this pretty much guarantees months and months of performative bullshit by Trump and Ellison and right wing media about how Netflix ownership would be a woke antitrust nightmare, but letting Larry and his nepobaby son dominate U.S. media would be a delightful, populist spritzer It’s a Bidding War: Paramount ...

yeah I'd like this all to accelerate a crowdfunded media revolution, which is already kind of happening

these are all terrible options, and if we lived in a functioning democracy with working regulators we'd think nothing of putting a blanket end to pointless media consolidation these deals are always terrible for product quality, consumers, art and labor, but this is always downplayed in coverage. Paramount throws in more cash ...

DOGE was always a very thinly disguised con to dress up data theft and extraction class destruction of federal corporate oversight as innovative, and it's important to remember that part of the reason it worked so well is that the press helped legitimize it View quoted note →

hey don't be so hard on yourselves; it delivered oceans of sensitive government and citizen data to billionaires Musk’s DOGE Quietly Killed Off...

Republican policies are literally and genuinely killing people en masse, yet that's somehow not really emphasized in literally ANY of the local or national mainstream news I see

Musk's "time away from politics" involved having Republicans completely revamp the 2021 infrastructure bill so that a huge swath of the $42.5 billion in taxpayer broadband grants are funneled to his company (and away from better options) in exchange for satellite service he already planned to offer https://porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:xtg6uhgsy2j7k2a6qtcood2w&cid=bafkreidyjfahqb7mqpbopayolbgeud37ij6y6yzknebwgzwxme4diii43e

I'm sorry, I have to step down from my role propping up a massive hype cycle based on fraudulent financial claims and broad product misrepresentation, because my correspondence with a pedophile sex trafficker revealed that I'm an immoral misogynist Larry Summers resigns from Ope...

I like how these guys get to have it both ways they get to inflate the bubble via broad product misrepresentation and bogus math then dole out sage warnings about a looming problem they created as if they played no role in it Google boss says trillion-doll...

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 ...