@estelle@techhub.social

· 3w ago

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'According to former commander of the Dutch Army, Mart de Kruif, the likelihood that these are accidental hits is virtually zero, given that the doctors describe more than a hundred such cases. “Just think about how small the head is compared to the rest of the body,” he says. “If you’re seeing a high number of gunshot wounds to the chest area and the head, that’s not collateral damage — that’s deliberate targeting.”' https://www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v/2025/gunshot-palestine-children-israel-war~v1819649/ @palestine@fedibird.com #witness #شهيد #shaheed #words #mourning #health #publicHealth #medicine #medics #surgeons #surgery #hospital #childrens #orphans #JewishSupremacy #israel #OngoingNakba #revenge #retribution #Gaza #war #warOnGaza #israelGaza #israelGazaWar #ethnicCleansing #warCrimes #PalestinianLivesMatter #genocide #terrorism #counterTerrorism #stateTerrorism #stateViolence #GazaGenocide #StopArmingIsrael #CeasefireNow #StopFundingIsrael #DefundIsrael #GenocideJoe #children #childhood #adultDomination #trauma #practice #healthCare #massacres #WCNSF #PTSD #trauma #injuries

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Estelle Platini @estelle@techhub.social

· 2mo ago

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"Where everybody lies about everything of importance, the truthteller, whether he knows it or not, has begun to act; he, too, has engaged himself in political business, for, in the unlikely event that he survives, he has made a start toward changing the world.” Hannah Arendt, in "Truth and Politics" #truth #Arendt #quotes #postFactual #reality #totalitarianism #HannahArendt #agnotology #MAHA #fragility #beliefs

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Estelle Platini @estelle@techhub.social

· 5mo ago

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Study the problem and then sleep on it. This is so extremely productive to me that I have the rigour to impose the exercise on me twice a day 🌝 (Motivation and discipline I tell you.) @druid @mattkenworthy

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Estelle Platini @estelle@techhub.social

· 2mo ago

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Here is an article on how the American Medical Association helped entrench private health insurance in the US after WW2. By branding national insurance “socialised medicine” and promoting private plans. It shows how well-funded interest groups can shape opinion and policy. https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/141/3/2147/8669893 #healthInsurance #healthCare #healthHistory #history #medicine #USA #USHistory #publicHealth #AMA

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Estelle Platini @estelle@techhub.social

· 5mo ago

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"Knowledge is nonrival, meaning that its use by one person does not diminish its availability to others, and a broader technological frontier can yield widespread productivity gains." The trend of patent royalties paid to Chinese innovators is exponential: #tech #innovation #renewables #solar #wind #energy #technique #technology #china #oilAndGas #energyTransition #greenTech #dataViz #patents

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Estelle Platini @estelle@techhub.social

· 5mo ago

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I concur @androcat The USA are grounded on the race ideology. Quinn Norton is very articulate about it: https://techhub.social/@estelle/109854074299448098

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Estelle Platini @estelle@techhub.social

· 11mo ago

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"Paternalism occurs when the autonomy of a competent person is overridden on the grounds that an action is intended to improve their well-being. The risk of paternalism in healthcare is significant because of the power dynamic between a person in need of treatment and a person who is able to offer treatment within an establishment that is considered to be authoritative." "In this paper, I show that the appeal of alternative medicine to women relates to the neglect of women’s health needs within scientific medicine." Alternative medicine "is valued both for pragmatic medical reasons—because it is believed to be effective, it is assumed to have few or no side effects, it is deemed to be more “natural”—and for ideological reasons—because it is believed to offer control over health, be non-authoritarian, and improve patient autonomy by avoiding paternalism and universalism." Arianne Shahvisi: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6474852/ via @Sohan #healthcare #autonomy #AlternativeMedicine #health #publicHealth #medicine

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Estelle Platini @estelle@techhub.social

· 5mo ago

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@brianmerchant@mastodon.social @oausi@norden.social @alineblankertz@indieweb.social Thank you for a refreshing article. For non-US proposals, you may look at #technoCriticism.

