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Brutalist risograph poster in cyan, amber, and black showing broadcasting towers and soundwaves cutting through digital noise, with bold title: Informational Brute Force.

Informational Brute Force: What Lula's Army Teaches Us About Winning the Algorithmic War

Put down the white paper. Step away from the quote-tweet. In Brazil, an insurgent movement defeated Bolsonaro by abandoning polite liberal decorum and meeting algorithmic fascism with informational brute force. Here is the manual.

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Accountability Is Not Retribution

Shielding an elite sex trafficking operation makes you an accessory. IMPEACH.

High-contrast silhouette of four laborers on a horizon line. One man swings a pickaxe while three others observe or rest nearby, set against a plain, bright white background — Photo by Javad Esmaeili / Unsplash

Why Do You Equate Toil With Righteousness?

Do you think you must purchase your dignity with hard work?

Colored pencil sketch of a tired tech worker in a hoodie, relaxing in a patio chair at sunset. He slumps while sipping a raspberry iced tea, an open laptop sitting on the side table. — A generated image of someone relaxing with a raspberry iced tea just like I am right now.

We Write The Future

Social change is hard, so take care of yourself. None of us is responsible for winning alone.

Four monarch chrysalises hang from a window screen frame: green, dark mottled, and one transparent revealing the folded orange-and-black wings of a butterfly about to emerge. — Photo by Suzanne D. Williams / Unsplash

In a World of Nouns, Be a Verb

Enacting a better world means showing up intentionally - not just transformed, but transformative.

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The Template Is the Trap

David Sirota is right about Graham Platner. Let's start there.

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Sierra Friend | Live Differently

I traded the script for a life that feels good from the inside and moved to Costa Rica to see what’s on the other side of “supposed to.” I write about what I find for everyone standing at that edge.

Aaron J Smith | The Cluttered Mouth

I'm a poet, a post-Christian theologian, a spiritual director, and something of a mess — in the way that paying attention to the world tends to make you.