Dan Sinker/now

I always have a lot going on, here's what I'm doing now:

I'm producing the podcast Rebel Spirit, with Akilah Hughes …

and hosting and producing the weekly podcast Says Who …

while helping run the Civic Media Fellowships at USC …

and shipping the patches and stickers I made for you …

and also making stickers for the Says Who Sticker Club …

and wow that is a lot.

My most recent blog posts

Taking Things Apart (in three parts)

I wrote about how you can learn by taking things apart, about how geeky electronics were transformed by the global supply chain, and about how nothing happening in in the administration right now is about fixing broken things.

Posted on Apr 11, 2025

Old Growth: Punk Planet, Year 11

It's sort of impossible to believe just how many things we did in the 11th year of Punk Planet. Issues! Books! A whole new magazine! A look back at a year of explosive growth.

Posted on Mar 28, 2025

Do One Thing

Right now it feels impossible to get anything done, but we all have to. So I wrote about how I'm trying to break my doom spiral by doing one thing.

Posted on Mar 16, 2025

My most recent notes

I write a lot of notes in shortform social apps like Threads, Mastodon, and Bluesky. I also capture them on this site, so the platforms don't control my stuff. Here are a few. You can always look at my notes page for more.

wishing the last dude left at the IRS good luck in detangling my tax thicket.

posted at 5:44PM on April 14, 2025

So now it is demonstrably cheaper to import fully assembled Chinese-manufactured electronics than the parts to assemble them here. These are deeply unserious people.

posted at 4:51PM on April 12, 2025

“The world is a built environment, and I think understanding how it was built is key to being able to truly live in it.”

Yesterday I wrote about taking things apart and putting them back together.

dansinker.com/posts/202…

posted at 4:34PM on April 12, 2025

Hey, I wrote a thing about how you can learn by taking things apart, about how geeky electronics were transformed by the global supply chain, and about how nothing happening in in the administration right now is about fixing broken things. dansinker.com/posts/202...

posted at 3:39PM on April 11, 2025

The administration adding fully-alive people to the Social Security "death file" in order to make their lives unlivable should be the mother of all red lines. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/1... The effort hinges on a surprising new tactic: repurposing Social Security’s “death master file,” which for years has been used to track dead people who should no longer receive benefits, to include the names of living people who the government believes should be treated as if they are dead. As a result of being added to the death database, they would be blacklisted from a coveted form of identity that allows them to make and more easily spend money.

posted at 8:25AM on April 11, 2025

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Updated April 15, 2025. This page is inspired by @nownownow.