I'd have never accomplished what I have (helping create billions of $ of free Open Educational Resources as subs for costly college textbooks) were it not for the critical support SEIU provided in my 1st election. Millions of Americans don't know SEIU reduced THEIR college costs. Thank you, SEIU!

A Proposal to Establish the U.S. Digital Progress Administration President-elect Joe Biden should create the digital equivalent of FDR’s WPA to rebuild public faith in our government and democracy itself.

With your support, many of us worked diligently to raise these issues during your admin - which made great progress in aligning tech policies w/the public interest. I will always wonder what else I could have done to convince President Biden not to drop that ball. I just couldn't get a hearing.

Time to wise up fast, folks. Provoking public disorder is not a CONSEQUENCE of Trump's lawless deeds. It's the GOAL. Trump needs just one violent street protest to "justify" the declaration of Martial Law that has almost certainly already been prepared. Don't give him that opportunity. #nonviolence

Time to wise up fast, folks. Provoking public disorder is not a CONSEQUENCE of Trump's lawless deeds. It's the GOAL. Trump needs JUST ONE violent street skirmish to "justify" the declaration of Martial Law that has almost certainly already been drafted. Don't give him that opportunity. #nonviolence

Scientific institutions have a long history of anticipatory obedience Societies should learn from this and speak up to support inclusion

I recently had lunch with a local college president. He told me his main goal is to keep his head down. "It's my responsibility to protect our students. The most important thing I can do right now is not make us a target." That's how it starts. That's also the beginning of the end. #Resist

Why don't we have squads of drones that can put out wildfires by carrying fire-dousing hose arrays?

A Proposal to Establish the U.S. Digital Progress Administration President-elect Joe Biden should create the digital equivalent of FDR’s WPA to rebuild public faith in our government and democracy itself.

Here's my previous attempt to get the Democratic Party to pay attention to what must be done to reign in Big Tech. No one was listening then. Perhaps now is a better time? medium.com/digital-dipl...

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Plus, once blocked he'd have to cut a new deal with either his wing nut caucus or the Dems. He can't deliver on his promises. The best he can do is to deliver a delay.

They are who they always were. For decades our culture has lionized wealth created via the trickery of proprietary technologies that ape dishonest car mechanics who cheat customers by hiding what's happening under the hood. Little wonder then that people without ethics lack ethics. Rule by thieves .

The Day People-Centered Technology Died When Governor George Deukmejian killed California’s Office of Appropriate Technology in 1983 it marked the end of government efforts to…

Here's the backsy of how/why/when sociopaths took over in California's Silicon Valley, just fyi...It's been a slow slide toward centralized economic power (aka fascism) ever since.

The fact that the DC Dems have been beaten into irrelevancy by someone as dumb and obviously corrupt as Trump should be a clue that it's time for them to abandon their neoliberal $ grubbing alliance with Big Tech and champion open source digital technologies. But even now, they still won't do it.

A Proposal to Establish the U.S. Digital Progress Administration President-elect Joe Biden should create the digital equivalent of FDR’s WPA to rebuild public faith in our government and democracy itself.

I'm so sorry. 18F was indeed a crown jewel. I've long admired your accomplishments. You deserved much better than this. 18F was one of the reasons I made this unheeded proposal to Team Biden six years ago You should all have been promoted not fired:

Gotcha. I fully agree the congressional Democrats are spineless. Many of them are clearly hoping to take their place as the protectors of Big Tech as the GOP morphs into a Trump cult. The DC Dems won't cut the oligarchs off at the pockets - they just want to cut themselves in on some of that cash.

Nah, I think (with respect) this article puts way too much emphasis on Israel. Israel (despite its immoral failings, including funding Hamas) did not create the American oligarchy that has overtaken us. This article also ignores - as do Dem leaders - the need to reform gov tech procurement policies.

Right again. I strongly oppose the GOP, of course. But I am even more outraged by the cowardly Democratic Party leaders who refuse to directly take on the fascists' Silicon Valley power base - hoping instead to replace the GOP as its protector. So instead they virtue signal by calling Trump names.

Yup. And meanwhile, the mainstream biz model in Silicon Valley gives an advantage, including lucrative gov.contracts, to the most devious operators, which creates and fuels an oligarchy for whom selfish me-first "libertarianism" is a fig leaf that keeps the cash rolling in. A taxpayer fed monster.

Exactly right.

Thanks. Really. Writing it was a "I just had to get it off my chest" moment. Now age 68, I saw all this happening in slow mo during my years covering Silicon Valley. What else can you expect when an entire industry apes the ethics of dishonest car mechanics who hide what's happening under the hood?

The Day People-Centered Technology Died When Governor George Deukmejian killed California’s Office of Appropriate Technology in 1983 it marked the end of government efforts to…

Thank you for your work. So much gets lost in the fuzzy haze of techno-worship created by ad-seeking Big Media - which is also often looking for those same Big Tech firms to sponsor their lucrative "conferences." Here is some additional background from an old Silicon Valley reporter you might enjoy.

A Proposal to Establish the U.S. Digital Progress Administration President-elect Joe Biden should create the digital equivalent of FDR’s WPA to rebuild public faith in our government and democracy itself.

There was an earlier related plan that was proposed to then President-elect Biden. It would have generated savings by targeting Big Tech's massive federal profits. It would also have cut Musk off at the pass. Any guesses why it never happened?

A Proposal to Establish the U.S. Digital Progress Administration President-elect Joe Biden should create the digital equivalent of FDR’s WPA to rebuild public faith in our government and democracy itself.

There was an earlier related plan proposed to then President-elect Biden that would have generated savings by targeting Big Tech. It would also have headed Musk off at the pass. Any guesses why it never happened?

Next up: "The Trump Slump."

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Govt doesn't create fascism. Fascism gains and holds power because of oligarchic businesses led by people who know that fair rules fairly enforced will limit or end their easy profits. That's why American fascism is led by Silicon Valley CEOs and VCs, who could put even a stooge like Trump in power.

It's so wonky, Philip, I can't break thru with what I think helps explain this. For decades our media has lionized an industry (Big Tech, easy money! Be the next Steve Jobs!) that apes the biz model of dishonest car mechanics who hide what's happening under the hood. People know they've been robbed.

A Proposal to Establish the U.S. Digital Progress Administration President-elect Joe Biden should create the digital equivalent of FDR’s WPA to rebuild public faith in our government and democracy itself.

I saw fascism coming six years ago (even earlier) when I published this open letter to the Biden Harris team. We have an economy led by lionized firms that ape the biz ethics of dishonest car mechanics who cheat customers by hiding what's happening under the hood. On that foundation democracy sank.

Silicon Valley is known as the land of easy $. Write code & make bank like recording artists! An entire industry based on this model was lionized despite the social & economic advantages of open source software. Wall Street loved it. The goal: recurring revenue for no new work. Outcome: fascism.

Mouthbreathing Machiavellis Dream of a Silicon Reich | Corey Pein Meet the neo-reactionaries who influenced the rightward drift of Silicon Valley.

Sociopaths now lead Silicon Valley. But how did that start? History: 1976 when a Bill Gates' open letter led the new software industry to ape the biz model of dishonest car mechanics who lie about what's under the hood. Making bank came first not honesty. Straight line to fascism's rule of thieves.

"Last week, Republicans celebrated the pardons of criminals who were filmed violently assaulting police officers..." Please @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social - you MUST repeat this point EVERY SINGLE DAY. Drive it home with constant repetition ala Trump. Don't let them change the subject!!! Stay on this!