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The Digital Equity Act would have expanded internet access to rural, disabled, veteran, and low-income Americans.

And I’m sure we’ve heard Trump called it “racist “unconstitutional” and viewed to kill it.

Republicans also just nuked the program providing hotspots to kids that didn’t have internet access.

So I keep wonder why - why are the most powerful killing internet access to those who infrastructure has left out?

So Starlink gets the contract. I got that.

But is that the whole plan — or just the cover for something more?

What do the powerful gain why keeping millions cut off from the internet?

Republicans killed internet access for poor kids. Even basic homework submission now requires always-on connectivity. Most textbooks are digital. Khan Academy, Duolingo, Google Classroom - the entire education infrastructure is online.

Republicans voted to kill this off for millions of students. Every single homework assignment these kids miss, every college app they can’t submit, every opportunity they lose - Republicans engineered this failure. They looked at a system and decided poor families don’t deserve to participate. Republicans don’t know how technology works, but they sure know how to break it for the kids who need it most.

I found this valuable—especially the part about shifting to weekly billing. That one change helped me rethink how to scope projects as valuable milestones, set expectations, and build trust faster with clients.

I also appreciated what he said didn’t work: long, detailed proposals and “homework” for prospective clients. I used to default to that too—until I learned a model at Stanford that emphasized one-page scopes focused on outcomes, not tasks. Since then, I’ve seen much better traction. His point about prioritizing momentum over polish really landed.

Highly recommend this read if you’re consulting —or perhaps more importantly if you’re starting to see signs that it might be a path worth exploring.

The article explores research on how our perception of time can change in intense or novel situations. Has anyone here tried techniques like meditation, flow states, or memory hacks to alter their sense of time? Curious what’s worked (or not) for the HN crowd.

This is peak infrastructure collapse theater. A proven engineering solution to a long standing actual public health crisis gets labeled ‘illegal DEI’ and killed by executive order. The same people who preach meritocracy and solving real problems are now defending literal sewage in people’s yards because helping poor communities is somehow ‘illegal DEI.’ Perfect example of how American infrastructure decay isn’t a technical problem but a values problem. Wonder how many here would stay quiet about this if it was their neighborhood with raw sewage pooling outside.

This research touches core interests at the intersection of neuroscience, consciousness, and computing:

1.It provides empirical evidence that a distinct, self-aware state of consciousness can arise within sleep. That’s a significant shift from theory to measurable fact, challenging the binary sleep/wake model and offering new data for theories of mind.

2. Implications for AI: If conscious experience can emerge in non-waking brain states, it raises questions about what conditions are truly necessary for subjective awareness—relevant to ongoing debates around sentient AI or machine consciousness.

3. Novel tech and methods: The researchers used advanced EEG analysis and signal processing to differentiate lucid from non-lucid REM—techniques that resonate with the technically inclined.

4. Broader curiosity: Lucid dreaming is a rare, fascinating ability that feels like hacking the mind. Now that it has a measurable neural signature, it’s more than just subjective—it’s a quantifiable state of consciousness.

Is (1) new? LaBerge had empirical evidence for lucid dreaming decades ago.

Zurich researchers deployed AI bots on r/changemymind posing as a trauma counselor, a ‘Black man opposed to BLM’, and a sexual assault survivor. Posted 1,783 comments and gained 10,000+ karma before being exposed. Reddit calls it ‘improper and highly unethical’.