I'm old enough to remember when the sci-fi notion of a disembodied computer voice waking you up in the morning, knowing enough about you to strike up a conversation, and accompanying you through your daily routine sounded wonderful.
Now it gives me chills. That old wonderful dream is actually possible now if I turned off all my malware blockers and let :lord-bezos-amused: fully into my home.
The only news I really follow is street level fash/antifascist scuffles. It's such a small subset of people in absolute numbers that it still feels like it's happening at a human scale. Like you can go and hit someone with a baseball bat and have a real, obvious effect on the movements and recruiting of a fascist street gang. Basically nothing else in politics happens at that scale.