“[Brendan Eich] refuses to be defined by the evil done to him, or by the purported heterodoxy of his beliefs, but by the work he does and by his character, as known by those closest to him.” https://t.co/JivxQSQPGN
I debut in @firstthingsmag today writing on Brendan Eich, who ten years ago was attacked and chased out of Mozilla, a company he co-founded, for taking private civic action based upon his quiet Christian faith. It was a pivotal moment in our society and for me personally:
"I was working in New York's “Silicon Alley” when it happened, and I immediately recognized it as a major escalation in the culture war. It was a warning that the Leviathan of technocracy did not care how well I did, how hard I worked, or how well I treated others. Ideological conformity to the top-down, programmatic transformation of the country that was rapidly taking place was all that mattered. If I was unwilling to affirm the current thing dictated according to the whims of “progress,” I was an enemy of humanity and an enemy of America. And my beliefs, no matter how ancient, innocent, and valid, must bow to the will of Leviathan, or the digital swarm would descend upon me. In fact, the higher I rose, the harder opponents would hunt for an excuse to throw me, like Belteshazzar, to the lions."
“I no longer believe the entertainment business has solutions for the problem we at Seed&Spark have long been interested in solving — helping films to shift culture. If you want them to shift culture, they can’t just shift perception…” — @emilybest https://t.co/HtgYJILPGj
What the hell?
Distillers who made hand sanitizer for the COVID emergency owe the FDA a $14,060 FEE as an OTC drug manufacturer? What kind of bullshit is this?
#BOHICA
Here's the Federal Register Notice, posted yesterday:
https://t.co/CfpFvepX7x