Karl Bode

ask lando and the bespin folks how that works out

I know!

Brendan Carr is a simpish, opportunistic hack with zero credibility who does absolutely nothing in good faith, and this is broadly agreed upon by a long list of past Republican and Democrat officials

news outlets could report this with ample supporting evidence, but instead they play make believe

Musk’s America Party can’t get off the ground and was just to ‘blow off steam’ about Trump’s bill Despite claiming he would form a new rival party after Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill passed, no official filings have been made

There was a three week news cycle dedicated to this complete vaporware

America’s Right-Wing Propaganda Problem Might Be Terminal - Dame Magazine America’s descent into mass delusion isn’t happenstance. The demise of courageous journalism isn’t a happy accident. Its replacement with engagement-chasing infotainment and propaganda isn’t an error....

It's nice being a U.S. Republican (or a corporation) because you can wage outright information war on education, informed consensus, and journalism and the vast majority of U.S. media will just dutifully pretend that it's not happening

FCC Chair Launches Inquiry Into NBCU Over Treatment Of Local Affiliates Brendan Carr wants to look at network affiliation agreements.

the Republican goal here is to drive more money and power to right wing propaganda companies pretending to be local news broadcasters (like Sinclair broadcasting) but as usual a reader would have absolutely no idea of this reading U.S. journalism coverage of it

there's also compelling data that these disposable Elon Musk satellites constantly burning up in orbit could erode the progress we made fixing the ozone layer, so that's nice

it's an ocean of brands and over-confident reply guys

Just look at this chyron

and so much of the ad market is still based on outright lies about engagement

even those local furniture store mavens are more interesting

the man is a void

absolutely

A millennial who believes courts have no authority over the president of the united states is now a CCA judge for life because Nevada's two Democratic senators decided they don't think Muslims should be appeals court judges

especially not from this particular company

the privacy impact of this stuff is going to be monstrous, and like three people in the entirety of the federal government care

absolutely

Meta is just completely incapable of innovation, their leader is a charmless authoritarian simp, and there's no amount of money will ever make the company interesting or dominant in fields beyond flinging shitty ads at scale at lazy dullards (and even that party will be disrupted and come to an end)

fiduciary duty to very short term gains for a very specific range of already very rich people, the long-term actual health of the brand or company doesn't entire into it

correct!

I will really really enjoy watching zuckerberg's badly automated empire of dogshit inevitably collapse

hush hush gather round

a long line of people would have helped CBS fight the President, on principle, for free, so yes, you could afford to be in continual litigation with the President

this was about bribing a mad king to sign off on another shitty merger so she could get her exit cash

CEO said a thing!

Shameful credulousness to feature this and treat it as serious. Actively anti-consumer to report on it in this manner, to promote it, and to treat it as real. The tech media should take up arms against this

the brunchlord drove a media empire into the ground and bribed the president, now she wants a cookie

so brave!

jealous!

oh I forget to mention that since Republicans have utterly destroyed federal corporate oversight and consumer protection at the FCC and FTC, when Starlink inevitably uses this taxpayer money to rip off users with slow, shitty, expensive access, consumers will have little to no recourse! 🗽

sigh, keep pushing their CEO to come to Seattle

It's the obvious way forward. Lots of great builds happening thanks to ARPA money, which somehow gets zero attention