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-...](
The Verge
Brendan Carr’s FCC is an anti-consumer, rights-trampling harassment machine
The White House’s personal censor.
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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...](
The Daily Beast
RFK Jr. Stunned His Autism Speech Led to ‘Tsunami of Anger’ Against Him
The health secretary had claimed that people with autism will never play baseball, go out on dates, pay taxes, write poems, or hold down a job.
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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 ...](
The Verge
Google is in more danger than ever of being broken up
It’s facing a two-front war against its dominance.
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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 ‘...](
The Daily Beast
Jimmy Kimmel Blames Liberals ‘Viciously Attacking Comedians’ for Trump’s Win
The late-night host says that much of the outrage people have is “completely manufactured.”
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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...](
Inside Trump’s Plan to Halt Hundreds of Regulations
The White House will soon move to rapidly repeal or freeze rules that affect health, food, workplace safety, transportation and more.
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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
hey what if we built a massive new database of everyone's conversations and online activities in the age of unregulated data brokers in a country too corrupt to pass a privacy law [That groan you hear is users’ ...](
Ars Technica
That groan you hear is users’ reaction to Recall going back into Windows
Snapshotting and AI processing a screen every 3 seconds. What could possibly go wrong?
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