Mega corporations have an unapologetic and unhidden profit motive. They take much criticism for this motive.

But there's a big difference between the approach to resisting racism and fascism taken by companies like Disney and Nike (push back hard), and the approach taken by organizations like the New York Times, the College Board, and now the book publisher Scholastic (enable).

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/15/1169848627/scholastic-childrens-book-racism

You can't appease both fascists and their victims at the same time. You have to choose.

Talking to a few friends in healthcare and struck by how much all of the progress from COVID is being unwound. No more telehealth. New software deployments back to taking years. People tasted efficiency and are going back to mediocrity.

Same is happening in tech with WFH.

A HS student to their TX school board, which is banning books:

“I’m not going to sit here and talk about the slippery slope that book banning leads to because I learned from a book, that I checked out from my school’s library, that I don’t need to resort to logical fallacy to make a point. I’m simply going to say that no government – and public school is an extension of government – has ever banned books, and banned information from its public, and been remembered in history as the good guys.”