Community Broadband PDX Meetup, Tuesday, May 12, 2026, 5:30-7:30pm, an aspirational campaign to break monopoly power, center users not megacorp profits, provide interconnectivity at cost, and ensure intellectual freedom. Snacks, Information and Discussion.
"We have the power to make access to our city owned fiber optic network available to everyone. Let’s break the private ISP monopoly power here in Portland!"
@oyousef.bsky.social Heard your story on ATC today, and noticed that you kind of forgot about Angela Merkel, also in Europe, who was also in power for 16 years.
Two lips.
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I really feel like once you're aware of "CEO said a thing" as a model of "journalism" you can't unsee it. It is fucking everywhere.
Well, what do we have here?
A new speed analysis published by Ookla finds that municipal broadband providers consistently leave the big private Internet service provider (ISP) competition in the dust
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Vlx...
Cue the Japanese Koto music.
Hey, #Portland #PDX! Before you go see EFF’s Cindy Cohn at @powells.bsky.social at 7pmPT tonight, listen to her interview on KBOO’s Genius Box about “Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance.”
First Yoshino Cherry blossom of the year.
Does anyone else find it ironic that this program revealnews.org/podcast/ques... aired on @opb.org immediately before devoting the next 6 hours of their airtime to the BBC (more than 1/4 of their daily programming, all told), that does not remotely deserve its reputation for honest journalism?
That building was a corner grocery near my school when I was in second grade. I bought candy there. Later, there was a fire. Then it became a medical clinic that unnecessarily butchered its plum trees every spring before they bloomed. #MegaCorpsAreTheDevil #PlantAmnesty
“Young people still have human rights, and that includes the right to access information and to associate with other people and to speak to the world. These laws are designed to diminish those rights,” EFF’s David Greene told @TheIntercept. theintercept.com/2026/03/05/...
Community Broadband PDX is having another in-person meetup, March 10, 5:30pm at Woodstock Branch Library: calagator.org/events/12504... See you there!
Oregonian - OREGON TECH Much bigger data center tax breaks on deck in Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek's bill Updated: Feb. 23, 2026, 7:58 a.m. | Published: Feb. 21, 2026, 6:02 a.m.
Oregonian - By Mike Rogoway | The Oregonian/OregonLive Economic development legislation championed by Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek is poised to dramatically expand the state's tax breaks for data centers, which are already among the largest in the nation. Oregon data center operators will save nearly a half-billion dollars in local property taxes this year through three different incentive programs. Kotek's legislation, House Bill 4084, would expand the fastest growing of those three programs.
Does Oregon actually have anyone in mind to run for Governor, to primary Kotek? Because @tinakotek.bsky.social isn’t working.
She’s a corporatist, through and through. 👇🏾
www.oregonlive.com/silicon-fore...
The Portland Linux/Unix Group Monthly Clinic is Sunday, February 15th, from 1 to 5pm at the Albina Branch Library. Bring your Linux Questions and/or your Linux Answers to share! calagator.org/events/12504...
Wouldn't it be kind of cool if members took OPB back? Since OPB kind of depends on its members to sustain it, what if people understood how it functions? What if members actually had some role in its governance?
I don't hate the arts tax.
Community Broadband PDX is having another in-person meetup tomorrow evening at the Holgate Branch library, starting at about 5pm: calagator.org/events/12504...
I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Fully Fund Preschool for All. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/fu...
A variant of the helicopter used in the failed Iranian Hostage Rescue en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operati... #JustToBeTopical
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@adriansdigitalbasement.com FYI, i am pretty sure i've seen cheese curds at Jerry's Tavern near Montgomery Park in NW Portland. The guy seems to have moved from Wisconsin or something. 3010 NW Nicolai St, Portland, OR 97210
@adriansdigitalbasement.com thought you'd appreciate this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNQt...
So-called "smart" devices are pushed heavily for the holidays, but be mindful of what you're opting that gift recipient into. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
1. People are freeing themselves from the myth that only big corporations can make and do things. Here's a story about 19 small towns that built their own high-speed fiber networks. They pay less than most Americans & can get a service rep on the phone no problem. ilsr.org/article/comm...
the cycle usually goes like this:
1. Dems refuse to seriously challenge corporate power
2. The electorate gets frustrated, votes Republican, believes populist lies
3. Dems point out things are shitty, get re-elected, lack the backbone to challenge corporate power
4. rinse, wash, repeat
