Updates, letters, and notes from the movement.
There’s an old saying in politics and public relations: If you don’t like what they’re saying, change the subject. Now, I understand the idea. But I think we’ve gotten the meaning wrong. Changing the subject shouldn’t mean hiding from the truth. It shouldn’t mean distracting people. And it sure as hell shouldn’t mean pretending something […]
I think one of the reasons people are so nervous about artificial intelligence is that we’re standing in the middle of a revolution, and revolutions are incredibly difficult to understand while you’re living through them. But we’ve been here before. Go back a little more than a hundred years. America was moving from an agricultural […]
Something really interesting is happening in Ohio right now, and I don’t think it’s just about Republicans or Democrats. It’s about artificial intelligence. For years, politicians have been selling technology the same way they used to sell a new automobile plant: Jobs. Investment. Growth. The future. And now America is discovering something. A data center […]
The Storm Is Over. The Recovery Isn’t. Two years ago, Hurricane Helene came through Western North Carolina and absolutely devastated parts of the mountains. We all remember the pictures. Flooded towns. Roads washed away. Bridges gone. Homes destroyed. Businesses wiped out. Communities isolated. And eventually, like every disaster, the television cameras moved on. But here’s […]
Picture this. You’re standing in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, right across from the Oval Office. And sitting on the table are ten bars of Venezuelan gold. Not photographs. Not samples. Gold. According to this New York Times investigation, administration officials took pictures. They joked about keeping it. And President Trump looked approvingly […]