{"id":664,"date":"2024-10-09T11:11:50","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T11:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joemuscara.rocks\/blarg\/?p=664"},"modified":"2024-10-09T11:11:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T11:11:50","slug":"internet-access-for-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/joemuscara.rocks\/blarg\/2024\/10\/09\/internet-access-for-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet access for everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"It\u2019s such a drag. It used to be there would be one crazy guy in your office or whatever who would insist on some nutty theory of why something was happening or some other conspiracy, and you\u2019d just say, \u201cokay, Ralph, I gotta get back to work\u201d and walk away. But now, they\u2019ve found their tribe (as early internet pundits used to say) and they share and amplify each other, and the people who used to say, \u201cI don\u2019t know, that seems a little weird\u201d are just as swept up in it as the rest. Bored moms who used to just spread gossip now spread this stuff and are down algorithmically-fed rabbit-holes of insanity, as are others with too much time on their hands. It actually makes me worry when politicians promise internet access for everyone everywhere. I get why that\u2019s good, but also why it can be very, very bad. ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s such a drag. It used to be there would be one crazy guy in your office or whatever who would insist on some nutty theory of why something was happening or some other conspiracy, and you\u2019d just say, \u201cokay, Ralph, I gotta get back to work\u201d and walk away. But now, they\u2019ve found their &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/joemuscara.rocks\/blarg\/2024\/10\/09\/internet-access-for-everyone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Internet access for everyone&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/joemuscara.rocks\/blarg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/joemuscara.rocks\/blarg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/joemuscara.rocks\/blarg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joemuscara.rocks\/blarg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joemuscara.rocks\/blarg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/joemuscara.rocks\/blarg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":665,"href":"http:\/\/joemuscara.rocks\/blarg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions\/665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/joemuscara.rocks\/blarg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joemuscara.rocks\/blarg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joemuscara.rocks\/blarg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}