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Platforms pattern the grammar of this world. Across the political spectrum, from# BLM,# StopTheSteal or# GameStop, three core pillars of US society provide the institutional points of reference for the latest round of organised critique: the police, democracy and finance capital (see Stalder 2021). Rolling these distinct movements into a mashup manifesto against nihilistic fatalism is Inhabit, a distinctively North American formation cultivating attention to build a movement of the disaffected. 1 Seeking to galvanise millennials in search of a cause, Inhabit sets out ‘Path B’, a political tract with something for everyone: climate justice, collective care, autonomous infrastructures, planning hubs, food supply chains and networks of fight clubs recuperating a depleted masculinity (‘learn to hunt, to code, to heal’). Its default platforms? Twitter, Instagram and imageboards, all infiltrated by the alt-right who seed further confusion and political disorientation into the signal of widespread alienation and despair.