okay now that you all have gotten a taste of America's rational and predictable new trade policy, everyone who wants to build your new factories here just form an orderly line

NEW 🧵 A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far: 1) US consumers are reacting very very negatively. These are the worst ratings for any US government’s economic policy since records began.

New Study Finds Human Beings Were Never Meant To Wake Up From Sleep theonion.com/new-stu...

fuck this is a perfect way to start a story

this might be the funniest message you could have leaked due to poor OPSEC

Can’t imagine the amount of front lobe damage it would take to get a normal person to seriously sit there and chide others about “free speech” while their boss threatens to criminally prosecute journalists in his own country.

Telekom-Chef Tim Höttges said at #MWC2025 that Europe should have a #DOGE department to get rid of regulators! He wants 3 pan-European mobile networks, so consumer prices can increase. Demands an end to #netneutrality. Wants payment from CAPs. #polisky #eusky #econsky #draghi #fairshare

Great writeup of the budget bill

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...

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...

Free speech absolutist

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.

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

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.

We've just published a new story that names six young men who've been aiding Elon Musk—all aged between 19 and 24. wrd.cm/40W0hd3

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

Finally some good news

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.

@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. ✌️❤️

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

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

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...

jesus christ this guys needs genuine help

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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.

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...

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

"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.

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

@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.

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.

"[...] 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-...

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

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

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.

ICYMI we just published our latest podcast. It's a conversation between William Webb and me about his book on 6G. We chat about what 6G will be, and what spectrum it might need (he says it doesn't need any new bands). Listen for free anywhere you get your podcasts. pod.link/policytracke...

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Woke sandwich filling 😭

Where are all those fuckers insisting that they had to vote for Trump because "he supports free speech, while Kamala supports censorship"?

The United States has oligarchs now. Not merely rich people with more personal influence on politics than poorer people have, but a few extremely rich people closely connected to the national leader who act in government-like roles despite never being elected or nominated to any official position.

Free speech advocate Donald Trump threatening news outlets with frivolous lawsuits. Odd

If we are already getting anonymous "holy shit this guy is annoying" stories I'm not sure Elon Musk makes it to Inauguration Day in Trump's inner circle. He might be on a 2016 Transition Chair Chris Christie arc www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

The billionaire X and Tesla owner is around so much he’s even got his own intro music. “I don’t know if you know this, but Trump DJs Mar-a-Lago from his iPad,” says Melissa Rein Lively. “So he has a walk-on song for Elon Musk, which is ‘Space Oddity.’” nymag.com/intelligence...

Hadn’t pegged Dawkins for literally the stupidest person in the world, but this is an immediate first ballot contender for dumbest sentiment ever committed to print.