Never rented a thing from there, as we were blessed with some great independent video stores in the area. Did a lot of Laserdisc rentals as well.
For purchases, they were typically made at Tower. A friend of mine was the laserdisc buyer for one of the local locations. He kept it stocked with good stuff.
Back in the 90s during the first wave of NewSpace companies, the Rotary Rocket Roton ATV (Atmopsheric Test Vehicle - similar mission plan as this one) had a grand unveiling on a very typically windy Mojave day. Had the tanks not been ballasted with water it would have toppled over. Was an interesting day for many reasons.
I just converted my Ikea Jerker desk to standing height (still remains the most versatile computer desk of all time) due to lower back pain while sitting for long periods, and so far it's cured that problem. Also when I am waiting on short renders or compiles I tend to walk away or move around rather than start mindlessly surfing. Another advantage is that I can actually stand more in front of the monitor I am looking at the most rather than turning to face it from the center.
I intend to purchase a high task chair to go with it so I can sit or stand as the mood strikes. For now I have a stool from the shop.
I also found it immediately necessary to purchase a foot pad, as I am barefoot when in the office upstairs typically.
While I was at an office supply store looking for the high task chairs, I did sit in a few regular chairs that were super comfy and made me think "Gosh, if I had this chair I might not need a standing desk" but I think it's still nice to have the option to go back and forth.
It's been a few weeks now and we'll see how it plays out. So far I like it, and I still have my recliner for sitting and reading.
A friend who works for Google says that his entire office has the convertible sit / stand desks and they like them. He has also converted two of his three jerker desks at home to standing height.
I love driving, and I consider it a hobby as well as essential transportation. I grew up in a big city but I no longer live in one, so there are no traffic jams here, ever. the system functions as intended and driving is a pleasure. I have a car, a truck and a travel trailer. I use the car when I'm not hauling things - 34 MPG and fast. The diesel truck gets used when hauling or towing.
There is a rather large disconnect between the city experience and the country experience. Here it's a central part of life, where in the City maybe it has gotten to the point where a lot of people would rather do without or use ride sharing services.
My only wish is that one group does not push their agenda on another group. Public transportation is not useful for people who actually do physical things for living, build physical things, sell things, haul things. The time scale is not conducive to business either. I can spend all day on public transit to get one task done, or spend two hours to get five tasks done in a car. The former makes no sense in a world where the latter is available.
I spent a good amount of time in Japan, and there public transit made much more sense. I never rent a car, always use the rail system. The population density and size of the country lends itself to it much better than the distribution and size of the US. Europe is larger but still better distributed for it. But I don't like it when people want to get rid of cars for the sake of getting rid of cars. It does not make sense universally.
I've never been on a conference call that couldn't have been reduced to two people or an email exchange. Like the meme goes, "I survived another meeting that could have been an email."
Even a three person conference call is too many. The only time when it works is when everyone is muted by default and only one person is allowed to talk at a time. (a call-in shareholder's meeting, for example.) which is more of an audio broadcast call.
Conference calls are probably the single most horrible method of business communication there is. Sometimes when more than two people who are not local to each other need to have a discussion, it's the only way, but they should be avoided at all costs and considered a last resort. Both lack of visual and technological limitations (audio squelch breaks down with more than a few people) make the experience miserable.
Towards the end of the last company I was employed at full time, management and staff were spread out all over the world and conference calls, skype sessions and what-not proliferated. I sat in on a number of these meetings and noted how difficult it was to communicate and how much longer it took to make a point vs. an in-person meeting or written copy.
One of the nice things about being an independent contractor is no longer having to deal with time wasting rubbish like conference calls.
I work and have worked with some well known and / or high net worth individuals, and more often then not they have an AOL address, as they started using it in the 90s and just just kept using it as they were comfortable with it, and no one ever gave them a good enough reason to switch. (these are obviously not tech industry people)
For myself I did go by a childhood nickname for many many years and it actually stuck in the workplace because I have a very common first name and we had to deconflict.
Now that I work for myself I have dropped it, and I use my personal domain with POP/IMAP on a hosting server with my website, keeping only two weeks of email on the server. Like some people here I'm not interested in having all my email exposed to the Google apparatus.
It'd be interesting to see in what light personal domains are seen in now, not that it matters or affects me at this point. (firstnamelastname.com type format) Before it was a must have piece of real estate, now many people just use a free email service such as Gmail and few people have personal websites anymore.
