What AI does in helping us code is take away the drudgery and let us do the part that’s creative and soulful. And what AI does in other creative disciplines (like writing, illiustation) is it takes away the soulful part and leaves you with the drudgery.

revolution.social - Silicon Valley Has Lost Its Moral Compass (with Anil Dash)

An important observation that helps explain how well-intentioned and astute and progressive-minded people can end up on different sides of this issue. (Super weird to find myself a sort of centrist, but here we are.)

I know how to make comics, and like most Minnesotans that I come across, we’re all just using our skill sets to help others right now. We’re all fighting in the ways that we know how.

“This Gives Us an Outlet”: Members of the Minneapolis Comic Community on What It’s Like to Create During a Crisis

The Republic of Poetry has no borders. In this republic no human being is illegal. In this republic no one is thrown on the other side of the fence after building the fence. Every time the fence goes up, you must tear it down.

From Martín Espada’s Hampshire College Commencement Address, May 19. 2007.

I recommend the whole thing, it speaks to our present moment in striking and stirring terms, starting with this James Baldwin quote at the beginning: “The reality in which we live is a reality we have made, and it’s time, my children, to begin the act of creation all over again.”

This isn't over. It may not be over for a long while yet. But I am 100 percent convinced that we are going to win. (7/7)

— Dax (David J.) Schwartz ([@snurri.bsky.social](http://snurri.bsky.social)) February 15, 2026 at 8:00 PM

Literary Hub » Fascism is Not an Idea to Be Debated, It’s a Set of Actions to Fight

It is quite possible that there is no resolution to the present situation until one side is thoroughly destroyed as an ideological power and political entity.