The 2020s feel like an inverse of the 1960s: instead of a wave of permissiveness and expanding rights for women and minorities, we’re watching that progress recede.

Then, as now, marked by violence against the leading voices of the cultural movement.

The only legal principle SCOTUS is operating under right now is King Trump’s word is law and racism is OK, actually.

My entire life the pattern has been

1. Republican president ruins economy.
2. We elect Dems to fix it.
3. Republicans obstruct pace of progress and people get frustrated with Dems.
4. We elect a Republican president
5. Go back to step 1.

The Economist argues that a lack of robots is in major European cities will be a wake up call that they’ve fallen behind the rest of the world.

Ignoring that this is a strange take — if limited mass transit, no universal healthcare and widespread gun violence hasn’t convinced Americans they’ve fallen behind, why would lack of Waymos make Europeans feel similarly?

https://www.economist.com/europe/2025/09/04/robotaxis-will-be-the-sputnik-moment-for-a-declining-europe?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=68ba77b55102e60001abec1a&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

The culture of working in tech these days is being constantly worried about being overworked or unemployed.

Take care of yourselves. We are replaceable cogs to our employers but irreplaceable to our family and friends.