i have been reading Tom Ricks’ “Fighting the Good War” which is a military analysis of the civil rights movement, and one thing that comes abundantly across is that movement leaders and ordinary people made it a practice to refuse to fall into despair and cynicism.

You know what it did? It felt effortlessly like The Expanse, grounded human sci-fi, with an overtone that I thought the Expanse was largely missing: the opportunity to be an unrepentant fan of humanity.

It's post-war, post-capitalist...hardscrabble, but hopeful.

I dig that vibe.

Man, some people think ICE is a storied institution and not a shoddily put together agency that was one prong of our famously awful response to 9/11. We didn't do it this way for LITERALLY hundreds of years. Just disband the sick fucks and get back to normal immigration enforcement.

If implemented like credit cards through Apple Pay, where merchants only get a token not the actual card number, I’m okay with this. So, if adult websites or apps only get a token saying “User is 18+” and nothing else, I honestly like the idea.

Here's the thing. Violence isn’t required, because autocracy depends on compliance...not force alone. When people withdraw consent through mass noncooperation, institutions holding, and legitimacy collapse, power evaporates. History shows regimes fall when obedience stops, not when bloodshed starts.

"Idea Guys" are so accustomed to only knowing how to come up with stuff they don't seem to grasp that's not the hard part of being creative. I can fill a double two-page spread with thumbnails or written brainstorming in an afternoon.

The hard (and rewarding) part is the execution.