Freedom

“Luthen’s Rising” is a deep dive video essay into the Character Luthen Rail from the Andor TV series and how his choices and sacrifices paved the way for the success of the rebellion and ultimately freeing the people of the galaxy from repression. Andor is the most important TV series of our time as it explores real-world concepts of resistance and rebellion against repressive regimes and how choices from either side effect individual freedom and our shared human experience.

Recently, I received an email from Anita Moorjani, someone who has been an inspiration to me from the NDE crowd. I also received another message about censorship from the Stop Killing Games movement about the same topic. This is my message to people of the internet to stop using for-profit web platforms

The Stop Killing Games movement released a response to target initiatives that aim to censor speech on the web. If laws are written in a way that assumes every online service is a giant platform with lawyers, compliance teams, ID-verification systems, app-store integration, and moderation infrastructure, then small communities get squeezed out. Communities should not be prevented from keeping games alive because the open web is being turned into a permissioned, age-gated, platform-controlled system.

2026 is going to be the year bad ideas accelerate. Maybe this was due. Most of us in the tech industry knew full well how ad-tech was supposed to make it easier to market products to people.

Here is a good video on why Citizens United needs to be repealed, but it sounds like there are people wanting to amend the constitution.

Due to the recent arrest of Don Lemon, Scott Galloway, a clinical professor of marketing, suggested a sustained unsubscribe initiative.