At a small aerospace company I worked at, we used very advanced features in Excel to do trajectory calculations, and moderately unique at the time features of MS Word (track changes.) And like many companies, we unfortunately abused powerpoint.
For any reasonably sized company with decent revenue, paying full ride for MS Office is not a problem. It's for casual use at home or a sole proprietor / home business where it hurts. Thus things like LIbreOffice start to be interesting alternatives. I have been in both situations and am currently in the latter, where I feel those little charges more personally.
Microsoft, despite being a near monopoly, made truly useful products for productivity that you could buy and own. Now they are shifting to the same business model as all others - software as a service - turning all of us into digital serfs who make endless monthly payments for everything we use. The truth is that it is wildly lucrative for the company to do this, not to mention a very steady income compared with the traditional product release cycle. But the problem is foisted on to the user, who is paying $5 month here, $30 a month there, $20 a month over there. Pretty soon you're paying out hundreds of dollars a month to use windows, office, Adobe creative suite, etc. If everyone switches to this business model, nobody will be able to afford the combined 'rent' or 'utilities' if you want to see them that way.
When I purchased MS office, I would use it until the PC died and sometimes longer without upgrading, because it worked just fine. Same with Windows. Then eventually buy or build a new PC with an OEM bundle and save money. Compared to the subscription service, there is actually a large savings in money for those who do not need to upgrade frequently. It's actually getting more expensive to use Microsoft software.
When I can no longer use a legacy version of office, I will start to look into LibreOffice and the like, so long as compatibility problems don't arise. LibreOffice supports features like track changes, but based on past experience when a company I worked for tried to shift to OpenOffice wholesale, we eventually had to switch back due to a raft of minor incompatibilities that made it difficult to work with customers. That was a long time ago however and things may have improved since then. Since I am on my own now outside of a traditional corporate environment, it is a bit easier as well.
Only the latest company to figure out that the wisdom of the crowds only works if the crowd is a small, thoughtful hand picked group with no trolls in it. That kind of thing simply doesn't exist in large numbers.
Most modern tech companies are founded on the concept of making a platform - any kind of platform - where the users do all the work for them. Anything the company has to do itself at scale using humans is very costly - any kind of moderation, screening or ratings. So they'll try everything they can before taking that kind of action. It's the 'cheap and lazy' tech approach to everything, and usually results in the dumbing down of whatever the thing is. At the scales they operate at, it's also pretty much the only choice they have in many cases. With Netflix that's not really the case. There are a finite amount of titles they carry, and a solid ratings system could be effected with a little bit of moderation and professional input, in addition to user feedback.
Reading third party professional or amateur movie critics reviews is probably the best way to get a good idea of whether you might like a show or not, as netflix' ratings and recommendations of their own shows are inherently suspect...
Towards the end, Jedediah the Pilot and his son live in a cave hideout at the end of the railroad line. I believe that was shot in Coober Pedy. listed in the credits.
This will in no way become just a front end for torrent sites. Nah.:D
It's interesting from the standpoint of disseminating information people want to give out freely and not be at the mercy of a centralized server, but typically the altruistic part will get dwarfed by the pirates pr0n.
The lack of monetization will keep both very high quality original content away from it as well as bottom-feeder clickbait and top ten lists.
Speaking as someone who makes part of his living off of YouTube, it doesn't really hold an interest for me, but if I was not concerned with monetizing my videos directly, it sounds interesting.
It is just so ripe for abuse that it will be interesting to see if legitimate players can even function in that environment. But if one of the 'instances' they speak of can be moderated, people could exist within the instance relatively harmoniously.
A long time ago I was invited as an enthusiast website owner to attend the North American unveiling of the Subaru WRX. This was very early days for internet influence and they had a group of about six of us. It was a very good move on Subaru's part, as we were able to reach the young enthusiast community in a way that traditional magazines could not. We were not paid beyond expenses and we were not asked to be shills or pitch men, we were to report honestly on our opinions of the car. I spoke to someone who went with us recently and most of that group is still in touch with each other today.
This reminds me of Subaru's outreach efforts; NASA is recognizing that social media users can be a 'man on the street' presence to document the event in a way that compliments professional journalism.
Given the history of the largely Shona-run ZANU-PF political party using its position to lord it over the largest minority ethnicity (the Ndeble) including the Matabeleland massacres in the early 1980s, there is a large possibility of it being used as the Chinese use it to repress minorities in certain regions.
China has a very strong policy of embracing Africa. When I was in Zimbabwe last year I saw a brand new Chinese-built coal-coke plant, and they are making a heavy investment in rail transport in the region as well. Given ZANU-PF's Marxist origins as a socialist style worker's party, it is easy to see why China sees Zimbabwe as a ready bedfellow when western states and industry stay away. (or were driven away as is the case with Mugabe in the 1990s and 2000's)
According to the last email I received in it, I stopped using it on December 20, 2015. I still have it to dig through old emails, which I just did the other day. It stores mail in the MBOX format so I could theoretically read it in other software, but just as easy to use Eudora itself while I still can. It has a great, easy to use search function.
I switched to Outlook because a majority of the emails I was starting to get weren't displaying properly. (MIME and HTML formatted emails.) I have outlook because I have office installed. Thunderbird has problems when you have a lot of email. last time I delt with it, it stored in a flat file format that INCLUDED all the attachments. I believe Outlook is a flat file sans attachments. (I'm using it locally, not with an exchange server)
I'm on Windows 7, but the next machine will likely have 10, and that will probably be the end of Eudora unless it works in compatibility mode. Not sure I want to re-install it anyway on next upgrade.
I actually like outlook quite a bit. It's pretty usable. One piece of software Microsoft did a reasonable job with.
A lot of people, including myself use LetsEncrypt on a CPanel based hosting account to generate certs for a website.
Are those local, self-signed certificates or something that is registered somewhere? I'd never really paid attention since it just worked and was one less thing to deal with.
Since it's not retroactive there is no problem now, but wondering what will happen when I generate new certs going forward.
It doesn't matter if you started off with an innocuous video or an extreme one, the suggested videos will lead to the same place eventually. YouTube's algorithm places popular videos in a genre high up in the recommended videos results. Likely because a crowd attracts a crowd. More extreme videos are always more popular by numbers, because clickbait.
This is a side effect of crowdsourcing their ratings by going on views, and perhaps secondarily how many people 'liked' or 'disliked' a certain video.
In any given genre (books, TV, movies, YouTube) the most popular item by numbers is the item that has the broadest appeal. The one with the broadest appeal is usually on the lower end of the intelligence scale. As with cinema, intelligent, artful pieces are typically relegated to small audiences, with the occasional oscar-bait breakout.
So if you put together a system whereby the most popular videos are suggested first, the feedback loop described in the article will happen. The only way out of that is to hand curate the algorithm. And that's the very thing that NO large scale tech company wants to do. The moment they stop automating everything possible is the moment scaling becomes expensive, and they no longer reap their huge margins - a license to print money as long as they can keep it going.
If they are competitive with the percentage of ad revenue that goes to the creators (about 50% on youtube) then I could see that being successful and I would participate. I am hoping that healthy competition continues to give creators what has honestly been the most democratized revenue sharing that media creators have ever seen.
Interstellar had a groundbreaking soundtrack (from none other than Hans Zimmer, which is shocking) and some well thought out, beautiful visual effects.
However, I found the story incredibly nihilistic, depressing and pointless. I'm all for media that is interesting and thoughtful, but I prefer to see or read media where humans aren't universally the bad guys. It's amazing to see the difference in attitude in films over the last 30 - 40 years. We've gone from a 'can do' to 'we're doomed' outlook and it weighs heavily in popular culture. That very attitude can be a self fulfilling prophecy.
I didn't think Artemis very good. It was a poor man's "Moon is a Harsh Mistress" with a lot of situations that stretched improbability in human interaction to the limit. Not as good as The Martian by a long shot.
A more recent series that I did enjoy greatly is the Torchship books by Karl Ghallager. If he writes anything new I'll be first in line.
This will in no way be abused by ideologues asking their millions of flunkies to upvote their favorite extremist 'news' organizations without a second thought.
I don't they understand how the internet works. The articles are not reprinted wholesale, only linked to. Facebook and Google make money as an aggregator, and then you go to the media's site and see the full article, and their advertising. Everyone advertises on their own platform.
As someone else noted, the American media largely understands how this works. The EU proposal is just some bizarre misguided rent seeking for the media industries there, which will end up blowing up in their own faces as they no longer receive the majority of their traffic.
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...we called it Buttblocker.
Never rented a thing from there, as we were blessed with some great independent video stores in the area. Did a lot of Laserdisc rentals as well.
