While the pink triangle originated as a symbol of sexual deviancy, it has since been reclaimed as a powerful symbol by LGBTQ+ people across the world. In the 1970s, with the dawn of the modern gay liberation movement, activists took the upside-down pink triangle and turned it the right way around to use it as a sign of their own difference – and the need for that difference to be accepted, embraced and understood.

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I feel very targeted at the current time. Now we are removing as many of the resources that help me be effective and feel welcome as we can.

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We should strive to have inclusive and equitable workplaces because it is the right thing to do. Not because the law requires us to do so.

Want to read: Kingdom of No Tomorrow by Fabienne Josaphat 📚 just added on the strength of the NYT book review.

For most of us, it’s hard to imagine life without an internet browser. But as AI disaggregates information from text, video, and music into unique remixable AI chatbot answer streams, it’s clear to me that over the next decade the browser will need to adapt or die. 

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A Blue Heron and a Snowy Egret on a marshy bit of park, boats in the background.

Happy holidays.

Two people, in beanies, scarves, and warm jackets smiling at the camera. Boats in the background.

This quote rings true for almost anything.

It’s when times are hard, whether financially, or more crucially, when truth speaks to malicious power, that it becomes essential for the owner to be in the game first and foremost for the mission of journalism itself.

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news publications need to be owned by people who are devoted to the core pursuit of journalism.

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But we already have blogrolls and OPML.

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A small wooden shelf in the sidewalk with mementos on it. A kind of neighborhood shrine.

If you think you are the chicken and not the pig, you are wrong.

Sunset, looking out from Emeryville at the San Francisco Bay.
Colorful stairs in Medellín.

Must read on populism’s playbook from someone who lived through it.

Orbán’s power grab program runs on two components that you can think of as hardware and software. The populist hardware consists of hijacked institutions. The software is made up of populist discourses and narratives that are used to create and enlist the consent of the ruled.

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