Moonshots
I grew up watching shuttles launch, believing big things were possible. The crises we face now demand moonshot-level efforts: media systems that break the far right’s grip on the dominant narratives and an internet shaped to serve people rather than interests that turn it against the public.
Waypoints
Five posts in, I’m mapping how media and tech keep tilting power to the right. Next: mapping the openings where tech and media can build narrative power instead of ceding it. An update on the exploration and dialogues.
Media Landscape
Right-wing media sets the terms of US politics. Drawing on earlier reading, here’s a draft playbook for how we can organize distributed progressive media networks.
The left keeps building media strategies on top of platforms built to undermine them. As browsers are rebuilt for mass surveillance and manipulation, the systems that decide what people see and who gets heard are being rewritten without us. Control over the browser is control over political reality.
The left can’t rebuild media power without understanding how infrastructure, capital, and narrative have been structured to serve the right. These seven sharp reads map the right’s advantage, the oligarchy’s takeover, and why governance, not content, is the real battleground.
Movement Technology
Substack has helped people find each other. But it isn't built for the kind of futures our society needs. I started this blog using the Ghost platform because movement media needs infrastructure that aligns with our values, and enables us to keep building when corporations lock-in.
Post-2016 I muted my voice online to feel safe. I’ve since learned that true safety comes from connection with others. To effectively resist authoritarian threats we need to be able to share our stories safely by investing in foundational social web technologies that fight against corporate fascism.
This blog post by former government insider John Skiles Skinner shares an alarming firsthand account of the rushed rollout of a barely functional AI system by DOGE across public agencies.
I had a false start in 2013, and then my self-hosted ghost blog crashed last month, so I'm recreating it. In the meantime, I'm going to posting things and seeing what sticks. Work in progress. Under (re)construction.