Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Alie (which is me) on a stage at a mic, in front of a tall red curtain
Alie ol’ Dadward cheesin on a red carpet holding a chrome, heart-shaped trophy award. I’m wearing a black skirt, black shirt and striped tights with old ratty combat boots
A graphic that says iHeart Podcast Awards winner! Best Science Podcast: Ologies with Alie ward
Best Science: Hidden Brain StarTalk Radio Stuff To Blow Your Mind Ologies with Alie Ward - WINNER Science Vs
Hey we won Best Science pod at the iHeart Awards among some fierce competition. Thanks to everyone who listens & thank you to our small but mighty team.
If you want to convert someone to an Ologite, but don’t know where to start, ologies.com is like a menu of topics.
Science matters. Like, A LOT.
What a different world we could have.
I wish I could have been a fly on the wall the moment a 19 year old DOGEbag got access to the VA system only to realize the VA still uses VISTA - a proprietary MUMPS-based programming language from 1978.
Knowing your rights, exercising your rights, and informing others about their rights is not a crime. It’s a constitutional right.
These “know your rights” videos have crucial, easy-to-understand information on how to defend against the most common ICE tactics and unconstitutional actions. ⤵️
Un po' straniante.
old Soviet joke for our times:
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
A google map with a path through the state of Illinois with 7 towns with the same names as major European cities (Paris, Vienna, Athens, Berlin, Rome, Milan, Geneva, IL).
If your next European adventure does not pan out, Illinois has alternatives to offer...
A reminder for these times.
I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
if I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
The highest compliment from someone who disagrees with you is not “You were right.” It’s “You made me think.”
Good arguments help us recognize complexity where we once saw simplicity.
The ultimate purpose of debate is not to produce consensus. It’s to promote critical thinking.
Pretty big deal. @bookshop-org.bsky.social is selling ebooks now. You can now support indies while purchasing digital books.
bookshop.org/ebooks
You guys need to see this and take it in…
Wise words from someone who is a target. And he’s been listening.
I can’t love this more.
TikTok’s annual carbon footprint is likely bigger than Greece’s, study finds
I’d like to report a murder.
Assad Returns To Ophthalmology At Moscow LensCrafters — theonion.com/assad-return...
Also.. There’s no need to fill awkward silences, even in situations that aren’t particularly charged.
What a beauty
Imagine the honor of both defeating authoritarianism and also feeling your lawmakers ass
Exactly!
La fameuse fenêtre d’Overton
Kindness is a long-term investment
Thank you so so much!
Eating too much cake is the sin of gluttony. However, eating too much pie is okay because the sin of pi is always zero.
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"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."
Thomas Mann
