Joshua Estrin
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Joshua Estrin, PhD, walked out the night Donald Trump won again—when the country went full Handmaid’s Tale and called it democracy. Neurospicy therapist and AI strategist writing where data, trauma, queerness, and politics collide
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Can AI Mend A Country I No Longer Trust?. AI-Generated.
From my desk, I watch the same cycle play out on American news: a crisis, a hearing, a soundbite, a fundraising email—and then nothing. Democracy has started to feel less like a system of governance and more like a piece of software permanently labeled “beta,” shipped with known bugs and no real plan to patch them.
By Joshua Estrin2 days ago in Humans
I Left When America Went Full Handmaid's Tale After Trump's Win. AI-Generated.
America didn’t lose me in a comment thread; it lost me in a living room. The night Donald Trump won again, the TV was doing that grotesque victory glow, anchors talking about “unity” with the same tone they use for hurricane coverage. Somewhere between the red counties and the sanctimonious calls to “heal,” it hit me: the country had gone full Handmaid’s Tale and still insisted on calling it democracy.
By Joshua Estrin13 days ago in Confessions
