Erik Conway
@erikconway.bsky.social
Historian, rocketeer, capsuleer in New Eden, adventurer in Azeroth. Writer of books. Opinions not my employers.
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An own f––ing goal by Dems who backed this. A gratuitous own goal.
The Biden-signed bipartisan law to force the sale of TikTok, based on speculative national security concerns, has led to this: the app (and its 170 million U.S. users) is probably going to get spun off into the hands of some of Trump's biggest allies
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Trump and Xi bless long-awaited deal to spin off U.S. TikTok
An American version of the popular app will be partially owned by a consortium of Trump-allied investors, people familiar with the deal said, sidestepping a legally mandated ban the president has repe...
www.washingtonpost.com
September 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
An own f––ing goal by Dems who backed this. A gratuitous own goal.
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Well I haven't found an answer to this but I have found a fantastic magazine cover from the 1930s that's still relevant NOW. (Via this rabbit hole en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technoc...)
December 18, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Well I haven't found an answer to this but I have found a fantastic magazine cover from the 1930s that's still relevant NOW. (Via this rabbit hole en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technoc...)
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AGU has a Congressional email and call script up on NCAR:
Save NCAR from being dismantled today!
The Trump Administration has vowed to dissolve the center that provides critical extreme weather and climate data for our nation.
agu.quorum.us
December 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
AGU has a Congressional email and call script up on NCAR: