What does it take to build a sustainable model for closing the digital divide? How DigitalC grew to nearly 10,000 subscriber households

What Vermont is getting right — and why Google’s AI search changes feel different

A conversation about digital equity, dark money, and the fight over Internet access

In this episode of Unbuffered, Chris is joined by Ernesto Falcon, Program Manager of Communications and Broadband Policy with the Public Advocates Office for a conversation about competition, mergers, and how to make sure the lowest-income households have access to an Internet connection that allows them to participate in the economy and civic life, as well as access telehealth and educational services on an equitable playing field.

A conversation about AI policy, emergent systems, distributed knowledge, and why the things that are easiest to measure “might not be the right things to measure.”

BEAD delays, LEO satellites, permitting, affordability, and why mobile networks may be getting worse

A conversation about how we organize networks—and who they serve

An important conversation around what happened when federal agents came to Minnesota—and how communities responded