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...]( )
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-...]( )
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...]( )
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 ...]( )
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/ )
Trumpism is continuing some of these antitrust cases against tech giants not because they genuinely care about corporate power or "antitrust reform," but because they're seeking more leverage in bullying these companies into being friendlier to authoritarianism https://porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:xtg6uhgsy2j7k2a6qtcood2w&cid=bafkreia5fptt5a6i6cxxw4c45j3rwjxk5ejmgewphyovmdvfciohccxlhe
suggesting that maybe comedians should stop showing their penises to everyone and using the word retard somehow got twisted into an act of global oppression [Jimmy Kimmel Blames Liberals ‘...]( )
I'm glad to see major outlets discover that Trump 2.0 will completely decimate environmental protections, public safety, corporate oversight, and consumer protection this kind of thing might have proven useful pre-election [Trump and DOGE Are Planning De...]( )
We're making progress, but he's not good at "building cars at rockets either" he's good at opportunistically cozying up to actual engineers then taking singular credit for their accomplishments using money he lucked into at paypal C- try again https://porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:xtg6uhgsy2j7k2a6qtcood2w&cid=bafkreic4hapl4bs3etpj7ppytij3hcswoyifmbkmqhu2mdtxn3qc263p6e