I gotta make a list of all the movies about wires

Not mentioned—the fact that the Supreme Court of Canada has *TWICE* ruled that lawful access is unconstitutional. Kind of an important point to make. cc @privacylawyer.ca

See you all tomorrow @podcamptoronto.bsky.social for our podcasting panel at 3pm hosted by the amazing Sarah Burke!! #podcasts #podcamp #warriorlifepodcast #warriorkidspodcast

Blunder and bluster from the Trump regime and Hegseth's so-called Department of War. Rule of law? Fuck it, it's optional when unbridled power seeks to clear the field of obstacles to its megalomaniac ambitions.

Wouldn't it be interesting if all the complicity between Ellison and Trump, and a compliant US DoJ and FCC, fail to carry the day because Ellison the Elder Patriarch didn't have the $ to fulfil the family's commitments. Who knew the cost of being a quisling was so high? 😀😆

I think on the table has to be, at minimum, that none are eligible for govt contracts without a change in controlling personnel. Who should probably all be in jail for corruption anyway.

Wow. And sure, like Altman says, the world's a complicated, dangerous and messy place. But this looks like OpenAI capitulated to the Trump regime, and now seeks to make its quisling like behaviour that of the AI industry as a whole. Lord help us.

Anthropic's statement is brave and principled, regardless of our general views of the company. www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...

. @matthewstoller.bsky.social account raises the alarm: "the Trump administration likely put political pressure on Netflix . . . . Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos visit[ed] the White House yesterday.[then announced it] would stop trying to acquire Warner. www.thebignewsletter.com/p/can-the-pa...

Paramount bid to acquire Warner Brothers Discovery is going ahead after Netflix withdraws its offer. A few thoughts from yours truly, and drawing on the GMICP to make the case. bsky.app/profile/medi...

Paramount's take over of Warner Bros. Discovery is bad news for several reasons. It runs roughshod over the DOJ/FTC Merger Guidelines with respect to streaming, film and pay tv markets (reposting because of a broken link). 1/ www.bbc.com/news/article...

Paramount's take over of Warner Bros. Discovery is bad news for several reasons. It runs roughshod over the DOJ/FTC Merger Guidelines with respect to streaming, film and pay tv markets. 1/ www.bbc.com/news/article...

Paramount's take over of Warner Bros. Discovery is bad news for several reasons. It runs roughshod over the DOJ/FTC Merger Guidelines with respect to streaming, film and pay tv markets. 1/ www.bbc.com/news/article...

Paramount's take over of Warner Bros. Discovery is bad news for several reasons. It runs roughshod over the DOJ/FTC Merger Guidelines with respect to streaming, film and pay tv markets. 1/

Post-merger Paramount-WBD's share of the $223B US tv, streaming & film industries will ↑ from ~10% to > 1/4. It will control ~1/2 of the cable tv market. The merger would nearly double Paramount’s share of the video streaming market, uniting HBO Max, Paramount+ and Discovery. 2/

Paramount controlling CBS and CNN should be unthinkable, especially given how it turned the Tiffany Network into a trash heap. The Ellisons have promised to make "sweeping changes" to CNN. We know what the means: firing journalists, spiking stories, and replacing the news with empty propaganda.

Now this is an interesting development.

Fingers crossed.

NEW: Minnesota's top federal judge is threatening to hold Trump administration officials in criminal contempt if they continue defying court orders in immigration cases. "One way or another, ICE will comply." www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Paramount bid to acquire Warner Brothers Discovery is going ahead after Netflix withdraws its offer. A few thoughts from yours truly, and drawing on the GMICP to make the case. bsky.app/profile/medi...

Paramount's take over of Warner Bros. Discovery is bad news for several reasons. It runs roughshod over the DOJ/FTC Merger Guidelines with respect to streaming, film and pay tv markets. 1/

The depravity of the Trump Administration crystallized in this unbelievable chain of cruelty.

