if this shooter winds up being a red-pilled groyper the Kirk newscycle length will be mysteriously cut from two months to two days
Media scholars and academics spent the last 50+ years warning about what happens when you let the media consolidate in the hands of rich assholes. America ignored their warnings every single step of the way: [With Looming CBS Hire Of Bari ...](
Techdirt
With Looming CBS Hire Of Bari Weiss, Two Of The Four Major U.S. Networks Will Now Be Right Wing Propaganda Mills
For fifty years or so, U.S. media academics warned anybody who would listen about the perils of letting your media companies consolidate in the han...
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if an "abundance" person can't acknowledge that grotesque levels of corruption and regulatory capture are THE primary problem in the United States, you should take them about as seriously as machine gun kelly
Weiss is being specifically hired by a right wing billionaire nepobaby to turn CBS into another right-wing friendly propaganda mill. but you genuinely wouldn't know that from reading the U.S. media industry's coverage of itself: [What would a Bari Weiss era at...](
Business Insider
What would a Bari Weiss era at CBS News look like? TV insiders and analysts share their takes.
TV insiders and analysts say a Paramount Skydance deal to acquire Bari Weiss' The Free Press could expand its reach, but carries risks.
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they've created this entire delusional bubble cult and they have no choice but to keep setting cash on fire until it all collapses in a glorious fireball these are men without ideas building a simulacrum of innovation, all propped up by grifters cashing in on the front end of the hype cycle [Tesla Offers Unprecedented $1 ...](
Bloomberg.com
Tesla Offers Elon Musk an Unprecedented $1 Trillion Pay Package
Tesla Inc. proposed a new compensation agreement for Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk potentially worth around $1 trillion, a massive package with...
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this whole video of tech CEOs kissing authoritarian ass is genuinely one of the most pathetic things I've ever seen in my life absolute, feckless fawning by a long list of pudding-brained simps who should never be taken seriously on any subject ever again [Trump hosts top tech CEOs at W...]( )
in case you missed it here's a member of Congress admitting I was right to mock them for normalizing DOGE and trying to bridge with fascists [Who was more right about DOGE?...](
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it is I, "this random Karl" (?) [Fine, We'll Talk About Epstein...]( )
Over at The Verge I wrote about how the Trump administration destroyed U.S. wireless competition, using a disastrous (and now doomed) plan that involved Dish Network as cover: [The Trump administration promi...](
The Verge
The Trump administration promised a fourth wireless carrier β€” America got a hot mess instead
The merger of T-Mobile and Sprint paved a messy road to nowhere. The Dish debacle only made it worse.
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yeah here we go, Elon Musk is now going state by state, whining to Republicans if state leaders try to spend infrastructure bill taxpayer subsidies on fast, affordable fiber instead of his congested, expensive, environmentally problematic satellite broadband service [SpaceX Wants Louisiana’s BEAD ...](
Broadband Breakfast
SpaceX Wants Louisiana’s BEAD Plan Reversed
The satellite broadband provider said the same of Virginia's spending plan.
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