I "enjoy" this disconnect between tech titans claiming that AI will have us all eating pastries and working two days a week and the reality of firing people en masse while simultaneously supporting fascists who oppose universal basic income and are actively destroying the social safety net https://porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:xtg6uhgsy2j7k2a6qtcood2w&cid=bafkreia644yuwx7vozr72x23jnh6zabosylc4bpyd4pra47eivh52p6nqq https://porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:xtg6uhgsy2j7k2a6qtcood2w&cid=bafkreifmyokgcjmh6wh4xawwgsu3lipddhzogawabcsywtu3upbat7ts5q
very exciting [Bari Weiss Gets To Work β€˜Fixin...](
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Bari Weiss Gets To Work ‘Fixing’ CBS ‘Bias’ — By Making It More Biased
For more than fifty years the U.S. right wing has embraced a neat trick: by claiming that literally anything in factual opposition to their beliefs...
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Musk exploited the AWS outage to unfairly slam Signal and promote his own, shittier alternative and of course the badly automated clickbait aggregation machine that is modern "journalism" got right to work helping him seed doubt about a popular encrypted communications app https://porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:xtg6uhgsy2j7k2a6qtcood2w&cid=bafkreic6sux3tct7x6bvde4hlndha4q6onygq7czbelgdyckxhaxukbanm
The FCC is weakening rules making it easier for broadband monopolies to rip you off with bogus fees. which is definitely something Trump's base was asking for! [Trump FCC Is Making It Easier ...](
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Trump FCC Is Making It Easier For Your Broadband ISP To Rip You Off With Bogus Fees
When FCC boss Brendan Carr isn’t failing embarrassingly to censor comedians who make the President sad, he’s taking a hatchet to corpor...
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twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross https://porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:xtg6uhgsy2j7k2a6qtcood2w&cid=bafkreihuidrm32va5ruoqlzgsusyflj7x4rr3retgoitopc2hgrfnpeqfq
The U.S. press isn't capable of admitting this clearly, but Bari Weiss was hired to turn CBS into a right wing propaganda machine and troll operation [Paramount Formally Hires Bari ...](
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Paramount Formally Hires Bari Weiss To Turn What’s Left Of CBS News Into A Soggy Right Wing Propaganda And Troll Farm
It’s super curious how the folks most vocal about being cancelled or having their “Conservative viewpoints silenced” now own or c...
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bluesky desperately needs a competent comms team having random devs fling off the cuff retorts at pissed off trans folk ain't it
start telling your friends and family now that CBS is no longer reliable, because I'm still explaining how Newsweek was hollowed out by Republican ghouls and that deal was like a decade ago
ABC's doomed capitulation on Jimmy Kimmel was because they want the Trump administration to destroy this country's last remaining restrictions on harmful media consolidation: [ABC/Disney Gets Rewarded For K...](
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ABC/Disney Gets Rewarded For Kissing Trump’s Ass: FCC Moves To Eliminate Any Remaining Media Consolidation Limits
ABC and Disney’s attempt to please our dim idiot king by banning a critical comedian didn’t go all that well. The company managed to lo...
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Superior, Wisconsin is the latest city to build its own affordable open access fiber broadband network, thanks heavily to broadband grants included in the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) [City of Superior brings a broa...](https://www.wpr.org/news/superior-broadband-success-connectsuperior-northern-wisconsin )