Freedom Index#DigitalCulture
from the cowards dept Buc-ee’s trademark bullying ways continue! This company that has long been famous for its enormous gas…
from the were-the-plates-in-braille? dept Flock Safety’s automatic license plate readers were first sold as upmarket add-ons for gated communities and…
from the slow-as-shit dept A couple of weeks ago we discussed how the cuts made to HHS and specifically the…
from the bad-choices-at-impossible-scale dept Last month we reported how Meta had decided to try and sloppily nickel-and-dime its AI glasses…
from the lies-the-trump-administration-told-you dept This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. The State Department…
from the what-the-hell-are-you-doing,-dumbass dept It’s hard to not have noticed that a key enabler of U.S. authoritarianism was our consolidated…
from the can-they-all-lose? dept Last week we wrote about how Elon Musk’s xAI had filed a lawsuit to attempt to…
from the everything-is-about-to-get-much-dumber dept Ideally, I think it makes sense to open up the U.S. market to Chinese goods (AI,…
from the moderating-in-public dept This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. This year, Wikipedia…
from the and-by-“efficiencies”-we-mean-“destruction” dept Quick background: the $8 billion FCC Universal Service Fund (USF) applies a small surcharge on traditional phone lines…
from the criminalizing-ideology dept This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. A little-noticed presidential…
from the funny-how-that-works dept Just recently Karl warned that we were going to see some absolute nonsense as the US…