I can't get over the story of the Texas professor suspended for criticizing the Lt.Governor. This is how fu**ed up this is:

The conservative student should have known better; her conservative mother should have known better; the Lt.Gov should have known better; the Lt.Gov's staff should have known better; and the University should have known better.
Any ONE of them should have shut down the complaint and stood up for free speech. But every one of them went full fascist.

https://www.click2houston.com/news/texas/2023/07/25/texas-am-suspended-professor-accused-of-criticizing-lt-gov-dan-patrick-in-lecture/

FCC chair: Speed standard of 25Mbps down, 3Mbps up isn’t good enough anymore

Chair proposes 100Mbps national standard and an evaluation of broadband prices.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/fcc-chair-speed-standard-of-25mbps-down-3mbps-up-isnt-good-enough-anymore/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

In the US, the price of college #tuition started rising faster than household #income in 1982, the year I started teaching college. I had a front-row seat to this slow-motion train wreck. The chart in this article shows how bad the price/income growth disparity has become.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/eriksherman/2023/07/23/1982-the-last-time-college-costs-kept-pace-with-median-income/

#Academia #Affordability #Colleges #HigherEd #Universities #Inflation
@academicchatter

Everything the @eff calls out in this post threatens to make people online fundamentally less safe and less protected— increasing surveillance and making online harassment and privacy breaches ever more likely— all under the guise of "safety" and "protection."

Please take a minute to act and spread the word:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/you-can-help-stop-these-bad-internet-bills