Heidi Cuda

***Please take out a membership to support the light of truth.*** “When Trump came down the escalator and threw his hat into the ring, I watched his first speech in the run up to the Republican nomination… I was really scared, and I was really scared, because I study fascism.”—David Livingston Smith, Bette Dangerous Podcast Ep94 When I interviewed Professor David Livingstone Smith for my recent Hot Type column in Byline Times, I knew I had hit a rich vein and that there was much more work to...

***Please take out a membership to support the light of truth.*** The promise of utopia never came. The cult of the genius tech bro delivered surveillance and despair, while we make monthly payments for our walled tech prisons. It wasn’t supposed to be like this. We were promised a connected future, which would be a great equalizer for humanity. And maybe it still could be, in different hands.

***Please take out a membership to support the light of truth.*** Author’s note: I introduced the Bette and Byline community to an important voice this weekend, Professor David Livingstone Smith, who helped me with my recent Hot Type column on Trump’s dehumanizing propaganda video: 'Trump's Dehumanizing Propaganda' - My Latest Hot Type column for Byline Times Smith, a philosophy professor at the University of New England in Maine, has written about Dehumanization for two decades.