An aggressive mutual admiration society forming b/w Trump regime loyalists inside the administration (eg FCC chairman Carr) & those who curry and gain its favour (the Ellison family, big tech oligarchs, Fox News, Nexstar/NewsNation, etc.), with billions in benefits for their fealty. Gross, indeed!

Read with Caution: Canadian Association of Broadcaster’s New Broadcasting in Canada 2025 Report Engages in Familiar Pattern of Threat Inflation. dwmw.wordpress.com/2026/02/25/r...

Good morning. I fired up the long dormant blog to write a new post. Read with Caution: Canadian Association of Broadcaster’s New Broadcasting in Canada 2025 Report Engages in Familiar Pattern of Threat Inflation. dwmw.wordpress.com/2026/02/25/r...

Good morning. I fired up the long dormant blog to write a new post. Read with Caution: Canadian Association of Broadcaster’s New Broadcasting in Canada 2025 Report Engages in Familiar Pattern of Threat Inflation. dwmw.wordpress.com/2026/02/25/r...

Let me add a bit to what @jeffsharlet.bsky.social says: US newspaper revenue fell steadily & sharply from 2004 til ~2020, as our research on the US media shows, but seems to have found a bottom in the last 5 years. The decline in f/t journalists followed in lockstep. 1/ gmicp.org/dashboard/

Wanted to see if there was a thread reader /unroll for bluesky, and of course there was. To read this long thread in "article" form:

Interesting findings on what happens when the people who own the data centers also own the news outlets.

Trump's weaponization of antitrust oversight is one sure way of wrecking it as a very useful legal and policy tool for countering the consolidation of media, wealth and power. In other words, in the hands of the Trump regime, weaponized antitrust is a tool for consolidating autocracy and oligarchy.

lol what: www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

Let me add a bit to what @jeffsharlet.bsky.social says: US newspaper revenue fell steadily & sharply from 2004 til ~2020, as our research on the US media shows, but seems to have found a bottom in the last 5 years. The decline in f/t journalists followed in lockstep. 1/ gmicp.org/dashboard/

Only those with "right speech" can be Americans in Trump's dystopian USA.

Sounds very interesting. Subscription $ outpace advertising $ by 3-4:1 in US and Canada, for example, but get a fraction of the attention. gmicp.org/canadas-netw...

It took a lot of serious scholarship to bring back antitrust with both articulate philosophical principles and teeth. Trumpism is going to kill it all in a heartbeat while delivering a victory to those who have hated the antimonopoly tradition all along.

Land of the unfree, home of the depraved.

Great to see @sulliview.bsky.social calling on @victorpickard.bsky.social and @parkermolloy.com for the crisis sweeping US media as corporate owners aligned with Trump sell out media independence & core 1st Amendment values to further their own interests.

Sorry, but this isn't going to cut. Time for the @mark-carney.bsky.social government to get serious about tech regulation.

Despite generating abusive sexualized images of women & children, the Trump regime deploy's Elon Musk's Grok for nutrition device. It debuts by telling users to stick carrots up their ass. You can't make this stuff up. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

This is the best kind of scholarship, that is, public scholarship. 👇👇👇

Trump gaming the rule of law in the context of an already badly stilted playing field tells you everything you need to know.

This is precisely what we needed: a strong statement from CA AG Rob Bonta on all proposed Warner Bros. mergers, whether Netflix or Paramount. Because Paramount is trying to speedrun the merger process, this advance warning is, well, paramount. oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...

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👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics. "It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Meanwhile a word from the only organized institutional opposition in the US

It’s so appalling to see the media regulatory apparatus weaponized like this. The FCC's one job, per the act of Congress that established the agency, is to manage public communications infrastructure in the public interest.

Chairman Trump calls for patriotic broadcasters to serve the people with unwavering fervor and commitment.

Chairman Trump calls for patriotic broadcasters to serve the people with unwavering fervor and commitment.

These have always been the terms of the conservative elites' bargain with Trump. Do all the fascism you want, but do NOT fuck with the money.