Better than a TikTok Ban
(Programming note: I have temporarily re-titled this newsletter. For now, we’re “Another Way”-- will take suggestions, since this doesn’t feel permanent....
Respectable Protests?
Columbia in (a little) historical perspective
Sam Altman, Hollow Man
What kind of guy would give us ChatGPT? What kind of guy is it making us?
Baltimore, Boeing: Who Suffers When Infrastructure Fails
For those of you who haven’t already heard, early this morning, Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge was hit by a container ship that lost power. It...
Woodrow Wilson and Joe Biden
New piece (by me) out at Jacobin magazine
“Machines that Cannot Err”
Ethics and Early Industrial Capitalism
Newsletter soft launch!
Welcome! I’m soft-launching this newsletter now. Later this year I’ll have a proper introduction, which will come with a move to a regular twice-monthly...