Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement Program Spent Twice as Much on Administrative Costs as on Health Care, GAO Says
Most of the tax dollars used to launch and implement the nation’s only Medicaid work requirement program have gone toward paying administrative costs rather than covering health care for Georgians, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office, the nonpartisan agency that monitors federal programs and spending.
The government report examined administrative expenses for Georgia Pathways to Coverage, the state’s experiment with work requirements. It follows previous reporting by The Current and ProPublica showing that the program has cost federal and state taxpayers more than $86.9 million while enrolling a tiny fraction of those eligible for free health care.
The GAO analysis, which does not include all the Pathways administrative expenses detailed by the news outlets, shows that as of April the Georgia program had spent $54.2 million on administrative costs since 2021, compared to $26.1 million spent on health care costs. Nearly 90% of administrative expenditures came from the federal budget, the report concluded, meaning that Georgia’s experiment is being funded by taxpayers around the country. Federal spending will likely increase given that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has approved $6 million more in administrative costs not reflected in this report because it was published before the state submitted invoices.
Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement Program Spent Twice as Much on Administrative Costs as on Health Care, GAO Says
Republican lawmakers cite Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage as a national model for federal Medicaid work requirements that are set to take effect in 2027. A new report shows the program has spent at least $54 million on administrative costs alone.ProPublica
Extremists are using Discord to radicalize American youth, officials warned this year
Discord used by extremists to recruit US youth, officials warned
Law enforcement agencies warned earlier this year that young people were being radicalized in Discord servers, according to documents obtained by NBC News.Kevin Collier (NBC News)
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Video for 1st Amendment Win: Jimmy Kimmel is Back!
He cries a lot for Kirk, I think he might actually be a good guy? I'm not sure I would have, but he's been under a huge amount of stress the last week. Idk
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AI coding hype overblown, Bain shrugs
AI coding hype overblown, Bain shrugs
: Tried by two-thirds of firms, ignored by most devs, and productivity barely movedDan Robinson (The Register)
Seasonal retail hiring to fall to lowest level since 2009, signaling trouble for holidays, report says
Seasonal retail hiring to fall to lowest level since 2009, signaling trouble for holidays, report says
Seasonal hiring, an indicator of how strong or weak the holiday shopping season is expected to be, is projected to fall to the lowest level since 2009 recessionGabrielle Fonrouge (CNBC)
Perchance Ai Chat won’t work
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Italia - Polonia: semifinale Mondiali 2025, programma, precedenti e diretta tv
Italia e Polonia si sfidano nella semifinale dei Mondiali di pallavolo maschile 2025. Ecco programma, orari e dove vederla in tv e streaming.
L’Italvolley torna a incrociare la sua rivale storica, la Polonia, nella semifinale dei Campionati del mondo di pallavolo maschile 2025. In palio, c’è la finale di Pasai City (Filippine) e la possibilità di difendere il titolo iridato vinto tre anni fa.
LEGGI L'ARTICOLO: Italia – Polonia: semifinale Mondiali 2025, programma, precedenti e diretta tv
NBA su Prime Video: accordo globale da 11 anni. Dal 25 ottobre inizia la stagione in streaming
L’NBA sbarca ufficialmente su Prime Video. A partire da ottobre 2025, il campionato di basket più importante del mondo entra nell’offerta sportiva del colosso streaming di Amazon, senza costi aggiuntivi per gli abbonati Prime. L’accordo, valido per 11 anni, rappresenta una delle più grandi operazioni globali sui diritti sportivi e promette di rivoluzionare l’esperienza di visione per i fan italiani, grazie al doppio commento in lingua italiana e inglese.
