in recent months to stifle protests through internet blackouts, digital curfews, and content blocking have presented a particularly extreme example of how far regimes can go in restricting digital access.

new report from the internet infrastructure company Cloudflare, released today, highlights the stunning global prevalence of connectivity disruptions and their increasing relevance to people and organizations

Internet disruptions overview for Q4 2022

https://blog.cloudflare.com/q4-2022-internet-disruption-summary/

FBI Headquarters Voted Ugliest Building in the Country: Survey

https://www.newsweek.com/fbi-headquarters-voted-ugliest-building-country-survey-1775469

#News

"“The average income growth for the top one percent was substantially higher,” write Price and Edwards, “at more than 300 percent of the real per capita GDP rate.” The higher your income, the larger your percentage gains. As a result, the top 1 percent’s share of total taxable income has more than doubled, from 9 percent in 1975, to 22 percent in 2018, while the bottom 90 percent have seen their income share fall, from 67 percent to 50 percent."
#economy #Politics
https://time.com/5888024/50-trillion-income-inequality-america/

Photographer Carol Highsmith donated tens of thousands of her photos to the Library of Congress, making them free for public use. Getty Images later claimed copyright on many of these photos, then accused her of copyright infringement by using one of her own photos in her own website.

Carol Highsmith sued Getty Images for $1 billion.

Let’s wish her luck, Getty deserves to lose.

Failed #GOP candidate Solomon Peña arrested after SWAT standoff for allegedly shooting at the homes and offices of #DEM lawmakers in New Mexico. #violence #fascism https://apple.news/AkMXggpV9QoOShkM3vMWz8A

#art in unexpected places

In this blog post I go over my experiences on Mastodon. (I'll cover CoSo separately) https://www.stevensavage.com/blog/2023/01/my-mastodon-experience.html

You clutching your pearls? Figaro, Figaro, Figaro...

If you want to read That Guy's deposition in the E. Jean Carroll case, freshly unsealed over his vociferous protests, here y' go.

"Can't stop the Signal!" — Mr. Universe

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.590045/gov.uscourts.nysd.590045.16.2.pdf

#CoSoNews Flights grounded across US following major FAA system outage https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/faa-system-outage-us-flights-b2260088.html

#political Basic honesty shines through.

is it just me or does the fact the GOP gutted the ethics board kinda mean they plan to have no ethics?

"Life is like a sewer: what you get out of it depends on what you put into it." — Tom Lehrer

#poetry #cosopoetry #tanka

Two strangers stop in
the street enraptured by a
rainbow then frown as
it fades before finding hues
more lovely in each other.

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#Google #GoogleMaps #MapErrors #schools #Canada #whee

'For some time now, Holy Spirit [High School] shows up as 'Mouldy bread loaf' on Google map searches. Principal David Locke says the school contacted Google as soon as they discovered it, but they’re still waiting to have it fixed.'

https://vocm.com/2023/01/09/holy-spirit-moldy-bread-loaf/