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RIP David Lynch, by Andrew Anglin

RIP David Lynch, by Andrew Anglin

David Lynch has died at the age of 78. Although he had emphysema from nearly 70 years of smoking, it appears that his death ultimately came as a result of being forced to flee the LA fires. But yes, he was going to die either way. People attack me for being pro-smoking, but what do you want? You want to …

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RIP Facebook Fact-Checkers: Zuckerberg Goes Full Elon Musk

RIP Facebook Fact-Checkers: Zuckerberg Goes Full Elon Musk

It wasn’t long ago that the tech world was talking about Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk taking their trash talk into a UFC cage. No physical punches were ever thrown, but Musk won a philosophical battle today when Zuckerberg turned Meta into X. In announcing plans to axe fact-checkers on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads and embrace a Community Notes approach, …

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I was wrong about Net Neutrality (RIP) and that’s probably good news

I was wrong about Net Neutrality (RIP) and that’s probably good news

Eight years ago, I predicted the worst. Net Neutrality, which had only become a thing a few short years before, was struck down by the original Trump Administration in 2017. At the time, I pronounced it dead and laid out all the bad things that would happen as a result. Now, after a Federal Appeals court ruled against the Biden …

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