The other week I spoke at 20x2 about newspaperman George Dale who fought the Klan in the 1920s, at huge personal cost, and how our path forward involves being more like him than the folks bending the knee right now.
I just keep writing pithy little posts and deleting them and then writing new little jokes and deleting them and then just staring into the middle distance for a while and then trying again
As a parent of a Gen Z kid, I can tell you that their whole entire lives theyβve seen the government put them last. Guns, covid, student loans, cost-of-living, itβs always their gen that has gotten fucked.
This TikTok ban vividly reinforces what they already know.
The best time to start building a little spot for yourself on the internet independent of platforms was yesterday. The second best time is right fucking now.
The first small step in making a better internet for each other is starting to establish a presence there that isnβt owned by a platform. Separate your self from Meta and Twitter and Substack and own your presence. Is it as easy? No, but itβs worth it.