I DETTAGLI DELL'ACCORDO: NBA su Prime Video: accordo globale da 11 anni. Dal 25 ottobre inizia la stagione in streaming
NBA su Prime Video: accordo di 11 anni per le partite in diretta
Prime Video trasmetterà l’NBA per 11 anni. Dal 25 ottobre partite in esclusiva: Regular Season, Playoff e Finals. Scopri orari e dettagli.Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)
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Memori - Memory Engine for AI
Memori - Memory Engine for AI
Open-Source Memory Engine for LLMs, AI Agents & Multi-Agent Systems. Enhance your AI applications with intelligent memory capabilities.memori.gibsonai.com
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AI coding hype overblown, Bain shrugs
AI coding hype overblown, Bain shrugs
: Tried by two-thirds of firms, ignored by most devs, and productivity barely movedDan Robinson (The Register)
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Memori - Memory Engine for AI
Memori - Memory Engine for AI
Open-Source Memory Engine for LLMs, AI Agents & Multi-Agent Systems. Enhance your AI applications with intelligent memory capabilities.memori.gibsonai.com
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Italy sends navy ship to help Gaza aid flotilla after drone attack
Italy sends navy ship to help Gaza aid flotilla after drone attack
ATHENS/ROME - An international aid flotilla trying to deliver aid to Gaza said on Wednesday it was attacked overnight by drones in international waters off Greece, prompting Italy to send a navy ship to come to its assistance.ST
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Japan city passes ordinance to cap smartphone use at 2 hours per day
Japan city passes ordinance to cap smartphone use at 2 hours per day
The assembly of a central Japan city on Monday passed an ordinance that recommends all residents limit their use of smartphones, video game consoles and other digital devices to two hours a day outside of work and school, though there will be no pena…KYODO NEWS (Japan Wire by KYODO NEWS)
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Donald Trump is failing to stop China’s rise as a manufacturing superpower
It's not already a manufacturing superpower? Think that boat mighta sailed already...
Jesse Watters Makes Fox Co-Hosts Cringe With Revenge Plan Against U.N.
Now it's the time to call the FCC and demand that Brendan Carr make Watters and Fox learn the hard way and pull their broadcast license which is not a threat.
Jesse Watters Makes Fox Co-Hosts Cringe With Revenge Plan Against U.N.
Fox’s Jesse Watters has a deranged idea for how to respond to the stopped escalator during Trump’s visit to the United Nations.The New Republic
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“Racconti Bre” di Alimberto Torri
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Racconti Bre
Ciò che l’AI non potrà mai inventare
Alimberto Torri
Racconti brevi
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Brevi racconti dallo spessore filosofico condotti e diretti dalla leggerezza del comico e dell’assurdo. Un’opera da ridere perchè la vita è una cosa troppo seria per essere presa seriamente.
Personaggi inventati, ma così inventati da essere veri. Verità profonde, ma così profonde da parer impossibili. Un viaggio alla scoperta di noi stessi senza essere sempre gli stessi. Cosa c’è alla fine della ricerca, di quel racconto brevis che è la vita
“Racconti Bre”: l’arte della brevità secondo Alimberto Torri
Il libro Racconti Bre di Alimberto Torri è un piccolo custode di retorica, psicologia, humor e sagaci metafore. Una raccolta che non si lascia leggere con leggerezza, perché invita il lettore a scrutare nelle pieghe più complesse dell’animo umano.
Non è una lettura semplice, e questo è il suo pregio. Alcuni brani mi hanno costretto a fermarmi, a rileggere più volte, non certo per mancanza di chiarezza, ma per l’intensità che li pervade. È il tipo di scrittura che non lascia scampo: chiede attenzione, chiede tempo.
Ho domandato all’autore quanto impegno avesse richiesto un lavoro così denso, e la sua risposta racconta molto del senso del libro:
“Ogni racconto breve si fonda su studi di psicologia, sociologia e filosofia. Per molti mi sono dovuto documentare e studiare il particolare modo di essere e di vivere di alcuni gruppi sociali.
Ogni racconto ha almeno due livelli di lettura: quello letterale e quello metaforico. Ma si può arrivare anche a quattro: letterale, metaforico, simbolico e anagogico.
