Today is a great time to make @Electronic Frontier Foundation the beneficiary of your generosity, specifically to help protect privacy for activists working on vital efforts to protect human rights and reproductive rights. I'll match the first $5000 in donations, just go to eff.org/anil and be as generous as you can, then DM me so I can match it!

Hi everybody! In anticipation of doing more writing, I’ve brought all 25 years of my blog archives online, cleaned up lots of dead links, and even added a basic search capability. I hope there’s something there you find valuable! (And let me know what I should write about next.)

Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

I wanna say something to people who work in tech-related jobs in America: this is still a field where most people hate the rise of fascism and want to stop it. I know the media & amplification of the tycoons makes it seem like that’s the whole industry. But it’s not. And we still have power.

As I said yesterday, and will say tomorrow: I am steady in standing with you, as we fight together to protect the vulnerable and to stop the fascists. I have enough love to go around when you’re tired or scared, and I know you have the same. Let’s get to work, no matter what we wake up to.

Hey, friends: today we win. Today will protect each other, and the most vulnerable in our communities. Today we are going to stand up against fascism & violence and joyfully come together to care for those who need protection & support. We do this *no matter* how votes go today, no matter what disruptions or attacks come, so find peace in knowing what does not change, what they can never stop. Once you’ve voted, sign off, and don’t look or scroll if it causes you stress. Tomorrow we get to work.

4th day of November…

Please, if you have kids out tonight, be aware and careful as drivers will kill more children tonight than any other night of the year.

Vox

Forget tainted candy: The scariest thing on Halloween is parked in your driveway

More American child pedestrians die on Halloween from cars than on any other day of the year.

I have an old iMac with a 5K screen and an Intel processor, and I'd love to pay somebody to hack one of the new M4 Mac minis into fitting inside that great old case and using that screen.

Hi friends! Today is a good day to remind you: if you are in this fight against the fascists, doing the work to care for the vulnerable, I am joyously conspiring with you! If you are enthusiastic & excited, I am too. If you are worried and have misgivings about some of the people or policies in the coalition, I do too. But if you are committed to the work, we will get there together. I’m grateful for your company.

Hey everyone! Tomorrow (Friday the 25th) at 5pm NYC time on YouTube, I'm going to try something I've been wanting to do for a while: answering your questions about the tech world from the perspective of someone who's been in many different roles over the past 2 decades. I'm especially interested in questions that can help folks with their careers! If you have a question you want answered, just reply or DM, along with whether you'd like to be anonymous or not. https://www.youtube.com/live/bnWJxxczsB0