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So a crazy thing happened. In a crime thriller film called Les chambres rouges (Red Rooms, 2023) there is a scene where the hacker protagonist is attempting to purchase a snuff film in online auction. The auction happens via IRC or IRC-like chatting environment and to my surprise there's actually me @rolle and my wife @mustikkasoppa who are one of the bidders.

1) The nickname of my wife is mistakenly written as "mustikasoppa" (with one k) but if I recall correctly she has used a mistakenly written nickname in the past
2) We are both operators and on the same IRC channel as we've been for the past 17 years

This is not a coincidence. One nickname can be made up by accident but not two with these features and definitely not in a French movie. My wife's nick "mustikkasoppa" is Finnish and means "blueberry soup".

Our IRC logs are more or less public because of open source and statistics so I presume the scene has been made with chatgpt which has scraped our nicks from the Internet so that they ended up in the movie. We still chat via IRC every day together.

The era of AI... Do your background check, folks. I'm glad this wasn't a dramatized documentary film but a complete fiction. However my wife and I are real. Mixed feelings.

#OpenAI #Privacy #Movies #IRC #GenerativeAI #ChatGPT

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After having a t4t relationship and getting hypervaxxed (double boostered) you can see the twin towers again. They are still there

A couple rad #CovidIsNotOver health justice posters seen in Minneapolis this morning.

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Source: https://x.com/SPuro88/status/1864684649030529468
Via: https://masto.deoan.org/@neurovagrant/113607126117827243

#UnitedHealthcare #UnitedHealthcareCEO #healthcare #HealthInsurance #news

I don't like walking in wet socks either

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I'm violently hungover and just discovering about the donkey kong rock opera, is this hell?

BRUH

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with this seeming more and more likely to be a person who is angry of a denied claim... there was a series of events that occurred earlier this year that shook the healthcare sector in the US. and i think pointing it out is vital to understanding what likely transpired to what caused this.

nearly a year ago now (i believe?), a subsidiary of UnitedHealth experienced one of the worst cyber attacks to occur against a medical institution. this subsidary held the data of a large portion of UnitedHealth policy holder data. nearly 100 million people had their data stolen in a ransomware attack.

UnitedHealth paid nearly 22$ million dollars to the ransomware group and they took the money and ran instead of giving the keys. and UnitedHealth waited. and waited. they explicitly were as incompetent about it as possible.

for further context here, UnitedHealth holds contracts in medicare and medicaid plans and are some of the biggest providers for those who receive those. some of the most vulnerable people, they were some of the most impacted by this hack and the incompetent reaction of UnitedHealth.

people were denied claims en masse, and UnitedHealth sat on their hands and did nothing as the entire system collapsed in on itself. Doctors and pharmacies began to struggle, especially those within network for the company. United claimed the problems were being addressed but it just went on, and on, and on. as the CEOs got more and more wealthy in spite of this and faced little to no consequence for their shitty security infra that led to this attack happening in the first place.

Time went by, and doctors offices and pharmacies began to struggle and begged for help. UnitedHealth decided to offer short term loans. With interest of course. They paid out nearly $9 billion in these shady short term loans, that functioned akin to payday loans.

Of course, these places started to go bankrupt. And UnitedHealth started to buy them out.