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 …
Read More »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, …
Read More »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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