#publicutilities

I'm curious about a lot... #Socialization and #decentralizing and autonomy and #publicutilities and #passiveincome and how to dive into unexplored paying roles that may help me survive and better yet escape #homeless

https://www.europesays.com/1854328/ Mass. regulators discuss lowering gas delivery rates after WCVB report #analysis #approval #conversation #day #DeliveryRates #EffectLastFall #Eversource #GasBill #GasDeliveryRate #GasPrice #Gov.MauraHealey #LiquefiedNaturalGas #lng #LNGPrice #Mass.Regulator #massachusetts #MassachusettsDepartmentOfPublicUtilities #NaturalGas #newscenter #PublicUtilities #StateRegulator #wcvb #WcvbReport

Obituary for the late Mark Zuckerberg who turned a Harvard campus creeper app, scraping and rating female students' photos, into a global Public Information Utility, who left this life firmly committed to the right of every member of the Public to enjoy their own truth; and to evade their rights established under the Common Carrier clause of the US Code which was enacted to protect citizens from parasitic utilities like those operated by Meta Corp.

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title47/chapter5/subchapter2&edition=prelim

#law #justice #AI #satire #1A #freespeech #commonCarrier #publicUtilities #antitrust #regulation #oversight #publicInterest #publicSector #journo #journalism #RIP #obituary #meta #social #factChecking #disinfo #disinformation #propaganda #truth #truthMatters #facts #factsMatter

“The Czech is in the Mail”

by Another Angry Voice on Substack

“The [Labour] government has approved the sale of Royal Mail to #Czech #billionaire #Daniel #Křetínský, turning what was a not-for-profit public service just eleven years ago into a billionaire's plaything”

@UKLabour

https://open.substack.com/pub/anotherangryvoice/p/the-czech-is-in-the-mail?r=27oltk&utm_medium=ios

#Press #UK #RoyalMail #Privatization #NeoLiberalism #AssetStripping #Profiteering #Labour #Starmer #CorporateGreed #PublicUtilities #Water #Energy #Nuclear #ForeignOwnership

@alanferrier It doesn’t get more stupid than selling essential #publicutilities - you have to guarantee their loans, prop them up so they are profitable and buy them back when the assets are exhausted and reinvest to restore a basic standard of service. And we the voting public are 100% to blame.for voting for people who espouse these venal policies.

@shansterable @ned

You're conflating multiple issues. For-profit, private, and single-payer, for example, are all orthogonal.

#Monopoly #USPol #USPolitics #Healthcare #Utilities #PublicHealth #PublicUtilities #Solidarity

From a HN thread about a 2022 proposal for running internet access as a public utility;

"I used to live in a building that managed its own building-wide internet connection. I.e. instead of each unit paying $50-$100 and running a cable modem or dsl router, there was a single net connection, an ethernet port in each unit, and you paid via your building maintenance fees. It came to about $20-25 per unit, so half to a quarter of the individual price."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32647212

#PublicUtilities

"While the Attorney General’s Office and other groups called for the commission to order a more significant “remedy” for PNM’s imprudent investment in the coal-fired Four Corners Power Plant, the commissioners approved a plan that says the company can’t collect about $85 million related to its investments in the plant."
https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/regulators-slash-millions-of-dollars-in-cost-recovery-in-pnm-rate-case/article_59756bba-aa57-11ee-a61f-33bc63dd4ec0.html?utm_source=santafenewmexican.com&utm_campaign=%2Fnewsletters%2Fyour-morning-headlines%2F%3F123%26-dc%3D1704369613&utm_medium=email&utm_content=headline
#PublicUtilities #PrivateUtilities
#NewMexico

And ... it took #Optus over 80 minutes to have a human operator engage in the "Message Us " chat support this morning.

The #ComplaintResolution person says they're very busy.
But I can with another complaint person!

#NegativeUX

I'm thinking Enshitification has a history back to the privatisation of #PublicUtilities like electricity, gas, sewerage, water, & #TelephoneService.

#Telco #OptusFailure #Privatisation #Enshitification
#JohnMartyn #OverTheHill

Singer-songwriter advocates for power by the people -- literally -- with Maine's proposal to create a publicly-owned utility company. "Taking My Power Back" is political country music at its finest.

https://adobeandteardrops.com/2023/11/watch-this-sara-trunzo-asserts-the-right-to-public-power-on-taking-my-power-back.html

#Americana #CountryMusic #AltCountry #FolkMusic #ProtestMusic #Maine #PublicUtilities

Power companies spend millions to fight Maine’s proposed not for profit utility - because… power should be FOR PROFIT of course, and not a PUBLIC UTILITY! What a bunch of BS. #power #electricity #Maine #publicutilities https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/18/maine-state-run-utility-power-companies

Public utilities (like our water system) are supposed to have contingency and backup plans. It's hard to create redundancies, however, and difficult (and expensive) to protect against some fairly easy forms of attack. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/05/us/north-carolina-power-station-attack.html?smid=url-share
#LocalGovernment #PublicUtilities

Here's my #introductions hashtags

#Philippines
#Physics
#Chronobiology
#ScientificCulture
#Environment
#FoodSecurity
#NationalIndustrialization
#PublicUtilities
#MassLine

What if destroying #smallBusiness is the unsaid purpose of a govt owned by mega #corporations?

More nuanced than that.

What if small businesses are maybe less efficient than big businesses, so in a #zeroCarbon future we cannot afford to have small businesses.

So govt have decided to use the pandemic to close businesses deemed unworthy.

In this context, is there a case for #GAFCAM and #Tesla to be #publicUtilities?

If so, how should they be governed over by us?

#thoughtExperiment

End PG&E’s Reign of Error With a Hostile Takeover https://www.truthdig.com/articles/end-pges-reign-of-error-with-a-hostile-takeover/ #publicutilitiescommission #longislandlightingco. #pacificgasandelectric #paulelliottsinger #powercooperatives #publicutilities #deregulation #kincadefire #california #regulation #wildfires

California Must Take Back Its Power—Literally https://www.truthdig.com/articles/california-must-take-back-its-power-literally/ #pacificgasandelectric #berkshirehathaway #SonaliKolhatkar #californiafires #meleizafigueroa #publicutilities #sonalikolhatkar #utilitycompany #climatechange #privatization #warrenbuffett #capitalism #campfire #rokhanna #ladwp #pg&e #dwp