For purchases, they were typically made at Tower. A friend of mine was the laserdisc buyer for one of the local locations. He kept it stocked with good stuff.
Back in the 90s during the first wave of NewSpace companies, the Rotary Rocket Roton ATV (Atmopsheric Test Vehicle - similar mission plan as this one) had a grand unveiling on a very typically windy Mojave day. Had the tanks not been ballasted with water it would have toppled over. Was an interesting day for many reasons.
I just converted my Ikea Jerker desk to standing height (still remains the most versatile computer desk of all time) due to lower back pain while sitting for long periods, and so far it's cured that problem. Also when I am waiting on short renders or compiles I tend to walk away or move around rather than start mindlessly surfing. Another advantage is that I can actually stand more in front of the monitor I am looking at the most rather than turning to face it from the center.
I intend to purchase a high task chair to go with it so I can sit or stand as the mood strikes. For now I have a stool from the shop.
I also found it immediately necessary to purchase a foot pad, as I am barefoot when in the office upstairs typically.
While I was at an office supply store looking for the high task chairs, I did sit in a few regular chairs that were super comfy and made me think "Gosh, if I had this chair I might not need a standing desk" but I think it's still nice to have the option to go back and forth.
It's been a few weeks now and we'll see how it plays out. So far I like it, and I still have my recliner for sitting and reading.
A friend who works for Google says that his entire office has the convertible sit / stand desks and they like them. He has also converted two of his three jerker desks at home to standing height.
Good thing auto update is disabled in the play store on my phone. I think this version of the app must be a couple of years old now...works great!
I love driving, and I consider it a hobby as well as essential transportation. I grew up in a big city but I no longer live in one, so there are no traffic jams here, ever. the system functions as intended and driving is a pleasure. I have a car, a truck and a travel trailer. I use the car when I'm not hauling things - 34 MPG and fast. The diesel truck gets used when hauling or towing.
There is a rather large disconnect between the city experience and the country experience. Here it's a central part of life, where in the City maybe it has gotten to the point where a lot of people would rather do without or use ride sharing services.
My only wish is that one group does not push their agenda on another group. Public transportation is not useful for people who actually do physical things for living, build physical things, sell things, haul things. The time scale is not conducive to business either. I can spend all day on public transit to get one task done, or spend two hours to get five tasks done in a car. The former makes no sense in a world where the latter is available.
I spent a good amount of time in Japan, and there public transit made much more sense. I never rent a car, always use the rail system. The population density and size of the country lends itself to it much better than the distribution and size of the US. Europe is larger but still better distributed for it. But I don't like it when people want to get rid of cars for the sake of getting rid of cars. It does not make sense universally.
I've never been on a conference call that couldn't have been reduced to two people or an email exchange. Like the meme goes, "I survived another meeting that could have been an email."
Even a three person conference call is too many. The only time when it works is when everyone is muted by default and only one person is allowed to talk at a time. (a call-in shareholder's meeting, for example.) which is more of an audio broadcast call.
Conference calls are probably the single most horrible method of business communication there is. Sometimes when more than two people who are not local to each other need to have a discussion, it's the only way, but they should be avoided at all costs and considered a last resort. Both lack of visual and technological limitations (audio squelch breaks down with more than a few people) make the experience miserable.
Towards the end of the last company I was employed at full time, management and staff were spread out all over the world and conference calls, skype sessions and what-not proliferated. I sat in on a number of these meetings and noted how difficult it was to communicate and how much longer it took to make a point vs. an in-person meeting or written copy.
One of the nice things about being an independent contractor is no longer having to deal with time wasting rubbish like conference calls.
I work and have worked with some well known and / or high net worth individuals, and more often then not they have an AOL address, as they started using it in the 90s and just just kept using it as they were comfortable with it, and no one ever gave them a good enough reason to switch. (these are obviously not tech industry people)
For myself I did go by a childhood nickname for many many years and it actually stuck in the workplace because I have a very common first name and we had to deconflict.
Now that I work for myself I have dropped it, and I use my personal domain with POP/IMAP on a hosting server with my website, keeping only two weeks of email on the server. Like some people here I'm not interested in having all my email exposed to the Google apparatus.
It'd be interesting to see in what light personal domains are seen in now, not that it matters or affects me at this point. (firstnamelastname.com type format) Before it was a must have piece of real estate, now many people just use a free email service such as Gmail and few people have personal websites anymore.
