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J. Steven York RESISTSKHAAAAAAAN!!! You've made Notty Cat's ears look HUUUUUUUGE!!! Actually, it's just the extreme wide-angle lens on my Pixel 8 Pro. Khan is an accident.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/caturday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#caturday</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cats</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/catsofmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#catsofmastodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/catstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#catstodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Khan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Khan</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StarTrek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StarTrek</a>

Wen<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ULEZ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ULEZ</a> - already showing stunning results despite the attempts by many and the timidness of <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Starmer</a>.I am somewhat reminded about the protests about the removal of lead from petrol in the UK many years ago.<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/07/london-air-pollution-down-since-ulez-expansion-study" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/07/london-air-pollution-down-since-ulez-expansion-study</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AirQuality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AirQuality</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pollution</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/London" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#London</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Khan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Khan</a>

Chuck DarwinAs Silicon Valley eyes US election, Elon Musk is not the only tech bro to worry about There was a time when the tech industry wasn’t much interested in politics. -- It didn’t need to be because politics at the time wasn’t interested in it. Accordingly, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon and Apple grew to their gargantuan proportions in a remarkably permissive political environment. When democratic governments were not being dazzled by the technology, they were asleep at the wheel:💥Antitrust regulators had been captured by the legalistic doctrine peddled by <a href="https://c.im/tags/Robert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Robert</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bork</a> and his enablers in the University of Chicago Law School ❌ the doctrine that there was little wrong with corporate dominance unless it was harming consumers. The test for harm was price-gouging, and since Google’s and Facebook’s services were “free”, ❓where was the harm, exactly❓And though Amazon’s products weren’t free, the company was ruthlessly undercutting competitors’ prices and pandering to customers’ need for next-day delivery. Again: ❓where was the harm in that❓It took an unconscionable time for this regulatory slumber to end, but end it finally did on Joe Biden’s watch. ❇️ US regulators, led by <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jonathan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Jonathan</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kanter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kanter</a> at the Department of Justice (DOJ), and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lina</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Khan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Khan</a> at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), rediscovered their mojo. ⭐️And then in August the DoJ dramatically won an antitrust lawsuit in which the judge ruled that Google was indeed a “monopolist” which had taken anticompetitive steps to preserve its 90% share of search. 🔥The DOJ is now proposing “remedies” for this abusive behaviour, ranging from obvious ones like barring Google from contracts such as the one it has with Apple to make it the default search engine on its devices to the “nuclear” option of 🧨 breaking up the company.The shock of this verdict to the tech industry has been palpable, 🆘 and has led some movers and shakers in the Valley to think that maybe electing Trump might not be such a bad idea after all. Some of the loudmouths like Marc <a href="https://c.im/tags/Andreessen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Andreessen</a> – and, of course, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> – have explicitly come out for Trump, but at least 14 other tech moguls are providing more discreet support. And although quite a few tech leaders have – belatedly – come out for Kamala Harris, some are doing so with some reservations. Reid <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hoffmann" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hoffmann</a>, the founder of LinkedIn, for example, donated $10m to her campaign, but says he wants her to fire Lina Khan from the FTC.The most dramatic evidence of how Silicon Valley lost its political virginity, though, comes from the extraordinary amounts of money that <a href="https://c.im/tags/cryptocurrency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cryptocurrency</a> companies have been putting into the election campaign. The New Yorker reports that crypto companies have already sunk “more than a hundred million dollars” into so-called SuperPACS supporting crypto-friendly candidates.The interesting thing is that this money seems to be aimed not so much at influencing who wins the presidency as at ensuring that the “right” people get elected to the House and the Senate. This suggests a level of political nous that would have been disdained by the early pioneers of the tech industry in the 1960s. Technology might not have been political then; but it sure is just now. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/oct/20/as-silicon-valley-eyes-us-election-elon-musk-is-not-the-only-tech-bro-to-worry-about?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/oct/20/as-silicon-valley-eyes-us-election-elon-musk-is-not-the-only-tech-bro-to-worry-about?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</a>

tanya tussing"If <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Harris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Harris</a> gives in to billionaire donors and fires <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Khan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Khan</a> and her fellow trustbusters, paving the way for more looting and scamming, the result will be more nihilism, which is to say, more electoral victories for the GOP. The "government can't do anything" party already exists. There are no votes to be gained by billing yourself as the "we also think governments can't do anything" party."<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Election2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Election2024</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AntiMonopoly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AntiMonopoly</a>

Chuck DarwinPrivate equity’s role in US healthcare remains unchecked after California veto The nation’s most high-profile legislative effort to regulate private equity investments in healthcare, and would have given the California attorney general discretion to deny mergers.Its demise comes amid US Senate hearings over mismanagement at <a href="https://c.im/tags/Steward" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Steward</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Health</a>, a chain of more than 30 private equity-backed hospitals in Massachusetts whose CEO and investors siphoned “hundreds of millions” of dollars from community hospitals even as they developed one of the worst patient care records in the country.“We’re really disappointed to see this bill was vetoed,” said Katie Van Deynze, a legislative advocate for Health Access California, a consumer advocacy coalition that lobbied in favor of the bill. “There are a lot of other states and folks who were watching this.”The bill received an endorsement this summer from <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lina</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Khan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Khan</a>, chair of the Federal Trade Commission, the agency responsible for enforcing antitrust regulations. A dozen other US states, including red states such as Indiana, either have merger review laws on the books or considered similar legislation this year.Private equity investors have gained an enormous foothold in American healthcare in the last decade, buying up $1tn worth of physician practices, hospitals, specialty practices and even hospice centers. California alone has seen $20bn in private equity investment.The bill, formally known as <a href="https://c.im/tags/AB3129" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AB3129</a>, would have ⭐️ required private equity and hedge fund-backed buyers of certain healthcare businesses to seek the state attorney general’s approval 90 days before a deal was slated to close, and given the attorney general the option to deny such mergers. ⭐️The bill would have also prohibited investor-owners from interfering with professional medical judgment of providers from dentists to psychiatrists, strengthening so-called corporate practice of medicine laws.<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/05/private-equity-healthcare-california-veto?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/05/private-equity-healthcare-california-veto?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</a>

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