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Scam AI Deep Fakes are More Popular than that Katt Williams Interview
January 21, 2024
A stressed Phylicia Rashad facing off with online scammers in the film “The Beekeeper” I never thought that a Jason Statham movie could give a fit of...
How I Fell in Love with a Bagel
January 14, 2024
Photo by Lucie Liz Getting eight hours of sleep is extremely underrated. Welcome to perhaps the most jet-lagged edition of the newsletter. I am fully in that...
The Bastardization of Colorblindness
January 7, 2024
Former President of Harvard University, Claudine Gay Greetings from lovely, snowy, and brick cold New York City. I'm in my third timezone this week and...
Merry Christmas, America — I Don’t Know What Else to Say
December 24, 2023
Photo by Rosemary Ketchum Welcome to the first edition of Takes & Typos hosted on Buttondown. If you missed the update midweek about the switch from...
I Refuse To Share Space With Neo Nazis And White Supremacists
December 23, 2023
It's time for me to exit Substack I don't have a lot of redlines in my life. But one redline I do have is that if an institution or business says that “Nazis...
The Bear is the Best Thing on TV this Year and Nothing is Really Close
December 17, 2023
FX’s “The Bear” is the most important thing on television and nothing is particularly close Here in Takes & Typo-stan, we’ve been winding down 2023 with a...
The Most Important Thing I Heard to This Year — Slow Burn, Season 8: Becoming Justice Thomas
December 10, 2023
Clarence Thomas is the longest-serving and arguably most influential member of the United States Supreme Court I am 44 years old. Clarence Thomas has been on...
The Most Important Book I Read This Year: “Poverty, By America” by Matthew Desmond
December 3, 2023
Roughly 1500 US families face eviction each week We live in a neoliberal world. In Thursday’s class, we had a seminar discussion about the concluding chapter...
Napoleon: The Lamentations of a New-ish History Teacher
November 27, 2023
Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon in Egypt This week’s newsletter is coming to you on Monday. We hosted Friendsgiving this weekend and my basketball team had a...
One Year Take-iversary
November 19, 2023
Photo by Elizaveta Kushnirenko on Unsplash Smarter people than me have written volumes about the antics of Elon Musk and the decline of Twitter. However, it...
Rejecting Brain-Dead Neutrality and Censorship
November 12, 2023
Photo by Şeyma D. As I mentioned last week, this upcoming Sunday will be the first anniversary of Takes & Typos. I am planning to publish a reader mailbag to...
No, Markets Aren't Self-Correcting — Corporate Consolidation Part III
November 5, 2023
Photo by Suzy Hazelwood From time-to-time, the newsletter does an unintentional or unplanned series. We are in one such triplet (see: here and here) about...
Monopolies and Corporate Consolidation are Neither Natural nor Inevitable
October 29, 2023
Photo by Suzy Hazlewood Happy Sunday, This week’s newsletter is a continuation of our conversation from last week about the causes of the diminishing...
Consolidation and Near Monopolies Are Making Everything Terrible
October 22, 2023
Andy Rooney was a national treasure. We need truth tellers like him for the busted moment we’re all trapped in. This may be the edition of the newsletter...
Armenia: An Ancient People with a History Marked by Tragedy
October 17, 2023
The Goshavank Monastery in Gosh – Photo by Hope Barev dzez (Hello in Armenian), This week’s newsletter is coming on Tuesday because I was in transit back...
An AI in Every Email, DM, and Groupchat—Zuckerberg's Vision for the Future of the Internet
October 8, 2023
Subscribe now Today's newsletter is my attempt to triangulate two points of view articulated by people with very different takes about the future of the...
The Trial of the Tacoma Police Officers who Murdered Manuel Ellis
October 1, 2023
Happy Sunday, Over on the podcast this week, we have a conversation with Brian Lettinga from Search Associates. He’s a recruiter/matchmaker for educators...
When Schools Grieve
September 24, 2023
Subscribe now The typical American high school is the size of a small town. My old school, Lincoln, floated between 1500 and 1800 students in my decade...
There’s a Wave of Hacks Coming, Thanks to LastPass
September 17, 2023
Photo by Franck on Unsplash Today we are touching on a topic I wrote about in March, online security. There’s been some developments this week that warrant a...
Losing Friends: Reader Mailbag Edition
September 10, 2023
Someone put this sign on my door at work this week. Oh, y’all got jokes. I felt seen this week. In last week’s newsletter, I opined about what it feels like...
Losing People to Nuttery and Conspiracies
September 3, 2023
The emotional labor of caring for other adults is real and taxing | Photo: Pexels Hey folks, A warm welcome to new subscribers. This week’s edition is a...
Finding Time and Balance, Far from Home
August 27, 2023
Hope and I served as emcees for the schools Spirit Night last week, a giant grade-level scavenger hunt throughout the campus (Photo: Tony Murray) Friday...
AI is Democratizing and Democracy is Famously Messy
August 20, 2023
This is an AI image I created using Night Cafe, depicting people working in a call center. Subscribe now I am not going to pretend to be an expert in...
Signal vs Noise, American Serial Outrage, and the Law of Large Numbers
August 13, 2023
Hey folks, thanks for making July our most popular month since we started the newsletter. We had more readers and more new subscribers last month than ever...
There and Back Again - A Final 2023 World Cup Dispatch
August 6, 2023
Our view of the tournament opener in Auckland, where the host Football Ferns upset Norway I really hate when I am right when I wish I was wrong. I ended last...