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Estelle Platini @estelle@techhub.social

· 22mo ago

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On July 14, 1970, a group of activists, many of them in their late teens and early 20s, occupied Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx. They barricaded themselves inside the facility, demanding safer and more accessible health care for the community. The dramatic takeover of Lincoln Hospital led to one of the first Patient’s Bill of Rights, changing patients’ relationship with hospitals and doctors nationwide. #Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK_ALMA1NMk #YoungLords #selfDefence #publicHealth #health #blackMastodon #healthCare #healthLife #pandemic #epidemics #USA #safety #personalSafety #personalSafety #communitySafety #community #history #NYT #LincolnHospital #USHistory #Bronx #SouthBronx #NYC

How We Occupied a Hospital and Changed Public Health Care | Takeover | Op-Docs

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Estelle Platini @estelle@techhub.social

· 44mo ago

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“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced #Nazi or the convinced #Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the #reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.” ― Hannah Arendt, "The Origins of Totalitarianism" #communism #nazism #postFactual #totalitarianism #war #propaganda #Russia #quotes #commOdon #truth #agnotology #history 🧶

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Estelle Platini @estelle@techhub.social

· 23mo ago

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"Dr. Feroze Sidhwa has volunteered as a trauma surgeon in Ukraine, Haiti, Burkina Faso, and Ghana. But when he went to Gaza in March and April of this year, it changed him. Sidhwa had never seen so much horror in his life." https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/feroze-sidhwa-new-york-times-children-gaza-shot-in-head-israel-palestine-doctor/ #witness #شهيد #shaheed #words #mourning #health #publicHealth #medicine #medics #surgeons #surgery #hospital #childrens #orphans #JewishSupremacy #israel #OngoingNakba #revenge #retribution #Gaza #war #warOnGaza #israelGaza #israelGazaWar #ethnicCleansing #warCrimes #PalestinianLivesMatter #genocide #terrorism #counterTerrorism #stateTerrorism #stateViolence #GazaGenocide #StopArmingIsrael #CeasefireNow #StopFundingIsrael #DefundIsrael #GenocideJoe #children #childhood #adultDomination #trauma #practice #healthCare #massacres #WCNSF #PTSD #trauma #injuries

The doctor who saw children shot in the head in Gaza—and tried to tell the world

Mother Jones

The doctor who saw children shot in the head in Gaza—and tried to tell the world

Dr. Feroze Sidhwa has spent six months talking about what he saw as an emergency physician in Gaza. Why don't people believe him?

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Estelle Platini @estelle@techhub.social

· 25mo ago

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Wounded child with no surviving family: "Everybody i love is now in heaven". Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan testifies of health care in Gaza during a panel at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago (via BBC). #witness #شهيد #shaheed #words #mourning #health #publicHealth #medicine #medics #surgeons #surgery #hospital #childrens #orphans #JewishSupremacy #israel #OngoingNakba #revenge #retribution #Gaza #war #warOnGaza #israelGaza #israelGazaWar #ethnicCleansing #warCrimes #PalestinianLivesMatter #genocide #terrorism #counterTerrorism #stateTerrorism #stateViolence #GazaGenocide #StopArmingIsrael #CeasefireNow #StopFundingIsrael #DefundIsrael #GenocideJoe #children #childhood #adultDomination #trauma #practice #DNC #healthCare #massacres #WCNSF #PTSD #trauma #injuries #panel

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Estelle Platini @estelle@techhub.social

· 26mo ago

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@black_intellect@mstdn.social Michael Jackson wrote about #care and loved ones: "One of the most difficult aspects of caregiving, often made worse by the economic challenges, is its emotional toll. I remember the often paralyzing sense of powerlessness and frustration, and even anger as my mom’s MS and my late wife’s cancer rendered them increasingly dependent on me. Financial pressures exacerbate stress, anxiety, depression, and other mental health effects that are common among family members who care for relatives or friends. Recent estimates are that between 40 to 70% of caregivers have clinically significant symptoms of depression." https://blackintellect.substack.com/p/taking-care-of-the-caregivers #mentalHealth #publicHealth #health #blackMastodon #healthCare #healthLife #pandemic #epidemics #USA #safety #personalSafety

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Estelle Platini @estelle@techhub.social

