fall: Escalating rebellions, very bad inequality, internal conflicts
6) Civil war, revolution, eventually a strong leader proves the winner and back to 1.
We in the western civilization are very clearly in the late states of this kind of cycle, and it's frankly terrifying with the weapons we have these days when it comes to a war.
The leadership is too corrupt to try and fix the inequality or invest in that well educated, equitable, cooperative society.
He explicitly agrees with Marx and implicitly with me a lot more than I'd have expected from the rabid capitalist that Ray Dailo is.
It's interesting to hear his emphasis on inequality and how a prosperous society depends upon sharing the gains of prosperity widely. You tend to hear hyper-capitalists mostly emphasizing that capital's gains should go to capital, and Ray is certainly suggesting the opposite here. That if that happens, it corrupts the leadership and ends with cronyism and debt and revolution.
We seem to basically agree what creates good prosperous peaceful civil society, and that capitalism in the Anglican world isn't doing it, and that fucked up corrupt government is why we aren't doing it.
We'd offer fairly different prescriptions though I think.
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Breaking Political Filter Bubbles via Social Comparison
Nouran Soliman, Motahhare Eslami, Karrie Karahalios
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07150 https://

Breaking Political Filter Bubbles via Social Comparison
Online social platforms allow users to filter out content they do not like. According to selective exposure theory, people tend to view content they agree with more to get more self-assurance. This causes people to live in ideological filter bubbles. We report on a user study that encourages users to break the political filter bubble of their Twitter feed by reading more diverse viewpoints through social comparison. The user study is conducted using political-bias analyzing and Twitter-mirrorin…

PoTeC: A German Naturalistic Eye-tracking-while-reading Corpus
Deborah N. Jakobi, Thomas Kern, David R. Reich, Patrick Haller, Lena A. J\"ager
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00506

PoTeC: A German Naturalistic Eye-tracking-while-reading Corpus
The Potsdam Textbook Corpus (PoTeC) is a naturalistic eye-tracking-while-reading corpus containing data from 75 participants reading 12 scientific texts. PoTeC is the first naturalistic eye-tracking-while-reading corpus that contains eye-movements from domain-experts as well as novices in a within-participant manipulation: It is based on a 2x2x2 fully-crossed factorial design which includes the participants' level of study and the participants' discipline of study as between-subject factors and…

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