These Sheep Ain't Gon' Shear Themselves - A 2023 World Cup Dispatch
July 29, 2023
The Running of the Sheep I bring you greetings from a rented farmhouse in the sheep shearing capital of the world, Te Kuiti, New Zealand. Te Kuiti used to be...
You Owe it to Yourself to Watch Women's Soccer and the World Cup
July 20, 2023
Trinity Rodman is a player to keep your eye on this tournament Jet lag is real. At some point yesterday, I looked at Hope and realized I had no idea what day...
The Myth of the Great Wealth Transfer
July 5, 2023
“Succession” was four seasons of prestige television about four terrible people seeking to inherit their father’s empire - Photo: Warner Bros Pressroom...
The Able-ism of Our Aging Infrastructure
June 24, 2023
They see us rollin', they hatin' In the summer of 2018, I nearly came to blows with a TSA agent. My dad was a disabled Vietnam veteran. He had lupus and the...
The Case for Banning Phones in School
June 17, 2023
This week’s newsletter will be brief because your boy has a flight to catch. If you’re a Tacoma based reader, you may see me around town for the next few...
Taking Notes on Criminal Crypto Conspiracy
June 11, 2023
Stringer’s sage advice to “never take notes on a criminal conspiracy” is worth heeding, especially if you’re knowingly running an unlicensed securities...
The Lack of Housing is a Generational Crisis
June 4, 2023
The US spent the last forty years building less housing than the prior forty years and the consequences are predictable and dire I've been baffled by the...
Sorry, Wrong Number: the Lowdown on Pig Butchering Scams
May 28, 2023
The most prominent form of SMS text spam is Pig Butchering, a social engineering con targeting the 55+ crowd Off the top, I want to welcome aboard folks that...
For My Friends in Media: How Not to Cover Hate Groups
May 21, 2023
Richard Spencer and his followers celebrate the election of Donald Trump on election nigh while shouting “hail victory” which translates to “sieg heil” and...
Fighting the Klan in the Ozarks and Teacher Bias in Grading
May 14, 2023
I spent some of my favorite summers as a kid here in Camden, Arkansas Happy Mother’s Day, If you’re not a mother, I hope you handled your business for the...
Why the Left Can’t Win: Mailbag Edition
May 7, 2023
Sanders Rally in Portland, OR | Photo by Benjamin Kerensa Happy Sunday, Off the top, just know that today’s newsletter is different. We’re doing a reader...
Why the Left Can’t Win and the Joy of Football in England
April 30, 2023
Happy Sunday Fam Bam, It’s been a fortnight but I’m back. This week we have some unanswered questions from my Comparative Government class, some insights...
Being Choosy About Online Spaces (or a Takes & Typos State of the Union)
April 16, 2023
Photo by Daniel Herron on Unsplash Over the last few years I have grappled with the size and scope of my digital footprint. I had more than a few “Nate,...
How the Culture of the WWE Took Over US Politics
April 10, 2023
Happy Easter and Ramadan Mubarak to those celebrating/observing either. You'll note the newsletter is coming out on Monday because of the holiday. I hope you...
A Nation of Accidents
April 2, 2023
Photo by John-Mark Smith Subscribe now Happy Sunday from Chiang Mai, I am in the final stages of revision for a piece to be published later this week by...
Beloved, Use a Password Locker but Make Sure it's Not LastPass
March 26, 2023
Photo by Towfiqu barbhuiya on Unsplash Happy Sunday T & Ters, In a recent newsletter, I wrote about online security and password lockers. Password lockers...
The Already Forgotten War
March 19, 2023
An estimated 200,000 Iraqis, 4500 US soldiers, and an additional 3000 military contractors lost their lives in Iraq Happy Sunday T&T Readers, I don’t talk...
Cormac McCarthy and SA Cosby Are Masters of their Craft
March 12, 2023
Blood Meridian is a book about the worst people possible, doing the worst things possible, along what we now call the US/Mexico border | Photo by Lisa Yount...
Demanding a Seat at the Table
March 5, 2023
You’ll never get what you don’t ask for | Photo by Kane Reinholdtsen on Unsplash When I started the newsletter, I jokingly called it Takes & Typos: A...
The Feds Were Asleep at the Switch for Crypto, AI Could Be Much Worse
February 26, 2023
Police in Dallas used a robot, armed with a brick of C4 to kill a barricaded shooter ending a standoff in 2016—the department later fought the release of...
Three Nights in the Land of Fire - A Travelogue
February 19, 2023
The Flame Towers and the Old City from Maiden Tower Happy Sunday, This week’s newsletter is another travelogue. Hope and I (joined by some friends) ventured...
The Canaries are Dead and No One Wants to Go into the Mine
February 12, 2023
Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash Happy Sunday, This week I reflected on the teacher shortage in the US. It’s not really a shortage and I should probably use...
No, Michael—Your Book Actually Didn’t Need THAT Scene
February 5, 2023
Dear Reader, Just a quick note that this week’s newsletter contains a conversation about sexual assault in works of fiction. There are no descriptions of...
A Three Year Trip from Shanghai to the Netherlands
January 28, 2023
The delegates of General Assembly 3 in King Alexander Hall Hey Everyone! This week’s newsletter is a bit of a travelogue. Sunday morning, I hit the...
Another Take on that Silly Chat Bot (or Death to the High School Essay)
January 22, 2023
I’m not opposed to new technology. Hell, I love a new gadget as much as the next guy. But we need to pump the brakes and have some collective conversations...
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