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There's no such thing as "tech" (Ten years later)

1•dtjb•18s ago•0 comments

What Really Killed Flash Player: A Six-Year Campaign of Deliberate Platform Work

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1•jbegley•49s ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Anyone orchestrating multiple AI coding agents in parallel?

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3•sinisterMage•8m ago•0 comments

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2•zdw•8m ago•0 comments

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6•bookofjoe•9m ago•1 comments

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1•thelok•12m ago•0 comments

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1•PetrBrzyBrzek•18m ago•0 comments

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1•radeeyate•19m ago•0 comments

Project Pterodactyl: Incremental Architecture

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1•blenderob•21m ago•0 comments

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3•simonw•24m ago•0 comments

John Haugeland on the failure of micro-worlds

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1•blenderob•24m ago•0 comments

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2•kevinelliott•25m ago•2 comments

Corning Invented a New Fiber-Optic Cable for AI and Landed a $6B Meta Deal [video]

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1•ksec•26m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Clawback of $1.1B for PBS and NPR puts rural stations at risk

https://theconversation.com/clawback-of-1-1b-for-pbs-and-npr-puts-rural-stations-at-risk-and-threatens-a-vital-source-of-journalism-255826
27•rntn•6mo ago

Comments

throwawaysleep•6mo ago
Rural services should be the first cut as they voted for this, so clearly don’t want them.
SonOfKyuss•6mo ago
But this is also what the folks behind this want. Rural America is easier to radicalize when they aren’t exposed to all that woke empathy crap on Sesame Street or facts-based reporting from NPR. If PBS news hour sounded like Fox News, they wouldn’t have cut their funding
throwawaysleep•6mo ago
They already vote that way, making it irrelevant. The play now is to make sure no young people continue to live in rural communities.

Have a bipartisan concensus that rural communities should largely be separated from services.

SonOfKyuss•6mo ago
You sort of touched on it, but yes this isn’t about changing the minds of adults, it’s about keeping the kids in those areas from questioning what they are being told by those around them
kacesensitive•6mo ago
My grandparents think NPR is leftist propaganda and PBS has a "trans agenda" whatever that means. They're too far gone.
akudha•6mo ago
This is depressing. What is "trans agenda" and why do they think it affects them? Do they even know a single trans person in real life, assuming that is what they are scared of? I honestly do not understand any of this at all.
kacesensitive•6mo ago
Well they know my wife but not that she's trans lmao they live less than an hour away and we never really see them due to the comments they make. Just not worth putting her through that.
jeffbee•6mo ago
PBS News Hour has, perversely, spent the last five years incinerating its credibility among thinking people in an attempt to curry favor with their enemies. This apparently did not work.
readthenotes1•6mo ago
Fact based reporting, like the Hunter Biden laptop story isn't a story, or Pres Biden is fully mentally competent, or firing a coworker for calling out a progressive bias in the newsroom?

We can do with less of that, I think.

orwin•6mo ago
I mean, from outside the US, the only thing I've learned from the hunter laptop leak is that he is a coke user, he fuck prostitutes and have a porn-sized penis, which frankly, is the only truly surprising thing and also knowledge I can do without. So unless 4chan became extremely less pro-trump than I remember, I do think it isn't a story.
readthenotes1•6mo ago
There are also records of him talking with and about his dad with his business partners.

I didn't know about the pornstar angle, but I guess that explains how he could be doing his sister-in-law and another woman at the same time

orwin•6mo ago
Which is like, not surprising at all? Heirs are often dumb shitters who use their parents name to try to succeed because they can't really do anything themselves.

