What I’m thinnin’ ‘bout – Peeves that nag - and some Ecstatic Documentation

 

Hit the road, Jack - The exit of hot shot legal eagle Jack Smith brings out a pet peeve long nagging me. News is based on something being new and important and dramatically so, so there is a bias in the press room toward building up a figure for news purposes. Such was the case with Smith and Robert Mueller. Each having a touch of Sam Waterson [or Abe Lincoln] about them but in the light of history rather thin in terms of effect. Not saying they had it easy, just saying they failed as redemptors. And the press just ran with the easy take at the start of the interludes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/us/politics/jack-smith-special-counsel-resigns.html

Why am I including this stuff here? I am ratcheting back from Facebook – and this is why: Meta to End Fact-Checking Program in Shift Ahead of Trump Term -The social networking giant will stop using third-party fact checkers and instead rely on users to add notes to posts. Zuckerberg has no spine – and he joins a parade of appeasers. I can’t in good conscience help him make his money.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/technology/meta-fact-checking-facebook.html

More of the same, Chairman Jordan’s report had an audience of one Elon 'Lonely Boy' Musk. Yes, Zuck’s Nerd crush.

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/01/10/congressional-report-accuses-jordan-musk-of-weaponizing-govt-to-silence-critics/

Hey let’s dim the lights on the vitriol, Vaughan. Sam Moore passed. No greater live act I am sure than Sam & Dave in their prime. Otis Redding, it’s said, gave up the top spot because they were so hard to follow. Ecstatic Documentation follows … When Something is Wrong/Hold on I'm Coming ... 

Finally, already - Outlook for internet data policy: Still not so rosy - Shifts in internet policy lurk as a new presidential administration takes hold. Likely FCC and FTC leaders are taking test-spins. Some chance this may be another shift on the teeter totter that is 21-st Century Two-Party politics…or something different this time.  I wrote on the topic on Medium to kick of the New Year January 3.

https://medium.com/@jackivaughan/outlook-for-internet-data-policy-still-not-so-rosy-59819d38fc06