Derek Gordon
@derekgordon.bsky.social
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I don't blame people for assuming there's no good, healthy version of online community. Anyone younger than me has probably never seen it. But it used to exist, I swear.
I've interacted with plenty of EU lawmakers recently, and it's not universally true (of course) but it is striking how many seem to take the fact that some companies are bad to mean the entire internet concept was bad. It doesn't need to be! We can build a better internet!
Takeaways from #eurosky: big tech social media displaced journalism, a core pillar of democracy, and has been bad for society. EU lawmakers want European, privacy-centered tech. There are still questions of whether the internet is worth building on and what to build. But they are talking about it
November 21, 2025 at 5:23 AM
I don't blame people for assuming there's no good, healthy version of online community. Anyone younger than me has probably never seen it. But it used to exist, I swear.
Hey @pivotpod.bsky.social watch The Lost Bus. It’s your core thesis… what it means to be a citizen… what it means to be a man… what it feels to be an American. This dramatization of a true American story should remind us all of who we are in our essentials. tv.apple.com/us/movie/the...
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A determined father (Matthew McConaughey) risks everything to rescue a dedicated teacher (America Ferrera) and her students from a raging wildfire. In…
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October 4, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Hey @pivotpod.bsky.social watch The Lost Bus. It’s your core thesis… what it means to be a citizen… what it means to be a man… what it feels to be an American. This dramatization of a true American story should remind us all of who we are in our essentials. tv.apple.com/us/movie/the...
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Obergefell v. Hodges made me believe in the whole "arc of history bends towards justice." In the 90s, I didn't think gay marriage would be legalized in my lifetime because homophobia was so deeply ingrained. We would have never gotten here without the decision and now it may be overturned.
August 11, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Obergefell v. Hodges made me believe in the whole "arc of history bends towards justice." In the 90s, I didn't think gay marriage would be legalized in my lifetime because homophobia was so deeply ingrained. We would have never gotten here without the decision and now it may be overturned.
“If paganism is a grand but dehumanizing value system, I’ve found it necessary, in this increasingly pagan age, to root myself in anything that feels rehumanizing, whether it’s art or literature or learning.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/o...
Opinion | How to Survive the Trump Years With Your Spirit Intact
I’ve found it necessary to root myself in anything that feels rehumanizing, whether it’s art or literature or learning.
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May 1, 2025 at 10:33 PM
“If paganism is a grand but dehumanizing value system, I’ve found it necessary, in this increasingly pagan age, to root myself in anything that feels rehumanizing, whether it’s art or literature or learning.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/o...