Category: Culture

What’s going on, who we are, and what the big deal is.

  • Partisanship may help us understand

    Partisanship may help us understand

    Partisanship may help us understand what is going on at the moment. But it doesn’t always help us know what to do.

  • Being Good News

    Being Good News

    Being surrounded by bad news is exhausting. Trying to do good things can feel fruitless. And yet we know it is right.

  • There’s more than one reason to leave Twitter

    There’s more than one reason to leave Twitter

    We called it a hellsite. Our main source of news. Social media. Tech platform. It was always more than free speech.

  • They don’t know

    They don’t know

    For the last Sunday after Pentecost, we are offered the crucifixion, a weird place to end, knowing it is no ending.

  • Not Feeding Trolls

    Not Feeding Trolls

    The phrase “don’t feed the trolls” has been around as long as many of us have used the internet. It needs an update.

  • People vote for People

    People vote for People

    It seems obvious. There are names on the ballot. We tap the screen or punch the card to elect a specific person to office.

  • The people who don’t want verification

    The people who don’t want verification

    With a change to the verification process on Twitter, many see this as another opportunity to engineer chaos.

  • Open season for racists after Musk’s takeover

    Open season for racists after Musk’s takeover

    Elon Musk thinks he’s striking a victory for free speech. But responsibility is what people are fighting over.