· 22mo ago

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Germany’s main parties each have a state-funded political foundation. Boasting thousands of employees, they have enforced a collective silence on the genocide in Gaza out of obedience to German foreign policy Ali Nobil Ahmad: https://jacobin.com/2024/11/germany-stiftungen-genocide-gaza-censorship #publicDebate #supremacy #supremacism #Netanyahu #Germany #totalitarianism #media #agnotology #beliefs #believe #Baerbock #collaboration #censorship #conflation #longRead #confusion #antisemitism #politics #guilt #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #fragility #crackdown #freeSpeech #nationalism #StandWithIsrael #racism #immigration #EuropeIsrael #IHRA #parties #democracy #FDP #SPD #CDU #DieGrünen #GreenParty #Bundestag #DEPol #GermanPolitics

jacobin.com

Handsomely Funded to Ignore Genocide

Germany’s main parties each have a state-funded political foundation, meant to promote a culture of democratic debate. Boasting thousands of employees, they have enforced a collective silence on the genocide in Gaza out of obedience to German foreign policy.

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Estelle Platini @estelle@techhub.social

· 13mo ago

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@databasecultures Thank you for making the doc open access!

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Estelle Platini @estelle@techhub.social

· 33mo ago

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The masses' flight from reality is a condemnation of the world in which they are forced to live. […] The main disadvantage of reality is that it is not logical, coherent or organised. ~ Hannah Arendt, in "Totalitarianism" @sociology@a.gup.pe @socialpsych@a.gup.pe #Arendt #quotes #truth #postFactual #complotism #reality #Russia #Putin #supremacism #Netanyahu #nazism #Germany #totalitarianism #media #antisemitism #HannahArendt #agnotology #Trumpism #fragility #believe

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Estelle Platini @estelle@techhub.social

· 34mo ago

How healthcare became official and a luxury – something that the rich elite had recourse to, and which everyone else had to do without: https://going-medieval.com/2017/05/26/on-medieval-healthcare-and-american-barbarism/ #midwives #monks #medieval #healthcare #Janega @DrEleanorJanega@mastodon.world #history #sociology @ethics@a.gup.pe @sociology@a.gup.pe @socialpsych@a.gup.pe #medicine #physicians #pandemic #ModernTimes #modernity #modern #MiddleAges #Europe

On medieval healthcare and American barbarism

Going Medieval

On medieval healthcare and American barbarism

As I’ve noted several times, I generally try to ignore whatever is currently passing for ‘governance’ in America at the moment, cuz I just ain’t got the patience, or ability to do all that emotiona…

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Estelle Platini @estelle@techhub.social

· 43mo ago

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Make it true: Hannah #Arendt observed that men gaining #power in Germany did not lie because they believed what they were saying, or even because they expected YOU to believe it. They were lying to state out what had to become #true in order to justify what they intended to do. ⸺ #communism #nazism #postFactual #war #Russia #performance #FRPol #Macron #politics #communication #propaganda #commOdon #media #truth #agnotology

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Estelle Platini @estelle@techhub.social

· 2mo ago

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Death at hospital

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Estelle Platini @estelle@techhub.social

· 8mo ago

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Black women on the nightmare of seeking healthcare in the US: ‘I have to be my own doctor’ Brianna Holt writes: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/27/black-women-healthcare-self-advocate #healthcare #autonomy #health #publicHealth #medicine #USHealth #selfDefence #selfDefense

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Estelle Platini @estelle@techhub.social

· 32mo ago

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"Healthy life expectancy vs. health expenditure per capita" Interactive chart: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/healthy-life-expectancy-vs-health-expenditure-per-capita #health #healthCare #healthEquity #healthExpectancy #healthLife #medicine #physicians #pandemic #epidemics #USA #safety #personalSafety #publicSpending #India #Australia

Our World in Data

Healthy life expectancy vs. health spending per capita

Healthy life expectancy, defined as the average number of years lived in good health, vs. average per capita health spending measured in current international-$. This data is adjusted for differences in living costs between countries, but it is not adjusted for inflation.

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Estelle Platini @estelle@techhub.social

· 5mo ago

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Yes @christopherstark@mastodon.social ! Let's make Europe transform to become a progress leader 😜

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Estelle Platini @estelle@techhub.social

· 3mo ago

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@paninid@mastodon.world We respect the nation and not children.

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