Libraries and democracy. Both good ideas.

In response to the past week

  1. We cannot seek to understand why people might want to limit access and agency. We must push against the errosion of opportunity.
  2. On Tyranny is a must read.
  3. California’s Governor Newsom seems prepared to set up a real opposition force. It would be great to see him and VP Harris, once she’s out of office, team up on this. Whatever it might mean for the 2028 election.
  4. We are very lucky the U.S. Constitution is so hard to change.
  5. That makes it even more important that we strengthen the ground game, supporting local institutions, ensuring elections can be certified appropriately, and districts are drawn fairly is even more important.
  6. We’ve got to document. From preserving data to writing blogs to keeping personal diaries. We’ve got intentionally capture the data on our world. This is a big one and is attached to our current age of AI especially when combined with the machines of mis and disinformation.
  7. We need to stoke imagination. We need to image more ways to preserve resources and allow access to opportunity than enforcing limitations.

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