Ken Smith

In 2009, @DaveWiner asked, “Where is Twitter’s WordPress?” In 2026, we may be approaching a time when WordPress is Twitter’s WordPress. #a172151" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">scripting.com/2009/02/17.htm…

“The next time we go to war, the American people should have to say yes. It’s become just too easy to go to war.” open.substack.com/pub/fallows/p/…

When he renamed DofD as DofW, he wasn’t kidding.

Four ways that cults end. instagram.com/reel/DVRnvB9ki…

If they create new formats where they could build with ones that already exist, they have their eyes on a silo, not on the web. “Gratuitous incompatibility is a sign of a silo-seeker.” #a145446" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">scripting.com/2026/02/27.htm…

A study commissioned by the European Parliament recommends strengthening data protection clauses in EU laws, including identifying transnational repression as a “systemic risk” that regulated platforms are responsible for under the Digital Services Act. icij.org/investigations…

We know the cards and letters of condolence might never be opened, never be read. No matter. If they are delivered, they speak.

Turns out Executive Order 14253 has the title “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.” So if you disagree with the way administration’s likes to tell some part of American history, you might be a devious liar or a dangerous maniac. Noted. whitehouse.gov/presidential-a…

And the 2026 election? Dave Winer says, “It must be about everything.” akakensmith.com/2026/01/27/it-…

Trump is a manifestation of the ugliness in us as a people, as a racist country, argues Eddie Glaude, echoing and amplifying James Baldwin. @major.leeg/post/DT_qGV9DFrt" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">threads.com/@major.leeg/po…

“Their untroubled and automatic dishonesty, amid so much shared evidence, gives rise to a horrible question: If this is what they do when we can see, what’s going on in the places—planes and cars, detention centers—where we can’t?” newyorker.com/culture/on-tel…

The racism is taught by repeating certain images. Which is—no coincidence, no accident—a primary method of propaganda. Brief thread. instagram.com/p/DTgTOz6CsFT/…

The idea that you cannot really learn how fascism operates by viewing most dystopian movies. instagram.com/reel/DTU1ZKbjO…

(An aside: my brother was killed in a workplace accident.)

And eg., another country has natural resources we want, so conquer it, dominate it, whatever it takes…including looking the other way at abuses there. Children in poverty there? Oh well, that’s a shame. Keep the raw materials headed our way…

NecroCapitalism, the idea that for the very rich to make the amount of money they want to be making, some people are going to have to die. Eg., workplace safety reduces profits, so cut back on regulations. instagram.com/reel/DTWrasYDl…

“Trump did not corrupt the presidency, he exposed its purpose.” instagram.com/reel/DTLXs_VEj…

The possibility that the US government does no meaningful screening before handing job applicants a badge, a face mask, body armor, and a gun. instagram.com/reel/DTgNWKXAQ…

10 Commandments of Nonviolent Resistance by the Czechs and Slovaks to the Soviet Invasion of 1968 macbartkowski.com/10-commandment…

Danish resistance in World War II saved the lives of most of its Jewish residents. Many techniques were employed. One example, the two-minute strike, is described below, from the pdf "Ten Commandments" link in this Nation article. thenation.com/article/activi…