starfisher.bsky.social
Marxian slack-key guitarist. Betty Crocker Homemaker Of Tomorrow Award winner. Holder of liberal arts and tech degrees. Parent of neurodiverse offspring.
There is no thought without emotion and no emotion without thought.
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How else will Trump know who to invite to dinner?
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He’s never more than a purse string away.
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It’s horrifying to contemplate the devastation this tech will wreak when used for pre-crime surveillance.
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It hasn’t happened in the past when republican tax cuts have blasted through the debt ceiling, but coupled with the rest of the lunacy, maybe it’ll stick this time.
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For some reason I flashed on George W. advising me to keep shopping after 9/11.
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If you substitute “News Corp X” for “Verizon” and “TV Broadcast spectrum” for “5G” you get an analogous consolidation.
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As a practical matter, I don’t find it particularly useful to treat these separately. And I’d add geography into the mix.
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If only people could be locked in a pressurized box 24/7 with him for months on end, they would learn to love him.
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How is renting a scarce public resource (a slice of the spectrum) to promulgate a partisan political agenda at the expense of others controversial?
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This is not a hypothetical concern. It’s a world the anti-net neutrality folks want to create.
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To be honest, I have come to the conclusion that, as a practical matter, democracy doesn’t scale all that well. As it grows, it becomes more disposed to regulatory capture. It’s not a conclusion I celebrate.
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By refusing to allow content providers with opposing viewpoints from using the spectrum. I could explain how such things work technically, but not in the confines of social media. As a rough example, how does a DNS (Domain Name Service) provider provide content filtering services?
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Most content these days is transmitted over both wires and airwaves.
The original posts about amendments were kinda wild. A non-starter, for multiple reasons.
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That said, the list of amendments from the OP is a non-starter for multiple reasons.
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Do you think it would be controversial for, say, Verizon Corp to leverage its leased control of 5G spectrum to moderate political content carried over that spectrum so as to favor legislation that serves the political interests of the members of the BOD?
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Got it.
No, I’m saying it’s not crazy to suggest that buying a slice of the electromagnetic spectrum (a public good) and using it to personal, partisan political ends is controversial.
Also, “the internet” is a comm protocol that is currently implemented over both wires and airwaves.
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And nuclear bombs radiate sunshine units.
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I know that. Cable and the internet are “broadband.” You used “broadcast.” Private use of a public good to manipulate public opinion for partisan political ends is “controversial.”
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The electromagnetic spectrum is a public good. There is no private ownership. There was a fairness doctrine in place until Reagan gutted it. The idea that sole commercial use of a public good carries a civic responsibility requirement is not controversial.
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That part.
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Yup.
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That clip has an uncanny valley AI feel to it.
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Did anyone ask her if she is suggesting institutions should change their research goals regularly to realign with successive administration priorities?
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Yes, and go after the actual sources of large scale fraud.
www.politifact.com/factchecks/2...
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No eye pain, no gain
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📌
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He doesn’t know how to do or be anything other than a mob boss.
It’s his personal version of “it’s not the destination, it’s the journey.”
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📌
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Kudos for a concise list of things that have never been true about capitalism.
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So many layers …
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youtube.com/watch?v=ykMz...
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“History may not repeat itself, but it often rhymes”
-attributed to Mark Twain
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“Noem family dog saved from execution by 11th hour Trump pardon”
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When I’m feeling snarky, I ask for an MPA (Merely Pale Ale).
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No, because they are citizens of South Africa, most likely because they were born there. Unless they become naturalized U.S. citizens which would make them white Americans.
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*audible gasps
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I viddied that cine with some droogs.