I got two letters from a local hospital the other day: One was an eye-popping bill for a procedure (small thing) I had done recently. The other letter asked for donations to the hospital group. Ain't healthcare in America grand?
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Like a broken clock, even people still on X are right once or twice a day.
— Open image attachment 1 of 1a tweet from@theselongwars on X.com
still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year
olds get sued for millions of dollars for
downloading twelve songs and now we all have to
accept Al slop because every tech company in the
known universe decided that IP laws don't exist
now that they're inconvenient for them
@mo @adamshostack Well, IDK about getting accused, but your device almost certainly will at some point be leased by cybercriminals.
New, by me: Read This Before You Buy That TV Streaming Stick
Security experts have been sounding the alarm for years about the risks of using generic TV boxes that promise unlimited content streaming for a one-time fee, warning that they secretly rent the user's Internet connection out to strangers. But a groundbreaking new analysis finds these devices also routinely spoof themselves as mobile phones clicking ads on AI-generated websites as part of sprawling operation that seeks to defraud online merchants and advertising networks.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/read-this-before-you-buy-that-tv-streaming-stick/
— Open image attachment 1 of 1An H96 (Max) for sale on Amazon, retailing for $37.99. It is a small white four-inch HDMI dongle along with a white remote control that is used to activate the hdmi device.The title of the ad is H96MAX Screencst TV Stick 4k Ultra HD Streaming Stick 16gb wifi6 HDMI wireless extender from laptop, pc, smartphone to HDTV projector monitor.