#for-profit — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #for-profit, aggregated by home.social.
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#ICE #DetentionCenter #ForProfit #Trump #MAGA #fascism #USpol
News to ME this morning: ICE detention centers are FOR PROFIT. There's a new board in Kansas putting just one of these under review.
Alt= Image of an item on the KPR website (Kansas Public Radio) with a pic of some kind of board at a meeting, with the headline "Leavenworth's for-profit ICE detention center under scrutiny from new community board", then "The 1,000-bed facility is currently holding 249 detainees. The board is intended to hold the CoreCivic facility to its agreements with the city and ensure inmates and employees are being treated fairly."
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What gets posted to the Inter-Web stays on the Inter-Web - FOREVER! Apparently Mr. Musk has not learned this lesson.
Discussion about converting OpenAI to a for-profit entity started in 2016, and Musk flip flopped live in court saying “We are not pursuing AGI right now" he recently posed on X “Tesla will be one of the companies to make AGI.” https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/29/on-the-stand-elon-musk-cant-escape-his-own-tweets/ #OpenAI #AI #AGI #Lawsuit #ForProfit #NotForProfit #Internet #Tweets #SocialMedia
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Sam Altman’s Pentagon Pivot: Inside OpenAI’s Transformation From AI Lab to Defense Contractor Sam Altman's internal AMA revealed OpenAI's Pentagon defense deal, for-profit conversion pl...
#AISecurityPro #GenAIPro #AI #defense #contracts #OpenAI #for-profit #conversion #OpenAI #military #partnership
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"At a glance
Patient deaths increased in the emergency departments of hospitals acquired by private equity firms compared to similar hospitals, a nationwide study has found.
Researchers linked the increase in mortality to cuts in salary and staffing levels.
The findings amplify concerns about the growth of this for-profit ownership model in health care delivery."
The link...
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Guess which percentage of bankruptcies are caused by healthcare in the USA:
40%
52%
66%#usa #healthcare #GovernmentFailure #bankruptcy #MedicalBankruptsy #Capitalism #Insurance #Corporations #ForProfit
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#OpenAI has completed its #recapitalisation, solidifying its structure as a #nonprofit with a #controllingstake in its #forprofit business. The OpenAI Foundation now holds a 26% stake in the for-profit, with 47% held by current and former employees and investors. Microsoft, a major investor, supports the recapitalisation and now holds a 27% stake in the for-profit. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/28/open-ai-for-profit-microsoft.html?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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Yet another #CEO saying that, because they and many of those who work for their #forprofit #company have done very well out of the existing #copyright regime, nothing should be allowed to change it, and certainly not #ai:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/18/ai-authors-publishing-regulation
As a rejoinder, here are two reasons why the existing copyright regime is not fit for purpose and should be transformed. They're taken from my forthcoming book Defund Culture, which is being published by a non-profit, scholar-led, #openaccess publisher under a Collective Conditions for Re-Use (CC4r) license:
1) Copyright is a major driver of #inequality in the twenty-first century, playing a pivotal but often overlooked role with regard to understanding the roots of disparities of #wealth in modern societies (Bellos and Montagu).
2) Copyright overwhelmingly serves #corporate interests – those of tech monopolies, #music #labels, #publishers - while restricting access to knowledge, ideas and the cultural #commons
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#ForProfit #Corporations Are Buying Up More #Psychiatric Hospitals. Some Flout #Federal #Law With Scarce Repercussions.
Psychiatric hospitals — increasingly owned by for-profit corporations — are illegally turning away patients during crises. Yet only a handful face penalties, with fines that are trivial, a ProPublica investigation found.
#HealthCare #health #MentalHealth #Trump #FederalGovernment #law
https://www.propublica.org/article/psychiatric-hospitals-emtala-mental-health-profit -
#ForProfit #Corporations Are Buying Up More #PsychiatricHospitals. Some Flout #FederalLaw With Scarce Repercussions.
https://www.propublica.org/article/psychiatric-hospitals-emtala-mental-health-profit
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#Donation bins: #Charity or #profit?
https://toledofreepress.com/donation-bins-charity-or-profit/
https://youtu.be/M2B6Ht-fbI4Cons, confusion and—in one case—connections to a #cult are among the reasons #Toledo-area #charities say they want a crackdown on #donationbins that siphon money away from their missions.
#Goodwill Industries of Northwest #Ohio is leading the charge, concerned that #forprofit companies are using donation-style bins that most people associate with local charities to mislead well-intentioned people.
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Health Insurance Card: “Emergency Visit: $50 Copay” Bill: $1269.60
The fallout of The E.R.’s Embrace.
Yes, the copay was $50, as the insurance card claimed. The tests and “coinsurance” brought it to $1269.60. I was making sure my severe and rapidly worsening nerve pain at 3a wasn’t part of a stroke or other neurological issue that would have ended up costing the insurance company way more. Deny, Defend, Depose.
If you’d like to help me out with it, please buy me a ko-fi. See you at the USA healthcare revolution, fellow body-haver.
https://www.illmarks.com/emergency-copay-50/
#art #bodyHorror #chronicIllness #denyDefendDepose #forProfit #healthInsurance #healthcare #healthinsurance #longCovid #medicalArt #MillionsMissing #privateInsurance #pwLC #pwme #usa #usaHealthcare
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#ChatGPT maker #OpenAI will remain under the control of its founding #nonprofit board, after abandoning its plan to split off its commercial ops as a #ForProfit company.