At a small aerospace company I worked at, we used very advanced features in Excel to do trajectory calculations, and moderately unique at the time features of MS Word (track changes.) And like many companies, we unfortunately abused powerpoint.
For any reasonably sized company with decent revenue, paying full ride for MS Office is not a problem. It's for casual use at home or a sole proprietor / home business where it hurts. Thus things like LIbreOffice start to be interesting alternatives. I have been in both situations and am currently in the latter, where I feel those little charges more personally.
Microsoft, despite being a near monopoly, made truly useful products for productivity that you could buy and own. Now they are shifting to the same business model as all others - software as a service - turning all of us into digital serfs who make endless monthly payments for everything we use. The truth is that it is wildly lucrative for the company to do this, not to mention a very steady income compared with the traditional product release cycle. But the problem is foisted on to the user, who is paying $5 month here, $30 a month there, $20 a month over there. Pretty soon you're paying out hundreds of dollars a month to use windows, office, Adobe creative suite, etc. If everyone switches to this business model, nobody will be able to afford the combined 'rent' or 'utilities' if you want to see them that way.
When I purchased MS office, I would use it until the PC died and sometimes longer without upgrading, because it worked just fine. Same with Windows. Then eventually buy or build a new PC with an OEM bundle and save money. Compared to the subscription service, there is actually a large savings in money for those who do not need to upgrade frequently. It's actually getting more expensive to use Microsoft software.
When I can no longer use a legacy version of office, I will start to look into LibreOffice and the like, so long as compatibility problems don't arise. LibreOffice supports features like track changes, but based on past experience when a company I worked for tried to shift to OpenOffice wholesale, we eventually had to switch back due to a raft of minor incompatibilities that made it difficult to work with customers. That was a long time ago however and things may have improved since then. Since I am on my own now outside of a traditional corporate environment, it is a bit easier as well.
Only the latest company to figure out that the wisdom of the crowds only works if the crowd is a small, thoughtful hand picked group with no trolls in it. That kind of thing simply doesn't exist in large numbers.
Most modern tech companies are founded on the concept of making a platform - any kind of platform - where the users do all the work for them. Anything the company has to do itself at scale using humans is very costly - any kind of moderation, screening or ratings. So they'll try everything they can before taking that kind of action. It's the 'cheap and lazy' tech approach to everything, and usually results in the dumbing down of whatever the thing is. At the scales they operate at, it's also pretty much the only choice they have in many cases. With Netflix that's not really the case. There are a finite amount of titles they carry, and a solid ratings system could be effected with a little bit of moderation and professional input, in addition to user feedback.
Reading third party professional or amateur movie critics reviews is probably the best way to get a good idea of whether you might like a show or not, as netflix' ratings and recommendations of their own shows are inherently suspect...
Towards the end, Jedediah the Pilot and his son live in a cave hideout at the end of the railroad line. I believe that was shot in Coober Pedy. listed in the credits.
This will in no way become just a front end for torrent sites. Nah. :D
It's interesting from the standpoint of disseminating information people want to give out freely and not be at the mercy of a centralized server, but typically the altruistic part will get dwarfed by the pirates pr0n.
The lack of monetization will keep both very high quality original content away from it as well as bottom-feeder clickbait and top ten lists.
Speaking as someone who makes part of his living off of YouTube, it doesn't really hold an interest for me, but if I was not concerned with monetizing my videos directly, it sounds interesting.
It is just so ripe for abuse that it will be interesting to see if legitimate players can even function in that environment. But if one of the 'instances' they speak of can be moderated, people could exist within the instance relatively harmoniously.
If this includes cancelling credit cards, it would be a godsend. No card company will let you do that online.
A long time ago I was invited as an enthusiast website owner to attend the North American unveiling of the Subaru WRX. This was very early days for internet influence and they had a group of about six of us. It was a very good move on Subaru's part, as we were able to reach the young enthusiast community in a way that traditional magazines could not. We were not paid beyond expenses and we were not asked to be shills or pitch men, we were to report honestly on our opinions of the car. I spoke to someone who went with us recently and most of that group is still in touch with each other today.
This reminds me of Subaru's outreach efforts; NASA is recognizing that social media users can be a 'man on the street' presence to document the event in a way that compliments professional journalism.
Given the history of the largely Shona-run ZANU-PF political party using its position to lord it over the largest minority ethnicity (the Ndeble) including the Matabeleland massacres in the early 1980s, there is a large possibility of it being used as the Chinese use it to repress minorities in certain regions.