So perfettamente che per arrivare a quello anagogico bisogna fare un po’ di fatica, ma è quella fatica lì che ti apre la mente a nuove possibilità di conoscenza. Non sono racconti da una notte: l’intento è far riflettere, e la riflessione ha i suoi tempi. ‘Il regno dei cieli è come il chicco di senape’.”
Parole che chiariscono il cuore del progetto: Racconti Bre non vuole intrattenere, ma stimolare. Non punta a distrarre, ma a guidare.
La tradizione del racconto breve.
La forma del racconto breve, spesso sottovalutata dai lettori che prediligono i grandi romanzi, ha in realtà una lunga e nobile tradizione. Da Edgar Allan Poe, che teorizzò l’unità d’effetto in ogni singolo racconto, a Italo Calvino, che con le sue Cosmicomiche seppe condensare l’universo in poche pagine, la brevità non è mai sinonimo di semplicità.
Come scriveva Anton Čechov: “La brevità è sorella del talento”. In poche pagine si può racchiudere un mondo, ed è ciò che Torri sembra voler dimostrare con le sue “chicche letterarie”, piccole schegge di umanità pronte a far sorridere, ma anche a far riflettere.
Una lettura per il presente
In queste storie, Alimberto Torri sembra lanciare un messaggio attualissimo:
“L’AI non potrà fare ogni cosa!”
Un’affermazione che si colloca nel cuore del dibattito contemporaneo. Può la tecnologia sostituire la profondità di un pensiero, la complessità di un’emozione, la metafora che unisce logica e poesia? Forse no, e l’autore sembra sperare con forza che la risposta resti negativa.
Vivere è un racconto breve
Racconti Bre si legge come un piccolo manifesto esistenziale: la vita stessa è breve, ricca di emozioni e contraddizioni, proprio come i racconti che la rappresentano.
Un volume che invita il lettore a rallentare, a lasciarsi interrogare e sorprendere. Perché ogni parola, come un chicco di senape, porta con sé il potenziale di un intero mondo.
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Shooting at Dallas ICE detention facility leaves 'multiple injuries and fatalities': Noem
Shooting at Dallas ICE detention facility leaves 'multiple injuries and fatalities': Noem
"The shooter is deceased by a self-inflicted gun shot wound," Noem said in an X post confirming the attack.Kevin Breuninger (CNBC)
Greatest irony of the AI age: Humans being increasingly hired to clean AI slop
Greatest irony of the AI age: Humans being increasingly hired to clean AI slop
On one side is AI swallowing millions of jobs, and on the other is humans being hired to clean up the nonsense AI often generates, finds Satyen K.Satyen K Bordoloi (Sify)
KDE Plasma 6 On Wayland Can Work Fine On FreeBSD
KDE Plasma 6 On Wayland Can Work Fine On FreeBSD
While the BSDs don't see nearly as much activity around Wayland as the desktop Linux distributions and they continue to predominantly rely on the X.www.phoronix.com
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Devil's Club
In a recent trip to Alaska on a cruise we went to Juneau and in their gold mining tourist trap (a very good one by the way) I found something interesting in their store. I was literally sold via their snake oil-like "weird substance in a bottle".
Anyway, let me tell you, ever since I moved to the PNW I suffer from hemorrhoids. One time it got extremely bad. I applied devil's club and within a few minutes I wasn't feeling pins and needles itchiness down in my butt hole. That's one, but two I kept applying it a few times over a month like I do with preparation H and the hemorrhoids are gone! I mean I'm not going to go eat a ghost pepper pie any day but holy moly. I also treated a rash on my neck and groin that kept expanding and I thought was cancer and I was going to die of. I'm not saying don't go see a doctor, go see a doctor for any of this. But I'm just posting a PSA. At least some of the tourist trap bs about this plant is true or has some technology behind it that the big pharma hasn't been able to distill and eliminate.
