If you or someone you know has an account on mastodon.cloud, I would highly recommend migrating to a new server. Lots of instances are in the process of completely blocking mastodon.cloud which will sever all connections for people on mastodon.cloud. Mastodon.cloud is effectively abandoned, running very old and out of date software with minimal moderation resulting in a good deal of moderation work for those of us running other instances.

I am posting this in hopes that some people on mastodon.cloud see it and decide to take action.

I had dinner last night with a foundation friend whom I haven't seen since the Before Times. We jumped immediately into What Is Happening (aka, The Fascism Around Us). I may have freaked her out with a hint of my Andor project.

She told me what conversations are like behind closed foundation doors. She told me about the surge of really new money into the philanthropy space, bringing new (more capitalist and aligned with tech) people with it, which is changing how philanthropy sees problem solving.

#Philanthropy, as usual, is going to whiff this moment. They are going to be slow, plodding, and deliberative while this country enacts a sanitized ethnic cleansing.

She asked me: But you look so happy with all this going on. How are you doing this?

I said: I have a dog.