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Free Buses, Dark Screens

On the Thursday before Labor Day, the principals of New York City's public schools opened a memo from the Education Department. The free T-Mobile internet service built into 350,000 student Chromebooks would end that Sunday, August 31. Classes begin September 10. Four days of warning, ten days of scramble, and then the school year opens on machines that still power up, still glow, and can no longer reach anything. The laptop survives. The world inside it has been repossessed. During the pandemic the city handed out some 725,000 devices and never tracked how many still function; the Chromebook program was the sequel, the do-over, the one arriving with a plan attached. The plan lasted a year. […]

https://bolesblogs.com/2026/09/03/free-buses-dark-screens/

Radio Free Skaro #1068 – They’re Not Real Bats

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Doctor Who is back! At least in the United States, by way of AMC+ which will be the exclusive streaming home of Doctor Who (2005-2022). No word if it’ll show up on AMC+ Canada, which does in fact exist, but we’re used to being the forgotten child of media. Plus we have more BFI and Big Finish news, a nice little BF tribute to Gareth David-Lloyd, and we travel back to the Jodie Whittaker era with a Miniscope examining the directing work of Lee Haven Jones on Spyfall Part Two, Orphan 55, and Revolution of the Daleks! 

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• AMC+ Acquires exclusive US streaming rights to Doctor Who (2005-2022)
• Doctor Who: Projections in Time – Black & White & Silver at Riverside Studios, sold out
• BFI screening of The TV Movie delayed to May 17
• Man and Cyberman: Memoirs of a Cyberleader by David Banks due Sep 5
• Doctor Who Magazine Doctor Who: The Time Museum – The Story of Doctor Who in 100 Objects due Jun 11
• Big Finish Thirteenth Doctor Adventures: Aegis released
• Big Finish – Dark Gallifrey: The Meddling Monks – Part Two available now
• Big Finish Interview with Gareth David-Lloyd as Torchwood and Ianto’s Shrine wind down
• The Ultimate Evil: 6th Doctor Novelisation Audio CD – Unabridged due Sep 3
• Jill Curzon died

Miniscope:

• Lee Haven Jones
• Spyfall Part Two
• Orphan 55
• Revolution of the Daleks

#AMC #BigFinish #DavidBanks #doctorWho #doctorWhoMagazine #GarethDavidLloyd #JillCurzon #LeeHavenJones #Merchandise #Miniscope #nuWho #Obituary #Orphan55 #RevolutionOfTheDaleks #SpyfallPartTwo #TheUltimateEvil