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Great writeup of the budget bill

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SCOOP: Ashley St Clair sues Elon Musk for custody of new son. Musk is pictured with his latest baby in a lawsuit filed by St Clair, seeking sole custody and paternity. www.usermag.co/p/scoop-ashl...

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Scoop: Three former FCC chairs are speaking out against Brendan Carr's crusade against media companies. In a text message to me, Carr responded, writing, “Lol. Just three?” Then he sent a GIF. And then a lengthy tirade. All the details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/brendan-ca...

submitted 10 days ago • 23 comments

Free speech absolutist

submitted 12 days ago • 37 comments

In advance of SpaceX/Elon engineers causing more airliner catastrophes here's a remind that American commercial aviation has had a near perfect safety record going back 23 years. Totally unprecedented in aviation history. Here's a graphic that gives the overview.

submitted 11 days ago • 67 comments

well it has certainly been an amusing prank to let the worst people alive take over the american government for a few weeks, but I think it's probably gone on long enough

submitted 16 days ago • 104 comments

BREAKING: The US government’s primary foreign aid organization is losing the vast majority of its staff, forcing the agency's lifesaving work to screech to a halt.

submitted 22 days ago • 56 comments

Happy 3rd anniversary to the cherry tomato that rolled under my refrigerator.

submitted 31 days ago • 243 comments

Finally some good news

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Exactly this. The entire dance was done specifically to benefit Trump and make sure everyone knows that it's he who "saved" TikTok. It's a very successful PR stunt for Trump.

submitted 40 days ago • 31 comments

@reckless.bsky.social help! The Verge comments have been broken for my account ever since I became a subscriber :( I have reached out to support twice, but have not heard back. ✌️❤️

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

(learning my neighbor clark is actually superman) so when you said you couldn’t help me move,

submitted 43 days ago • 25 comments

It's gonna turn out that these companies could've saved billions if they'd listened to the average online poster instead of going all in on the AI mass psychosis

submitted 48 days ago • 221 comments

googled this because I assumed I was being had but: oh my god, oh no, who thought this was a good idea, fucking hell

submitted 50 days ago • 12 comments

PolicyTracker journalists couldn't agree on the biggest spectrum policy story of 2024 so they nominated 5 stories and invited the public to vote on them - www.linkedin.com/posts/richar...

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jesus christ this guys needs genuine help

submitted 57 days ago • 677 comments

Man Says ‘Fuck It,’ Eats Lunch At 10:58 A.M. theonion.com/man-says-fuc...

submitted 72 days ago • 294 comments

Steven Bartlett is a moron and a disinformation peddler. He brought on an anti-vaxer referring to them as a brave truth-teller similar to Gandhi and Martin Luther King. I know Vodafone was paying him to be a brand ambassador at one point. I wonder if they still are... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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New from me: SpaceX's Starlink has now launched a total of 349 satellites with direct-to-device (D2D) capabilities In less than a year, far outpacing its competitors. www.policytracker.com/starlink-get...

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Doing more than occasional AI-powered reporting demands scalable mechanisms for obtaining data to analyse. That’s why editorial data engineering has become a major strand of our work in the FT‘s AI team, as my colleagues @lizlohn.bsky.social and Katie Koschland describe: medium.com/ft-product-t...

submitted 81 days ago • 5 comments

I wouldn't even know where to start with explaining this to my parents, that's how utterly stupid modern life is

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New UK data from Ofcom: 5G now carries more than a fifth (21%) of all monthly mobile data traffic in the UK, but 4G remains the most used technology, carrying 78% of all monthly mobile data traffic. Also, 50% of mobile handsets are now 5G capable.

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Our new figures on the UK's broadband and mobile coverage are out. They reveal: 🛜 More than 20 million homes can now get full-fibre broadband. ⚡Average max download speeds now 223 Mbit/s. 📱5G coverage rises, but most mobile traffic still on 4G. Read for more: www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-and-b...

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professional political commentator thinks the fact that she cited something chatgpt made up (the woodrow wilson thing) as true is 😂 😂 😂

submitted 87 days ago • 32 comments

"The year-on-year growth in mobile traffic in Spain at the end of June 2024 was 8.35%, and this has been, by far, the lowest figure we have in our record for Spain..." Interestingly this piece suggests that the business model of MNOs, which involve charging more for more data, is threatened.

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

6 hours under martial law: a drunk scene report from Seoul www.theverge.com/24312920/mar...

submitted 87 days ago • 264 comments

@richardldn.bsky.social produces "Spectrum Policy" podcasts for PolicyTracker. 21 episodes are listed on this page: pod.link/policytracker/ e.g. "Why Europe should embrace dynamic spectrum access" (29 August 2024); "Why some regulators are ditching cash-based spectrum auctions" (29 July 2024); etc.

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

Lee Jae-myung, Leader of South Korea's Democratic Party, live-streamed himself scaling the walls of the National Assembly to bypass military barricades so that he could vote to overturn the President's martial law.

submitted 87 days ago • 937 comments

"[...] I noticed the iPhone 7 Plus doesn’t have 5G network support. At no point was this a problem. Indeed, there is no discernible difference between 4G and 5G network performance in everyday use." billbennett.co.nz/living-with-...

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

I have the utmost faith that enron 2.0 will solve the energy crisis using crypto

submitted 88 days ago • 15 comments

Great nuanced piece on the conflict from a left wing Israeli perspective. www.972mag.com/jewish-fears...

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

Maybe because middle class women of a certain age are in a position to call out this shit without fear of losing a salary they need. And can do it on behalf of young women starting out in their careers who are just as sick of this shit but can’t say anything because they need to earn a living.

submitted 89 days ago • 64 comments