Fmr employees & #ElonMusk, a co-founder of OpenAI who later split w/ its leaders, had criticized the restructuring plan, saying it would remove important oversight of its #ArtificialIntelligence #technology. #Musk filed a lawsuit seeking to block the plan; the suit is still ongoing.#law #tech #business
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/05/openai-restructures-abandons-plan-profit/ -
Seitenwechsler:innen als Chance? Da nun sicher ist, dass die #Koalition aus #CDU #SPD #CSU kommt, ist auch sicher, dass Menschen aus Wirtschaftsunternehmen für die Union Minister:innen werden. Einige befürchten da #Interessenkonflikte. Andere antworten: Aberaberaber wenn sie aus #NGO kämen, wie zuvor #Agora, na?
Dann: Wäre das Problem anders, vielleicht sogar keines. Wirtschaft ist #ForProfit. Ihr Zweck ist finanzieller Gewinn - für sich. NGO=#zivilgesellschaft|liche Organisationen, meist #gemeinnützig, arbeiten #selbstlos. Mit Interessen. Aber zur Förderung der Allgemeinheit, explizit nicht zum wirtschaftlichen Vorteil ihrer Mitglieder, Angestellten oder Finanziers. Und meistens gehören sie in dem Sinne niemandem. Wäre dieser Unterschied common sense, wären wir weiter.
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Bill to block OpenAI's for-profit conversion gets mysteriously gutted
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/breaking-bill-that-would-have-blocked
#HackerNews #OpenAI #Bill #ForProfit #Politics #Technology #News
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"Charging people in prison to communicate with the outside world has long been good business."
Katya Schwenk for The Lever: https://longreads.com/2025/03/21/the-succession-battle-for-a-prison-empire/
#Longreads #Investigation #Corruption #Incarceration #Prisons #Jails #ForProfit #Business
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This year, #GEOgroup & Washington are back in court — for a third time — as the company tries to reverse the earlier decision that sided w/the state. #GEO has brought in contract cleaners at the Tacoma facility while the case plays out, keeping detainees there from *paid* work & from having a way to earn commissary money.
#immigration #law #Slavery #forprofit #prison #Trump #HumanRights
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At the 1,575-bed detention center GEO runs for #ICE in Tacoma, Washington, detainees once prepared meals, washed laundry & scrubbed toilets, doing jobs that would otherwise require 85 full-time employees…. The state’s #MinimumWage at the time was $11 an hour. (It’s now $16.66.) In 2017, Washington sued GEO to enforce it, & in Oct 2021 a federal jury ruled unanimously in the state’s favor.
#immigration #law #Slavery #forprofit #prison #GEOGroup #Trump
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The #forprofit #prison company #GEOGroup has surged in value under #Trump. Investors are betting big on #immigration #detention. Its stock price doubled after Election Day.
But despite its soaring fortunes, the $4B company continues to resist having to pay detainees >$1 a day for cleaning facilities where the government has forced them to live.
#law #Slavery
https://www.propublica.org/article/geo-group-ice-detainees-wage -
#Ice #detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a #business. These facilities are privately owned and run #forprofit.
Companies like CoreCivic and GEO Group receive government funding based on the number of people they detain, which is why they lobby for stricter immigration policies. It’s a lucrative business: CoreCivic made over $560mfrom Ice contracts in a single year. In 2024, GEO Group made more than $763m from Ice contracts.https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/canadian-detained-us-immigration-jasmine-mooney
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Update. "#DOGE order leads to journal cancellations by U.S. agricultural library"
https://www.science.org/content/article/doge-order-leads-journal-cancellations-u-s-agricultural-library"The #USDA on Friday told staff members it has canceled subscriptions carried by its National Agricultural Library as part of a drive by President Donald #Trump’s administration to cut federal spending. The move appears to drop nearly 400 of the library’s roughly 2000 journals, including many prominent in various agricultural subfields —but curiously none from the world’s three largest scientific publishers, all of which are #ForProfit. USDA staff members depicted the move as hasty, indiscriminate slashing…Studies of journal subscription fees indicate that on average, scientific #SocietyPublishers charge less than such for-profit companies."
PS: (1) Of course the best ag research should be #OpenAccess. But that's a goal, not the current reality, and while we work for that goal, policymaking agencies still need access the best research. (2) If efficiency requires budget cuts, why focus the cuts on journals from #nonprofit #publishers, which on average are lower in price and higher in quality?
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#Firefighting Fire Sale
After #US #ForestService #layoffs, will #forprofit contractors protect you from #wildfires?
Like many of 3,400 Forest Service abruptly fired by #DOGE, Kloetzel’s permanent job offer last spring had come with a 1 year “probationary” period, with fewer job protections. Since he lives in Forest Service housing, he also lost his housing. Altogether, around quarter of the ranger district’s employees were fired. “It’s a bitter pill to swallow,” he says.
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OpenAI widerspricht Musks Übernahmeangebot und sieht Widerspruch zu laufender Klage
Elon Musks Versuch, OpenAI zu übernehmen, steht nach Ansicht des KI-Unternehmens in direktem Widerspruch zu seiner laufen
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/openai-widerspricht-musks-uebernahmeangebot-und-sieht-widerspruch-zu-laufender-klage/
#KI #News #chatGPT #ElonMusk #forprofit #GemeinntzigeOrganisation #KIRegulierung #KIbernahme #KnstlicheIntelligenz #OpenAI #SamAltman #TechnologieWirtschaft #xAI
