Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@qoto.org

As streaming services recover from their unprofitable competition with Netflix and raise prices, users will naturally start resorting to piracy more.

So the movie industry is getting ahead of this to lobby for a law to force ISPs to block piracy websites. A similar push failed in 2012 with the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) which was opposed by the tech industry.

However the tech industry are now villains in DC and its influence has waned.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/04/movie-industry-demands-us-law-requiring-isps-to-block-piracy-websites/

Someone asked me if staying at a tech company a long time makes it harder to get a job elsewhere.

Not really. The real challenge is that a lot of your effectiveness as a long timer comes from knowing people & processes. You just can’t tell how much until after you leave. Was it 10% or 90% of your success? 🤷🏾‍♂️

My g-grandmother Fanny Wainscott died from an ectopic pregnancy at the age of 26 when my grandfather was 5 years old. It was 1910 in a remote area north of Wichita Falls, TX.

It was a horrific death and changed the course of my grandfather’s life, my father’s life, my life, my children’s life, and my grandson’s life, forever. And that’s just my personal lineage.

It’s 114 years later and Arizona is sentencing women and all their descendants to this kind of hell.

It’s premeditated murder.

Someone out there right now is going to write someone else's favorite song of all time and is currently wondering if the story in their head is worth telling.

I'm far from the first to point this out, but it continues to be revealing to look at what kinds of "free speech" Elon Musk's X defends and what kinds it suppresses.

My newsletter today on Musk standing up for Bolsonaristas in Brazil, but not dissidents in Modi's India or Erdogan's Turkey: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/10/elon-musk-picks-his-speech-battle/

While they're at it, why not step up the fight against lies fueld by Microsoft Word, Photoshop, radio, and TV? Technology is not the target. The liars should be...
Hundreds of groups urge Big Tech CEOs to step up fight against AI-fueled lies https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/09/hundreds-groups-urge-big-tech-ceos-step-up-fight-against-ai-fueled-lies/

People on Twitter are debating whether a person using uncommon words like "delve" are trying to sound smarter than they are, or worse, are ChatGPT bots, because "normal" people don't talk like that.

You don't have to get upset, or embroiled in the debate. Not worth the time or attention. But I'll share some important context as your friendly neighborhood Nigerian 🙋🏿‍♂️

Many Nigerians have bigger English language vocabularies and better command of grammar than the typical American or English person

Because they bring me such joy, I will share with you all the software testing videos I share with my Software Design and Development students.

Video 1/3: “We don’t need user testing! We already know our users”

In surprising news, the last stockpile of leaded petrol/gasoline for vehicles has been used up (in Algeria), leaving #aviation as the only remaining user. #publichealth and #Asbestos was finally banned in the US recently. It shows that you can ban products.

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/they-ban-products-dont-they/

Seattle Times has a new report on how Boeing's current challenges can be traced to prioritizing shareholders over everything for 25 years, slashing costs and outsourcing key work, weakening unions, and pressuring suppliers, leading to loss of its core competency.

This is a great example of how the stock market rewards short term thinking leading to companies sabotaging themselves. Intel is in the same boat.
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boeings-long-fall-and-how-it-might-recover/

From the “you can’t make this stuff up” and “things the Washington DC political press corps ignore” departments … Trump accused Biden of using cocaine and cheating in golf in Hugh Hewitt interview.

Voters who aren’t MAGA cult members need to come face-to-words. That’s only happening in independent reporting.

I’ve said for years, like a broken record stuck on repeat, that no Hollywood studio would green light a screenplay that featured Trump’s transcripts.

https://themoderatevoice.com/trump-accused-biden-of-using-cocaine-hugh-hewitt/

Public library staff in an Alabama town have locked up the library and walked off their jobs after the library's director was fired. The director had refused to remove 113 books with LGBTQ+ content from circulation after being ordered to do so by a library board dominated by right-wing Christian fundamentalists.

#PublicLibraries #censorship #Alabama #LGBTQ

https://bookriot.com/librarians-lock-autauga-prattville-public-library-in-protest-after-director-fired-by-board/