One Weird Trick

I was reading Mike Masnick's piece in TechDirt the other day where he discusses tech optimism in the face of, well, everything that's going on in the world right now. I don't really want to bore you with a repetition of the ills facing society here at the beginning of 2025, other than to say there's a lot of them. Instead, I want to talk about why I'm optimistic, too.