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  1. A #SpaceMirror Will Test Turning Night Into Day. What To Know About the Controversial Project

    by Jeffrey Kluger, Jul 14, 2026

    Excerpt: "The company envisions multiple uses for sun-reflecting satellites: assisting search and rescue operations, allowing construction projects to operate around the clock, charging solar power stations, increasing crop yield. But critics cite all manner of risks. Human and animal #CircadianRhythms could be badly affected if the sun—or a simulacrum of it—never sets. The practice of changing the clocks by a mere hour twice a year is already known to mess with human sleep-wake cycles, after all. Plants could bloom when they shouldn’t and die before their time. Orbital mirrors flashing and winking back to Earth could distract airline pilots. Finally, #LightPollution is already interfering with astronomical observations—a problem made even worse by satellite constellations like #SpaceX’s 10,000-strong #Starlink fleet. #ReflectOrbital’s 50,000 birds would dwarf even that."

    Read more:
    time.com/article/2026/07/14/re

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/P4uaz

    #NightSkies #ElonSucks
    #SpacePollution #SunReflectingSatellites #BadIdeas #SpaceTechBros #SendTechBrosToMars #FCCFail #BrendanCarr #WTF

  2. npr.org/2025/09/19/nx-s1-55467

    >>"We can do this the easy way or the hard way," Carr told the right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson. "These companies can find ways to change conduct to take action on Kimmel or, you know, there's going to be additional work for the FCC ahead." <<

    Carr's adoption of Hollywood gangster cliche would be laughable were his actions not so dangerous. As with Trump, Miller, and Hegseth, the rhetoric suggests not just resentment towards "the libs", but an impoverished imagination trying to master surging anxieties about masculinity.

    #USPolitics #UsCulture #BrendanCarr #RightWing #Masculinity

  3. @wdlindsy

    Indeed. Brendan Carr is a philosophical descendant of Joseph Goebbels.

    Both headlines below are from the New York Times, one from 1939, one from 2025, one referring to Hitler's regime, one to Trump's regime.

    See thread:
    newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/11523076

    #Trump #Hitler #Censorship #JosephGoebbels #BrendanCarr #Nazi #Nazis #History #Comedy #USPol #JimmyKimmel #StephenColbert #NYTimes #News #US #USA #UnitedStates

  4. FYI: Fascist #Project2025 ghoul #BrendanCarr who is the new #FCC chair, is going after #newsoutlets for...criticizing Trump.

    That's what NEWS OUTLETS are supposed to do! CRITICISE GOVERNMENT.

  5. I’m off to Lisbon tonight–my last booked business travel of the year–for Web Summit. It’s now been eight years since I started speaking at that event, and this year’s version of the conference will bring a painful parallel to 2016’s as I once again will have Europeans asking me to explain how my country just elected Donald Trump as president.

    Patreon readers got an extra post this week, a report from my long Tuesday spent as an election officer that had me doing same-day voter registration with the new addition of creating records for each new voter in our pollbook app.

    11/4/2024: The Best Cell Phone Plans, Wirecutter

    My first update to this guide since the end of 2023 covered minor changes in rate plans at some carriers, AT&T’s breach of customer calling and texting metadata, and such other changes to the industry as the FCC’s broadband-facts labels and the advent of satellite messaging and, eventually broadband roaming.

    11/6/2024: In Trump’s Second Term, Net-Neutrality Rules Are Sure to Die Again, PCMag

    I wrote about yet another pending reversal of net-neutrality policy because I am serving a life sentence of covering the infinite loop of tech policy. This post also lists some other likely policy priorities of the man Trump will probably nominate to head the Federal Communications Commission, current commissioner Brendan Carr, as gleaned from his contribution to the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 as well as in his remarks at telecom events that I’ve covered.

    11/9/2024: 97 – November 9, 2024, Rich on Tech Radio Show

    My friend Rich DeMuro, who covers technology for KTLA in Los Angeles, had me on his weekly radio show to quiz me about the Wirecutter guide and about what listeners should consider when shopping for wireless service. My top advice on that point: Make sure you understand what speed or usage limits apply to any plan offering “unlimited” data.

    https://robpegoraro.com/2024/11/10/weekly-output-phone-plans-x2-net-neutrality/

    #BrendanCarr #FCC #Lisbon #netNeutrality #phonePlans #Project2025 #RichDeMuro #unlimitedData #WebSummit #Wirecutter