Technology
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A few days ago I was getting frustrated with what I thought was a fundamental lack of understanding of the history of the Middle East, where the US interests lie, and our complicity in the problems there. The frustration stemmed from the seeming lack of effort that the younger generation gave toward understanding a) what… Read more
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Sometimes, when I get curious, I go to wikipedia and look stuff up and fall into a rabbit hole of hyperlinked articles that starts with finding out what that weird minty looking weed in my driveway is and ends up reading theories on what, or who, killed Alexander the Great. (Spoiler alert: it wasn’t the… Read more
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We were warned. A quick note about this entry. I wrote this in 2022. It’s still true but I keep hearing the questions about why we weren’t prepared for this effect that social media would have on our political culture. So I am reposting it here. —————————————————————————Once upon a time I was a technology journalists… Read more