reading.writing.revolution

the world in pictures and words

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“Google is making a decisive move away from the open internet. They are building their own closed information garden and that’s a decisive shift away from the model that undergirded all of the company’s history down until the last couple years. Because Google is so big and has such a dominant role in the architecture of the internet, that’s a decisive shift for the future of the internet as well.”

— Google, AI, Oligarchy and the End of the ‘Open Web’

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At first, Big Tech’s move to the right was focused on Musk, Thiel, their circles and acolytes and then people like Mark Zuckerberg who saw the MAGA light leading up to the 2024 presidential election. But recently, Google cofounder Sergei Brin has moved decisively in the MAGA direction as well. He’s not in the full white nationalist shit-posting mold of Elon Musk. At least not yet. But it’s a big shift away from the image, political giving and political culture Google’s founder-leaders had for most of the company’s history. Brin’s big hobbyhorse is funding opposition to a California wealth tax and in a move both to avoid those taxes and as kind of a MAGA signifier he recently relocated to just across the California border, set up his new home on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe.

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As with all grifters, the truth is never hard to find: just follow the money.

Oh, and *half* the money is our tax dollars. Just taken.

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(via Your Phone Can Protect You, Or Expose You)

Hardening your device is what security professionals call OPSEC, Operational Security, but here, we also define it as community care.

Protecting your digital footprint is an act of solidarity that keeps your friends, family, and organizers safe from being “stitched together” into a map of movement activity. You don’t need to be a hacker to be safe. You just need to raise the “cost” of watching you so high that surveillance systems look for an easier target. You don’t have to disappear, you just have to stop making it easy for them.

Phones are tracking devices by design. However, you can take back control without throwing your phone in a lake. This guide walks through the essential “locks” for your device like strong passcodes, revoking app permissions, and using encrypted messaging for safer organizing.

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Bunkers Full of Billionaires: What Could Go Wrong? Oh, It Already Did.

Wow, that was fast.

I’ve been following bunker stories ever since Douglas Rushkoff wrote about them. Soon after, someone sent me a 2017 article from The New Yorker that revealed the secret bunker culture of bankers and hedge fund managers. They really do get together over tapas and brag about their doomsday plans.

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June 28, 2026

A wide range of Democratic voices are in the process of shaping new political language to move their party, and the country, forward.

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The Right Knows the Future Is Coming, and That’s Why It’s Getting More Dangerous

From immigration detention to voter restrictions to Bible passages in public schools, the old order is not proving strength. It is confessin

I wrote that conservatism does not rise because it is correct…it rises only because it is afraid. Every time the world changes shape, the old order reanimates, drapes itself in duty, sanctity, nostalgia, family, nation, law, and God, then pretends the costume is a skeleton.

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Federal judge halts Trump’s election executive order seeking to create a federal voter list

A federal judge has halted President Donald Trump’s executive order that sought to create a federal voter list and limit who can receive a m

A federal judge halted Trump’s executive order seeking to create a federal voter list and restrict mail-ballot access, siding with nearly two dozen states and the District of Columbia. The ruling is very important because the order reached toward the machinery of counting itself. Voter rolls, mail delivery, citizenship lists, eligibility screens, federal agencies, all of that bureaucratic machinery can sound dull until someone realizes dull tools are still tools.

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Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars.

AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.