*raises hand* a consolidated corporate media dominated by affluent brunchlords wants to supplant real journalism that challenges wealth and power with hollow, pseudo-journalistic infotainment that better serves and reflects the right wing, corporatist views of ownership RE:
Bluesky Social
Adam Gurri (@adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com)
What is the point of this guy, what a completely useless person to have the audience he does in our moment https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/jake...
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The U.S. broadband digital divide got measurably worse last year, thanks in part to Republicans killing a popular federal program that gave low-income Americans a $30 discount off of their monthly broadband bill: [The Broadband Divide Worsened ...](
CNET
The Broadband Divide Worsened in 32 States in 2024, Ookla Reports
New data shows internet performance gaps are growing between urban and rural areas despite improved broadband speeds.
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this was Verizon's reward for buckling under Trump's demands that they be more racist, and sitting on their hands while Elon Musk steals their $2 billion FAA contract [Verizon wins FCC approval for ...](
Los Angeles Times
Verizon wins FCC approval for $9.6-billion Frontier acquisition
The FCC approval paves the way for the biggest U.S. phone company to expand its high-speed internet business.
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whoops you helped fund the election of an incoherent fascist operating at a third grade reading level [Industry groups are not happy ...](
Ars Technica
Industry groups are not happy about the imminent demise of Energy Star
The program has saved consumers billions of dollars since its inception.
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love 2 wake up every day and write about how ignorant assclowns are making life shittier for people who repeatedly cheer against their own best interests [Trump Declares High-Speed Inte...](
Trump Declares High-Speed Internet Program ‘Racist’ and ‘Unconstitutional’
President Trump denounced the Biden-era Digital Equity Act as “woke handouts based on race,” raging in a social media post against a broad effo...
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I was JUST saying to myself, "self, I'd love to watch a c-tier fashy-apologist comedian playing a caricature of an even dumber person interview a charisma-less damp walnut going through a very public midlife crisis" https://porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:xtg6uhgsy2j7k2a6qtcood2w&cid=bafkreihljly5sf33heooq7ejnk3d4lnmbea23roqffaxd3qzvanuzkkwwe
Over at The Verge I wrote about how Brendan Carr has transformed our top media and telecom regulator into a dangerous, incoherent, grievance-fueled censorship and harassment machine: [Brendan Carr’s FCC is an anti-...](
The Verge
Brendan Carr’s FCC is an anti-consumer, rights-trampling harassment machine
The White House’s personal censor.
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this knob has been picking fights and talking out of his ass on autism since the thimerosal conspiracy theories of the early aughts the idea such a viciously ugly distortion wasn't intentional jumbo assholery is laughable [RFK Jr. Stunned His Autism Spe...](
The Daily Beast
RFK Jr. Stunned His Autism Speech Led to ‘Tsunami of Anger’ Against Him
The health secretary had claimed that people with autism will never play baseball, go out on dates, pay taxes, write poems, or hold down a job.
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people are going to get excited that the Trump administration has perpetuated the cases against big tech, but when we get to the remedy phase it's going to be solutions like "be more racist" and "give right wing propagandists search result priority" [Google is in more danger than ...](
The Verge
Google is in more danger than ever of being broken up
It’s facing a two-front war against its dominance.
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It never gets brought up as useful context in these stories, but Zuckerberg was caught using PR and lobbying firms to seed DC and the press with TikTok moral panics for years [Zuckerberg underscores TikTok ...](https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5252373-zuckerberg-underscores-tiktok-competition-as-meta-fights-monopoly-allegations/ )