I'm not a wako crazy person but I did go vegan recently to stop contributing to animal pain and suffering and to prevent heart decease and obesity in my self... This change did not make me loose weight or cure my hemorrhoids.
On the topic of hemorrhoids, let me explain I'm gory details what I think triggers those things in me. Any time I eat pizza or jalapeños, peronchini, jalapeño pickles, onions, tomatoes, I get a hemorrhoid. You'll be walking around and suddenly feel a little itch in your butt hole. In the shower you can explored that itch with your finger. It turns out to start like a pimple on the interior skin of your butt hole. It slowly, over a period of days gets bigger and eventually surprises you by popping out when you're popping. Red bloody stools galore. You'll have bloddy stools for a while. The popping can range from just seeing blood to super painful, you wanna be done with this existence pain. The worst part is cleaning with toilet paper. The little polips feel like a tiny pimple inside very thin skin. That polio eventually grows into a little sack that hangs outside your butt hole and then one day pops.
Look I'm sorry to have to describe all that, but it's true and hopefully someone benefits from this technology. Now, a day or two after applying the devils club you'll feel no different, but in the shower you can explore the polips and the darn thing get smaller and smaller until they're gone.
Once I discovered this, which prep H doesn't really do, I decided to just roll with this. So yeah, I applied that stuff a few times a week for some month and then I forgot. I forgot to apply and I forgot those pesky little pins and needles sobs. This morning I was reading up about it so I thought I should post on here.
One more thing, you can find it on Amazon. Devil's club salve.
Its cheaper on Amazon than at the tourist trap for obvious reasons.
Yes this is not circuits in a box with a shiny glass screen. But its technology and hopefully it helps someone try it out.
If my hemorrhoids do comeback I will not let you all know LOL.
Chemical and pharmacological studies of Oplopanax horridus, a North American botanical - PMC
Oplopanax horridus (OH) or Devil's club is an ethnobotanical used by the indigenous people native to the Pacific Northwest. There are three species in the genus Oplopanax, and OH is the only species that is distributed in North America. Compared ...pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
‘We will never, ever escape’: inside the ever-tightening siege of the Sudanese city of El Fasher
El Fasher had been under siege for more than 500 days. In May 2024, the UN warned it teetered on the “brink of famine”. No aid has entered since. Somehow, against all odds, El Fasher has not fallen. Its defenders – a hotchpotch of volunteers like Abdelghaffa, rebels such as Bakhit and a depleted infantry battalion – have been shoehorned into a shrinking slice of the pulverised city with 260,000 trapped residents, half of them children.
Yet aid has not entered for nearly 18 months.The evidence indicates a key US and UK ally intervened to effectively derail lifesaving humanitarian aid entering El Fasher. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) intruded at a critical stage; hundreds of children are believed to have since died from starvation in the city.
The UAE, repeatedly accused of supplying arms to the RSF, denies it supports the group. Informed sources monitoring the crisis claim that one of the longest urban sieges of modern warfare has only been possible because of such backing. “The UAE is the lifeline to the siege. Without its support, the RSF would have called it off.”
‘We will never, ever escape’: inside the ever-tightening siege of the Sudanese city of El Fasher
For 500 days, 260,000 people have been trapped by the paramilitary RSF. While political progress stalls, those who attempt escape are killed and those who remain inside are starving. Experts believe the city will soon fall and the endgame has begunMark Townsend (The Guardian)
‘We will never, ever escape’: inside the ever-tightening siege of the Sudanese city of El Fasher
El Fasher had been under siege for more than 500 days. In May 2024, the UN warned it teetered on the “brink of famine”. No aid has entered since. Somehow, against all odds, El Fasher has not fallen. Its defenders – a hotchpotch of volunteers like Abdelghaffa, rebels such as Bakhit and a depleted infantry battalion – have been shoehorned into a shrinking slice of the pulverised city with 260,000 trapped residents, half of them children.
