Stephen Downes

I agree with this. "Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them," Janus Rose writes. "We don't need any more irony-poisoned hot takes or cathartic, irreverent snark. We need to collectively decide what kind of world we actually do want, and what we're willing to do to achieve it." What does that look like? It involves talking with each other, organizing, and building decentralized institutions and structures that are resistant to centralized control, and then defending them when they come under attack. It also means taking care of each other and protecting our most vulnerable and resisting the inevitable calls to scapegoat them. All this used to be the proper domain of education, but we've gotten away from that a bit.