Letter to Aaron

  Dear Aaron,

It's been a while.

I was thinking about you. I normally do this time of year. I know you didn't know, but it was about a week before my birthday. I'm sorry. I've never once blamed you. You know it's been 12 years? Fuck, it's 20 years since Benny. I can't believe that son of a bitch took fucking campaign photos there. I was so angry I cried. You would have been outraged too.

I still... 12 years. Man.I still can't get over that number. It feels wrong somehow. Like it feels more recent. But also it feels like we were so much younger. I guess this is 41. Ha. I wonder if you would have gotten around to writing a review of that movie. I checked. site:...apatow rudd. No hits. How you never review a movie with Paul Rudd... I don't know. Maybe you're some sort of commie.

From time to time I go back to your old blog. I was always envious of you and Ezra. You both had such discipline. I'm still bad at discipline...

You remember, Ezra and Vox... Well, that shit blew up. He's done well for himself. At the NTY, for now. I don't know. The big names are taking a hit currently. It's deserved. The Press has utterly failed us. I mean, for what they were worth... between you, me, and Chomsky, I wouldn't say they served the people much benefit. Maybe a handful of journalists...

Fuck. 12 years. I know I always get sentimental and bummed about all the cool shit you've missed... But recently, for as much as I would welcome your commentary, More and more there are things that I'm glad you missed.

It's dark dude. Really dark.

Funny. I just site:... thiel musk. You never mentioned either. Did you ever meet them? Maybe a chance conference. Maybe not. Fuck 'em. You were with the real geniuses. Anarchist code freaks. Fucking nerds.

Such idealism...

They've ruined our internet. It's not even the internet for most people. It's just facebook. Yeah, that facebook.

And jesus, Google. They gave up entirely on "Don't Be Evil." Two years after you died, they picked a softer "Do the Right Thing." Very aspirational. What's that saying about "good intentions?" The other day they lifted their weapons ban. I shit you not. I know you know my stance. You were a little more generous in your opinion. I called it like it was--a CIA-funded data gathering op. Come to think of it. I wonder what Brin and Page are up to. Odd...

If you ever met Musk I imagine it would have been very brief. Both of he's such a pathetic full of shit phoney who couldn't program a Ti-83. You would smell his bullshit a mile away. And he is so so so fucking dumb. I think I actually hate him. I'm okay with that. Fuck 'im.

Musk actually owns twitter now. Dorsey fucked off and made a card swipe for phones and tablet and now he's at bluesky (lib's twitter... so, kind of like old twitter, when you couldn't edit your tweets)... Elon renamed it X, which would make sense if you knew the fucking dork. Nobody calls it that. Just like Sears Tower will always be Sears Tower... Or the Gulf of Mexico, no matter what that fat fucking fascist wants to call it, is the Gulf of fucking Mexico...I digress... But twitter a fucking cesspool full of Nazis. And they don't even hide it. That fucking assclown stood on stage, delivering a victory speech, as part of the inaguration and seig heiled. Twice. And then people tried to cover for him and blame it on social awkwardness because of his autism... But, I mean, he has always been proud of his Asperger's. Fucking Nazi. But really they don't hide in chat rooms and message boards anymore.

It is so fucked up right now. Remember how we thought Gates and Jobs were capitalist pigs? Yeah, I miss those days. And it's gotten worse. You remember when I was like, "I never thought I would be against the insurrectionists?" Yeah... So. They're gutting USAID... and I'm against them... defending USAID. WTF, mate? Like Trump is back again... I know... but this time he's surrounded by not only Thiel and Musk, but Bezos and Zuckerberg, too. Yeah. Those assholes. And all of them are fucking billionaires. With a fucking B. Disney. Fucking Disney (who did succeed in purchasing everything) gave this asshole money. They didn't have to. They chose to.. Fuck them. All of them.

I don't know dude. I just don't know. Musk and his goon squad of fucking edgelord incels were given access to the back end of OPM and the Treasury. Like. Fuck the what. When I think of what they did to you for downloading articles from fucking JSTOR... I could fucking explode. Spontaneously combust.

Yet, for all the bad shit Musk and Trump are doing, I feel like they're the dancing monkeys. Thiel and Vought and the rest of the Project 2025 goons are the pickpockets robbing us all blind. It's so absolutely fucked. Sorry to be all doom and gloom and shit...

But. If I can give a little something to be hopeful about... At its best, the internet has remained a power organizing tool. In Serbia, they're having flash mass demonstrations. It's beautiful. I don't know if we can do the same here. I hope so...if they don't cut it off.

Anyway, on that high note...

peace,

ian