miles dyson is a great character, played painfully well, but also the one real failure of predictive imagination in Cameron's first two Terminator movies

it's fascinating that in an age of overwhelming optimism about technology James Cameron foresaw big tech destroying mankind over its need to seek profits from the defense industry but also imagined the big tech founder genius responsible as a fundamentally decent man and loving father

i'm trying to write an episode that happens to involve a J6 guy and it's a real pain in the ass that all the FBI webpages that used to have information on them have been wiped off the internet! a pardon doesn't actually change the past, but it sure does make it hard to learn about.

Many of us are echoing @timothysnyder.bsky.social's lesson in On Tyranny, "Do not obey in advance.”

A no less vital admonition that deserves attn:

STAND OUT

“...without that unease, there is no freedom. The moment you set an example, the spell of the status quo is broken, and others will follow."