No, I'm not dead yet.

I know I've been silent with these newsletters, and for that I apologize. I admit I didn't even realize it had been quite so long, but that's time blindness for you. I recently logged in with the hopes of sending one out; I've been considering a change in format, style, intent. While doing so, I found a draft waiting, from January 08, 2025:

I've been quiet about the new policy changes and force-feeding of AI down our throats, mostly because I'm aghast in a very "it's heartbreaking how unsurprising this is" kind of way.

Whether we like it or not, we live in a surveillance world and that is only escalating. it's not just our search history being tracked; not just our socials or our bank info. we submit our faces, our lives, to unblinking eyes and in our disconnect or naivety or willful ignorance we convince ourselves they are not *really* paying attention to *us*. Little old us.

I cannot stop thinking about how so much of that is being auto-uploaded to & shared with AI scrapers. AI checking for landmarks in the photos it uploads from our phones to the cloud. AI making critical decisions in our healthcare claims. AI tracking motion from our doorbells. AI communicating for us, in place of us, at increasing levels. AI manipulating the conversations we have with each other. All the while, tracking it.

I keep thinking about the AI profiles. About how AI videos are getting hard to even identify confidently if someone who isn't well informed & the same with "music" and "art", & about how they're going to be relying on "community notes" because facts are for the libs, unless you're using chatgpt.

Is it just me or are the villains like... Getting real cartoonish with it these days? They're not even trying to hide the plan. It's right there. It practically glows in the dark. They're twirling mustaches & cackling right into the camera.

Can't wait to spend every day in hypervigilance, inspecting everything I see until I become the weird witch in the woods who doesn't trust anything unless it bleeds.

Oh, past me. Girl, you were right.

Currently, deepfake videos are everywhere. Our fascist government releases deepfakes and AI slop to test the waters of believability, and unsurprise of unsurprises, it works. People guzzle it down.

Our government hijacks boats to steal resources and commits war crimes. Our President threatens the sovereignty of other countries.

Workforces are being laid off, replaced with AI. Health insurance companies are using AI to determine coverage. Data centers are poisoning neighborhoods, destroying our water supply. The UN has announced we are in a "global water bankruptcy". We won't be able to drink water because losers don't want to have to think.

side note: if you are voluntarily using generative AI then I do, as a matter of fact, mean you. You're one of the losers. I am entirely done being kind. If you utilize these LLMs then you are the problem and I will treat you as such. Grow the fuck up.

Drinking water is not a human right here in the US. Neither is food, nor housing, nor healthcare, nor autonomy, nor not getting gunned down in the street by masked men with technology to stalk and identify you as a target before they brutally murder you in broad daylight.

Everyone knows the doorbell cams are being fed into ICE tracking programs. Social media apps are sending your mental health data, along with all kinds of other data (sex/gender orientation, medical info, immigration or citizenship status, geolocation), to the government to allow them to track you even more. To put you on more lists. To target you with their masked terrorists.

If they don't kill you on video, then they disappear you. Lock you in a concentration camp, abuse and torture and sexually assault you, never charge you with a crime, 'lose' people and children, use ruses to trap people and kidnap children to use to lure their families out so they can do it to entire families.

Homelessness is being criminalized at the same time that people are being laid off en masse. In a country where slavery is still legal so long as the serf is incarcerated, that should make you worry. That should remind you that anyone not in the billionaire class is only a few missed weeks of work away from homelessness.

sidebar: abolish the police. abolish ICE. abolish the prison industrial complex.

Genocide continues in Palestine, Congo, and Sudan. Food insecurity is on the rise. Homelessness is on the rise. Healthcare costs are skyrocketing. Cost of living is getting higher all the time. Drinking water is disappearing so that incels and booger-eating losers can pretend they have friends or partners or intelligence, while women's rights are being rescinded, masked men abduct whomever they want in broad daylight and call it 'immigration enforcement', and our elected politicians cry on social media about the injustice of it all.

As if they have no power. As if they aren't the ones enabling it. As if they're asking us with their whole chests to DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. I think we should.

Revolutions are not new. We have history to refer to, we can learn from what has been done before and adapt it for today. We can drag them out of their homes and get justice.

Oh, you're not mad enough yet? It's not time for a revolt, you say? There are proper procedures to follow instead? Violence isn't the answer?

I disagree, but let's discuss.

Should I touch on the Heritage Foundation's 2026 plans? Or will everyone just pretend those aren't blueprints, like they did last time?

Families are starving. People are being gunned down in the street by armed, masked, unidentified psychopaths with impunity and billions of dollars in funding (with their hands out for MORE!). This country is being terrorized by itself. And that is just here, in what our delusional society loves to think is the 'greatest nation in the world'.

So what are you doing? Are you calling your reps, going to town halls, contributing to mutual aid, building community, networking and providing support with your neighbors? Are you attending protests, monitoring ICE activity, coordinating bail funds?

I haven't been doing enough. I don't think most of us have. I am working to change that, to escalate my involvement and efforts. I've been calling my reps, sharing information, attending protests, contributing to mutual aid—I've been doing all of this for years.

Next on my list is networking with my neighbors, finding a local organization that's already been working hard to fight back so I can join them, taking time off to attend town halls, and looking into finding out how to participate in actively monitoring ICE activity to protect my community from these terrorists. To put my body where my metaphorical mouth is.

I've already committed to the general strike but we're not even at half a million yet, and they're shooting for 11 million.

11 million people and we have 10.6 million left to recruit. Isn't that unfathomable to you? That this deep into fascism, only half a million people are willing to say 'yes, I will strike'.

A strike is the nonviolent option. Isn't that what people keep saying they want?

Yes, it is scary. Yes, it is uncertain.

It is less so the more involved you get. The more you realize that the government, our employers, our insurers, have never been helping us. They have been holding us back, gaslighting us, lying to us, overworking and underpaying us, and filling our heads with bullshit class warfare to keep us from ever, once, looking up into the face of our actual oppressors.

Our only hope is in each other. In our communities. That has always been where our strength lies. The government does not give a flying fuck about you, but your neighbor whose sidewalk you shovel in the winter because she's got arthritis does. The grocery store clerk that you're always kind to does. Your disabled neighbor who you sometimes grab a bag of groceries for does. The local diner owner who relies on your weekly order does.

It is time to stop looking to Institutions and look to each other. To the faces of our neighbors, our friends, our families. It is time to extend a hand and do the inconvenient thing: ask others what they need. How we can help. What purpose we can serve for others.

We are each other's strength, and protection. The government won't take care of us, we should be taking care of each other.

We're worried we'll lose our jobs because that means we lose: food, housing, medical care, safety, childcare, elder care, etc.

But who provides those things to us, really? Our neighbors. Our communities. Your community members can do these things. They can help watch your children, help you farm and/or access food, help you receive medical care, keep you housed and safe.

They—our oppressors, the mega rich—have worked very hard to make us forget that. They have devoted generations to feeding us the lie that our competition is each other while they steal and steal and steal just to hoard it.

One thing I know above all else is that there are far more people struggling than there are people comfortable, and as of July 2025, 10% of Americans held two-thirds of household wealth while the bottom 50% hold 3%.

Read that again: THREE PERCENT.

There are more of us. There are so many more of us.

Get activated. Get involved. Become part of a community that does not need the government and therefore is not subjected to its lies.

We only have ever had each other, it's time to act like it.

Get out there. Be safe. Protect each other. I love you.