Yet aid has not entered for nearly 18 months.The evidence indicates a key US and UK ally intervened to effectively derail lifesaving humanitarian aid entering El Fasher. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) intruded at a critical stage; hundreds of children are believed to have since died from starvation in the city.
The UAE, repeatedly accused of supplying arms to the RSF, denies it supports the group. Informed sources monitoring the crisis claim that one of the longest urban sieges of modern warfare has only been possible because of such backing. “The UAE is the lifeline to the siege. Without its support, the RSF would have called it off.”
‘We will never, ever escape’: inside the ever-tightening siege of the Sudanese city of El Fasher
For 500 days, 260,000 people have been trapped by the paramilitary RSF. While political progress stalls, those who attempt escape are killed and those who remain inside are starving. Experts believe the city will soon fall and the endgame has begunMark Townsend (The Guardian)
[Help] Media Server + *arr stack: Follow TRaSH guides or my own setup?
Hello everybody,
I want to ask for some opinions on my current setup and how I pretend to use it for my Media Server:
Current Layout
I currently use an UGREEN DXP2800 NAS running TrueNAS Scale with two 4 TB HDDs in Mirror mode. This is planned to be my "long-term storage" for backups, photos, and so on.
Additionally, I have 1 TB SSD installed in the system. I created two datasets on it: one for Docker containers and the other one for Media, following the TRaSH guides folder layout
My current plan:
My idea is to use the SSD for the torrents and the seeds, and once the file (e.g. the ~~movie ~~ Linux ISO Image) is completed, to move it to the HDDs. From there, Jellyfin would read the corresponding dataset and play the media.
The question:
The TRaSH guides puts a lot of emphasis on hardlinks and atomic moves, and that forces you to operate in one single filesystem. Is it worth it to stick to the TRaSH guide or my current setup would work just fine? What do y'all think?
Thanks in advance and happy self-hosting!
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Guides mainly for Sonarr/Radarr/Bazarr and everything related to it.trash-guides.info
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I was considering using the SSD to avoid wear and tear in the HDD because of the nature of the torrent downloads. My idea was using the SSD as a temporary/cache drive for the download itself, and then only executing one transfer move to the HDD once the media is completed. Drive noise was another concern, since my NAS sits in my living room and I want to avoid hearing the drives spinning constantly.
I am using two Seagate Ironwolf HDD, which are NAS certified. Will they suffer if I use them for downloading as well as seeding?
As an idea, I use an SSD as a "Default Download Directory" within qBittorrent itself, and then qB automatically moves it to a HDD when the download is fully finished. I do this because I want the write to be sequential going into my ZFS pool, since ZFS has no defragmentation capabilities.
Hardlinks are only important if you want to continue seeding the media in its original form and also have a cleaned-up/renamed copy in your Jellyfin library. If you're going to continue to seed from the HDD, it doesn't matter that the initial download is done on the SSD. The *arr stack will make the hardlink only after the download is finished.
I run deluge torrent with openVPN with pivoxy in a container.
Arr stack and deluge uses proxy if the VPN drops off, all secure communication halts by default.
Arr stack has default download set to SSD, copies files to a rotational disk storage on completion. continues to host the seed from the SSD.
Once in a blue moon, I'll go back through Deluge and right-click Delete torrent and data for stuff that's well satisfied and who are really available.
Once a year or so, I'll go back and make sure that there's no extra stuff in the download folders.
You're fine without hard links as long as you have enough space and don't mind a little maintenance now and then.
Tunnel Visions New Video on the Growing Amount of Street Surveillance Cameras
Christophe talks about the growing number of of ALPR (Automatic Liscence Plate Reader) cameras in the US and the concerns around them.
A lot of these are being created by Flock Safety flocksafety.com/
You can check out deflock.me/ to find many of these cameras around the US. It's a an open project that you can contribute too as well!
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