The Trump administration's cybersecurity policies are indistinguishable from a foreign attack. In many ways they're worse, given they're wrapped in layers of phony operational efficiency. [Trump Cybersecurity Policy Is ...](
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Trump Cybersecurity Policy Is Indistinguishable From A Foreign Attack
Last year almost a dozen major U.S. ISPs were the victim of a massive, historic intrusion by Chinese hackers who managed to spy on public U.S. offi...
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never fails RE:
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It's cool that the owner of [DSLReports.com](
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it's curious how our consolidated corporate media and brunchlord pundit class' only consistent solution for Democrats' problems is to be more right wing funny how that works
U.S. journalism and punditry completely ignores the fact that the U.S. electorate belief system --including their belief of what Democrats stand for -- is shaped predominately by a massive right wing propaganda network across AM radio, broadcast TV, cable news, and the internet. [Left-wing ideas have wrecked D...](
Exclusive: Left-wing ideas have wrecked Democrats’ brand, new report warns
The center-left group Welcome relied on polling of hundreds of thousands of voters over six months for its findings, shared first with Semafor.
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It literally took decades of advocacy to pass these reforms, which would have prevented prison phone and teleconferencing companies from ripping off inmates and their families to the tune of hundreds of millions annually [F.C.C. Changes Course on the P...](
F.C.C. Changes Course on the Price of Prisoners’ Phone Calls
Brendan Carr, the F.C.C. chairman, cited security concerns in rolling back most of the lower costs he voted for last year.
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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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