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Mari Silbey

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Telecom, musicals, still a journalist at heart.

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Also, I would like to be able to save files easily to my local drive again. Don't want to save on OneDrive!!!

06.03.2026 18:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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No discussion of tech media can get past this basic traffic fact:Β in the AI world, Google and social no longer refer traffic, which means that the vast majority of readers just never find you in the first place. Analysis: growtika.com/blog/tech-m...

03.03.2026 21:33 πŸ‘ 115 πŸ” 47 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 15
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The disorienting, dystopian feeling of attending a keynote at MWC where the head of GSMA says our thoughts are with the people impacted by all of the conflicts in the world this weekend... is hard to describe.

02.03.2026 08:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Duke Duke MF!!!

22.02.2026 02:49 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Exclusive: US-China trade detente fuels mothballing of key China tech curbs The Trump administration has shelved a number of key tech security measures aimed at Beijing ahead of an April meeting between the two countries' presidents. The measures include a ban on China Teleco...

Ahead of trade meetings with China, the US has suspended its bans on China Telecom's US operations, domestic sales of routers made by TP-Link, the US internet business of China Unicom and China Mobile, and the sales of Chinese electric trucks and buses in the US.

www.reuters.com/business/med...

12.02.2026 13:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Tori Amos. As far as I know, she (rightly) never agreed to come back as a commencement speaker

12.02.2026 05:12 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Fine Print* A newsletter by Karl Bode covering tech, media, politics, and consumer rights.

I finally have a newsletter!

It's called The Fine Print* and I'll be writing about tech, media, politics, consumer rights (and whatever else I damn-well please).

It's free, but if you have disposable income, you can support independent reporting for just $50/year or $4/month.

09.02.2026 18:01 πŸ‘ 425 πŸ” 110 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 13

Everything makes me crazy now. Absolute rage leaking out at every moment. So much stupidity. So much cruelty.

09.02.2026 14:50 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It takes just a tiny bit of examination into the context and history. The tiniest tiniest bit

09.02.2026 14:47 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

When Comcast is weirdly not the bad guy

09.02.2026 14:45 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This!

09.02.2026 13:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just hire all the laid off reporters. Call it the Washington Citizen or something. Doesn’t seem that hard.

07.02.2026 17:54 πŸ‘ 1689 πŸ” 271 πŸ’¬ 66 πŸ“Œ 8

Can't believe this guy is still teaching. I worked on something with him back in 2003, and it was well known then what he thought women were most useful for: serving men

05.02.2026 23:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I know there are many more important things to be sad about, but assuming this is true, it breaks my heart.

01.02.2026 23:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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CNN in Minneapolis: We are seeing thousands and thousands of people, we've been standing on the corner here for the past ten minutes. This this crowd has not let up. It's just continuous.

30.01.2026 21:19 πŸ‘ 29523 πŸ” 8590 πŸ’¬ 582 πŸ“Œ 468
AI Skills Boost - AI Skills Hub

I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!

28.01.2026 12:07 πŸ‘ 1127 πŸ” 501 πŸ’¬ 43 πŸ“Œ 346
A Comm Daily headline reads: Future of Radio Altimeters Emerges as Major Issue in Upper C-Band Comments

A Comm Daily headline reads: Future of Radio Altimeters Emerges as Major Issue in Upper C-Band Comments

Not to be a broken record, but this is the "easy" part of the spectrum pipeline

21.01.2026 23:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I recognize this is small potatoes, but today I learned that "smart" TVs time out on their licensing agreements with streaming services. So after a certain number of years, your Netflix app can suddenly disappear from the tv without warning or explanation.

Ask me how I learned this.

20.01.2026 23:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We've all been there

19.01.2026 21:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Next bonus at work

07.01.2026 04:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The best commentary on CES.

07.01.2026 02:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Samsung automatically downloaded it to my phone and I immediately uninstalled it

06.01.2026 16:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Damn, you beat me to it

02.01.2026 22:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Or 2003?

02.01.2026 22:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We went down to one car this year. I'm lobbying hard for an EV when the current ride gives out.

31.12.2025 18:07 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Photo of a large Christmas tree lit up and decorated indoors

Photo of a large Christmas tree lit up and decorated indoors

Are we taking down Christmas trees this weekend or next?

31.12.2025 00:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

My friend once instinctively growled when she saw someone wearing a UNC hat

28.12.2025 14:02 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

A random stranger walked up to me on the street one March (college basketball season) and said, There's something wrong with your jacket. I turned halfway around. She finished with... It says Duke on it.

And walked away. Never to be seen again.

Cruel, but mad props.

26.12.2025 23:07 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Here's to the Kennedy Center employee who had to call me yesterday about renewing my season tickets. She was very understanding, explained that many others were also canceling, and lamented she couldn't comment further. We wished each other very happy holidays. ✨️

23.12.2025 14:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Altimeter folks met with the FCC this week on concerns about the auctioning of spectrum in the upper C-band. Just a reminder, this is supposed to be the easy part of the spectrum pipeline. You know, the gimme frequencies out of the 800 MHz promised.

18.12.2025 23:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0