I’m reading David Golumbia’s Cyberlibertarianism. Highly recommended, though I’m only about 10% through it. The thoughtful analysis is so refreshing.

It’s becoming painfully obvious to me how big tech and tech evangelists have for decades been invoking a leader like Trump. A shared inability to see this sooner, to put all assertions of open, free and ”better” in a broader context, led to a failure in resisting, a failure in laying them bare before the fact.

In the book Golumbia reveals how some of the people I’ve looked up to over the years also play into the harmful movement. I feel somewhat ashamed, but more than anything I’m glad I have enough humility to see and acknowledge some of my own missteps in the past 30 years.