Man, if you're ahead of 4chan on any kind of semi-celebrities gossip, semi-political topic, you have to ask yourself questions. I'm not taking 4chan as a source of truth, at all, but 4chan self-claimed 'degens' are often on top of the subject they find, and you are ahead of them here. On a story from 3 years ago.

kacesensitive•6mo ago
Yeah, it’s grim irony. A lot of rural communities consistently vote for politicians who campaign on dismantling these very programs (public broadcasting, Medicaid, rural hospital funding, even USPS). Then act surprised when the services vanish.
guywithahat•6mo ago
I don't think they ever really did. I always understood it as a way to push left-wing politics on rural areas.
nolok•6mo ago
You equate rural news station to left wing politics ? Or you equal PBS/NPR with left wing politics ? In either case I find that humorous at best, but I do wonder
votepaunchy•6mo ago
So listen to NPR’s Senior Editor with 25 years company experience and wonder no more:

https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-tru...

guywithahat•6mo ago
He doesn't want evidence, he wants to be mad
nolok•6mo ago
I really don't, I'm not even american, you left wing is still pretty right wing to us

This attitude is exactly what I'm talking about, there is a complete inability to have discourse that developped, you feel the need to put people in box and judge them without even listening to what they're saying it's really not healthy

guywithahat•6mo ago
You called my original point "humorous at best"; that's not the discourse of someone who listens to what other people say. The article the other poster linked is a great piece, I would recommend reading it if you have any interest in the topic.
ryandvm•6mo ago
I think he equates facts with left wing politics.
paulwilsondev•6mo ago
As a person that lives in subrubia and has property in the sticks, I can assure you that NPR or PBS losing funding is no loss. I have a weather radio specifically for NOAA alerts. I could not care less about NPR and PBS losing any funding.
rovr138•6mo ago
‘In my sample size of one’

And that one, it doesn’t experience the ‘thing’ all the time, in every condition.

jmclnx•6mo ago
I wonder when "Radio Free Europe (EU)" becomes a thing in the US :)
drewcoo•6mo ago
> I wonder when "Radio Free Europe (EU)" becomes a thing in the US

RFE is openly intended as propaganda. NPR does not claim that. They're not the same thing.

There used to be Radio Moscow which in the 1980s was repeated from Havana on AM 1040 for a while. This overpowered 50,000 watt WHO 1040 from Des Moines, Iowa for some folks in the southeastern US. It was an international incident and made the nightly news repeatedly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Moscow

jmclnx•6mo ago
Well with defunding of NPR/PBS, propaganda is the only news some areas in the US will now get once some stations close.
jauntywundrkind•6mo ago
The rural focus seems weird, a mis-direction. Sure yes, they'll feel a lot of damage from this, stations will close, but there's so many people everywhere going to be impacted by this.

What feels most notable to me is that there has been so much media consolidation already. David (son of Larry) Ellison's Skydance buying CBS removes on more not hard right/hard plutocrat aligned media empire. The ongoing Warner Brothers / Discovery mega-conglomrate (also encompassing HBO, DC, Turner) being run by plutocrat friendly David Zaslav. Rumbles of Bezos trying to buy Conde Master. LA Times, WaPo, NYT all having very plutocrat friendly operators now.

Having the government paying kind of regular boring human people to go make programs and radio is a threat to the consolidated media, a threat to the large sweeping faction of very rich people who've been gobbling up the press.

I care for sure about rural people & their access to media, their local stations. Local stations are amazing, local journalism is especially amazing & ghastly absent, super hard to fund today. The government de-participating in enriching democracy by supporting independent media, that's the incredibly woe begotten (for all) sadness I feel about this news.

hitekker•6mo ago
Other stations can get funding through private donors; rural stations cannot and they may actually die out.

I think the weirdness comes from NPR's previous PR strategy of denying they even needed government funding. At the time (2 years ago?) I recall NPR wanted to convey that defunding was useless, and that their (national) news was only state-affiliated or government funded by 1%. I think they also wanted to obscure how they use funding to influence ideological content on local public radio stations.

I agree with you on the consolidation of media; we need less rich kingpins deciding what's newsworthy. But I disagree on the appeal of local stations. Except in times of local crisis, I've found their programming to be inferior to the national brands. Too many boring podcasts, LLM-like articles and lazy fact-checking.