China has a very strong policy of embracing Africa. When I was in Zimbabwe last year I saw a brand new Chinese-built coal-coke plant, and they are making a heavy investment in rail transport in the region as well. Given ZANU-PF's Marxist origins as a socialist style worker's party, it is easy to see why China sees Zimbabwe as a ready bedfellow when western states and industry stay away. (or were driven away as is the case with Mugabe in the 1990s and 2000's)
According to the last email I received in it, I stopped using it on December 20, 2015. I still have it to dig through old emails, which I just did the other day. It stores mail in the MBOX format so I could theoretically read it in other software, but just as easy to use Eudora itself while I still can. It has a great, easy to use search function.
I switched to Outlook because a majority of the emails I was starting to get weren't displaying properly. (MIME and HTML formatted emails.) I have outlook because I have office installed. Thunderbird has problems when you have a lot of email. last time I delt with it, it stored in a flat file format that INCLUDED all the attachments. I believe Outlook is a flat file sans attachments. (I'm using it locally, not with an exchange server)
I'm on Windows 7, but the next machine will likely have 10, and that will probably be the end of Eudora unless it works in compatibility mode. Not sure I want to re-install it anyway on next upgrade.
I actually like outlook quite a bit. It's pretty usable. One piece of software Microsoft did a reasonable job with.
A lot of people, including myself use LetsEncrypt on a CPanel based hosting account to generate certs for a website.
Are those local, self-signed certificates or something that is registered somewhere? I'd never really paid attention since it just worked and was one less thing to deal with.
Since it's not retroactive there is no problem now, but wondering what will happen when I generate new certs going forward.
It doesn't matter if you started off with an innocuous video or an extreme one, the suggested videos will lead to the same place eventually. YouTube's algorithm places popular videos in a genre high up in the recommended videos results. Likely because a crowd attracts a crowd. More extreme videos are always more popular by numbers, because clickbait.
This is a side effect of crowdsourcing their ratings by going on views, and perhaps secondarily how many people 'liked' or 'disliked' a certain video.
In any given genre (books, TV, movies, YouTube) the most popular item by numbers is the item that has the broadest appeal. The one with the broadest appeal is usually on the lower end of the intelligence scale. As with cinema, intelligent, artful pieces are typically relegated to small audiences, with the occasional oscar-bait breakout.
So if you put together a system whereby the most popular videos are suggested first, the feedback loop described in the article will happen. The only way out of that is to hand curate the algorithm. And that's the very thing that NO large scale tech company wants to do. The moment they stop automating everything possible is the moment scaling becomes expensive, and they no longer reap their huge margins - a license to print money as long as they can keep it going.
If they are competitive with the percentage of ad revenue that goes to the creators (about 50% on youtube) then I could see that being successful and I would participate. I am hoping that healthy competition continues to give creators what has honestly been the most democratized revenue sharing that media creators have ever seen.
Interstellar had a groundbreaking soundtrack (from none other than Hans Zimmer, which is shocking) and some well thought out, beautiful visual effects.
However, I found the story incredibly nihilistic, depressing and pointless. I'm all for media that is interesting and thoughtful, but I prefer to see or read media where humans aren't universally the bad guys. It's amazing to see the difference in attitude in films over the last 30 - 40 years. We've gone from a 'can do' to 'we're doomed' outlook and it weighs heavily in popular culture. That very attitude can be a self fulfilling prophecy.
I didn't think Artemis very good. It was a poor man's "Moon is a Harsh Mistress" with a lot of situations that stretched improbability in human interaction to the limit. Not as good as The Martian by a long shot.
A more recent series that I did enjoy greatly is the Torchship books by Karl Ghallager. If he writes anything new I'll be first in line.
This will in no way be abused by ideologues asking their millions of flunkies to upvote their favorite extremist 'news' organizations without a second thought.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvT_gqs5ETk
I don't they understand how the internet works. The articles are not reprinted wholesale, only linked to. Facebook and Google make money as an aggregator, and then you go to the media's site and see the full article, and their advertising. Everyone advertises on their own platform.
As someone else noted, the American media largely understands how this works. The EU proposal is just some bizarre misguided rent seeking for the media industries there, which will end up blowing up in their own faces as they no longer receive the majority of their traffic.
You're about exactly in the same boat I'm in, I just hit 50k subs and about the same income. Will be interesting to see what I can get from Patreon.