JA Westenberg

When Trump and his crime family comes for your data, American tech won't save you. They'll hand it over because they have no choice. European and Canadian alternatives aren't perfect, but at least they aren't under Trump's thumb.

Here's my post-Trump tech stack.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/american-tech-is-compromised-heres-my-replacement-stack-2/

The hard part is remembering to let people in (today's Pizza Party comic)

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This is an information war.

Here's how you win it.

- Fund left / progressive content creators until it's a full time job and they can match the output of the right
- Throw money at indie publishers to beat Fox / Rogan (you can't count on the NYT to be their balance)
- Funnel progressive dollars into mass social advertising campaigns (how much do eggs cost today?)
- Go hard-as-balls on every screw up, every single time, and don't wait for the perfect message

Welcome to the Age of the Coward—where billion-dollar corporations crumble faster than a wet paper bag, and craven CEOs like Bob Iger and Tim Cook prove their “values” were just expensive PR stunts with an expiration date.
https://www.theindex.media/this-is-the-age-of-the-coward-2/

Today in 'recursive irony': Watching people who oppose equity demand equal consideration for their ignorance

Okay, sure, Apple Invites is an app that nobody needs.

It does something mildly useful, and it does it in a way that feels kind of nice.

But damn it, at least it’s not another AI chatbot pretending to be your friend.

Honestly, in this economy, that’s a goddamn miracle.

Fuck Substack. Just blog.

Here’s what Silicon Valley won’t tell you: true innovation doesn’t come from breaking the rules in a zero-sum game — it comes from breaking free of the zero-sum game entirely.

Build something small. Own it completely. Scale it thoughtfully.

That’s how you win without cheating.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/you-cant-win-in-tech-unless-you-cheat/

THE PRIVATE OBJECTOR a hero for our time

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The revolution will be decentralised