No predictions, only warnings

A short election night rant. I'm only putting it on semi-main. You've got to subscribe to see it and I make no promises of it being with the trouble.

The week's doomscrolling in review

Casting your ballot in bad times

There's been enough said about newspapers that are withholding editorial endorsements this election year, but when optimism isn't journalistically honest, how should an editorial section do its job?

Insurrection is a value-neutral term

As we get ready for another election in the U.S., insurrection may became a left wing value again. That's fine.

Hello friend

This was the "hello world" post that every new website always comes with. I've simply given it a mild edit to more reflect my snarky yet approachable and affable tone that you'll eventually come around to.

The anthropomorphism trap

This post is migrated from the old Wordpress blog. Some things may be broken. The generative AI industry seems to be aiming all its innovation at what it sees as its chief competitor: human beings. The companies working to make us redundant have some pretty sound business cases for it:

How journalists should talk about Telegram

This post is migrated from the old Wordpress blog. Some things may be broken. Tl;dr: Telegram is not an encrypted messaging app. Or it’s not especially encrypted in a way that it’s somehow a feature. If you read no further, then that’s the walk-away message from

Beyond Provenance

This post is migrated from the old Wordpress blog. Some things may be broken. I’m a slow blogger. Perhaps it’s one of the few aspects about this site to act as an indicator that the words here are in fact typed by human fingers. AI-powered sites are running