Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

"The Federal Communications Commission today voted to raise its Internet speed benchmark for the first time since January 2015, concluding that modern broadband service should provide at least 100Mbps download speeds and 20Mbps upload speeds." Finally. #Technology https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/fcc-scraps-old-speed-benchmark-says-broadband-should-be-at-least-100mbps/?utm_source=werd.io&utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_channel=mastodon

Did you know? The word “trumpery” appeared in the 15th century with the meanings “deceit” or “fraud”. 100 years later, it was being applied to objects of no value. Then in the 1900’s, it came to mean “showy but worthless”. Today, it is equated with “treasonous shitweasel”.

Positive development:

"Hamas delivers response on hostage deal proposal. An Israeli official said Hamas' response was relatively positive & included for the 1st time the number of prisoners that Hamas demands to be released in the first phase of the deal."
-B Ravid

Israeli officials say Hamas' response to the US, QA & EG proposal, which they've for weeks been waiting for, is a sign of progress-.

#IsraelHamasWar https://www.axios.com/2024/03/14/hamas-hostage-ceasefire-deal-proposal-israel

@Npars01 @AlliFlowers

Oh and government supported "Christian" education which means pseudo biology, watered down history, and forced praying

@timo21 Yes — and this is in many ways a strategic alliance, with the US Catholic bishops and Opus Dei doing a lot of the behind-the-scenes work and putting their white evangelical allies out on Front Street as foot warriors in the culture-war battles. As that goes on and evangelicals take the heat, the bishops and Opus Dei and Federalist Society quietly pack the courts — and the media give those folks a complete pass.

Because the GOP is. A. Death. Cult. https://toad.social/@KimPerales/112088927878739885

@AlliFlowers

Vouchers for public education are all about re-segregation.

Rich people don't want their kids associating with anyone who might instill empathy, critical thinking, and curiosity in their progeny.

To manufacture cognitive prisons and recreate Jim Crow, you need social isolation, restricted access to information, and bigotry for the next generation.

Someone on another instance said they don't understand the argument against allowing trans teens to have puberty blockers and/or hrt, as appropriate.

The argument is simple:

Trans children don't conform to a simple, rigid worldview, and they are few in number - that makes them easy targets. With the right grooming, conservative voters eat stuff like that up. Stuff like, "hey, you too can have power over others".

If you think all this feels kinda predatory, you are not wrong.