Some of us are old enough to remember when Reddit cared about the open web and recognized the DMCA shouldn’t be used as a hack around fair use. x.com/lehogg/statu...

it’s a terrible argument that people have been making for years and, policy aside, the piece is full of factual mistakes (and legal ones)

Public Knowledge is pleased to announce the promotion of @natpurser.bsky.social, formerly a Government Affairs Policy Advocate, to Senior Policy Advocate for her work championing consumers on Capitol Hill. Congrats, Nat! 🎉 publicknowledge.org/public-knowl...

this argument for staying on twitter from @jerusalem.bsky.social is spot on. unlike targeted, coordinated boycotts, the primary effect of deplatforming yourself on twitter is ceding ground to right wingers and others who are happy to shape the political narrative without you.

I am thrilled to see that competitive app markets are still a priority in Congress. Many thanks to Reps. Cammack and Trahan for leading the charge in the House on this with the App Store Freedom Act. You can read information on the bill, along with my quote here: trahan.house.gov/news/documen...

Last year, the FCC said it would eventually update its definition of "broadband" to require service providers offer Gig-speed Internet. Now, under a new administration, the FCC is poised to reverse course, saying current speeds are, you know, just fine.

This decision marks a missed opportunity to respect Tribal sovereignty over their spectrum resources — and comes at the cost of the much-needed spectrum Tribes could use to provide broadband access to their communities. Read our statement from Gov Affairs Policy Advocate @natpurser.bsky.social:

NEW from me and @jessicadine.bsky.social in @lightreading.bsky.social — the federal government is investing $42B to connect every American. but at the same time, Congress is preparing to auction the spectrum the new networks rely on. that contradiction could undermine the entire BEAD program. 🧵

Among the many problems with the GOP’s Big Broken Bill: its sole AI safety provision doesn’t regulate AI — it prevents states from doing so. Congress creates a void, then blocks anyone from filling it.

🚨 Today, the US Department of Commerce announced that it is reallocating the $42 billion in funds for the BEAD program in a way that steers communities away from fiber internet & towards slower, costlier tech like LEO satellite service – threatening reliable, affordable broadband for all Americans.

100%. Messaging needs to be clear and forceful. This is bad and it will not help workers.

I wrote about Ezra Klein's "abundance" and how when it came to his examples in broadband, he had no idea what he was actually talking about:

Here's a level-headed look at the consequences of giving half or more of the $42.5 billion Congress authorized for broadband to satellite. @natpurser.bsky.social lays out the stakes for ensuring universal robust connectivity if the Administration changes course. publicknowledge.org/slowing-bead...

The $42B Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program is at a crossroads. States spent years crafting their broadband plans, but new proposals from the Commerce Department could rewrite the rules — and redirect billions from fiber networks to LEO services like Starlink. 🧵

🚨 Big SCOOP 🚨 Tax revenue could fall by as much as **10%** this year, per sources, as taxpayers and businesses see the Trump admin as less likely to challenge tax cheats. That'd be **$500 BILLION** in lost revenue. It'd nearly double the tax gap in a single year.

i’ll be honest, i think equating land use reform with neoliberal deregulation and building code reform with tenements is a clear indication that the anti-YIMBYs are not particularly interested in solving the problem of high housing costs

i would like to thank Mr Miyazaki for keeping the healthy / productive Sub vs Dub discourse active all these years

Hello! I wrote about the government's efforts to address discrimination in broadband deployment for The Verge. Activists are thrilled the government has finally formally acknowledged the problem, but remain skeptical the FCC will ever take consistent action:

Digital redlining is a defining feature of broadband service. Monopoly internet service providers cherry-pick who they will serve, leaving low-income communities of color out of the picture.

Just look at this incredible #superstar lineup on “Antitrust, Regulation and the Next World Order” in Brussels on 31 January 2024. All welcome, free to all, a public good. Register here: www.bruxconference2024.com

New: WH competition policy staffer Hannah Garden-Monheit heading to the FTC in December to take on a similar role subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2023...

tbh there are major perks to prosecuting guys who think they’re the smartest person in the room

the economy is far from perfect but you can’t really square “the economy is shit” with “even waffle house workers feel confident enough to strike and demand higher wages” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...

yeah

How 100,000 Apartments in New York City Disappeared www.nytimes.com/2023/10/19/n...

What speaks to GOP dysfunction most clearly is that there's no gaggle of opportunists who are agreeing to vote for Jeffries in exchange for basically anything they could think to ask for from the Dems. The adverse incentives are too strong. They can't even be properly cynical anymore.

one crucial development in the ideology of anti-abortion politics is the widespread belief that pregnancy runs essentially on autopilot and no serious medical attention is ever required. allows anti-abortion zealots to ignore the fact that their policies produce maternity care deserts

they did what they were told and were killed anyway.

My heart has really been broken by how many people on the left have celebrated or minimized the murder of over 1000 Jewish people. Naomi Klein does a beautiful job of explaining how unwise and unkind it is to celebrate Jewish death. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

i think my crankiest “i am approaching middle age” opinion these days is that IP shared universe franchises have not just been bad for the movies but bad for audiences to, in that they have basically trained them to treat story and character as secondary to LORE and EASTER EGGS

So, a problem I've been having: whenever I write about inflation I get angry mail to the effect that real people don't care about fancy economists' measures of underlying inflation, they care about the prices they pay, which are soaring. Two problems 1/

The only solution to this is construction at scale: market rate, subsidized and public. And here’s the thing, if you can jump start this process you can create a virtuous cycle in which the growing supply of home builders becomes a labor supply for public housing authorities as well.

the Biden admin has been ironing out kinks in the IDR system, going to knock out 804,000 people's student debt worth $39 billion

[Unable to see anyone's Circle tweets because nobody likes me] Oh wow. Elon wasted no time deleting the Circles feature.

In 1998, I stayed online for over 20 hours straight and got a warning email from my ISP

I’m on the Ezra Klein Show! I had a fantastic time talking with Ezra about how decarbonization is going, whether Biden’s flagship climate law is working, and more: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/07/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-robinson-meyer.html

This month’s planned Suns Cinema watches 🎥 They Live (John Carpenter) If …. (Lindsay Anderson)

Here's me and the great @ibogost.bsky.social yappin about THREADS and the fate of social media https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/07/meta-threads-social-media-platform-death-rebirth/674638/

Still noisy on the monthly - openings down, quits up in May - the trend across 2023 is clear. We've seen a decrease in both quits and job openings without any increase in unemployment - something that was a ??? in 2022 - consistent with the availability of a soft landing to bring down inflation. 📉📈

I have to be clear - there is only one feed, you can’t change it in any way, it shows you this:

I like it here and I don’t think a mega corp Twitter clone can kill spaces like these. There is a high level of original thought and engagement, people care about each other and maintain a strong space minimizing bad faith, harassment, and disinfo, which lets people be themselves & build community

Anyone who goes on Threads is a scab

lmfao

i’ve made this point in a column but these laws are basically designed to facilitate the heckler’s veto and empower the most bigoted and reactionary parents at the expense of the teachers and students

New: I wrote about ambitious news research on homelessness — a representative study in California, where 30 percent of the nation’s homeless live https://www.vox.com/2023/7/5/23778810/homelessness-california-unsheltered-research

the “middle out / bottom up” thing is one of the Biden admin’s pet slogans and i don’t think a single voter really knows what it means lol

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