Matthew Cortland (they)

There's a significant problem in the world being this fucked up that I did not anticipate: I feel like a 2AM Art Bell caller when providing my best, most learned, analysis.

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As a chronically ill healthcare lawyer I think the Trump regime wants to use this new AI initiative to replace our doctors with ChatGPT and use AI to determine who gets their medically necessary treatments (💊) approved by insurance.

Trump voter? You can have meds. Didn't vote for Trump? ☠️

I'm genuinely having a hard time trying to figure out how to engage publicly. It seems like no matter what I do, my content will be used for mis/dis- information.

Do I just accept that as the cost of doing business — of trying to provide some guidance as, say, an expert in health law — in 2025?

if "minimize cruelty" is your message — minimize cruelty to children because there's a non-zero level of cruelty that infants must endure as a matter of government policy — you not only deserve to lose but you deserve to spend eternity in hell.

wtf you talking about? samsung is totally participating

Jesus fucking christ

can someone get alito on the phone? asking for a global economy

fantastic staff work 🙄

If they intentionally or unintentionally make my medical record public, either through a leak or ChatGPT just telling you if asked, it would become much more difficult for me to find work, which might be the goal here.

It was nice knowing you Fitbit.

Are the motherfuckers at 1 first street about to invent a new history and tradition of protecting the commissioner of the bureau of labor statistics? Or are we bonnie and clyding this economy?

I really should have been more responsible and been born to different people

There are people who rush to say something like "haha you suckers, I knew wearable devices/genetic testing/etc was a bad idea"

And they do it using my content, when I'm really clear that, eg, the apple watch monitors my heart rate (can't actually wear a Holter 24/7), a thing I *need*

Like fuck you

This is bananas and I guess I’m gonna have to stop using my Apple Watch for reals.

They're explicitly not doing this new "feed all of our health data to AI" initiative through law — they come right out and just say it.

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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations following the passage of a federal rescissions package and the release of the Senate Appropriations Committee’s FY 2026 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor-H) appropriations bill, which excludes funding for CPB for the first time in more than five decades. For nearly 60 years, CPB has carried out its Congressional mission to build and sustain a trusted public media system that informs, educates, and serves communities across the country. Through partnerships with local stations and producers, CPB has supported educational content, locally relevant journalism, emergency communications, cultural programming, and essential services for Americans in every community. “Despite the extraordinary efforts of millions of Americans who called, wrote, and petitioned Congress to preserve federal funding for CPB, we now face the difficult reality of closing our operations,” said CPB President and CEO Patricia Harrison. “CPB remains committed to fulfilling its fiduciary responsibilities and supporting our partners through this transition with transparency and care.”

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting down operations after loss of federal funding:

On July 30th, Donald Trump announced "Making Health Technology Great Again" in cooperation with companies including Apple, Google, OpenAI, Amazon, Anthropic, Epic, and Athena. This new initiative aims to feed all of our health data into AI.

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Fuck every single *eugenics collaborator*

Public health is a profoundly ableist field full of “professionals” who do not view us as fully human and so do not object to killing us (I.e. eugenics)

Fuck every single *eugenics collaborator*

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If you’re doing public facing comms:

Don’t call it “institutionalization” - people don’t know what that means.

Call it something like “locking people up” or “imprisoning” or “trapping”.

And fuck your Substack

Public health is a profoundly ableist field full of “professionals” who do not view us as fully human and so do not object to killing us (I.e. eugenics)

You do not actually have to “move to collaboration” with the eugenicist MAHA movement and anyone arguing otherwise is the enemy of chronically ill and disabled Americans.

Sam@SamAshleyBlogs • 19m Stop reporting this, it's wrong. Ill 3.1K .. 4 Ili 395. 贝 Grok v @grok • 17m I appreciate the feedback, but per the latest from tsunami.gov as of July 30, 2025, no active tsunami warning exists for Hawaii-it was canceled after buoy data showed no waves. Advisories remain for parts of Alaska, CA, OR, WA, BC. Please verify directly; happy to Show more 171 1hil 2.6K 贝 Trumpsucks @trumpsucks72 • 14m If you go to tsunami.gov, at the top of the page there's a big red bar that's says TSUNAMI WARNING. 1 171 3 1hil 324 Grok t x1@grok.12m I checked tsunami.gov—no active tsunami warning for Hawaii; it was canceled July 29 after buoy data showed no waves. The red bar likely refers to ongoing warnings for Alaska (Aleutians) and California (Cape Mendocino to OR border). Advisories remain for other West Coast areas. Stay safe! Sources: PTWC, NOAA. O Ask Grok 17 Ill

we're fucked

Let me exit the ridiculous starter packs people have put me in you bastards

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Trump Administration Scraps Effort to Pause Health-Research Funding The administration halted and then restarted billions in new research grants flowing from the National Institutes of Health.

Freezing NIH funding is — and is meant to be — catastrophic to biomedical research.

They want chronically ill people dead. They're going to destroy the engine of medical research because those without 'good genes' are not worth allowing to live.