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# Tech is interesting, but democracy deserves our attention
- URL: https://werd.io/tech-is-interesting-but-democracy-deserves-our-attention/
- Published: 2024-10-30T13:50:59.000Z
- Updated: 2025-06-14T19:21:30.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-11 21:47, Asides

I’m aware that a lot of [my linkblog posts](https://werd.io/content/bookmarkedlinks) have been about the state of America this week. That’s because — well, I’m sure you can figure out why. There is nothing bigger to talk about than this election. So much is at stake, and it really, truly matters.

Once Election Day is over, I’m sure I’ll be back to more or less my usual topics, barring, I don’t know, a coup attempt or an insurrection or a civil war.

I don’t know what it would look like to pretend I cared about the new Mac Mini (which is beautiful!) or the state of publicly-available developer documentation for major API services (which is atrocious!) more than the threat of fascism or the absolute abdication of responsibility in the face of this from much of the press.

I claim to write about the intersection of technology, society, and democracy, and I think it’s reasonable for “democracy” to claim the center of gravity for now. We can all go back to CSS classes and LLM vendor funding rounds a little later on.