"Rebels in our own time" My 3/28 speech at No Kings 3, Cincinnati

“The future opens when we act.”

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“Public service and public life is a gift and something to treasure — the uncommon chance to do something for a cause bigger than yourself…”

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reads: Introduction In March 2026, an Anthropic employee released the source code of Claude Code, a wrapper around their large language model that is widely used to generate code in programming tasks. Its thousands of lines of Typescript code contained many hopeful prompts and in cantations to shape Claude’s behaviour. Here are some examples: “Report outcomes faithfully”; “Never characterize incomplete or broken work as done”; “Be careful not to introduce security vulnerabilities ” (prompts.ts in Anthropic 2026) . There is more than a passing resemblance here to the Azande witch -doctor apprentice who, while stirring the medicine, utters: “You medicine which I am cooking, mind you always speak the truth to me. Do not let anyone injure me with his witchcraft, but le t me recognize all witches. … Let me be expert at the witch -doctor’s craft so that people will give me many spears on account of my magic.” (Evans-Pritchard 1937: 93). In the case of Claude, the incantation s appeared insufficient: analysis of the codebase, which according to a company executive was “pretty much 100% written by Claude Code ”, revealed severe security vulnerabilities (Townsend 2026).

what an introductory paragraph!!

“like the acceleration of the climate crisis; nobody knows how to build a system resilient enough to handle a “storm of the century” every year. Nobody knows how to properly communicate about, and respond to, the “exploit of the year” if it’s happening every six hours.”

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Anytime you have the opportunity, you should support small business. Especially ones that are generous themselves in supporting others. One of my favorites is @blackbirdletterpress.com.

Alt text use is tanking.

Please fill in the alt text on images you share. It makes a huge difference.

Emotional Artemis II crew names moon crater 'Carroll' after Nasa commander's late wife YouTube video by Guardian News

Humanity ☮️❤️

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A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's "keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's "we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight." It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before. "It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead. @michaelfdubois Mukad A QuBoy @michacifdubois

Brutal.

More and more of the same. Which tools do you use? Do you trust them?

“Even paid users who turned on the ‘Incognito’ feature still had their conversations shared with Meta and Google, along with their email addresses and other identifiers that allowed Meta and Google to personally identify them."

All of this being said, the "AI revolution" has not materialized in the form of increased productivity.

What's happening instead is that companies are experimenting with how much further they can degrade the already-degraded customer experience before it impacts their top line growth.

AI is not an assistant – it's your new boss (The Everything App part 2) As managers continue to outsource data-gathering and decision-making to LLMs, the person above you on the org chart is transforming into a chatbot's clerk – and leaving product teams with the conseque...

“The entire sense-making process – normally driven by multiple cycles of human interaction to identify discrepancies and fill missing pieces – has been replaced with an unreliable black box.”

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The president speaks genocide The words, the law, the future

“He has changed us, because he represents us; we voted for him, or we didn’t vote and allowed him to come to power, or we didn’t do enough to stop him. These words are America’s words, until and unless Americans reject them.”

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I Guess We're Just Waiting Around To See If This Demented Psychopath Kills Everyone | Defector There is a particular indignity that comes from living in America, derived from the experience of waking up in the morning to see reports that Donald Trump has said something profoundly evil, and then...

“the President of the United States threatening to wipe out an entire civilization for reasons that could range anywhere from prediction market manipulation to a sincere desire and willingness to kill millions of people, is as humiliating as it is terrifying.”

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Fighting Cancer Has Given Me New Insights on the Anti-Fascist Challenge We Face To resist authoritarianism, our work must be deeply relational. We must act even in uncertainty. Nurturing builds power.

“We must act even in uncertainty. Nurturing builds power.”

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Angel Monday Well, why not?

“Why are we always calculating End-Time? The Not-Now. When Now is all we have. This beautiful place of Being.”

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“A man with enormous influence over technologies of war & surveillance, over the political direction of the country, over the infrastructure of violence his firm has spent a decade funding, has, in effect, announced that he has no interest in examining his conscience.”

How Can I Help? Hi folks, Already Q2? Whew! I hope you’re all doing well. This morning, I had a call with Stefan Hager, who runs Weirdness As A Service. He walked me through...

“AI is going to put out what most people would put out, and that’s not interesting.”

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That’s fine. Just don’t celebrate their accomplishments by naming things after them unless it’s a popup snowcone shop or something easy to remove.

We don’t need to name things after humans anymore.

@davepell.bsky.social I’ve been a fan of The Record Company since their first album. We saw them in Seattle recently. Great show. And we met them after the show when they were loading up their van.

An awesome live band.

“We’re The Record Company and we play rock and roll!”

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ChatGPT Dads and why they're bad news for moms

“Read on to hear all about the downsides of fathers outsourcing the mental work of parenting to AI. (Barf.)”

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Stop naming buildings (and streets, and parks, and ships, and mountains) after people Eventually, inevitably, someone will decide that your well-meaning gesture was a terrible error.

“Stop naming all those things after any people. Just stop.”

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Do car-free zones hurt disabled people? We asked experts. City planners and advocates are seeing "accessibility used as a political football."

“…disabled people are actually less likely to drive than nondisabled people and more likely to get around by walking and rolling and taking transit. Car-heavy cities are also disproportionately dangerous for disabled folks…”— @nondriver.bsky.social

Don’t use accessibility “as a political football.”

If there is a point to being human, it probably is something stupid like writing poems and songs. So go write your book. Do your part.

If Venezuela were to shut out the US and win the World Baseball Classic in between ads for “Faithful Women of the Bible” it would be the most on the nose thing ever. #wbc

IndieWeb and 100 Days to Offload: duce.micro.blog/2026/03/17/indieweb-and-...

Flare - 40 - mobile — Douze Degrés Studio de design spécialisé dans la conception de scénographies, le design d'espace et le produit.

This is super cool.

“Using an optical lens, the candlelight is captured, amplified, and projected, turning a soft glow into a vibrant beam.”

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(Via Poolsuite)

An ancient Aztec pot shaped like a crab with extremely goofy eyes and mouth.

I love it when a museum has an exhibit that's just a lil guy

The reason we have enough money for a war is that we get to print money because we have the reserve currency that the whole world uses. So we could afford to buy you a house or pay for your healthcare or forgive your student loan debt but we don’t do it because I don’t know.

ME: omg i have so much to do today

BRAIN: best i can do is none of it so that you don't feel bad for only doing some of it

ME: that doesn't make any sense

BRAIN: don't tell me how to do my job

The Four Rules for a Good Walk In 2017, city planner Jeff Speck gave a talk on the four ways to make a city more walkable: In the typical American city, in which most people own cars a

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