Comcast keeps turning the screws

Jason Kratz

30 Jul 2025

Lots of talk on TV commercials about their 5-year price lock. What they don’t say in those commercials is that they will keep moving things from your current package to a higher-level package. First it was Cartoon Network which is now in an add-on package that is $9.99 extra per month. Now I received an email that Marquee Sports Network is moving to a higher package after the current Chicago Cubs season ends. If I want to watch any Cubs games next year I have to pony up.

In the case of the Cubs we went from all games on WGN TV for free via OTA to now requiring the Comcast Ultimate package. Yep, definitely better for the consumer 🤔

Yep. Social media is still full of echo chambers.

I loved this quote from Petter Törnberg in an article about studying social media on Ars Technica: First, you have echo chambers or filter bubbles. The risk of broad agreement is that if you want to have a functioning political conversation, functioning deliberation, you do need to do that across

This is all there is

Fresh starts are just another form of perfectionism

2025-W32: A weekly review

Pressure cooker explodes. News at 11.

Home again, home again, jiggety jig

Here yet again. and again. and again 😆 I triple pinky-swear this time I'll stick around. Really. No more domain changes. For now 🤪

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Yep. Social media is still full of echo chambers.

This is all there is

2025-W32: A weekly review

Home again, home again, jiggety jig