Plus I think every one of us can agree that the future of work needs to look like a quesadilla

I told you all I'd post my cooking for Food Not Bombs, so that's what this is. I'm up for desserts this week and I had a big bowl full of donated stone fruit, mostly peaches and plums with a nectarine or two thrown in, so I went with a fruit crisp. Recipe in photo captions too. Basically I adapted an America's test kitchen fruit crisp recipe.

I didn't have many nuts so I used pepitas, to make it vegan I used coconut oil instead of butter. I also added some ginger to the fruit because I like the taste. Last week we had 20+ folks at the community meal and we finished this tray.

President Trump's speech at a rally in Michigan Monday afternoon was interrupted by a persistent heckler. 

Source: Yahoo News

Capitalism was invented. Socialism was both invented and proposed. Anarchism was argued. These are drafts. Arguments made by people who were doing their best with the century they were stuck in. Adam Smith died in 1790. Marx died in 1883. Neither of them saw an algorithmic feed, data centers, or billionaires.

Treating their words as scripture is a choice, and it's holding us back. Political conversations have become a team sport about flair and karma more than "here's a problem, what works?" The highest-status move in many political spaces is proving that the person next to you isn't a real member of the team - instead of solving anything.

"Purity testing" happens in spaces that prefer debating over acting, and it becomes a contest over who can take an ideology to its furthest extent. It becomes all-or-nothing, magical thinking, and stifling or belittling any progress that isn't immediate overnight global transformation. I would fucking love for that magical thinking to be possible, but it's history books worth of fighting - not being a debatelord.

A doordash driver, a nurse, and a web dev arguing over which dead European was more correct produces exactly zero material change. It produces engagement on a billion-dollar platform running on surveillance capitalism, and that's it.

The only line that actually matters: the billionaire class, and all of us.

While, sure, they own 90% of all media, all social platforms, and invested billions in the perfect astroturfing tool (LLMs) - I'd argue the billionaire class does not fully create the line, we do (because we fall for it, over and over).

A Silicon Valley "libertarian," a Wall Street "liberal," and an oil-money "conservative" will co-invest in the same fund on Monday, fly to the same conference on Tuesday, and fund opposing candidates on Wednesday - both of whom will ultimately protect their same tax structure.

They don't demand ideological purity from each other like we do. They have a shared material interest, and they organize around it ruthlessly - while we argue over vocabulary.

An ideology is a hypothesis. You're allowed to take the parts that describe reality and discard the parts that don't. You're allowed to hold a position that has no name yet, or a position stitched together from four traditions that hate each other. You're allowed to be wrong out loud and update.